The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-01-10
LIES JOURNEY
TOWARD SUNRISE
Is THEME OF NEW YEAR
By DIR CROW OF BARNEsvILLE
say, LIE is But First Stage Of the
journey and Death But a Station
on the Immortal Road.

me FIRST Methodist Episcopal church.
morning on "Journeying toward The
sunrise "A Now Year sermon. LAST
sabbath the Holy Communion was aa-
hcnce the pastors New Year sermon
yesterday. The large auditorium wa.
mneic1 10 3~Nerho~ing Following a fine
Dr Crow announced his text from Isaiah
IN 20. as follows.
Thy sun shall no more 60 down:
heither shall thy moon Withdraw IT
self; for tho Lord shall De thine ever.
lasting light, and all the days OF Thy
mourning shall be ended.
DR.. Crow spoke In part.
what glorious prophecies are these
Isom the pen Of the incompatible
ImSjaeSsth. How rich in expression and
II Bible g. always a book Of the
mornlng Everywhere its pages are
Iaulaht with the touch OF tho dawn.
Poet and prophet have kept in touch
with that high conception OF the wori.i
Mhieh az the laying OF its cornerstone
hears the morning stars singing to-
gether and all the Sons Of God shouting
Tor JOY Weeping may endure Tor a
This teaches the value OF life. NOT "niy
Tor what 10 H.. but for what ID il to be-.
Dawn as Term Tor Life.
ROTATION Is an inadequate term Tor
i t aim dawn E1, - a bette one It may
nature as the day. II is "a prophrcy OF
the glory OF the noon.
w ANf AAA travellers ever moving
ON ana on: We are only fairly started
i'm the land OF our youth. when 10, som.
bright morning We hud ourselVe- past
the tNtding line. Ne ar. rechoned
among men OF middl. life. our shnuld-
crs are Just getting we'll adjusted To- th.
hraNN-responsibiliucS of mankind when
enough. Think ! must be getting old
'lanclng back over the road which in
NoGth looked so long. The old man thinks
Do looks very short au0 he is right.
our life here is but the first stage
or ne journey. Death is but q station
on the immortal road. W are ma.
fore them, got started before dsybr.4k
The last line In the old book or 1879
= Wrltt'u-hke its predscc~spr. it~ iids
closed and the great book laid svay in
the archives OF the past. Steadily aud
increasingly tho fingers Of time rave
traced their impressions on IT. uar.-
until every margin has been nllDd aud
me volume completed. What has been
Written there can never DO eNacsd.
which We wish were blottcd Out. but
mat cannot now be done. There every
word must remain In unenaced dis
Another Milestone 7~Ieasursd.
- hhNt measured another miles one
90 hy DO. footsteps lies behind A. Wii1
u.s. lights and shadows. TIN. future.
'ilEht with RAYS Of Hope. now await
un.tlIl'L rupture, az the head of THIS
articl". end the subject .T~ouru.rIpr Tn
ward On. sunrise most appropriate
standing. as We DO. az the initial
noint OF the New Year. wc--iuStiuefiv.-
-N TURN back Coo east q Glance over the
pace since The now dead oic vrst
hurst So hIiEhtlN upon MS. spring.
summer and Autumn have come ana
zone with Whifllng IIpidity. u seems
hut a brief period since We morslizrd
upon its predecessor and VFiuIy tried
20 peer into the future At such a
limc ih'i" crowds up before tho mind
e long host OF memories and ren.,tions
that are full of solcmuitv and wsrriu1
To Del proper Co paua" for awhile. 10
elleW lh' ia-t and consider what has
begin the struggle again with higher
and h'iicr purposes and stronger hearts.
10 rsahze if We are journcyinc toward
There D. always a touch of sadness
sunset ~forebodine Of inidnirht. In
life aud character BE- makes a great ar
terence whether you arc JourneyiuE to-
ward b sunset or the sunrise.
Souls March in H-savsnward.
l.ook ct the sunset pilgrim. with
bis future all behind him. 40 davs
ilN' those that are gone. he cries. With
hiu the golden axe i- past. Poor wand
'r'r' Strayiug on toward the mid
Hl-H Ihcf iH not Gods road The
march OF Tho soul is Hcaveuward and ~
ucfieucn DE- only % prophecy Of better
things tn come Tho royal road Boo lit
'r'tufe. BOZ reform. in ART. IN religion.
.rhc hs-t results ere attained only
Wh'n sun better ones are SouEht Not
simply FOB du n~ we'll toia, 49, . did yes
t.rlat but. D must do better
LIE Dol valuable not only Tor what
s hut for what 90 I@ tn be The
ff~i Sluahtn iu The year i~ "a ruErss-
i've nnint where gratitude and hope
are miuE.rd gratitude for past mereIes
and hope fnr future hlessfuEs % is
time i.r nov and bette. r..olu.ions
h"Hh oft lIf- ard d.ii,afiug The un-
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