Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-26


depreciate it, you have lied. Yoa may call
IL a sharp trade. The recording angel
writes it down on the ponderous tones OF
eternity-"Mr. So-and.so, merchant on Full.
ton street, or Broadway, or Water street,
Mrs. So-and so, keeping house on the
Heights, or the Hill, or on Madison avenue,
or Rittenhouse Square, told one lie.' You
may consider it Insignificant. because re-
lating to an insifinihcant purchase. You
would despise the man who would falstty
in regard to some great matter in which the
city or whole country was concerned, but
this is only box of buttons or row OF
pins or a case of needles. Be not deceived.
The article purchased may be so small you
can put it in your vest pocket, but the sin
was bigger than the pyramids and the
echo of the dishonor will reverberate
through all the mountains OF eternity.
In the next place notice
Social Lies.
Much of society is insincere. You know
not what to believe. When people ask you
to come you de not know whether or not
they want you to come. When they send
their regards you do not know whether it
is an expression of their heart or an exter.
nal ciyilty. We have learned to take al
most everything at q discount. Word is
sent mot at home" when they are only
too lazy to dress themselves. They say
1.-The furnace has just gone out" when In
truth they have had no fire in it all winter.
They apologize for the unusual barrenness
of their table when they never live any
better. They decry their most luxurious
entertainments to win shower OF approx.
al They apologize for their appearance as
though it were unusual. They would
make you believe that some nice sketch on
the wall is the work of a master painter.
1t was an heir loom land once hung on
the walls of castle, and duke gave it
TO their grandfather. People who will lie
about nothing else will lie a future. On
small income we must make the world be-
lieve that we are atfluent, and our life be-
comes a cheat, a counterfeit, and sham.
Few persons are really natural. a frozen
dignity floats about the room, and iceberg
grinds against iceberg. You must not laugh
outright; il is vulgar. You must smile.
You must not dash rapidly across the room,
you must glide. There is round OF bows
and grins, and flatterles, and obs, and abs,
and imperings, and nambly pambyism,
world of which is not worth one good,
round, honest peal of laughter. From such
a hollow sound the tortured guest retires at
the close of the evening, and assures his
host that he has enjoyed himself Thus,
social life has been contorted and deformed
until in some mountain cabin, where rus.
tics gather 10 the quilting or the apple.par.
ing, there is more good cheer than in all
the frescoed ice houses OF the metropolis.
In the next place | notice
Mechanical lies,
There is no class of men who administer
more to the welfare Of the city than ar
tisans. To their hand we must look for the
building that shelters us, for the garments
that clothe US, for the car that carries us,
They WELD wide spread influence. Their
is much derision of what is called muscu..
lar Christianity but in the latter day OF
the worlds prosperity. think that the
Christian will be muscular. We have the
right to expect of those stalwart men Of
toll the highest possible integrity. Many
of them answer all our expectations, /
stand at the front of religious and philan-
thropic enterprises. But this class like the
others that ! have named has in 1t
those who back in there element of veracity.
They cannot all be trusted. In times
when tbe demand for labor is great, it is
impossible to meet the demands
OF The public, or do WORK
with that prOmptness AMI perfection
that would at other times be possible. But
there are mechanics whose word cannot be
trusted at any time. No man has a right
to promise more work than he can do.
There are mechanics who say that they
will csme Monday, but they do not come
until Wednesday, You put work in their
hands that they tell you will be completed
in ten days, but it is thirty. There have
been houses built of which it might be
said that every nail driven, every foot Of
plastering put on, every yard Of pipe laid,
every shingle hammered, every brick NOR.
tared, could tell falsehood connected
Herewith, There are men attempting to
do teT. or fifteen pieces of work who have
rot the time or strength to do more than
I five or six pieces; but by promises never
fulfilled, keep all the undertakings within
their own grasp. next notice
Ecclesiastical Liars,
that is, falsehoois told for the purpose oil
| advancing churches and sects, or for the
purpose OF depicting them. There is no
use in asking many Calvinist what an Ar.
you that the Arminian believes that man
can convert himself; or to ask the Armini.
an what the Calvinist believes for he will
tell you that the Calvinist believes that
| God made some men inst to damn them.
| There is no need of asking Pedo. Baptist
| what Baptist believes for he will be apt
to say that the Baptist believes immersion
TO be positively necessary to salvation. 1t
is almost impossible for one denomina-
ton of Christians without prejudice or
Misrepresentation to state the sentiment oil
an opposing sect. If a man hates Presbyte-
risns and you ask him what Presbyterians
believe, he will tell you that they believe
that there are children in hell span long.
II is strange how individual churches.
will sometimes make misstatements
about other individual churches. 1t is
especially so in regard to falsehoods told
with reference to prosperous enterprises.
AS long as a church is feeble and the sing.
isg is discordant and the minister through
the poverty of the church must go with
tbreadbare coat and here and there q wor.
shipper sits in the end of pew having all
the seat to himself, religious sympathizers
will say: "What a pity" But let great
day OF prosperity come and even m inisters
of the gospel who ought to be rejoiced at
the largeness and extent OF the
work denounee and misrepresent and
falsify-startipg the suspicion in re-
gard 10 themselves that the reason they
| DO not like the corn is because it is not
ground in their own mill. How long be.
| fore we shall learn to be fair in our relig.
| ious criticism. The keesest jealouses on
earth are church jealousies. The field OF
| Christian work is so large that there is no
need that our hoe handles hit May God
| extirpate from the world ecclesiastical lies,
| commercial lies, mechanical lies, social
| lies and agricultural lies, and make every
man the world over to speak the truth with
| his neighbor. Let US all strive TO be what
we appear 20 be and Danish from our lives
everything that looks ike deception, re:
membering that God will vet reveal to the
| universe what We really are. To many
alas, this life is masquerade ball, as: at
! such entertainments, gentlemen and ladies
| anna. in the dress Of kings or queens
pppnn,.i, npp,a -, ats or clowns and at the
nIo.a od H. Usns d.ac. -, ~ off their DISCUSSES
so % msby a, % ali q1b ibrn,,sb % life "ve in mask
Across the floor they trip merrily.
lights sparkle along the wall or drop from
the ceiling, a very cohort of fire, Tue
feet bound, gemmed hands stretch
out and clasp gemmed hands,
Dancing feet respond to dancing feet
Cleaning brow bends low to cleaning
| brow. On with the aancel Fash and