Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-23

the Christian. OOu nOL OnAJ AAO"
am. but he knows the town IN winch 1
live, and not only the town but the street
and the house, and even the very room
occupy. So, brother, let us realize the
fact to-day that the awful God Is with us;
that His ewes are over US. The sparrow
never falls to the ground until God has.
SIGNED ITS DEATH WARRANT.
1t is not all of life to live nor all Of death
to die. whatsoever man soweth that
shall he also reap" That Is trulsm:
We may all take that upon which to stand
"a a common platform. The Jew and the
Gentle, the Christian and the infdel, the
atheist and deist. all walk upon this plat
form. And this text would be true II Hume
was its author. If found in the works OF
Yoltaire, it is as true as if found IN the
word of God. Whether in the word OF
God or heaven or hell, it Is true; and L
selected this text because it Is common
platform upon which we can all gather and
talk to one another as men hurrylng TO the
grave. This physical world about us Is
only the photograph of the moral world.
thing that is straight in West Virginia
will be straight in Georgia and straight in
heaven. A thing that is crooked IN West
Virginia will be crooked on earth and IN
heaven. A thing crooked or straight Is so
i'm itself and our opinions don't change 1t
a particle. 1t might be my opinion that
this was q marble bOOk-stand, but 1t IS
wood all the same. My judgment ON the
case don't amount to anything. Let us
discuss this text in our own minds rs we
90 along. Whatsoever Il man sOweth
that shall he also reap" And this Is
truth in the physical as well as the moral
world. i'll SOW wheat, from the time OF
the sowing till l garner it from the harvest
field / don't expect to reap anything but
wheat, and if ! plant potatoes, from the
time of the planting till l gather the crop
from my field / don't expect anything else
but Irish potatoes, and if it is corn, don't
expect anything but corn. | call your
attention also to the
MULTIPLYING NATURE OF THE SEEDS.
Take one grain of corn and plant it and you
have two ears with eight hundred grains to
the ear. Sow one grain of wheat and you
gather a thousand for your harvest, and
oats multiply so rapidly that you might
have this world hundred feet deep In
oats and all from one little grain. Away
back wonder, six thousand years ago,
Adam dropped one little seed in the
Garden of Eden and this world Is to-day
full of sin and woe, all come from that one
little seed. Then | call your attention not
only to the fact that seed will increase as
YOU plant it but it will increase hundred
fold. Whatever you SOW that you reap.
That is lust rs true i'll the moral
rs in the physical world. You hear people
say, II have no influence" You
90 up Wonder to Wheeling and look
at that statue in front of the cigar store.
1t is an Indian with pipe in his mouth.
What did the merchant give hundred
dollars for that Indian for? For his in
fluence. If you have no influence. you are
lower down than the Indian made out OF
plaster paris. Every thought OF my life,
every word, every deed, is seed. go
through this world with basket OF seed
on my arm. Every time l take step my
arm goes down into the basket and
SCATTER THE SEED.
A Catholic woman went to her
priest and said among other things, Il
confess to have tattled among my neigh
bors;" and the priest said, Before ABB
solve you, | want you to take 4 basket of
thistle seed and scatter them between the
dwellings Of al those peighborS." She
did so, and came back claiming the ahsO-
luton. "Now," said he, before | give
you dissolution you may so and gather all
those seed up again" She said it was inn
nossible Neither" said the dcyOut
priest, ''caH you undo the mischief you
have done in that community.
Whatsoever man s0weth that
he also reap" This is one princl-
pie in Gods moral universe that you can
no more dodge or get arOand than leap
over the moon or make world. We all
agree ON this; no plan denies the PROPOSE
ton. The logic here my brother is rs
cloaf as the mind of God. Is rs rcSlStlesS
rs the Judgment we have to meet. Then
to announce some genefal principles here,
we say first, if we SOW whisky we will
reap sober, intelligent and industrious
psQple, every man here says:
THAT'S \ LIE"
Just as if said if you plant Irish potatoes
you will gather corn or wheat. Let us lace
a few facts that we must meet here to-day
or be ground to pOwder by them by-and-by.
Sow whisky, reap drunkards. Anybody
deny il? beg you to look ut the graves Of
the thousands who have fallen victims to
whisky; look at the staggering drunkardS
breaking the hearts Of their wives anu
mothers and then tell ME If you
sow whisky what will you reap? Now |
will be lust to all men; have nothing but
love and kindness to all men in my heart;
| am going to heg to the line, let the chips
fan where they may. am going 70 preach
the truth by the grace OF God II never
nreach again. Cries Of Amen,
'Amen."1 | will hew to the line and all
Won have to do will be to look out for the
chips, old fellow.
Sow whisky, feap drunkards; and
want to say | will take West Virginia; l
needn't 90 out of this community; every
newspaper, every lawyer, every doctor,
every PREACHER and every voter in this
State IS partioeps eriWiniS to all the de
vastatlOn brought about ky whisky until
he has done his best to put it out of this
country. [Cries of That's 50" have
met preachers, editors, lawyers and doc
tors: [ never met vicious one personally;
| NAV venture the assertion that there
isn't . newspaper man IN Wheeling but
would take my hand and talk to me
pleasantly if should go to his office; but
have found that WheneyerSt. Paul wants
to burn up their idols Demetrips
Is GOING To RAISE 4 ROW.
They have nothing against me personally,
because the know nothing about me. But
| will tell you what they want to do: They
want to counterfeit all the influence that |
may exert TO drive that accurSed stuff out
of this country. | want 10 tell you another
thing: If newspapers don't make selti-
ment they reflect sentiment, and those
newspapers up here in Wheeling just put
out the bill of fare that you all order. Now
what do you say to that? (Cries of 'AmenO.
| guess You have enough life in you to sing
out an amen Whenever Q thing hits you
right. (Laughter). Aud the preacher that
will work against Inc has nothing against
me personally. No, sir, he can't have, for
we have never met. But he wants to break
down and kill the influence have got for
laundering ut his faults and the faults of
his people. The hardest ticks l ever had