The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-01

WYou are wrong, ! do not want you to
make that statement again, My father
was q saloon keeper before me and am q
saloon keeper, but the thing never did any
harm in my family" / said, "All right,
Hereafter will make oRe exception"
After that man went out, two gentlemen
who knew him looked at each other 10
amazement and asked how he dared tell
me that In their presence, DULY aweak
before he had followed brother to q
druukard's grave, and that brother's
widow and children were even then de-
pendent upon him, and he had them In
his home taking care OF them, He HIM
self was daily seen drunk on the street be-
fore that brothers. death, but the shock
had kept him sobe: Tor awhile.
Yet he thought the curse had
not come into his family. suppose no
did not think his brother was member
Of his family, He was another Gain,
asking, Gam l my brothers keeper"
jAcoR AND DAVID,
In every age God has msde mon reap
what they SOW, That IL one oil the great
eat reasons know for believing there is q
God. There are two characters In Bible
history whom inalels and akeptiCs bring
up more often than any others. have
them put at me everywhere l 90. Men
ask mo do / think Jacob was o saint. They
say, do ! regard David a. a saint; that
Il We had David here now we would hang
him. Now, you follow the lives Of thoss
two men and you will find that they reaP'
ed Just what they gowel. Jacob paid for
tho birthTIght Of Esau, which he stole,
ten thousand times as much as 1t was
worth. A thief always pays more for
what he steals than 1t is worth-iar more.
would rather another man should steal
from me than that should atesl from
another man. lose only personal prop.
erty, but he loses far mora than that.
Some day conscience will trouble him
He Is sowing now, and hS must reap some
day. You can't cover IN sin. Some day
say, 'son, remember!" Some day o
Nathan will cross your path, saying,
"Yhoa art The man" When David went
up oyer the gate crying, "0h, Absalnm,
MY son my son, Absslom would Co.
/ had died for thee" th!SSss ne was
crying out because ;ils had brought all
this curse upor bis family. God pun
"a "a David, DO you think he will not
EG1lsh youS want to say word TO
90 young men tonight Of David's ain.
want to say that tho quickest way down
hell and the surest way Is the way Of the to
harlot, David committed adultery and
then 10 committed murder to hide 1t. No
athCi ain 40 quickly nakea man, q liRr,
and thief, and murderer
THE WORLDS INJUSTICE.
l think the most iniQuitous, tho most
abominablO, tho most awful thing In the
world is wonan's treatment after she has
hcer ruined. a man roDs her OF her viz
tue by hi1 lying tongue, and then she Is
ostracized In society, while the man ho!de
up his bead proudly, and Is often seen
walking down the aisle Of church with
his pure wife on his arm.
Do you think tho Col Of equity who
punished Jacob and DAVID sorely viii not
hear tho cry OF thtss wronged womenP
Their tears will reach Tie lst God and
bring down his judgment. Let not thu
adulterer think he can enter the kinl dOm
OF God. All must reap what they SOW.
And a man reaps more than no sows.
Jacob did. David did. So will you.
Here Mr.. Moody told story u a man
in the Ohio penltentiary for life, reap.
ing what he had sowel in ons hour Of
spite and anger. While there his proper.
II had appreciated until he became
millionaire, yet he goes on reapin2 the
fruit OF that little seed. 10 told, allJ, OF
the French kings favoti!e who Invented
for his king new means Of torture
Q cage iA which man could neither stand
Upright nor lie down at length. And that
favorite oi the King was the frat 10 incur
hts soVerelgn's wrath and undergo that
punishment, and he reaped for fourteen
years what he had Bowed In au idIs I.3.
ment; reaped till death relieved him.
PATHETIC INCIDENTS.
Whep you hear q yopng man npeak Of
Sowing bis Wild pals" do not encourage
him In that course by smiling AZ him.
Weep for him pray for him.
Tho speaker told gu affecting story OF q
Missouri forger who came to him In Obi.
cago, saying: "Men say there Ia no holl !
have been In II for months" Finally
this man went home and confessed, say.
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