Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-30

usual thrOng OF eager listeners. DR..
TalmGge preached on the spiritual con-
dIcts Of life, taking for his text Genesis
80; 1926: "And Jacob was left alone;
and there wrsstled a man with him uE-
til the breaking OF the day. And when
he saw that he prevailed not against
him, no touched the hollow OF his thigh;
aud the hollow Of Jacobs thigh was out
OF joint as he wrestled with him. And
he said, Let me go, for thu day break
eth And be said, 4 will NOS let thee
go except shou bless me-"
The dust arose from a travelling herd
OF cattle, and sheep, aud goats, aud
camels. They are the present that
Jacob sends to gain the good win OF his
offended brother. That night Jacob
halts by the brook JabboK. B8t there
is no rest for the weary nan. No shin
ing ladder to let the angels down into
his dream; but q dorce combat, that
lasts until tRe morning, with az IN.
known visitor. They each try 70 throw
the other. The unknown visitor, to re-
veal his superior power, bY a touch
wrsnches Jacobs thigh bone from its
socket, perhaps manning him for life.
AS on the morning sky the clusters Of
purple cloud begins 70 ripen, jacob sees
il is an angel with whom he has bsen
contending, and not one of bis brothers
coadjutors. LET me GO cries the
angel, lifting himself Up into increasing
light.
'THE DAY BREAKETH."
You see, in the first place, that God
allows good people sometimes 10 get
into terrible struggle. Jacob was
good man: but here he is LETT alone in
the midn night TO WreStle with a tremen-
dous influence by the brook JabbOk.
For Joseph, pit; for Daniel, a wild
beast den; for David, detSronement aud
exile; for John the Baptist, wilder
ness diet and the eXecutiOnsr'S axe;
for Peter. a prison; for Paul, ship
wreck; for John, desolats PatmOs; for
VRshti, most insulting cruelty; for Jo-
ssphine, baGishment; for Mrs. SlgOur-
nsy, the agony Of a drunkard's wife;
for John Wesley, stones hurled By az
infuriated mob; for Catherine, the
Scotch girl, the drowning Surges OF the
sea: for Mr.. Burns, the ouffeting of the
Montreal popuiacs; for John Brown OF
Edinburgh, the piStOl.sbOt OF Lord
Claverhouse; for Hugh McKail, the
scsfod: for Latimer, the stake; for
Christ, the Cross. Fo: whom the rocks,
the gibbets. the guiliotines, the thumb
screUs2 For the sons and daughters
Of the Lord God Almighty. Same one
said 20 a Christian retorner, The
world is against you" Then" he re-
piled, ~ an against the world
/ will 90 further, and say that every
Christian has bis struggle. This man
had his combat in Wall street; this one
~ 8r09S street; this one on Fulton
street; this one on Chestnut street; this
ore on State street; this one on LOm-
bard street; this ore on the Bourss.
With financial misfortune you have had
the midnight WreStle. Redhot disasters
have dropped into your store from loft
70 cellar. What you bought you could
not sell. Whom you trusted fied. The
help you expected would not come.
SOME GIANT PANIC,
with long arms. and grip Ike desth,
took hold OF you in an awful wrestle,
from which you have not yet es-
capped, and il is uncertain whether IL
will throw you or you will throw il.
Here is another soul, in struggle with
sons bad appetite. lie knew not how
steaithily il was growing upon him.
Ohe hour he woke up. He said:
For the sake OF my soul, OF my family.
and OF my childTea, and OF my God, l
must stop this" And behold he found
himself alone, by the brock Jabbok;
and IL was midnight. That evil
appetite seized upon him, aud he
seized upon it; and oh, the hor-
ror OF the conflict When once
q bad habit has aroused itself up to de-
stroy man, and the man has sworn
that, by the help Of the eternal God, he
will destroy IL, all heaven draws itself
out In Z long line or light, TO look from
above, and bell stretches itself in myr-
midoDs Of spite 70 look up from beneath.
I have seen men rally themselves for
such a struggle; and they have bitten
their lip. and clenched their fists, and
cried with bleod-rsd earnestness, and
srain OF scRlding tears, God help me-!
Learn again from this subject, that
people ars sometimes surprised 10 ind
cut that what they have been struggling
with In the dark is really an angel Of
blessing" Jacob found in the morning
that this strange parsonage was not an
enemy, but q GOd-despatcbed messen-
ger to promise prosperity for him and
for his children. Nothing short OF
scourging, Imprisonment and shipWreck
could have made Paul what he was.
When David was fleeing through the
wilderness, pursued by his own son, he
was being prepared to become the sweet
singer OF Israel.
THE PIT AND THE DUNGEON
we're the best schools at which Joseph
ever graduated. The hurricane that up
set tia tent. and killed Jacobs chill
dren, prepared the ma0 Of Uz 10 write
the magnificent poem that has aStound.
cd the ages. There is no way 20 get
the wheat out OF the straw but TO
thresh il. There is no way TO purify
the gold but 10 burn IL. Look az the
people who have always had il their
own way. They are proud. discomfort
cd. useless and unhappy. IL you want
70 fnd cheerful folks, 90 among those
who have been purified by the fire. At
ter Bossini had rendered william Tell"
the five hundrsdth time, company OF
musicians cane under his window in
Paris and serenaded him. They put
upon bis brow 4 golden crown Of laurel
leavesl But, amid all the applause and
enthusiasm Rossini turned to friend
and said. II would give all this brilliant
scene for 4 few days OF youth and love.
Contrast the melancholy feeling Of Ros-
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