Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-21
HOW TO MEET the WINTER,
The Season Most Adapted to Dis
slpatiOn.
ALLussMsNTs OF WINTER EVENINGS
A Sermon That fits the Time and
Season By Rev, Or. Talmage
in Brooklyn.
SOecial "a the Rs0i5IsT.


the Union, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
D. D., has returned to Brooklyn. He oc,
cupied his pulpit to-day, when Brooklyn
Tabernacle was crowded, many being un'
able to End seats The subject OF DR.. Tai
IMAGES sermon was The Winter and How
to Meet it." His text was taken from
Matthew xiv, 20: Pray ys that your
fight be not in winter Following is the
sermon in full:
The inhabitants of the old cities we're
here told that they would have
To FLY FOB THEIR LIVES.
Such light would be painful, even in the
fush Of spring time, but superlatively sggra-
vsting in the cold weather; therefore they
were told to pray that their flight be not
in the winter. There is something in the
winter that not only tests our physical en-
dursuce but especially in the city, tries our
moral charac,er. 1t is the winter months
that ruin morally and forever many Of our
Young men. We sit in the house on q
winters night and hear the storm raging
| on the outside and imagine the helpless
crafts driven on the coast; but II our ears
were only good enough we could on any
winter night hear tho crash OF hundred
moral shipwrecks.
ManyIwho came last September to town,
BY the 6rst Of March will have been blasted.
1; only takes one winter to ruin young
man. When the long winter evenings have
come many of our young men will improve
them in forming a more intimate acquslnt-
ance with books, contracting higher
social friendships and strengthening and
ennobhug characters. But not 80 with
all | will show you before | get through,
that at this season of the yesr temptations
are especially rampant, md my coensel ls,
look out how you spend
YOUR WINTER NIGHTS
| remark first, that there is no season OF
the year in which vicious sllure1ents are
30 active. In warm weather places of dis
sips,ion win their tsmest triumphs. Peo-
pie do not feel Ike going in the hot nights
of summer amoug the blazing gas lights,
or breathing the toetid air of assemblsges
The receipts Of most grog shops in q De-
cember night, are thres times what they
are in any night in July or August doubt
not there are larger audiences IN the
cssinos in winter than IN the summer
weather. Iniquity plies a more profit.
able trade. December January and
February are harvest months for the
devil The plsybills of the low entertain
ments then are more charming, the acting
is more exquisite, the enthusiasm OF the
spectators more bewitching. Many Ryoung
m an who makes out to keep right the rest
OF the year, capsizes now. When he came
70 town in the autumn his bright, his
cheek rosy, his step elastic; but before
spring, aa you pass him you will say to
yo1r friend: What is the matter with
ths, Young mani The fact is that one
winter of dissipation has done the work OF
ruin.
This is
TIE SEASON FOR PARTIES,
and If they s.e Of the right kind, our 90
cal nature isirnprorsd aud our spirits are
cheered up Bot many Of them are not OF
the right kind, aud oar young psople night
after night are kept ID the whlrl OF un-
ihealth7 excitement, until their streu tn
fails, and their spirits are broken down and
their taste for ordinary life corrupted, and
oy the time the spring weather comes
thew are in the doctors hands or sleeping
in the cemetery. The certificate OF their
desth is made out, and the physician, out
of regard for the family, calls the disease
by some Latin name, when the truth Is
that they died Of too many parties.
Away with these wine-drinking conHu
aliliesl How dare you, the father Of q
household, triae with the sppetites OF our
Young people? Perhaps out Of regard fol
the minister OF some other weak temper
sucs mau, you have the deesnter in side
room. where. after refreshments, only sc
Iecr few sre invited; aud you come back
win \ glare in your eye and stencil II
YOUR breath that show that you have beer
out serving the d9viL
! The excuse which Christian men often
t rive for this is, that it is necessary aftel
: such late eating, By some sort OF stimulsn
! 10 help digestion. Ny plain opinion Il
tbst if q uau have no more control oVel
, bis apoetite than 10 stutf himself until hl!
dioes,ive organs refuse to do their othoe
he oupht not 10 call himself man, bu
rather 10 class himself among beasts tha
nsrisb. take the words OF tbs Lord Al
mivhty, aud cry: Woe TO him ths puttets
the bottle to his Heighbor's fpsp
g,fr ha
, friend when bid you
BE CAUTIOUS wHERE you sPESD YcUR WIN
TER EVENINGS
Thank God that you have lived 10 see tn
Glad winter DAYS in which your chilhooc
wss made cheerful By the faces Of father
: ana mothers, brothers and sisters, some
, whom. alas will never again wish you
Happy New Year" or "A Merry Christ
uss.
Let no o1s tsupi you out OF your soorle
~ have seen respectable young men o
ths best families drunk on New Year
Day. The excuse theT gave for tn,
inebristicr vas that the ladies insisted o,
J. their taking it. ThsFe have been instance
> uhere the delicate hand OF woman hstl
kipdled a young mans taste 70
= strong drink, who after many years
Vhen the attractions Of this
holiday scene we're all forgotten, crouche'
in her rags and her desolsuon and her wo'
under the uplittsd hand Of the drunke
!, monster Who, on tha: Christmas mornin
, 40 long ago, took the glass from her hand
:, And 80 the woman stands on the sbutmer
! of the bridge on the moonht night, VOL
= dsripg If down under the water there
n no. some quiet place for q broken hear
She takes one Wild lesp-snd ell is o7e'
Oh, ninSle not With the harmless beTe
ages of your festive scene this poison
! addersl Mix Rot With the white sugar I
n rhe cup ,he srov of this svful lepros.
a Mar not the clattsr Of cutlery ct The he
20 day fesst, with the clink Of msduan
chain
Stop snd look into the window Of
THAT PAwNBRoEER's SHOP.
re Elegant fuTs. Elegant watches. Elegs
az soarEs ELEGANT sutss People EtaI