Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-28
THANKSGIVING.
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AT CHICAGO.

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AT CHICAGO.
Prof. David Swing.
What are at last the best ideas that
can enter into the composition OF
State? Evidently they are the love OF
home, the love of industry, the love OF
intellectual development, the love OF
personal freedom, the faith in rational
religion, and the love Of justice. II
there be greater principles than these,
they have escaped my observation. In
to our land all these ideas enter as COM
ponent parts. Not that they exist here
i'm a perfect form, but they are here in
power not equaled in the past. Here,
though many are poor and homeless,
vet there are mOIe men with homes
than may he found in any other great
State. The industrial habits OF the land,
urged onward by inventions and by the
abolition OF caste, which now renders
the man OF business as noble as the
man of leisure, secure us against the
idleness which helped ruin many a
nation once high in the roll OF
empires. The love and means of intel
lcctual development are Il national quail
itv which are securing us against the
yararics al some genius or the caprice of
single General or President. When Il
Caesar arose, the people OF Rome, like
so many children, passed over to his
standard. The crowd which followed
Moses were ready to follow HIM with
his Jcho\ ah or Aaron with his calf, but
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comes before the public, the common
education comes between the nation
and its dctriment. Next comes the at
tachmcnt to personal freedom, Tor this
helps the land ut once to keep far away
all that rctards mind or soul. This lib
crtv of the individual compels the gov
eminent and the church to appeal to
the public sense; and whereas king and
priest formerly stood upon authority,
they must now stand upon the
average reason oil the age, and men
whom they once ordered they must
now persuade. The last virtue we shall
mention is the love OF justice. 1t may
seem almost satire to speak OF our ma
| ton ~ possessing love of justice; but
vet this virtue must be included In our
category. Had We the political inJus-
tice ofothcr nations, and perhaps even "i
England, We should long since have pos
sesScd and plundercd the Canadas, and
| have had our tax collectors in each city
! and village Of Mexico We have, in
deed. dishonest men in abundance, but
81 has Scotland. France was almost
ruined under Louis Napoleon by the
criminals in the army ranks. Our land
contains. "a do all lands, dishonest indi-
viduals, but rs nation il has in all its
hundred years attempted to be Just.
Canada and Cuba and Mexico rest in
peace on its confines, because it has not
the political injustice which steals the
property Of the weakest.
DR.. II. W. Thomas.
The preacher said that two schools of
| thought obtained in morals. One was
! the theory of the optimists, which was
that everything was about as well as
could he. The other, that of the pessi-
miSts. regarded everything as failures,
that the world was the worst possible
Logically, the latter begot the notion
| that life was undesirable. Although
| the actual facts of the case were not
| affected 10y theories, mans thoughts
would still affect his relations with the
world and his fellow mortals. The
| speaker believed that the middle ground
| between these two philosophers was
| the right one. God and goodness
| We're making the individual and the
world high cXistcnees, but the forces OF
cvil-injuSticc, intcmpcrance, and all
| their manifold instruments prevented
ANYTHING more than an equilibrium
At the best, a very close fight was wag-
ing, The peSSimist view disheartened
effort At amelioration, and the other eN-
IRENE view removed the impulse for
efforts of Improvement. The speaker
| did not propose Ia discuss these schools
of thought, put rather to place himself
over on the optimist side To the extent
Of showing the grand conditions actu-
ally enjoyed by the human race. Nan
should content himaelf with the things
that he had. The facts and possessions
that man actually enjoys, these were all
worthy OF consideration and thankful
ness.
At NEW YORK.
Rev. Mrs. Van Colt
The Widow Van Colt made a temper
ancc speech in Clarendon Hall yester-
day afternoon. She began by sliding
the desk out Of the way and declaring
that she must have room. She averred
that she was against rum-dcad against
it. and she didn't know but she would
gibbet every man that manufactures
rum. ii she could have her way. Some
times she almost doubts that there is
power enough in the infinite God 10
save such men. She has never been in
tavor Of woman suffrage. generally
speaking, but she thinks woman suffrage
would liz IN \ NJ. ! thing on the liquor
question. 4 noble woman is the no
best work OF God, and an evil woman
the evilest in creation. Ii women are
good, then, sinners. stand from under;
il she is bad, then God pity the man
who comes under her influence In ne
gard To ministers dealing out Sacriment-
al wine. the widow said: Il contend
before my Maker that the minister who
will do such work will on the Judgment
day find himself where he viii call upon
the rocks and mountains TO fall upon
him." She characterized the rumsellers
rs contemplate vipers," and classed
ministers who administer the sacrament
Of bread and wine little lower than the
rumsellers, for the reason that the rum
sellers have a pecuniary incentive, while
the ministers have not She went from
this hall to Cooper Institute, where she
said that any clergyman who used alco-
holie wine in the sacrament was unwor-