The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-24

charity and usefulness to others falls
heavier upon those OF you who remain.
You must take up the work that they
have laid down. Our Savior taught this
truth TO his Disciples when he said,
Greater works than these shall We
do because I go unto my Father" The
disciples were sorrowful because their
Savior was about TO be seen no more
among them bodily: but He taught
them that 1t was beat that he should
90 away; for by doing SO they must as
cume the great responsibility spreading
His Kingdom, and they would also re-
celve power from on high to fit them
for their task. ! speak from experience
when say that the sorrow OF bereave-
ment Is often turned Into blessing, by
imposing upon those who remain re-
spons!ble and high duties. God alone
knows best when bereavement should
come.
HELPING SOME ONE.
III. It Glves.you the blessed oppor-
tun!ty OF helping some one. pure and
undefled religion before God and the
Father is this. To visit the fatherless
and the widows in their afillct!on. and
to keep himself ,unspotted from the
world."-Jas. 1927. The spirit OF help
fulness Is the spirit OF Christianity. Our
motto should ever be, AS Ve therefore
have opportunity do good to all men,"
There is nothing that We need to study
more constantly than the question,
how can We help one another? We are
some times astonished at how much
ean be done by one person to tighten
the burdens, remove the sorrows and
brighten the Joys OF q multitude. The
greatest OF all luSurleS Is the luxury Of
deing good. Here as nowhere else, is the
law eSemplifed that reads, TO him
that hath, shall be given" The moro
We exercise the talent for helpfulness,
the more the talent increases; land when
we stand In the Last Great Day to re-
ceive our reward We may expect rec
ignition Of q helpful spirit, for the
Master has said, E"Whosoever shall
give to drink unto one Of these little
ones cup OF cold water only in the
name OF disciple, verify say unto
aou, he shall In no wise lose his re-
ward"
We have to learn to help one another.
We are naturally selfish, sclf-centered
and thoughtless. But sorrow has OPEN
ed our hearts and hands as nothing
else could do. Until we experience
what 1t is to be helped when In dis
tress, other peoples griefs touch usSin
4 livery superficial way. When our homes
are unbroken, the sorrows OF other
homes do not find responsive echoes in
our hearts But when we have expert
eHced sorrow and distress, we have
new power or helpfulness. Grape on our
neighbours door means more after that.
Thus 1t Is that sorrow In your homes
makes you kin to sorrowlnG hearts. The
power to be true helper OF others,
blader-up OF broken hearts. comforter
OF sorrow, is the most divine OF all en-
duements; surely, then, It Is worth
while to pay any price OF pain or, sut-
ferlng to receive the divine amounting
TO such sacred ministry. There is not
man before me this morning. who does
not feel happier every time he helps
deceased brothers widow and her faith
erless children. I say It Is 4 blessed OPP
portunity, when We have an occasion
OF helping some one. II there were no
suffering and sorrow IN the world
there would be no occasion of lending a
helping hand; we would become cold
and unsympathetic. and our selfishness
would sink US below the lower animals.
OUR BETTER HOME. 81
". The sorrow OF bereavement
makes US think OF our better hong
above. II things always went smooth
ly with US here, II no flowers ever fnd-
ed, II there were never any Interrupt
ton in our earthly Joys, we would not
think OF the enduring things OF the in
visible world. 1t Is when earthly things
fall that ne learn TO set our affections
on things above. Many o man has never
found peace with his God until his
heart was desolntcd by the storms OF
sorrow. The Apostle Paul wrote. God
" sorrow worketh repentance" God
knocks at the door OF many hearts by
the voice OF tribuation. care not how
successful mans life may have been
lI other things. IL he lives and dies
without God his life Is failure. For
what Is man prohted, II he shall gain
the whole world. and lose his own soul?
Or what shall nlnn give In exchange
for his soul?" In Revelations 7:l4, the
redeemed are spoken OF thus; THESE
are they which came out OF great trlb-
ulatlon." Fg1 .t.
The sorrow for the dead, therefore,
brings 4 blessing to the living. We
should not doubt Gods bcaevolence ON
account OF the soyrowT AMI pains of
lie. Plainly pleasure Is not the great
Sad OF lie. Such doctrine might do
for the giddy disciples OF Epicurus, but
In the light OF the Christian nineteenth
century, 1t can not stand. As you, ttere-
fore. hold In mcmory's grasp the names.
OF your departed friends to-day, let Il
be In humble submission 10 the will Of
Him who knows what Is best for us.
And even Il VIC do not ct all times sec
the hand CT Divine Mercy and Love In
oar, SORROWS let w remember that now
we know only In part"
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