Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-09

and the cities and the nations where the
Christian religion has reigned woman's
condition has been amehorsted and i'm
proved, and she is honored and deferred TO
in thousand things, and there is not q
gentleman Who does not take off his hat in
her presence. She may in the United
States and England suffer some injustice,
but she has more of her rights in Christian
dom than anywhere else. If your associs-
tons have been good, you know that the
words wife and mother and sister and
daughter are suggestive OF the most gracious
surroundings. The best scoeols and
seminaries of the United States
are for young women. Then take
Woman's condition in lands where Chris
tianity hes made no or little headway,
China, Egypt, Turkey, Assyria, Borneo,
Barbary. The Burmese sell wives and
daughters ike sheep. The Hindoo bible for
bids woman to hear music or sit at win
, ow during the absence of her husband, and
allows q divorce if the wife eats before her
husband finishes his meal
The Hlndoo Wife
is consumed on the funeral pyle of her hus-
os nd. The horse, the cow the dog, the cat
are better off, They were intended for
brutes and only expect to be treated as
brutes. But see the white bundles on the
rivers in the morning in China. Infanticide
after infanticide. Female children cast of
because they are females. See the women
harnessed 10 plows like oxen. Hidden from
the sight Of men by barricades and by wells
and by all styles OF cruel seclusion. Their
birth a disaster, their life a tor
ture, their death a horror The mis-
sionary of the cross in heather
lands today breaches to an audience divid-
ed into two parts, the men who may sit as
they will and the woman cruelty hidden In
side apartment where they can hear
and cannot be seen, no intelligence,
no liberty no refining influences. No hope
for this life and no hope for the life to come.
Ripe ed nose, cramped foot, dis6gured face,
maltreated mind and embruted soul How
far back toward that condition would woman
90 if the Bible and Christianity we're with
drawn is only question in dynamites. If
an object be blighted to a certain point aud
be not fastened there and the lifting power be
Withdrawn, how far will the object fallf
Clear back to the point from whence it was
lifted. Christianity found woman in the last
point of degradation and raised her almost to
lie skies. Now, let the power that brought
er up be withdrawn and she will fall clear
Gown 10 the depths from which
She Was Rssurrscted.
Again, the downfall Of religion, and the
Iiumph of iufdelty mean the demorallza-
,pnn OF society. The most obnoxious thing
infdelity is the idea OF retribution. Now,
Ike all fear Of voluntary punishment out
# sociei', aud let the rule be that oil go az
be, please, ard how long before disintegra.
ion? | declare it-take the fear of hell
-ut of ,he minds OF men, and the majority
of them would soon make this world hell:
The vast majority Of those who are offended
at the idea Of future punishment have such
unclean hearts or lives that they are op-
Eosed TO future retribution fo' the same rea-
sou that criminal don't like q peniten-
riary. All this brave talk about not fearing
punishment for sin in the next world is only
a towards whislling to keep his courage up.
Brave Takers.
| have seen men talk very brave about
The future and defy God and haunt their
immoraEties in the face OF society and
challenge the eternal, but in their last mo-
ments hey shrieked till you could her them
.or two blocks and the neighbors on a hot
summer night had to put the windows
down because they could Lot endure the
sound. had rather see railroad train
with five hundred Christians on board 60
down through drawbridge into a watery
graye than 10 see one infdel or one atheist
die, though it were on q pillow OF elder
| down and under canopy OF vermilliom.
| would not want to see the first catastrophe
vet would be sure Of their happy destina'
| lion, but | have never been able to brace
my nerves up for the latter spectacle. The
terror On the brow Is
So Unparalleled,
| the clutch Of the fist is so diabolic. The
strength of the voice is so unearthly.
There is no hell There is no bell! There
is no hell! be had said over and over again
for 40 wears, but there WAS something in
that diving scene OF my inGdel neighbor,
which seemed to say: There is! There is!
There is. There isr' Mightiest barrier
| 20 atheist and hbertinism and outlawry and
crime of all sorts are the retributions OF
eternity. Men may escape the law, for that
is done every day; but there is something
down in the offenders nature which says
you cannot escape God. He stands at the
end Of your road Of proflgacy. He will by
| % means clear the guilty Take the Bible
dea of retribution out Of the world and
Brooklyn and New York and Boston and
| Chicago and Charleston and New Orleans
would become Sodoms speedily. The only
restraints on the eyilpassioned Of the world
c.dsy are
Bible Restraints.
Suppose now these giants in blasphemy
succeeded in marshalling a majority OF the
world on their side. There they are in
companies, in regiments, in brigades For
ward. march Ye great army OF inhdels
and atheists! Banners flying before, ban.
ners fying behind, inscribed with mo God"
mo Savior" do as you please" mo pun
ishnent" mo moral law," down with the
Bible The scene turned into darkness.
Forward march The first assault is upon
the churches. Down with all the houses
of worship that have been occupied BY peo
ole Who were deluded into being comforted
over their bereavements aud their sorrows
Thy deserve to be extirpated because they
s,eDt much OF their life in reforming me
briety and in saving the lJst and holding
be'oie The struggling the idea ofeternal rest
after the paroxysm OF life is over. Let the
ST Pauls and the St Peters and the Trini-
ties and the Tabernacles and the Temples
be turned into club houses or places OF mer.
chandise. Forward, march Down 60 all
the Sabbath schools OF bright eyed, bright
{ ced children, singing songs and getting
i1arUction when they ought to have been
plsying marbles on the street or swearing
On the Commons.
Forward march. We hosts OF in6dels and