Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-02-25


'',' storms seem 20 have mo- effect
- olminishings the great audiences
'n"' gather every Sunday in and
around tho Academy of Music To-day
tne crowds were as large as ever. and
tne spacious Academy was packed
rom PIT TO dome long before the SEP
wees began. Dr. Talmage took for his
subject ga Snowy Day" the text se-
lecJed being l. Chronicles u22. "He
went down and slew q lion in q pit i'm O
snowy day."
nave you ever heard of him2 His
name was Benaiab. He was a man OF
stout muscle and great avoirdupois
~ iather was hero. and me inherited
~" eSs' he was athletic and there
"ds IRON M his blood. and the strongest
zone M his body was backbone He
-9 known for other wonders beside
tual or the text An Egyptian five
CuollS no stature. or about seven feet
nine inches high, was moving around
All ofdSgadOcia and f0urishing q great
spear, careless as To- whom he killed
Suo benaiah of my text with nothing
Out q WalNing-stick came upon him.
SNATCHED THE SPEAR
from the Egyptian. and with one
thrust of It's sharp edge. put am end 10
Jhe blatant buTry which makes us
think Of the story i'm our Greek lesson
700 hard for us d. The smarter bow ON
me same bench had not helped Us 0ut
with &c, iu which Horatius. the Mace
DOMAIN. and DiOXipDus. the AJhaUiau.
fought i'm the presence of Alexander.
the Macedonian. armed with shield
and sword and iaveuu. and the Alaou-
ian, with nothing but a club. The
Macedonian hurled the j1relin, 6Ut-e
Athcuian successfully lodged it and
the Macedonian lifted the spear bul
the Athenian with the club broke 10,
and the Macedonian drew the sword.
but the Athenian tripped him up be-
fore he could strike with it, and then
the AtbeCiau with his club would have
beaten the life out of the Macedonian.
fallen among his useless weapons. If
Alexander had not commanded. stop,
Stop" ISN'T Bouaiah of the text is
about 20 do something that viii even
eclipse that There is trouble i'm an
the neigh borho0d Lambs are carried
OF 10 the night and children ventur-
ing only q little from their fathers
house are found m3nglei and dead.
The fact is. the land was infested With
lions. and few people dared meet one
on these grizzly beasts. much less corr
Der or attack it, AS % good Providence
would have it. one m0ra.Dg 81 f00tstep
of lion was
TRACKED IN TIE SNOW.
1T had been ont ON it's devoUring err
rand through the darkness but at last
ST is found by the Impression of the
four paws ON thewlite surface of the
ground. which way tbe Wild beast came
[ud v-hich .wc. Be- had gone. PerilCus
undertaking. bUt beuaiah. the hero
OF the teEt arms himself with such
weapons as those early DAYS afforded.
gunpOwder having been invented i'm
Tar subsequent century by Che Ger
man mouk Berthoidus Schwartz.
Therefore without gun or any kind of
firearms. Benailh of the text mo- doubt
depended ON the sharp steel edge for
his own defense and the slaughter oil
the lion as he followed the track
through the snow lt may have been
iaveln. it may have been only knife,
hut what Beu3iab lacks i'm weapon he
will make mp i'm strength Oi arm and
skill of stroke. But where us the llou-
we must not go OIL his track In the
snow. The land has many cis.erns. OF
Dits for catching rain. the rainfall be-
inc very scarce at certain seasons.
md hence these CistCrus or reservoirs,
are diCged here. ald there. and yCnder
Lions have am instinct which seems Co
Tell them when they are pursued, and
This dread monster OF which / speak
retreats into one of rhose cistelus
which happened 10 be free of water
and is there painting from the long rum
and licking it's paws after repast of
human flesh. and after Quaihiug tne red
vintage of human blood.
Beuaiah is all alert and comes cau-
tiously ON toward the hiding place OF
this terror of the fields. Coming to
The verge of the pitt ne looks down at
the lion and tGo Iron looks APP 1j him.
What q moment it was when their eyes
clashedi But while modern hu
Chailm. Gordon Cumming, or Sir sam
mel Baker. or David LIVINGSTONE would
have lust brought
THE GUN TO THE SHOULDER,
and held the eve against the barrel
.nd hlazed away into the depths and
finished the beast Beuaiah. with only
fhe old-time weapon. can DO nothing
until he gets on a level with the
ba9st and SO he jumps into the pit
and the lion with shining teeth OF rage
and claws lifted 20 tear To- shreds the
I.st vestige of human life, springs for
The man. while Benaiah springs Tor me
5,osst But the quick stroke of the
stool edge flashed again. and again, and
again. until the snow was no longer
white and the right foot of triumphant
Ron9iab is half covered with the
Tavrv name of the slain horror of
Now Won see how emphatic, and
.raoic and tremendous are the words
or rn, text. Gle went down anu slew
q lion I'm q pit i'm snowy day. Why
- tb.r i'm the Biblc2 Why put NJ
t,ri,e i'm tbe Bible once I'm the book OF
samuel. and here I'm the book OF enron
trles5 on the practical lessons are so
many for YOU and for me. what
-. iY this subject for an those of
I'm In who are i'm conjunction Of hostile
.r,el,rces. Three things were
O.',i,s+ Ba0aiah of my text i'm The mo-
80 nj combat the snow that inn
- - his movement. the pit that en-
J J ..,,,.,5 rinl in small space and the
", Min omen Jaws and upifted paw.
a. vet hear the shout OF Benaiah's
80 -, on. men and women of
th~sc troubles. You say II could |