Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-19
PULPIT
UphoIds Young Mutt in Defending
the Right,
AND NO PERSON CONDEMNS HIM
Save the Two coxardy, Contemplate
Malay Brothers. VINO Ruined Jennie
Cramer-hisery Loves Com
pany and Finds 1t.


ministers uphold Jim Mutt in defending
family honor.
A large congregation gathered at the
First Reformed Presbyterian Church, on
Grant street, yesterday mornisg, doubtless
many of whom were gathered by the an
nouncement that the pastor, Rev. Nevin
Woodsides, would discuss the tragedy. He
selected for his text, I Cor, to XII,
Wherefore let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall" The
speaker said the text applied to three
classes; first, those who rely upon their
disposition to shun evil and do good. This
class too often try how far they can go
until they fall. Second, there are those
who rely upon their profession for saliva.
ton. The third class think when they
obey the law they are secure. To this last
class belongs Nicholas Lyman Dukes, who,
though
relied upon the verdict of the jury to re-
place him in the ranks of law.abiding citi-
zens. But his bold demeanor was not
enough to remove the deep stain ot his
crime, and he could not escape the aveng-
ing hand OF justice. The jury that acquit-
ted Dukes did it either through ignorance,
yenality, or secretism. The term murder
could not ordinarily be applied in the case
of James Mutt killing Dukes. Dukes made
no confession of his wrong, showed no
signs of sorrow, but gloried in his shame.
He was a criminal unpunished, and the
boy who shot him was not murderer.
The same term might as well be applied to
Moses for Staying the Egyptian or Phineas
Shaving the lsraelites. While the speaker
did not condemn Mutt, he made no at
tempt to lionize him.
RetributioB.
Rev. f. b. Donehoo preached a sermon
in the Eighth L. =. church on "Retribu-
ton" His text was "Be not deceived, for
whatsoever a man soweth that shall he
also reap" Gods nature will not suffer to
be mocked His laws will not permit it.
Retribution will sooner or later come. Ii
nay come swiftly and terrible or it may be
deferred until death. In the recent trag-
edy at UniOntown the law of retribution
has been strongly brought TO mind. Before
denounCing the lad for such bloody deed,
first consider what brought it about. The
lad should be punished, but first let the
men who criminally set this murderer
loose, be made to give answer to their part
about usurping the divine pTerogative,
since God can take care of this law and will
not suffer ii to be violated with impunity.
Divine YengeHce.
Rev. J. S. Wrightnour of the Penn ave-
nue. Baptist church. East End preached in
the morning on "Divine vengence." He
took for his text, "Vengence belongeth to
me; will repay, saith the Lord There
are two ways of looking at injustice-from
the human and Divine point of view. The
trouble with young Mutt is that he looked
at injustice from below rather that rising
from the height of the divine. Young Mutt
forgot that his life is not all, there is a
hereafter. The mills OF the gods grind
slow, but they grind exceedingly small"
Therefore, when ordinary human justice
fails lei US not take it in our own hands.
The judgments of men in haste, in anger,
the judgments of lynch law, OF retaliation,
are too often wrong. Distrust them. Re.
member that the circuit of eternity is wider
than earth.
Brave Act.
Rev. A. NJ. Milligsn, of the Eighth Re-
formed Presbyterian church, took for his
subject The Uniontown Tragedy, He
said he felt that Divine Providence had
brought about the strange fact as a warn
ing that in the glare of that electric light
blazoned the word Danger" | call him
brave, because single handed and with the
dark shadow Of a sCatfold falling across his
path, lie has struck blow for the honor
and safety, not of his own home merely,
but of every home of the land. BY our
law nothing but slaughter with deliberate
intent to kill is reCkOned murder in the
first degree and punished with death. All
this may seem laudable tenderness for
guilty humanity, but it is crime against
society, and its legitimate fruits are the
widespread slaughter OF innocent victims,
and the increasing instances OF lynching
the grilty. The verdict in this case should
be justifable homicide.
The Feeling With Mutt.
DR.. |. A. Thayer, of the Disciple church,
at New Castle, preached an eloquent sermon
on the tragedy. He viewed the matter in
very much the same light as does the press
generally; that notwithstanding the fact.
that Mutt committed murder and violated
the laws of man and God, the proyocation
was great" etc. The feeling of the people
of that section is almost entirely in favor
of Mutt.
Glorious Act.
The temperance workers held their regu.
lar Sunday afternoon meeting in select
council chamber. yesterday, and Rev. Der
nit addressed the audience as follows:
Last week most glorious act was per-
formed at Unioutown. The villain Dukes
murdered the father more than murdered
the daughter then when he met the son on
the street sneered in his face as though he
gloried in the ruin he had wrought. Ihave
a daughter and also son, and if any lech.
erous man entered my family and allured
my daughter from the path OF virtue, if |
were in nay grave could not rest easy un-
til my son avenged the Insult. No one
will blame young Mutt no jury will dare
to convict him, as the popular feeling is
why is not the law enforced on the liquor
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