Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-19

| don't mean those who, by the REGISTERS
| of homes heated of furnace, and the
manipulations Of over-indulgent aunts
have had their hair curled till they be,
come girls, but boys with the extra
romp and hilarity which God puts into
a lad that he may have something OF
mirth LETT even after the world has
pounded hin. ] mean genuine boys
bows that can't sit still three minutes at
a time; bows that can .wrestle and run
and swim and fly kites, and defend sick,
" rlaymates from imposition, and
leap fences, and get hungry halt
honr after they have dined, and keep
everything stirred up and lively;
Matthew Arnold's boys. There they
were in the Newsboys' Lodging House.
They knew me and knew them-that
is, We met each other with an instinct OF
friendliness. Their coats off, for though
the air was chilled outside, Christian
charity had flooded the inside with glo-
rious summer. Sign over the door say.
ing "No boys with homes admitted
here" Is it possible that these hun
dreds OF smiling and happy boys have
been swept. in from the streets? They
are first plunged in the bath, and then
put under the manipulation Of barber,
and then taken to a wardrobe, and in
the name of Him who said, Il was
naked, and We clothed me" they walked
forth in appropriate attire, paying what
they can so far as possible to keep them
from feeling OF pauperism, some apenny
for the privilege OF bountlful table,
VII hllt
six cents; gymnasium to straighten
out and invigorate their pinched bod
les; books for the mind, and religion
for the soul. "Can they sing?' | asked,
and they answered by making the halls
resound with "Ring the bells OF heaven,
for there is joy to-day" What is this?
/ said, bending over long, wide box,
with numbers nailed beside as many
small openings. ''It is savings bank,
they answered. Each boy has his num-
Der and brink book, and at the begin
ming Of the month has permission to take
his money. Meanwhile, whatever may
be his urgency for new top, or attrac-
tive confectionery, or any one Of those
indefinabla things with which lads
pockets are crowded. he can't get his
money out, but must wait till the begin
ming OF the month; and so economy and
thrift are developed. Statistics are dry
ordinarily, but there is nothing more
spirited in Thackeray, or more sublime
in John Milton than the fact that this
lodging house since its opening has
sheltered about $4,000 boys, returned
over. 1900 to their friends, and that
1900 have deposited overS42, 900 in this
big box, and that the institution has
turned many of them into good citizens,
merchants, lawyers, judges of courts,
doctors, clergymen, and prepared multi
tudes for heaven, where many OF them
have already gone personally, confront
ing Him in whose compassion the insti
tuition was established. The work OF
: immigration to the West goes on per-
petually. There is absolutely no chance
for reformation in the dens of New
York. What must be the sensation
when lad from Water street wakes up
on an Iowa prairie with a hundred
miles OF room on each side OF him? One
of these eragamutfinstr stransported through
the benefactiOn of this society, wrote
from the West: IL am on probation in
the Methodist Church. | now teach a
Sunday school class OF eleven boys. |
get along first-rate with it This is
splendid country to make living in.
II the boys running round the streets
with blackening box on their shoulder
or a bundle OF papers on their. arms,
only knew what high old times We boys
have out here they would not hesitate
about coming West, but come the first
chance they got
THE GOOD ANGEL AND THE BAD ANGLE.
Aswe turned homeward, from our
carriage-window We saw tragedy on
the corner Of Broadway and Houston
streets. 4 young man was hating in
doubt as to which way he had better go.
Lift his hat high enough and you see an
intelligent forehead. Look at his eye,
clear and mild, as he stands there. |
see he has stalwart chest and robust
development, splendid young man.
Whv does he stand there when 40 many
are going up and down? The fact is
that every man has good angel and
bad angel near him, and these two are
this moment under the gaslight, corner
OF Broadway and Houston streets, try
ing to get supremacy over the young
man. Come with me, says the good
angle; 81 will take YOU home. | will
spread my wing over your path
way. | will lovingly escort yeu all
through life, under supernatural pro-
lection. ] will bless every cup from
which YOU drink, every couch on which
YOU rest. every doorway YOU enter. |
will consecrate YOUR tears when vou
weep, the sweat Of your brow when
YOU toll, and deliver your grave into the
hands OF the bright angel OF Christian
resurrection; in answer to your fathers
petition and your mothers prayer the
Lord sent me ont from heOven TO
guard your soul. Come with me-" said
the good angel with voice Of unearthy
symphony, il was music such IL drops
from lutte of heaven when seraph
breathes on it. Come with me-" "No,
no. said the bad angel; 81 have SOME
thing better TO offer. The wines pro-
vide are from chalices of bewitching CD
rousal. The dance ! lead is over floors
tessellated with unrestrained in
dulgrnceS: there is no God
to frown in the temple Of sin
where worship-Come with me. The
skies are Italian; the paths ! tread are
through meadows daisied and primrosed
come with me- The young man
halted so long. at time when hesitation
was death that the had angel smote the
good angel till it departed, spreading
wings through the starlight, upward and
away, till in the sky door opened and
forever the wings vanished. That was
turning point in the young life. The
good angel flown, the man no longer
hesitated, but started down on path
bright at the opening. but blistered and
parched at the last. The bad angel
leading opened gate after gate, and at
each gate the road became roUsher and
the sky more lurid. The popularity was
that the gates swung tn let the twain
pass, but clang shut with a jar that indi-
Gated they could never open to let them
out. Each portal past there wasa grinding
of locks and showing Of bolts, the
scenery on each side OF the road was
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