The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-07
r.. ,re tho Young to be saved
hOn ..",,, The social l'erilS that
90 SurrOUiIu Them

,,,r ,be n. oessilngI Of the Methodist
VA S,t,,. nj = Y1al,y meetinJ at Chicago
r, o,ter Of the day was then taken
!, nd ,be Rev. ". F, Crafts made some
.,,..liur remarks on "What Can the
.g,j.,,, and Churches Do More than
|Ts,r Are Doing, to Save Minors Not
c,I,l,on Inlemperance but Also from
|iGOLer SIM Prevention, said he, was
,uu better than cure. 1t was also
[suD.,, more complete, earlier, and
ma More could be done in forty'eight
|Sgcr With young people than in seven
hi, with adults. Prevention was safer
|,slnpr, for the reason that it obviated
',,,ssce.sity Of applying a cure. As the
,,olp,O, could not produce the same re-
,.lu With the hard stone as with the
p,uio nls, 80 it was more difficult to
iii 90 the old than on the young heart.
O.y,v to asi., in saving minors was to
e,ourlle with the temperance work, and
|, s,iug tbs he did not mean to say any.
NM 10 ilror Of that legalized iniquity,
\, Nosl. bell.panch, which, even Its
,Dolo,i.. admitted, would increase the
t.u ,,llei.'reysu The Red. Ribbon
u,wu,nt, in connection with the move.
7n.I to prohibit the sale Of liquor to
uisYu. hIl worked wonders In Chicago.
SspL Hickey had lately stated that 600
,lio,s, bad been closed as one Of the re.
.slu oI th. Sgi,atiou. BY keeping the
|lHin force, 4 large number Of saloons
has. sveuluaIly be closed, because the
,,l,AIuI customers were in the majority,
Id b. cutting of tina, custom there must
4I Visible decrease in profits. Christ
lIa. could labor in another way, Wis. by
ssi,liug 10 wedding out the numerous
Dou lnd Girls Weeklies" which had
,,,dsg up Of late years. The statistics
4 crime showed that thousands Of or imi-
iih hid been first led away from virtue
T b Its.s vile publications which threw u
glamour around crime, and made II attrac.
lire Mr.. Crafts alsO believed that there
should be reform in the use OF tobacco.
lius boy., Of 3, !, 8 years OF age, were
HullIy smoking cigars, rot cigarettes,
lsd chewing tobacco, Its use in early
lie, be believed created an appetite which
could not in later years be satisfied by
tobacco but which must be Satiated by
aoSg drunk. Services for young people
uslu,iveIy, including the tive.miuute
Eiuoa before church Sunday morning.,
should no. be neglected. Young men
loud be KEEP! in the Sunday.school, aud
~ lLoNri 10 graduate, aud to this end
tire should be II change In the teaching,
nutO present. 10 them matter in which
III! Would be interested, and which
yooId mol place them on plane with the
|t!iltrsn. Then there should be special
|fttl'll services for children to bring
hen tOChriI.
d. ThOma4 suggested that the meeting
listen 70 Capt liundy, who needed rome
lh,i,tce 10 bis work. 1t was objected
|bg one or two that the Captain SHOULD
int Interview the Business Committee,
|Iud Ihs matter was finally postponed one
week 10 order to give the missionary an
Opportunity to SEQ that Committee.
Dt, Thomu, referring to Mr.. Crafts
'tHMt., .sid there had been no more im.
PornrI subject before the ministera'
meetings this wia,er,-not even the sub
iSIOt future punishment and the He'll
question. lie had noticed in children a
Jack Of reverence, a diRtaSte for attend
aass 90 church and Sunday. school, which
hight Ia accounted for perhaps by the
fsct thMlhey were 40 pushed during the
week that on Sunday they had no desire
u AttsEd services. Then there was this
n'H tangled seven year study, oil object
lss'OHi in"thc Sunday,school good
ssoagh, perhaps, in its way, but which
PSo1li BE- iOIloEtd up by something more
'Slld. Children were growing up with
faltas 6'm hand aud close grasp around
asH which they should have. 1lineracy
= The ministry was responsible for the
W. Of acquaintance between pastors and
FalId'en. II would take hun three years
sd Acquainted with the children Of
ts1'.naty Church and ifhC lives till then,
'3GsOOdy would be ready to step into bis
P'iS, The thing was 10 catch tho boys
"a girls VI this generation, and 10 so do.
q pA,ior' would catch the men aud wo.
1'1 Of the next. The Catholic Church
Ibis diocese was, with its system OF
ElS.t church education, confirming more
tsl'a'ea than the Rock River Conference
tsSsl'sd Into the Church. While no was
Sh tcIatiAn, he did believe that child.
La 'aouId 5e trained in the fundamental
|SS't'as' Of some church the influence Of
'1sa vent with them through life.
ias ksT. Dr.. Hatfield had something
~" About the responsibility OF parents
J" 3lInlDS OF their children. lie also
~ az good deal TO say about the permeat.
~ itauence Of obsceue literature. A
!was nan had once told him that the
' .SM temptation 10 which be was ever
|,tpssd MAS in his Sunday.schoOl from
10Y around him. DR.. Hatfield said
I Skt need to inquire particularly
aT mat temptation was, for he thought
s,,I IeeE tie trouble, aud that 1t was
'V " les than this ObSceue literature.
~. rs Rev. Mr.. Crafts remarked that
,uaony Coustock had said he would
M IN 'tt bis children 10 college which
sS. ''etd II. catalogue, because the men
,.- ~" siged in this vile business Of OBJ.
~ NJ literature took those catalogues,
,s.. "Vh them obtained the names Of
S.,.E People to whom they sent 1t. He
>bps'o'e offered the following:
.,' "seIsd, That We recommend TO the
ss. jI.'o's Of our literary Institutions to
GSSt The fact that the custom Of pub
n. NE named Of students in connec.
han '!A our colleges aud semiuAries
sCi,s ss vendors OF corrupt literature IN
!, .NaI the youthful mind, and wheth.
ID i Il paSlicatiou Of names ought not
~ discontinued,
49, SssaIlo' Of the NUihUtasrn ChriSliaa
-.'''Q't remarked ihnt he LsJ ,sILoJ
|sy,S.0 %%'Iock once on the care from here
Ioss tofk Tor the space Of twenty. four
,sSi. From that talk the editor had
sSI, ~ good peep into the pit, and his
s.,.,s;..O S ceilings were hOrrihed beyond
Nv ~ rev people knew the extent oil
@swO o. obscene literature. He went
lisp ,T' however, that he knew some
tkS ' '"S9' II by saying that he could