Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-13
ROLLER SKATING CRAZE.
DR.. Talmags breaches a Sermon on
the Mania.
BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHFUL AMUSEMENT
But Not Without influences Damaging
to Body. Mind and
Soul.
FILTRATION is DAMNATIoN.
Special 10 The ReoiSter,

Brooklyn, N. Y, April l2.-Dr. Tslmage
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning on "The Roller Skating Craze" "
After expounding appropriate passages Of
Scripture, he gave out the opening hymn:
"'Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,
How sweet to my soul IS communion OF saints;
To find at the banquet of mercy there's room
And feel in the presence Of Jesus at home"
The usual great throngs inside and out
side the Tabernacle were present, including
strangers from all parts of this land, and
from other lands.
Dr.. Talmage chose two texts-Ezekiel
iii-l3: THE noise of the wheels over against
Them" and Nahum iii2: THE noise of the
rafting of the wheels" Following is the
sermon in full
In the one verse are the wheels of help,
and Ezekiel heard them. In the other
verse are the wheels of destruction, aud
Nahum heard them. The good wheels and
the bad wheels will decide the destiny OF
this planet. Archimedes eulogized the
lover and said if he could find fulcrum for
it to rest on he could move the world. But
he found no such fulcrum, and it is not the
lover which is to lift or sink the world, but
the wheel, whether solid disk composed of
outer rim and spOkes and hub. Wheel
of the rail train that accelerates
travel. Wheel of printing press that null
tiplies intelligence. Wheel OF ship, wound
with tiller ropes, guiding navigation.
Wheel of sewing machine that alleviates
toll. Wheel of chronometer that measures
the fight of the hours. Balance wheels
fly wheels belt wheels, spur wheels, racket
wheels, driving wheels. The wheel, invent
ed by whom | know not but it is suggested
to US BY the fact that the planetary system is
wheel of consultations and galaxies are
wheels and all of the smaller wheels work
in and to the great wheel of the universe, the
axis of which is the periphery on which
rests the throne Of God Show me which
way the msjoriiy Of the worlds wheels turn
and ! will tell you whether it is rolling to-
ward reduction or ruin and tell me how
many revolutions they make in an hour and
| will tell you how near the world is to its
dsenthrollment or demolition. Ia our day
the principle of the wheel has come to be
applied to amusements and recreaions and
the velocipede and bicycle and tricycle. aud
l. thn nd
the thousandvoiced question to De met it
are the roller skate wheels ofhelp like those
which Esekiah heard or wheels Of destruc
ton like those that racketed in the ears Of
Kahum.
Never within my memory or yours has
there been in this country such wide, deep,
high popular agitation on the subject Of
Amusements,
and all ministers Of religion and all parents
and all young people and all old people
must answer the question and answer It
right and have reason for the answer.
Let me premise that have for twenty five
years been waiting for some new style Of
amusement, healthful for body and mind,
hoping il might come in time 10 rescue this
generation. Such amusements have been
appalling scarce. Plenty Of places to blast
and blight and consume body, mind and
soul. Never any lack OF gambling saloons.
Within one hour Of every home aud hotel
in New York and Brooklyn there are places
where a young man can get divorced from
his money while rhe old spider OF the gam
ipg table ofiiclates at the funeral OF inuo-
cent flies. Plenty OF places where you can
lose ten cents or house and lot or all you
have in one night. Plenty Of drinking
saloons where the owner by the outlay ot $50
worth of alcohol can mix up
stuff that he sells for $3.50. They
will let young man have
all he wants as long as his money lasts, 1t is
one glass, two glasses, three glasses, four
glasses-and then when, having felt in all
his pockets for more money, it is demon
strated that be has not so much as a post
age stamp left they will help him into the
street to look after himself or be taken
home by some other young man not quite
as intoxicated; for rum-sellers never help
their victims home less getting to the door
they confront the mother or wife to whom
God might lend one Of his smaller thunder.
bolts with which she could strike the de-
spoiler into ashes. Plenty of gates OF he'll
and all of them vide open, the temptresses
crying Come in, come In" But Of good
places q great deficit.
Seven o'clock p n. finds lens OF thous-
ands of young people home. at hotel or
boarding house. What shall | do with
mvself?' he asks. You answer, go to
PRAYER meeting" well, that is good ad-
vice for two nights Of the week, but there
are seven nights in most weeks. Subtract
Sunday night and two other church nights
and YOU have four nights LEFT" GO hear
a lecture on astronomy" you say. Well.
The Young mans brain is tired from run
ming up the figures OF the account book or
from trying tossell goods to pc ople that don't
want TO buy and he has no appetite for
lecture on astronomy. De Goes not want TO
hear shout other worlds, he has more than
he can do to get along Nth this. Nov,
take up the newspapers snd pick out tor
him place Of heal;htll recreation. The
most of the places advert sed are unyentl-
lated audience rooms where the companion
ship Is deprsyirg and much of the spectacu-
ar is indecent. Two hours and half IN
such place and the man goes home body
asphyxiated, mind weakened, soul SCARED.
Consecutive amusement Of that sort makes
thriving business for undertakers and affords
tragedies of illustration for discourse on the
text, The end thereof is death. Whist
cur young people want in their amusement
is recreation for body and soul, something
that will allow them to be asleep on their
pillow at eleven o'clock every night aud
awake fully rested at hsfpa seven in the
morning. Something that will pat our
bows and girls at the goal Of manhood and
womsnhood ready for useful and practical
life. not inyalids at l9 and 20 and Il, no.
splinters of humanity, not masculine or
feminine apologies but ready to command
respect and with their own right arm under
God shove aside all Obstacles. VIII this
modern
Roller Skating
anuseu ent help do this2
Thegame keeper, Mcdonald Of GlsacarrT.
came home aud found that his home had
been rausscked by a regiment Of EQgash