Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-01-06
CARDUS AND WILLIAM.

uas Oeeh SAID ABOUT Miss Wright and ne
Temple Of Reason. | think the plain
islmPe, but true history of myself ant
William affords as good a practical com
ment on the effects Of infdel principles, a.
anything have met with. If you thnl
II worth publishing II is at your service
In a short time 1t will be forty winter:
since l first landed in New York: wa:
then in my both year, without face that
knew, or a friend to counsel or direct
/ On the first sabbath morning after wt
landed, three young mea Of our passengers
\ called and inquired where I was going
to-day. ! said, to church They al.
swered, we have been near ten weeks con.
fined TO the ship, let US now walk out and
see the country; our health requires exer.
c'se, and SIC can 90 to church another
I day. l SAID, as long as I can remember ]
had gone to church with my father every
sabbath ofmy life, and when we parted his
last words were, 'Remember the sabbath
day" They went TO tie country: | went
to the church: they spent few shillngs OF
their wages; ! put two one penny corpora.
ton bills in the plate. Some ofthem were
good mechanics, and got from eight 10 ten
dollars per week: my branch was poor, and
It was only by close application J earned
five dollars per week. They continued
going inthe country, found loose company,
spent most their weeks wages, came
home half drunk, sometimes caught by
thunder storm, spoiled their fine clothes
.,' sd i h.ssii7 rose late on Monday morning,
bones and head aching, and could work
bat little all that day. l went 10 ch9rch,
saved my wages, rose early on Monday
morning, my bones rested, my head sound,
and started on the labours Of the week with
a light heart and quiet conscIence.-Ati
the end Of the year they could show fine
clothes, and powdered heads on Sunday;
but, [ could show one hundred dollars
piled in the corner Of my chest. They
have all been gone long ago; having lived
fast, they died carly: while J, as one con-
sequence Of regular living, have not been
confined by sickness for one day in all
that period Now, Mr. Deist and Mrs.
Deist, you who purpose 10 reform the
world by destroying the Bible, and abolish
ing tue sabbath, / would ask you, who
lived the most comfortable life, they or / a.?
who were the most useful members in
societyl They died and left their wives
and children beggars. Ii / die tonight
my family have the tools and hands, to
make themselves independent Of the
worlds
About three months after landed, there
came from England, into the shop where
/ wrought, a man By the name Of William
he had a fine little woman for wife, and
one or two young children. lie was an
excellent mechanic, and the first, believe,
who manufactured coach springs in New
York; he was, by religious profession,
Baptist, and went TO the church in Gold
street. DR.. Foster, believe, was then
pastor. lie continued q consistent pro-
lessor, attending church regularly with bis
wife and children But William was 4
warm politician; democrat as red hot as
the iron he hammered. lilo was soon
found out bv the radicals OF that day.
About this lime there came TO the city
man by tho name of Palmer, who was
either born blind or had lost his sight by
disease. This blind leader Of the blind
used to lecture on Desm in what was then
called the Assembly Room, in William
street. William was led by some Of his
new associates into this dungeon of des-
pair. and drunk deep in their dark and
checr]ess doctrine. In q short time he
came out a flaming Dcisl, and instead Of
going with his wife and children TO church,
he led them 10 Long Island, or the fields
in Jersey. or he went, by himself TO low
tavern. and harrangued on Tom Paine's
Age of Reason, to any set Of blockheads
who would hear him. His children as
/ they grew up being lea TO wander as they
pleased. soon associated with bad com
panv. and turned out worse than good for
nothing. lie had commenced business
for himself, and for some time was IN a
very thriving way. But now, every thing
was forgot in his zeal for propagatIng his
new principles. You might find him IN
every street and corner, pouring out his
new light; and so vulgar and british was
! the language in which he blasphemed
every thing which society in general holds
sacred. that moderate men Of any Prlnci-
ME GOT disgustcd-shunned his company
and Shop. and his worldly circumstances
bcran TO fall into decay. As old shop
n5les. he and ever have been, and now
arr on tho most friendly terms when we
mcet. and from the beginning have ! OK
nos,nlsted and warned him of the ruin he
was bringing on himself and family IN this
world. LAYING the next aside. Though he
could not deny the truth Of what | said, yet