Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-18
CAULDRON OF DEATH.
The Mighty Temptations Which AZ
flict Mankind.
The Causes Of Crime-Unhsppy and Undis-
cipIined Homes and Their lniu-
enees-The Family After-An
lnnolent Life.
AN ELOQUENT TEMPERANCE SERMON

| come let US join our friends above,
Who have obtained the prize"
the Doctor announced his text as II Kings,
iv. 40; 80 they poured out for the men
to eat; and it came to pass, as they were
eating of the pottage, that they cried out
and said, % thou man of God, there is
death in the pot and they could not eat
thereof"
Elisha had gone down 10 lecture to the
theological students in the seminary at Gil
gal. He found the students very hungry.
| Students are apt to be. In order that he
might proceed with his lecture successfully
he sends out some servants to gather food
for these hungry students. The servants
are somewhat reckless in their work and
while they gather up some healthful herbs
they at the same time gather coloquintida,
bitter, poisonous desthful weed, and they
bring all the herbs to the house and put
them in q cauldrou and stir them up and
! then bring the food to the table, where are
seated the Students and their professor. One
| of the students takes some of the mixture
and puts it to his lips and Immediately
tastes the coloquintida and he cries out to
the professor: 20 thou man Of God, there
! is death in the pot" What CONSERVATION
| il threw upon the group! What FORUM
} ate thing IL was found out in time so as to
save the lives of his comrades. Well there
are now IN the world great many
CRuldrons of Death.
The coloquintida of mighty temptations
| fills them. Some taste and quit are saved;
others taste and eat on and die. Is not
that minister of Christ doing the right
thing when he points out these cauldrons OF
iniquity and cries the alarm, saying; BE
ware, There is death in the pot% In a
palace in Florence there is fresco Of Giot
to. For many years that fresco was coy
cred up with two inches thickness OF
whitewash. and it has only been in recent
times that the hand OF art has restored that
freSCO. What SaCrilege," you saw Ito |
destroy the work OF such great master"
But there is no sadness in that compared
with the fact that the image of God in the !
soul has been covered up, almost obliterat-
ed so that no human hand can restore the |
divine linaments. Iniquity is a coarse,
jagged thing that needs to be roughly han
died. You have no right TO garland it
with fine phrase or lustrOus rhetoric. You |
cannot catch buffalo with a Silken lasSO. |
Men have no objections to set for their |
photographs if you make handsome pic |
ture. But every Christian philanthropist |
must sometimes 60 forth and come in yio- |
lent collision with tranSgreSsion. l was in |
whaling port, and saw vessel that had |
been on whaling cruise come into the |
harbOr, and it had patched sail and spliced |
rigging and bespattered decks, showing
Hard Times and Rough Work,
and so have seen Christian philanthro- |
PiSts come back from some crusade against |
BgPG BBg 1iSSSS II hEReY a have been zen. seen seen
yatChing over summer LAKES, Hut ie h-1 /
been outridings tempest and harpoonlng /
great BehemothS. A company OF emlgrants |
settle in a wild region. The very hrst day !
q beast from the mountains comes down |
and carries off a child. Forthwith |
all the neighborS band together, and with |
torch in one hand and gun in the other, |
they 20 down into the CayernS where those |
wild beasts are secreted and slay them.
Now, my Christian friends, this morning !
l want to go back OF all public iniquItles
and find its hiding place. want TO know
what are the sources of its power, or TO re-
| sumo the figure OF my text, want 70 know
whatarc the CauldrOnS from which these ln-
| iOuitieS are dippedo out. Unhappy and undls-
| cipliued homes are the sources OF much
| iniOuity. A good home is deathless IN us
| influences. Parents may be gone, the Old
| homestead may be sold and passed out OF
| the possession of the family. Inc mouse
| itself may be torn down. The meadow
| brook that ran in front of the house may
have changed its course or dried up. Inc
| long line of old fashioned suntiowers and
| the hedges Of wild rose may have been
| graded and in place thereof are the beau
( ties of modern gardening. The old poplar
| tree NAV have cast down its crown OF YER
! dure and may have fallen. IOu say you
| would like to go back little while and see
| that home, and you 60, and, oh, now
| changed it is. Yet thar place Will
Never Lose its Charm
over yom soul. That first earthly home will
| thrill through our Everlasting career. The
/ dew-drops that yOu dashed from the chick
| weed a. YOU drove the cows aheld thirty
/ years ago, the ,hretlies that dashed In your
| fathers home on summer nights, wnen the
evenings we're too short for candle; the
| tiny pebbles that you gathered in your
| apron on the margin Of the creek; the oer-
| ries that YOU strung into necklace and
| the diasies that YOU pluched for your halr,
| all have gone into your sentiments ana
tastes and you will never get over them.
| The trundle bed where you slept, the CHAR
| where YOU sat, the blue-edged dish out OF
| which YOU ate, your sisters skipping rope,
your brothers. ball, your kite, your hoop,
| your mothers smile, your fathers froWn-
| they are all part of the fibre OF your I'M
| mortal nature. The mother OF Missionary
| Schwartz threw light on the duSSy brow oil
the savage to whom he preached long after
she was dead. The mother Of Lord Byron
pursued him as with tiend's fury into all
| all lands stretching gloom and death into
| "Childe Harold" and "Don Juan and how
erinc in darkness over the lovely grave OF
| Nlissoloughi.
RasealIy and Yagabond People
for the most part come home from un-
happy homes. Parents harsh or cruel, or
on the other hand, consent to perfect loose
ness, are raising up generation OF ylpers.
A home in which Scolding and fault-tinding
predOminate is blOod-relation to the galiowS
and penitentiary. Petulance IS reptile
that may crawl up into the family nest and
crush it, There are parents who disgust
their children even with religion. They
scold their little ones for not loving God
They 90 about even their religious duties
in an exasperating way. Their house IS
full of the war-whOop of contention, ana
from such scenes husbands and children
dash out into places of dissipation to nnd
their lost peace or the peace they never
had. oh, is there some mother here like
Hagar leading her Ismael into the desert to
be smitten of the thirst and parchsd in the
sand? In the solemn birth hour voice
fell through from the skies into that dwell
ing saving: Take this child and nurse 1T
for me and l will give thee thy wages.
When angels of God at nighfall hover over
that dwelling do they hear the little ones
lisp the names of Jesus? Oh, traveller for
eternity, with your little ones gathered
up under your robes, are you sure you are
on the right road, or are you leading them
on q dangerous and winding bride path on
which their inexperienced feet may slip,
and upon that from which comes the how
ling of the wolf and the sound OF loosening
ledge and tumbling avalanche.
BIessed the Family Altar
Where the children kneel! Blessed the
cradle where the Christian mother rocks the
Christian childl Blessed the song the little
one sings at nightfall when sleep IS closing
the ewes and loosening the hand from the
toy on the pillow. Blessed the mothers
heart, whose every throb is prayer to God
for the salvation Of her children. The
world grows old, and soon the stars VIII
cease to illuminate it and the herbaSe TO
clothe it. and the mountains to guard II,
and the waters to refresh il, and the heay-
ems to overSpan it, and the long story OF IT'S
sin, and shame, and gloom, and trial, will