Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-21

err And so IL is even with mon.
There are circumstances that build
themselves betimes like forming walls
round about shutting out the fairess
projects and casting shadows upon
some so that in the mass of il heart
and flesh both faint ana fail. But
again a sense of apparent failure Is an
often source of disbursement
Elijah under the Juniper tree was
utterly discouraged and ready TO die
and why? For one thing he was worn
out in body; for another he was en-
vironed by hostil circumstances Tut
most of all he was depressed by sense
OF utter failure. In the great contest of
religion on Carmel he had won a glor-
ious victory, He had supposed that
this victory would turn the tide Of
popular feeling back to God, ami the
faith. but no sooner had the tld!ngs OF
il gone forth than he was compelled
to flee for his life from the ayenglng
wrath of the wicked Jezebel and that
err which God had vouchsafed HIN
seemed to have been tor naught. How
often since Elijah's day have the spir-
1t of men proceeded from the same
cause TO the same effect. In argu-
ment nothing is more humiliatiug than
to find that we have started with a
wrong prom Sc and one of the h.s,its.
missions which the human heart nus 10
learn is that
Gods Victories Frequently Come
through our defeat and that The best
success is achieved for the most part
without the plaudits of the multitude
and with practically no recognition
save that of conscience.
| Small wonder 1t Is that in the learn
ing of the lesson the spirit of man Oft
en- fails and the flesh grows weak and
he himself, like Elijah, is ready to
give up in despair.
But still another source of diseour-
agement is found in the monotony of
routine duties. II was no part of Gods
original plans that human life should
be a threadmill and yet with many
lives there are times when and places
where duty gets to be Just about that.
| Doing the same thing in the same way
day In and day out without change or
upon the spirit and few there be that
can stand IL without at times becom-
ing spiritless and discouraged.
God never meant that any man
should become an autamatum. He
wants men to be happy in their work
and yet such are the limitations of life
That they toll without a song upon
their lips or their ears deaf to the
higher inspirations.
Il remember woman within | used
20 occasionally visit in a distant city
upon whose fare was written those
lines which always make the heart
ache. She had no great trouble. Her
husband was a decent man, her chill
dren were we'll looking, well kept and
well fed, and yet those lines upon her
face. What put them there? Too
much work and too little play. The
petty exactions and the exclusion of
the bright and beautiful things-life
crushed to mean an unceasing grind,
when God meant something different.
mo life can do one thing, one round
Of things without break or change
without soon or later paying the PEN
atty of a discouraged heart and a list
less hand. But again and lastly here
the indulgence of known sin is some
times cause of discouragement.
| The Lament of the Discouraged.
man Is often to the effect that God is
against him. Such q lament in the
majority of cases Is tacit admission
that life in some particulars Is arraycd
against God
ITO the rejected Cain God said:
Why is thy countenance fallen IL thou
doest well, shall thou not be accepted
and If thou doest not well sin lietti at
the door
God is against no man who Is not
| first against him, but long ago 1t was
written: He that covereth his sins
shall not prosper There could be no
more vivid picture of diGooulagemeEt
than that which presents TO us SAui,
| the once proud King of Israel at 4 c
| cave of Endor. To the grave en-
shrouded form of Samuel, newly come
from the tomb. he cries i am dis
tressed beyond measure for God is de-
parted from men, Then said Samuel:
| God is indeed departed from thee for
thou obeyest not his voice in the de-
struction of Amalack. Tomorrow
thou and thy sons shall be with me-
Discouraged indeed must he be who
is consciously pursuing course which
! by every advisement of God and con-
science expressing must issue In ruin
and In death.
And nos having noticed some of
the causes of Encouragement let us
pass to notice the remedy for the