Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-30

and sour and repelling in their DISPOSE
ton. who by one heavenly touch have
wakened up and become blessed and
buoyant. the ground under their fee
and the sky over their heads breaking
forth into music Oh" says some
Young man in the house to-day. I
should like that recreation above ali
c.hers but I have nc the means" Ny
dear brother. let Us take an account ct
stock. You have large estate, if YOU
only realize Il. Two hands. Two fee
You viii have. perhaps during the enxt
year az least ten dollars for charitable
contribution. You will have twenty
FIVE hundred cheerful looks, if you want
10 employ them. You viii have I'VE
thousand pleasant words If you want
10 speak them. Now what an amount
that is 10 start with,
You 20 out tomorrow morning and
you see q case Of real restitution by the
wayside. Yen give him two cents. The
blind man hears the pennies rattle N
mis- hat. and he says, Thank you, sir;
God bless YOU You pass down the
street trying 10 look Indifferent; but
YOU feel from the very depth OF your
soul
\ PROFOUND SATISFACTION
that YOU made that man happy. You 60
on still further and YOU find poor boy
with a wheelbarrow. trying 70 get it up
on the curbstOne. He fails in the al
tempt. You say, Stand back. my lad;
1e- me Try" You push ii up OF the
curbstone for him and pass on. He
wonders who that weI-dressed man
was who helped him. You did kind
ness 10 the boy. but you did great
Joy 10 your own soul. You will not get
over IL all the week.
But. before closing. I want 70 impress
upon YOU thai mere secular entertain
ments are not a TT foundation for your
soul 10 build on. I was reading OF a
woman who had gone ell the rounds Of
sinful amusement, and she came 10 die.
She said. Il will die tonight al six
o'clock "Ch. D" they said. 7 guess not;
you don't seem 70 be sick. 4 shall
die AZ six o'clock, and my soul will be
lOs-. I have sinned away my day OF
grace" The noon came. They desired
her 10 seek religious counsel. oh. she
said. III is OF no use. Ny day has gone.
I have been all the rounds of
WORLDLY PLEASURE.
and il is too late. shall die tonight
a. six o'clock" They day wore away.
and il came 20 four o'clock, and 20 five
O'Clock. and she cried out at five o'clock.
Destroying spirits. ye shall no, have
ne Yet. II is not six. IL is no. six The
The moments wore by. and the shadows
began 10 gather, and the clock struck
six. and while il was striking her soul
went What hour God will call for Us
I do not know-whether six o'clock TO-
night or three o'clock this afternoon,
or at one o'clock, or a. this moment
Sitting where you are, falling forward.
or dropping down, where will you go
to-
The last hour OF our life will soon
be here. and from that hour We viii re-
view this days proceedings. Il will 5e
a solemn hour. II from our death-pil-
low we have 10 look back and SEE a life
spent in sinful amusement. there will
be a dart that Will strike through our
soul. sharper than the dagger with
which Virginius slew his child The
memory Of the pas will make US shake
like Macbeth. The iniquities and riOt-
ing through which We have passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton as
Meg Merrillies. Death, the old ShylOck.
viii demand and take the remaining
pound CT flesh and the remaining drop
Of blood: and upon our last oppOrtun-
Try for repentance, and our last chance
for heaven the curtain will forever
drOD.