The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-24
ANNUAL LODGE OF SORROW.
AUDIENCE ATTENDED,

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II Yesterday morning at the Third
) prssbytsrlan church. Tho In Belle lodge
4, ~ 4, = 80, /. So. :, y-,t,.,,
I - wy .i"s'eHS o'oes W Si''Isu No'n'
men held It's annual memorial service
4 in respect 10 the dead OF the lodge. The
5chnrch w,, ,vei, f,i,ea ,v,t, momhers NJ
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hhis una otnef louses OF Inv osues' anu
others. The principal feature was the
address on THE Uses OF Sorrow, by
,,av n u pfnco- ,,,tor ~ ,ho rrb,-d
lsssilsi. ~ ~ BE- 1855
lpfeseyterlan ehurch, VINO said'
NJ On this memorial occasion It IS not
my n,,ruose nor desire To bring back 10
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.ss's ~ N.'u -. seSs "
your bereaventats within the last year
Some OF your departed brothers have
seorce,v vanished from Won opd you
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{ nave nave not yer cehseu ho9ms 70 greet
:A!nem. pouotiess you teei IKE eSe'alm-
Z 6 lhs;
mt matters not. for, 80 at night or
noon. 5i III
\ Asffiend. Wiener lie dies, has died too
soon" e, .s.t
ID II ather, would show Won that suffer-
Eng and sorrow All a large place In tho
\ present system OF things. These atllc-
sfions are not accidents or executions 10
the course of nature. hut they enter In
TO the DEVELOPMENT o, every lie, Trials
have their uses We may not always be
4 able 70 see the good theV 40, yet the
tbe eharr. p For roe edn wror , manv
lives by this agency / believe that the
world is blest equally as much BY trib-
ulation as by pleasure. What we enjoy
most Is not always best for US. Pleasure
of the right, kind Is surely blessing,
Y but tribulation sent from an all-wisc
\ Nod lis also blessing. Is 1t, not true
(, that Its effects upon the character OF
many presons are truly benign? It has
been, said that Suffering Is the parent,
; OF gladness. sorrow the seed OF Joy, Of
Fiction the germ OF glory" The dill
gent student cnn hardly fail to notice
that there seems. to be relationship
between trials and glory, chastisement
and trlbulatlon and triumph. cross and
. crown as intimate as that between cause
and effect, seed and fruit. the wrest-
lers struggle and the wrestlcrs gar
Hand. Therefore, as we hold this SER
vice In memory of your dead this morn
ing, let US not look upon sorrow as
Scalaplty, or even as thing to be de-
plored. Let us rather reason together
( concerning Its uses and how true char
$acter is brought out by It's influence,
IL DRAWS CLOSE TOGETHER
!, n cor-on, 5.,, 80.
W. ~" AVE- VI IOHeLUES
s IN sympathy. Some one has said the
world needs more than bread: II also
ncade e,,r,,,,by prothar,,. I,,. ,.o,
reaches to swa.,ost and bos, ,,.I,'I.
has suffered Eomss ,rhich rsys a.t 49,
! been hroten NAV be ,.ery n,.,, ~ T.,
)! love, and verv briebt win y,odress Nv.
Z hitter sorrow hos Hear n s.,,ost thora
there 10 n ds,t; In thn ,ovn ,rS,.t, 800
never ernerIenrad beroro sorrors' o,ans
unathe fou,tains az e,,,ro, M, &, ave-
: heart n binds ~. close IN Nv. tie, ~
brotharbond :, Tho ororciea ~ hn,,an
]: lova and vnnoth,. 10 &C ~ ohnya ,,,a.a
animal Instructive os-sc,,.1n os ,I,a
= haovore ,ro h,,h = ohn,,a a. -
These" ro,rar. n,sra ~, o,,,an ,aA,,S
( vithont n 'n,,rnn,o Thornto.a ,ro W.
n,nced In n EorII IN n.hI.t .hnra ~
+ monv onnortunitiss Sor tho aSarn,sa =;
every tender sympathv with which wc
&are endowed. Some philosophers have
4 !asniy anu reoeiiiousiy declared that
NOT haze besn croa ed s'r'n1,. h.o oo.sa
!, there is sorrow and suffering In The
world. What foolIshness this is, They
z forget that q world without pain with.
out-!rksomeness o: labor. without sor-
row. would also be a world without the
blessing of sympathy. the blessing of
rest, and the blessing of tender helm
{ and loving care. Suppose we have n
world without sorrow, what would BIZ
the result? WHY there would be no
+ 10y Because if we Destroy the sensi.
\ bIlitIes out OF which main nroceeds IVA.
likewise destroy the source OF low for
their sources are identical the same
+ part OF our nature. and God has NOT an.
4 iyglven us The power OF exercising fra.
ternal love and symnathy but He mas
Falready placed before NC the need and
the opportunIty OF exercising This now.
s or for the Good and hannines, of our
K fellow men, The bereayed oud suffer.
ting want hclp md svmpathv.l TO gran,
this renuirns mutual selt.sacrifce and
{ 4hls in. turn strenrthcns tho bond of
( 3vmnnthv amono v6u T 4 =
mo j, pr.IIg,r1oN
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PA " The sorrow OF bereavement
ton Of their. new Responsibilities. rhe