Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-19


pensions. until his name stands every
where for large-heardness and sympa-
thy and help and highest style OF Chris
tian gentleman. In an era which haa
In the chairs Of its journalism q Horace
Greeley, and q Henry j. Raymond, ana
a James Gordon Bennett, AID an Eras-
tus Brooks, and George VII
liam Curtis, and an lren8us
Prime. none of them will be
longer remembered than George w.
Childs. Staying away from the IN
yelling Of the monument he had reared
a. large expense in our Greenwood In
memory Of Professor Proctor, the
astronomer, lest I should say something
in praise OF the man who had PAID lor
the monument BY all acknowledged
a representative OF the highest Amerl-
can journalism. II you would caieu-
late his influence for good you mus5
count how many sheets Of his newsDa-
Ders have been published in the last
quarter OF & century, and how many
people have read them, and the erect
not only upon those readers, but upon
all whom they shall influence Tor all
time, while you add to all that the work
OF the churches he helped build, ana
OF the institutions OF mercy he helped
found. Better give up before you start
the measuring of the phOsphorssence IN
the wake OF that ship or the Celestlai
Line. Who can tell the post mortem
influence of a SayOnarola, a MlnKie-
reid, a Gutenberg, Marlborough
Decatur, a Tousssint, a Bolivar, a
Clarkson, a Robert Raikes, Harlan
Page, who had 125 Sabbath scholars
eighty-four of whom became Christians
and six of them ministers OF the Gospei.
BUT. MARK YOU,
that the phosphorescence has a glow
that uight monOpollzes, and l ask you
not only what kind Of influence you are
going TO leave in the world as you pass
through Il, but what light you are going
TO throw across the worlds night OF sin
and sorrow? People who are sailing on
smooth sea and at noon do not need
much sympathy, but what are you go
Ing 90 do for people in the night OF mis-
fortune? Will you drop on them shad-
oW, or will you Eindle for them phos-
phorescencoP At this moment there
are more people crying than laughing;
more people on the round world this
moment hungry than well-Ied; more
households bereft than homes unbroken.
What are you going 20 do about II?
"Weu," says yOnder soul, 81 would
like to do something toward illumining
the great ocean OF human wretchedneSs,
but / cannot do much.
You know Of some one who likes you,
and you like him, and he ought to be a
Christian. Gro tell him what religion
has done for you, and ask him il you
can pray for him. Shine! Oh, for a
disposition so charged with sweetness
and light that we cannot help but shine!
Remember if you cannot be leviathan
flashing the ocean into fury, you can be
one of the phOsDhOri, doing your part
toward making a path Of pbosphorei-
ceuce. Then l will tell you what i'm
preston you will leave as you pass
through this life and after you are gone.
l will tell YOU TO your face and not
leave it for the minister who olliciateS
at your obseQuies. The failure in all
eulogium OF the departed is that they
cannot hear il. All hear it except the
man most interested. This, in substance,
is what 1 or someone else will say Of
YOU on such an occasion: 1--WE gather
for offices OF respect TO this departed
one. 10 is impossible to tell how many
tears he wiped away; how many bur
dens be lifted; or how many souls he
was under God instrumental in saving.
His influence will never cease. We are
al better for having known him. That
pillow OF flowers on the casket was pre-
sented by his Sabbath School class, all
of whom hs brought to Christ. That
cross OF flowers at the head was pre-
sented by the Orphan Asylum which he
beiriended. Those three single flowers
one was sent by poor woman for
whom be bought a ton of coal, and one
was by waif of the street whom he
rescued through the midnight mission
and the other was
FROM A PRISON CELL
which he had often visited to encourage
repentance in young man who had
done wrong. Those three loose flowers
mean quite as much as the costly gar
lands now breathing their aroma through
this sadd6ned home, crowded with sym
pathizers. Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord; they rest from their
labors, and their works do follow
them D" Orifitshould be the more SOL
emn burial at sea, let it be after the sun
has gone down, and the captain has
read the appropriate liturgy, and the
ships bell has tolled, and you are let
down from the stern Of the vessel into
the Respondent phosphorescence at the
wake OF the ship. Then let some one
say, in the words OF my text, "He max
III q ,ntn IN shInn Altar him