Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-23

ASyiumS; or t0at ne WIZ was 80 HS4 u
TO the poor, would make style Of drink
that crowds the earth with pauperism;
or that be who came TO save the nations
from sin would create a liquor that is
the source OF most OF the crime that
now stuifs the psnitentiarles.
A LOVELY sOBRIETY
was written all over his face, from the
hair-line Of the forehead TO the bottom
Of the bearded chin.
It is spoken OF as the shortest verse
in the Bible, but to me il is about the
longest and grandest-"Jesus wept. I"
Alb many OF Us know the meaning OF
that. When we were in great trouble,
some one came In with voluble consola-
ton aud quoted the Scripture IN sort
Of heartless way, and did not help US at
all. But after awhile someone else
came TO-, and without saying a word sat
down and burst into a food OF tears at
the sight OF our woe, and somehow II
helped US right away. Jesus weDt"
You see, it was adeeply-attaehed house,
hold, that OF Mary, and Martha, and
Lazarus. The father ana mother were
dead, and the girls depended on their
brother. Lazarus bad said 70 them,
Now Mary, now Martha, stop your
worrying. ] will take care Of vou. 1
will be 20 you both father and mother.
Ny arm is strong. Urls, you can de-
pend on me.'
Ave, he was lovely in his doctrines.
Self-sacrlfce, or the relief of the suffer
ing OF others by our own suffering. lie
was the only physician who proposed TO
cure his patients By taking their disor-
derS Self-sacriice. And what did he
not give 40 for others? The best eli
mate in the universe, the air OF heaven,
for the wintry weather Of Palestine;
sceptre Of unlimited dominion for a
prisoners box IN al earthly court room;
a flashing tiara for a crown Of singing
brambles; a palace for cattle pen;
throne for q cross SelfsaCrihce, What
is more lovely? Mothers dying for their
children down with scarlet fever; rail-
road engineers going down through the
open draw-bridge % save the train; ire
men scorched 20 death trying 10 help
someone down the ladder from the
fourth story OF the consuming house; oil
these put together only faint and Insult
6cient SMILES By which % illustrate
the grander, mightier, Misunderstanding
self-sacritice of the Altogether bowed. "
DO you wonder that the story of his
sslf-sacrifce has led hundreds OF thouS-
ands TO die for him? In one series OF
prosecutions over 200, 600 were put 10
death for Christ's sake. For him Blan-
dina was tied to a post and wild beasts
we're let out upon her, aud when life
continued after the attack Of tooth and
paw, she was put i'm net, aud that net
containing her was thrown TO a wild
bull, that
TOSSED HER WITH HIS HORNS
tin life was extinct. All for Christ
Albigenses dying for Christ, The Nau-
dois diving for Christ. Smithfeld fires
endured for Christ. The bones Of mar
tyrs, if disturbed, would make path
OF Wondering life all around the earth.
The loveliness Of the SaviOur's sacrifice
has Inspired all the herolsms, and all
martyrdOms of subsequent centuries.
Christ has had more men and women
die for him than all the other inha6it-
ants OF all the ages have died for them.
Furthermore, be was lovely in his ser
mons. He knew when 10 begin, when
20 STOP, and Just what 10 say. The
longest sermon ne ever preached, so FAR
as the Bible reports him, namely, the
sermon on the Mount, was about sixteen
minutes in delivery, az the ordinary rate
Of speech. His longest prayer reported,
called The Lords Prayer
was about half a minute. Time them
BY your own watch, and you will find
my estimate accurate. BY which l do
not mean 90 say that sermons ought TO
be only sixteen minutes long, and pray
ers only half a minute long. Christ had
such infinite power OF compression that
he could nut enough into his sixteen
minute sermon, and his half-minute
PRAYER, 10 keep all the following ages
busy in thought and action. No one
but q Christ could afford 70 pray or
preach as short as that, but he meant
10 teach US compression.
At Selma, Ala, the other day l was
shown a cotton press by which cotton
was put 10 such shape that ID occupied
in transportation only one car, where
three cars were formerly necessary; and
one ship where three ships had been
required, and imagine that we all need
TO compress our sermons and our pray
ers into smaller space.
And his sermons were so lovely FOR
sentiment and practically, and simple
i,y and Illustration; the light Of can
die, the crystal Of the salt; the cluck Of
a hen for her chickens; the hypOcrite's
dOlOrous Dhysiognomy; the moth IN the
c.othes-cloSet; the black wing OF ra-
ven: the snow-bank Of white lilies; our
extreme b0theration about the splinter
OF iuUerfectiOn in some one else's char
aeter: the swine fed on the pearls;
wolves dramatizing sheep; and the per-
Grafton made up OF a cyclone in which
YOU hear the crash Of a tumbling house
constructed. No technical
tiles: no splitting of hairs between North
and Northwest side; no dogmatics; but
4 GREAT CHWsrLY THROB
Of helpfulness. I do not wonder at the
record which says, when be was come
down from the mountain great multi
tudes followed him, They had but one
fault 10 End with his sermon; 10 was too
short.
Ave! Christ was lovely In his demise.
He had right that Isst hour to deal in
standardization. Never had any one
been so meauIy treated. Cradle Of straw
among goats and csmels-that was the
worlds reception of him. Rocky cliff,
with hammers pounding spikes through
tortured nerves-that was the worlds
farewell salutatiou. The slaughter OF
that scene sometimes hides the lowell
ness Of the Sufferer. Under the satura-
ton OF tears and blood We sometimes
fail TO see the sweetest face OF earth or
heaven. Altogether lovely Can cold
est criticism ind an unkiad word he