The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-20

tectors, they have cried and prayed,
and gone out in the streets in their
wailing and refused to be comforted
because there are none to offer COM
fort. I do not expect much from 1t dis
rectIy. 5Itis an extraordinary move.
ment evoked by an extraordinary con-
dition OF things. 1t is an expression OF
injury rather than q manifestation OF
power. In ordinary circumstances we
could make no viudication of it. Its
only justification is in the sublime
power OF faith that prompts it, the con-
fdence that God aud man will hear
the cry OF the helpless under an agony
become insufferable. Where it is not
moved by faith it is simply humiliating.
Taken up as fashion resorted to be-
cause it is the style Of operating, it is
worse than Pharisaism. But an.
imated by the faith OF a broken
heart and moving with the grace
of divine charity, who that has
studied the history OF providence and
the vondrous-shsll we not say-mir-
aculous ways in which God brings
about great revolutions, can witness 1t
without a feeling OF reverence and
sympathy, that earpestness and great
necessity always claim at our hands !
If we do not like it, let us rise up like
men and destroy the evil that drives
our fair sisters to the desperate neces-
sity. If the woman's crusade could
| only excite us to manly, persistent &C.
ton, it would be grand success, and
let them not desist till this is done.
President Pendleton then proceeded
to discuss the Misunderstanding frat
| on the primary necessity of creating .
sustaining public sentiment. This
could only be done by inculcating q
moral adherence OF drunkenness every
where and in ell sensible ways-with
our children, in the social circle, in
public life. in the pulpit, in the church;
He expatiated, in detail, on these several
means. Next he took up the question
of legal restraints. Showed that the
right TO impose them was already con-
coded in the special legislation we now
have against the traffic-lllustrated the
principle by the restrictions put by
Moses upon the appetites OF the Jews
defended it upon the elementary ground
of the right of self preservation which
is inherent 10 society, and commended 1t
a. noble expression OF the civillza-
ton and virtue OF people.
He said that in recitiug the provlden-
tial calamites which God sends upon
nations, the scriptures generally asso-
c,ate war, famine and pestilence togeth-
er. We have just passed through two
of these, aud he thought intemperance
the third-the pestilence following war,
wasting in MONDAY and walking in
darkness" The nation grows pale at a
visitation OF the Asistic cholera, but
here is q pestileuce ten times worse
greater in the number OF its victims
and more loathseme in its ravages-a
pestileuce that not only Kills the body.
but DESTROYS both soul and body in hell. "
Our cities, great and small, thought it
right to rise up in their strength aud
stamp out the seeds OF cholera. They
taxed the people, entered private houses
and inspected their condition, interiered
with the commerce OF the market, push
ed their sanitary precautions into the
lanes and purlieus Of filth and corrup-
ton, and rested not day nor night, till
the lodging places and nurseries OF in
lection were purified. 1t was just as
practicable to deal in this way with
drunkenness, as righteous, as wise, as
benefcent as binding upon the public
conscience 1t could be done, it ought
to be done, it must be done, or our
doom is sealed. We are fast becoming
a nation of drunkards. The evil is de-
scending as a transmitted constitutions
al faint to our offspring-children are
born drunksrds-they go Keeling from
THEIR mothers knees and totter to ca
looms as by instinct. Mothers see 1t
aud feel it, aud they cry in the streets
for help Shall we not rise up, and
taught by their finer instincts, work
out the remedy Of our national vice Z
| This is but meagre and partial
sketch OF an address OF an hour, every
sentencs of which was an earnest re-
monstrauce against drunkenness, and a
torcible appeal to all to rise up and re-
sist its power. A Co-WoRKER.