The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-12-24
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

Street NJ. E. Church. His appeal
speaks for ITSELF
Christmas and New Years Recep.
lions.
Editors OF the Register:
VIII You grant me space enough in
your Sunday Column for the follow
ing letter, printed in the Baltimore Aner-
lean OF a few days ago:
baltimore, December Is, 1870.
"Messrs. Editors Baltimore American:
at is with great pleasure and graft
tude that | have noticed in three sue
cessive issues Of your esteemed paper
an article on the evils growing out OF
the use Of intoxicating beverages, and
when | speak Tor myself, | also pro-
claim the sentiment OF thousands OF
our fellow-citizens and OF an army OF
men and women, who are engaged in
the noble work of the. reformation Of
the drunkard and more especially to
warn and save the noble youth of our
city from ever falling into the sDares Of
the tempter that beset them at every
step.
Upon them the hope Of the temper
ance cause is built, for with them re-
mains its future PRONUNCIATION. In
them we see that which is honorable
and noble or that which is dishouora-
bic and degrading in our future men.
Dear sirs, in your Wednesdays edition
you spoke a few words to the ladies on
the evil and terrible consequences which
often follow the profiering of the social
glass, and now will the American speak
a word of good advice to the young
men? Young men, don't touch il, for
in it turks deadly serpent.
when the wine glass is profered
touch it not, for therein lies that which
is eternal misery. Remember when
you drink that YOU do not in most in
stances drink that which is even pure,
(and here | repeat TIE American)-
Heaven save the mark Unless it be
pare poison to mind, body and soul.
Do not accept it 10 please the ladies, for
| assure you they will respect you more
for refusing, and saw an instance of it
on last ThankSgiving-day, when three
young men politely declined to accept
Q lass Of wine from as many young la
dies, and how did those Young ladies
feel ? they felt ashamed of themselves;
and what did they think? why, in the
words of one of tlsem, | think so much
more of you; and what were the feel
ings of those young men, when one OF
them the following day received call
from a stranger who had been present
the evening previous, to tell HIM how
he admired the moral courage and
frmness in refusing the protiered glass?
He felt that he had done right and
made a vow that he would never touch,
taste, nor handle the unclean thing
The allusion OF the correspondent 10
an editorial in the american has refer
ence to some lcngthyremarks, based by
the editors Of that paper upon the let
ter signed "A Mother of Sons and
published therein. That letter | read
in my pulpit last Sunday. 1t will be
found in to-day's Mtelligsncsr.
l beg the ci'igens Of Wheeling to re.
fleet moment before they throw tempta-
ton in the way OF their friends and
families, and beg them to pause before
they. Weld to the temptation. On!
friends, neither the demand Of hOspi-
tality' nor your own temporary gratifi-
cation is of more Importance than the
welfare of that young man whose pur-
poses may be weakened, or whose
tastes may be revived on Christmas or
New Year.
The american well says:
an this city there are many temper
ance associations struggling along
against the tide of adverse public sentl-
ment-doing all they can TO redeem the
fallen and to save the young from fall
ing into the sin that doth so easily
beset them and to their influence and
their labors society is largely indebted
for adding to the happiness and the
prosperity OF many of its members.
But it is q painful thought that there
are certain pernicjous social customs,
sanctioned by long usage and respect
able patronage, which are constantly
undermining the work Of those a8socia-
tons and driving back the men, whom
they are trying to reform, into their Old
habits. The holiday season is to them
a season Of peculiar trial, and is not
surprising thatthey call upon the organs
OF the public opinion and public niiu-
ence to come to their help
Young men, no one can blame you or
excuse YOU of impoliteness if YOU refuse
to touch that, which while it may yield
Won RAISING pleasure, may bring upon
YOU lasting pain. Let the following
taken from the same paper have your
careful attention
1--WE have known good business men,
who we're at one time exquisite IN their
dress and gentlemen in all their IN
stincts, who kept their horses and car
races; thus come down to the very gut
ter One we have-in, our mind, who a
few years since died. in the poor-house'
his last appearance on Baltimore street
having been barefooted, with nothing
on but ragged pantaloons and shirt ana
a dilapidated straw hat, with twIne
string over one.shoulder tor suspan-
der We had met him in his bright
DAYS at Christmas aud New Years re-
ceptions, in which he took great de
Iight and drank accordingly. But the
day came when business forsook him.
his property was all squandered to the
last dollar, and his family lettin Penury
and want ,J
Those who think that the drunNard
can stop drinking, labor under gTeal
mistake. True, there are instances
where drunkards have became temper
ate men, but they are very few, and IN,
dictate that they were not possessed OF
that social disposition which usually ac
comnanies extreme drunkenness. The
man who drinks from the love OF liquor
anJ fscIs miserable without his glass at