Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-18
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urddy, AugEStS.
There is nor one in ten Of you here who
cares q RAP whether q man gets 9 place to
eat or sleep Just as long as you and your
wife and children get enough. Yes, that's
20. God is not going to do much for a
concern ike his, l tell you. he thinks too
much of Himself to mix with that class.
I'm your guest. and I'm going to behave
myself but while I'm in the pulpit I'm GO
ing to say 8 few things, and if you dom
like the way things go you know the way
out.
God will not do for anyone what q man
will not DO for himself. That's your own
JOB, and some of you have got q mighty
Tough Job. God will never quit drinking
whisky for you, and nothing in Gods world
will keep q man sober when he is pouring
in whisky. Christ and whisky wont stay
in the same hide at the same time.
Do you know a pious politician in Amer,
lea to-day? Do you? Rack me out one; l
wan to see him powerful bad. I've been
hurting for one for years. | am on poll
tics, but l wanted to say this much.
I've got the profoundest contempt for a
man or woman that will drink wine, beer
or whisky. It's these things that are de
bsuching humanity.
There are lots Of preachers who are ever
lsstingly preaching on the God side of re,
dempion, on the Divinity of Christ and the
authenticity OF the Scriptures and OF the
mysteries of redemption and the incsrns
ton La me- the devil don't want any bet
ter joke on a preacher than to start him oH
on that line.
HE that belieyeth not shall be damned
That's iD6deity, and that's a curse. II
isn't Bob Iugersoll. Ingersoll is a theoret
ic,l ib6del-so called. He does no harm.
If you want to know the in6dels of this
country, it's the Methodists, the Presbyte,
riaps, and the Bsptists. They are practical
in6dels-Ingersoll is theoretical. They
believe everything in the Bible, aud won't
do one thing in it. That's the in6delity
that's q curse.
1t is my religious duty to work as well as
pray. never saw o real lazy man in my
life that / had any confidence in his reli,
zion.
There are women in this world who have
not struck a lick of work with their OWL
hands for many years. They board and
lay around and about; all they do is shop
shop, shop. Hell is full Of such women as
that! That sort cannot 60 to Heaven.
II this sad, sclemp, dropping, digni6ed
piety is what makes your religion, | wan: II
before | die, but / don't want it until just
about a minute beforeI die-l don't want
to be loaded with i While / live. If religion
means | shah NOPE and cry and must not
laugh, it would be too short to stretch my
self in and too narrow to curl myself up in.
Have you ever been to q prayer meeting
in Cincinnati or a town prayer meeting
The preacher walks in solemnly and almost
noiselessly, and the old brethren come in
and scatter around the church as tar apart
As possible. One brother is called to sing
and another to pray, and then after prayer
they'll 60 home sneskingly and call il
growing in faith" Oh, Lord, what a lone
some time they have had. The Lord don
90 within q mile of them and the devil get:
ID.
Whenever a mar can't laugh he is II
need of q liver medicine. There is
something wrong with him. Many q
fellow in this country has mistaken q dis
ordered liver for religion-a miserable old
dose it is to carry. don't care whether q
man laughs or cries at church want to
know whether he a good husband or father
and q good neighoor.
We have disguised the world with our re
hgion its not attractive to the race, because
our religion is without Joy, glsdness, smile:
and songs.
Let's get a little more get up and git il
our religion. TN do good. This three
mile-sn-hour lick won't keep ahead Of the
I devil.
Stand here and see that sister headed fol
The theatre on Wednesday night. GOO
wants her 10 60 to prayer meeting, aud he
will pull on that line, and the devil want:
her TO go the theatre, land he pulls on the
line.
Don't c~riticise me, but ~criticise yourself
You look out for yourselves. You can
say anything worse about me than l car
about you. II TIERS anything l despise it
a dull time. l ike to see things move up