Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-07

In educating tAe puDllc taste anu gathering
the news and advancing all departments oil
Intelligence and Virtue,
and hinder them from putting in larger
type the sins Of the world than its virtues,
its mistakes than its achievements, and
from misrepresenting interviews with pub
lie men and exciting unjust suspicious that
can never be silenced, and by putting them
in sympathy with the defenseless and un-
fortunate rather than their oppressors.
Yea, practical religion is need TO put It's
hand on all circles of what is called good
society, keeping its expenditure within the
income, and exchanging the hypocritical
apology of met at home" for the honest
explanation of too tired or too,busy to be
seen, and from allowing innocent reception
becoming intoxicating conviyiality. And
by allowing intelligent conversation and
frank manners and Christian sentiment to
drive out that
Creature With the Pointed Shoe-toe
and tight and bandagcd limbs and elbows
drawn back and ndinfnitismal canes and sick.
ening swagger and idiotic talk born in
America, yet poor copy OF foppish En-
glishman, the nux yomica OF modern So
ciety,
Commonly Called the Dude.
Great opportunity now for missionary
work among the successful classes. 1t is
no unusual thing to see a fashionable wo-
man intoxicated in streets and cars and res
taurants. The number OF hne ladies who
drink too much is territcally increasing.
You sometimes see them In the drawing
room OF exalted society: First the eye gets
CLASSY and then the cheek unnaturally
flushed, and then she goes into fits of ex.
cruciating laughter about nothing, and
then she offers some sickening batteries
and tells some
Homely Man How Well He Looks,
and then her friends get her into the car.
riage and by the time the home is reached
it takes the coachman and the gentlemen
of the party to get her up the steps. Peo.
pie say: "She was taken i'll at the Ger
man, )" but the fact is she took too much
champagne and mixed liquors and was
drunk. Yes, religion needs to come and
fix up even the marriage relation in Amer
lea. There are professors OF religion who
have too many wives and too many hus.
bands, and society needs to be washed and
fumigated and Christianized. There are
missionary societies for the reformation OF
Five Points, New York and Bedford street
Philadelphia, and Brooklyn Docks. There
is much need for missionary society for
the reformation OF
BEACON Street and Madison Square,
Rittenhouse Square and West End, Brook
lyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. The
trouble is in all departments that people
have an idea that they can do all the re-
ligiOn that is necessary on Sunday with
hymn. book, and creed. and liturgy, and
while some of them sit and roll up their
eyes as though they were ready for trans
lation their Sabbath day is bounded on al
sides by inconsistency of life, and while
you are looking out for the coming ou
under their arms for
The Wings of an Angel,
there comes out on their forehead the
horns of beast
We want religion to take new depart
ure.
First give your hearts TO God and ther
fill your life with good works. Consecrate
TO him your storehOuse, your factory, your
banks, your insurance companies, your
homes. The world may not hear OF it
but God will, and that is better. yelling
ton S name is about the only one that yor
know of that fought the battle OF Water
loo, but the victory was really gained by
the bard fighting Of the Somerset cavalry
and Eyland's regiments, and the Scotch
greys, and kemt's infantry and the Life
Guards. But it makes only little differ
ence
Who Gets the Credit
If only the day is won. At the close of tn,
last century girl in England went TO bt
kitchen maid at farmhouse. She had
hardest kind Of toll. After awhile she mar
RED the son of a weaver at Halifax. Tit
newly married were industrious and saved
enough to build home. On the morning
they were TO enter their new house thu
1 - in hn frnp
yard of that house and knelt down and
Consecrated all to God,
making this vow if the Lord will bless N,
at this place the poor shall have share o
it. As time rolled on great fortune roll
ed in. One son became member OF Par
lament, and publicly declared that hi
success IN life had been a result OF th
mothers prayer in that door yard. All tn
sons were aitlUent, 1000 hands in thei
factories. The aged mother became frigh
tened at the large fortune and said tha
something sad would happen. No. salt
one Of the sons, that is Impossible
Honor the Lord
with thy substance and with the first fruit
of thy increase so shall thy barns be file,
with plenty That is our insurance.
one of the sons during visit TO America
locking into a beautiful evening sky wa
impressed with the goodness OF &C Il, AM
said: What shall | render to the Lord 70
all his mercy to me- Returning to Eng
land he opened public park at great ex
| penSe and gave it TO the city. The sons o
that family endowed an orphanase and tw
almShouSeS. Consecrate 70 God your small
means and yoI shall have larger. Godli
| ness is profitable for all things having tn,
| promise Of the life that now is aud OF tha