The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-25
4 German Pastor on the MODERN
Temperance Apostles.
Editors of the Register.
Please publish the following sermon
ii ohIige MATY GEPNiSs.

Tie Rev. 1Ir, Eiseulohrr pastor oi
the German Evangelical Church Of ST.
Paul, on the corner Of Race aud FIJI
.eerth streets, Cincinnati, delivered, on
Sunday morning, March lst, sS7l, The
following discourse, in that church, TO
a large audience:
he had choseu for his text Lnkc vi.
3l-35,
81. And tue Lord said. Wnercuuto
shall l liken the men Of this genera
ton ? And what are they like?
"35. They are like children sitting
in the market space, and calling one 10
ano:ber and saying: We have r:ped
unto you, and ye have not danced we
have nouucd to you, and ye hev" aot
wept.
"3S. For John the Baptist came
neither eating bread nor drinking vine
aSd ye says He hath IL devil.
"a. The Son OF man ls come ea;,us
and drinking; aud ye ssy: behold a
gluttonous man and q wiue~bibbPr, q
friend OF pubicans and sinners.
"35. But Wisdom is justified Of ell
her children.
| have Intentionally chosen tais text
ia order to discuss the mer.,sot 2 move
mept which is now, spreading like q
CONTAGIOUS disease, over the country, by
quoting some OF Jesus own sayings.
| re,er to the crusade which the pray
iur sisters o. tie country have under
taken, not 90 much against the lmme-
diate use of Intoxicating or spurious
liouors az in favor OF total abstinence
from the same. IutemperaGCe 10 most
assuredly a great evil, aud oughtto he
suppressed; but not only in regard TO
drinking is it deplorab'e, but likewise
in all other thngs, lntemperate
drinking is great cyil, and nobody
deplores the sufferings Causei bT the
same more than myself. But is not in
moderate eating also highly injurious,
aud does it not produce suiIerlngs with
out number? Are the consequences o!
rluttony not disease and dealh? ? Wee,
even these temperance apostles, who
proclaim that the indulgence in splrltu-
GUS LIQUORS, even though these liquors
be taken only in moderate degree, ls
ain against God aud man, are only
too much adicted 10 this species Of iu-
TEN perauce. They DO not s2y word
against overlooking their stomach With
TODD to a degree that renders them uu-
fit for mental or physical action. Is
this not jus. as Injurious as though
they had ruined themselves by drink
And ia the luxury in dress not also q
sort OF intenperauCe, an intemperauCe
by those who have Instituted Euch q
fsnatical crusade against drinking? D.
they not attempt to excel each other 10
the sp!endor OF their attire How many
happy homes are desolated by the "c
sire OF the wife to outshiEc ner Mega
bors, without considering the expense
she incurs thereby; beyond her hug
bands mesns2 How many rc" hap
pv homes might be founded If the Sz-
travagant tastes for dressing o. the W.
men did not frequently make It ,mros
sibe for men TO enter into married h'e
In this wsr | could 20 on e! \ lo"i
time in showing that iutempsGanc" 10
every shsDe is a great evil.
We can even DO too much Of goo,
thing, for you can also be immolcEa1
and unreasonable in working, ant
thereby impair your heai,b aui 0ate,'
lect,
But there is nothing rew under tlj
sun, and we find the came struggle g.
ready in Jesus times; John the BaF
tist belonged to q sect drinking neithe
wine nor eating meat Bat i: did no
a,ten pt to coerce anybody into doini
the same. Jesus both ate and draL X
but neither he nor John could satist,
the people, as the text | have cSose'
shows only too plainly.
In our days people are no. satisfe.
in practising abstinence themselves
bu! they want others to DO as thel
do. l will proceed to chow the urchri.
tiau character OF this moTeWeBt
In the first place they accuse thesc5,
Christ himsel! Of siu. lfit is s;8'ul (;
drink wine, jesus praeliced THE =in d.
ring bis whole lite. Did not our SAY &,
transform water into wine o: The Wea
ding OF Cars, so that the guests nigh
drink and ts merry? No msttsE whetL
er We take this literally or as allegoEy
the deduction drawn from It is IA
came. Would Jesus have offered wiz
10 the quests il the drinking OIL ver