Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-27
They struck and the aville du Harrer went

Ihe Struck and the willie du HaVre went
un3er.
A Third Test
by which you may know whether the club
to which you belong, or the club to whose
membership you are invited is legitimate
club or an illegitimate club, is this: What
is is effect on your sense of moral and re-
hgious obhgation2 Now, if l should take
the names Of all the people in this audience,
this morning, and put them on roll, and
then l should lay that roll back on this
organ, and Q handred years from now so ne
one should take that roll and call it from A
to 2. there would not one Of you answer.
say that any association that makes me for
get that fact is bad association. When l
60 to Chicago / am sometimes perplexed
at Buffalo, as i suppose many travels are,
as to whether it is better to take the Lake
Shore route or the Michigan Central, equal
ly expeditions and equally safe, getting at
the destination at the same time. But sup
pose that hear that on one route the track
is torn up, and the bridges are torn down,
and the switches are unlocked2 1t will not
take me great while to decide which road
to take. Now, here aret=o roads into the
future, the Christian and nm Christian, the
safe and the unsafe Any institution or
association that seafesses-myidea ia,rsgard
to that fact is bad institution and bad
association.
which?
had prayers before joined the club.
Did ! have them after2 | attended the
house Of God before | connected myself
with the club. Since that union with the
club do / absent myself from religious infu-
ences2 Which would you rather have in
your hand when you come to die, apack Of
cards or BibleP Which would you rather
have pressed to your lips in the closing mo.
ment, the cup Of Belshazzarean wassail or
the chalice OF Christian coommunion2 Who
would you rather have for your pallbearers,
the elders of Christian church, or the COM
panions whose conversation was full OF
slang and inuendo2 Who would you rather
have for your eternal companions, those
men who spend their evenings betting,
gambling, swearing. carousing and telling
vile stories or your little child, that
bright girl whom the Lord took2
Oh, you would not have been away so much,
nights, would you, you had known she
was going away so soon2 Dear me, your
house has never been the same since. Your
wife has never frightened up. She has not
got overi it; she never will get over it. How
long the evenings are with no one to put to
bed and no one to tell the beautiful Bible
story What pity it is that you cannot
spend more evenings at home in trying to
help her bear that sorrow! You can never
drown that griei in the winecup. You can
never break away from the little arms that
used to be flung around your neck when she
used to say: Papa, do stay home tonight,
do stay home tonight" You
will never be able to wipe from
your lips the dying kiss OF your little glrl.
The fascination of a dissipaung clubhouse
is so great that sometimes man has turned
his back on his home when his child
was dying Of scarlet fever. He went away,
Before he got back at midnight the eyes had
been closed, the undertaken had done his
work, and the wife, worn out with three
weeks watching, lay unconscious in the
next room. Then the returned father
comes up stairs and sees the cradle gone
and the windows up, and says; What is the
matter" In the judgment day he will find
out what was the matter. A man astray.
God help you.
IGeplore this river the more because this
style Of dissipation is
Taking Down Our Finest Men.
The admission fee sits out the penurious
and takes only those who are called the best
fellows. oh, how changed you are! Not
so kind to your wife as you used to be; not
so patient with your children. Your con
science is not so much at rest. You laugh
more now and sing louder than once but
are not half so happy. 1t
is not the public drinking saloon
that Is striking you down, but it is simply
and undeniably your clubroom. You do
not make yourself as agreeable in your
family as once. You go home at IL o'clock
with an unnatural flush upon your cheek
and strange color in your eye that you
get at the club. You merely acknowledge
that you feel queer, You say that champagne
never intoxicates that it only exhilerates
makes the conversation fluent, shakes up
fhe humor, and has no bad effect except a
headache next day. Be not deceived, cham
pagne may not, like whiskey, throw a man
under the table; but if, through any.
thing you drink you gain an unnatural
duency of speech and glow Of feelings, you
are simply Drunk. If
Those ImperiIed
were heartless young men, stingy young
men, would not be as sorry as ann but
there are many ofthem generous to a fault,
frank, honest, cheerful, talented. | be-
grudge the devil such a prize. After o
while these persons will loose all
the frankness and honor for which they are
now distinguished. Their couuteuances
will get haggard and instead of looking one
in the eye when they talk, they will look
down. After q while when the mother
kindly asks What kept you out so latey
they will make no answer, or wild say ::
"T6at is my business" They will come
cross and befogged to the store and bank
and ever and anon neglect some duty, aud
after while viii be dismissed; and then,
with nothing to do. will rise in the morning
at 10 o'clock, cursing the servant because
the breakfast is cold and then 60 down town
and stand on the steps of a fashionable
hotel ond criticise the passers by, while the
Young man who has been a clerk in cellar
has come up to be the first clerk, aud he
who few years ago ran errands for the
bank, has got to be cashier, and thousands
of other young men of the city have gone
up to higher and more responsible positions
he has been going down until there he
passes through the street with bloated lip
and bloodshot eye and staggering step aud
hat mud-spatted and set sideways on 8 shock
of greasy hair, theashes Of his cigar dashed
upon his cravat. Here he goes2 Look at
him, all ye pure hearted young men aud
see the work Of the dissipating club room.
knew one such who, after the contamins-
tons of his club house, leaped out Of the
third story window to put an end to his
wretchedness.
o men who are victims Of dissipating
associations,
Your Sins win Follow Youi
describe the history Of thousands OF
households when say that the tea is rapid
ly taken and while yet the family hnger
e Il Il. - he chair has IAN an