Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-29
LOOKING backward
and forward.
Bah Asks How viii The King Of
Kings Regard Our Work Accom-
complishsa During the Departing
Year?


Year?
7-ue rEV COMMANDMENTS RE-
y.-0s GEARING TOO MUCH
FOR THE FASHIONS AND Lux
URrEs OF THIS FLEETING
w0RLD-OUR GREAT FATHERS
CruDANCE-WHAT WE SHOULD
crITIvATE-HOW A WOMAN
GAN BE REALLY EAPPY-WHILE
ruE BELLS ARE TOLLING, LET
MS START ANEW THE SNOW
WHI-E BOOK OF 1896.
Or-on cur Regular Correspondent
Nav York. December q, 1S95.-The
bells are ringing out the Old and ring
3r-,in the New Year. And sudden-y'
- + during the year 10 counted lot
rotr-rz some OF as become conscious on
.., lIr7.easant sensation, provoked Oy
,,rs.terce. Somehow, it doesn't seem
,s f .n the year we had done an we
-rtr5r. as FL the sCi- answer had not
1a.l offered often enough, and as i the
s7- ITSELF had been one in which Jnere
----a r,vr good works. The book OF the
---sr. locks b.0-ted and blurred Here
e,-r~r there sin, here a Weakness
Shore a Worry but only Few, yer!
f..- .,f the uages are white and talr, anu
7ro-tbv OF being offered 10 the King OF
7-fDes. Take a hand glass and look az
---,,--.srr Nou are like most other pe0-
~Ie So YOU think; neither belJer nor
--o-e. and. struggling your shoulders,
v-r- fot--r Yourself that You maven
,.,-,,r --rs5 murder or been guilty OF
theft. or done any or those Grea'.-u u
thnas that all the world cans Stus'
10 Won are not murderess, nor tnieL'
0,s-irDs though. YOU are just as gu ~
77e-h.Ds that one who kill-c MS Oro.neI
e,..o-r,bad to q m0mentary tempJaIlOh'
,-,1 committed the one awful act. but
-pers ere many ways Of killing Oes-ue
numbering The flesh. Have YOU, 0y worn
~ month. murdered the faith IN any
amman s9r12 Killed in any young sou4
r. bslfeg either in God or man! mat
ie worse than material murder.
ORR LIFE DURING 1895.
F,rcv having to live all Of ones life
---s.t.--,- non, and without belief Fancy
I, 1890 ~, +bfu1 that no one does a klnH
~.+ without hoping 20 gain Soine,n.uS
from ft-and that must be awful. "A Nv
snr uubeief seems TO me lne "OI9'
e.a-e into which human soul can se.'
40 v-ickeluess is cOmparaoie Win IT,
7.0,l- fn -he glass again. and watcn as
Vor- ewes fash. how they seem 70 say
siyl-s arc honest: we have stolen noun
fro" Perhaps not, but YOU never were
L,,-g~v Won never needed the none!
81, INV Food and warmth for those you
-,,-,. 7,tf Won have stolen just the same.
Ds-b91s not i'm the material way, OUT
e-re1v when YOU are bitterly enNlous
md malicious. You are Jnousdnu
-iDos worse than the poor wretch VINO
e+a.1s To satisfy his hunger. because
Van know better. and he is ignorant OF
eo -,reh You so to church, bend your
--.r.v head in a devOur way. MAKE
-.,,,- -,~,vo~ after each commandment
and hank Cod that you are not IKE oOn5
'C-roonlo. That your soul IS clearand you
r.,rsr,- on your day book the 0reakelS
-.- any o0a 0fthese commandments. len
- +rem None OF them very long. But
,u ~or trouble yourself about IS the
.g-,,+ word of each. aud though az otner
-i--ss won are clever enough, you VIII
.s-.,,,- trird Yourself. and refuse 20 read
between the lines .,s
T.1-s f,s first one. Say It to yourseI.
vor smile and feel perfectly certain tl"S
non can live ND to It. In an Ola DOOM
sind some little suggestion about
IS p queer little old book, with IT'S
covsr worn. with it's fly leaves written
,.r,r though the ink is pale, and Win
o. bir of blue ribbon, a lock OF blonde
7.,f~ and one or two religious pictures
r,~ t,ol- marks. To says YOU may SIN
,,,i,qi +1fs first commandment by CIV
s-,c- v1ur first waking thought to any
boiy- bu- the good God who created you,
and Giving your last thoughts to any
To5v bu+ Him. and forgetting to con-
rsss vor- sins 10 Him and to give thanks
To Film because He has cared Tor you al
the long day through. The quaint ola
saint who wrote the book says that you
1-aaI, he first commandment wnen you
.ra irD9tient Of what hUmbles you;
,rbsn YOU allow your mind to owen
IN rorr troubles rather than on your
.ov-7. cIeverness or your own aOttlty Tor
success instead Of realizing that It IS
MS nothing unless the great Father OF
I'm oriles Won. When YOU went 70
church last Sunday YOU committed, ac-
cor3ing to my saint. many sins. Sins
seqirst the second commandment You
vrar, more interested in the flowers, IN
tho preacher. I'm the congregation, than
en- paving earnest and devout attention
I'd saying your prayers. You were de-
voting more OF your time 20 some hui
man being. and thinking Of the love
and GOODNESS i'm that person than OF the
rr.s- One from whom &c an came. And
7or broke the second commandment /
7m afraid Won have broken The third
one very often. You never refrain from
@ lest because II isn't quite refined; You
mover dropped the book because the
ideas of the author were not quite re-
s1ectrul to- God. and 20 save yourself q
llUe trouble YOU did not make it
no'nt 10 tell the truth. And how much
did YOU do simply that it might be
praised by men?
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT.
And about the next. Did YOU observe
tla- fay as ca festival as a day when
sou gave joy at least TO one soul? Or
did YOU behave as il that first day of tbs
Fo8k were like an the others. and need /
er 40 special attention paid TO it? And
having one great talent, did YOU wrap
zap and put IL out of sight? And then.
my SAINT IS very particular about this.
C.d you show not only honor and re-
sDec. but love, 20 those who are i'm au-
t..r.y over YOU? Don't YOU think il
we looked for The best, even among the
po'it.cianS. we might find some thing
ltd respaot2 Though the saint doesn't
mention the politician. As 10 the sixth