Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-22

breath OF eternal woe that nuSheS thai
/ young mans cheek. In the jets of gas
| lights see the shooting out of the fiery
tongue of the worm that never dies. The
clock strikes twelve; it is the tolling of the
bell Of eternity ut the burial of n soul.
Two hours pass on, and they are all sound
asleep in their chairs. Landlord says
''Come now, wake up; it's time to shut
up" They look up and say: WHAT
''It's time TO shut up" Push them out
into the air. They are going home. Let
the wife crouch in the corner, and the
children hide under the bed. They are
going home! What is the history of that
young man? He began his dissipation at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and completed
his damnation in the worst grog- shop in
Navy street
But sin even
DOES NOT STOP HERE.
1t comes to the door of the drawing room.
There are men of leprous hearts that 90
into the very best classes of society. They
are so faSCinating-they have such he
witching way of Offering their arm. Yet
the poison of asps is under their tongue,
and their heart is hell. At first their sim
full devices are hidden, but after a while
they begin to put forth their talons OF
death. Now they begin to show really
what they are. Suddenly-althOugh they
could not have expected it, they were so
charmingIa their manner, so fascinating
in their addreSs-Suddenly cloud, blacker
than was ever woven of midnight or hurri-
cane, drops upon some domestic circle.
There in agony in the parental bosom that
none but the Lord God Almighty can
measure-an agony that wishes that the
children of the household had been swal-
lowed by the grave, when it would be
only loss of body instead Of loss of a
soul.
WHAT Is THE MATTER
with that household? They have not had
the front windows open in six months or
q year. The mothers hair suddenly turned
white; father hOllowcheeked and bent
over prematurcly, goes down street, There
has been no death in that family, no loss
of property. Has madness seized upon
them? No! no! A villain kid-gloved,
patcnt-leathered, with gold chain and
graceful manner, took that cup of domestic
bliss. elevated it high into the air until the
sunlight struck it, and all the rainbOws
danced about the hrim, and then dashed
it down in desOlatiOn and woe, until all
the harpieS of darkness clapped their hands
with glee, and all the voices of hell uttered
a loud ha, ha! Oh, there are scores end
hundreds OF homes that have been blasted,
and if the awful statistics could be fully
set before you, your blood would freeze
into solid cake of ice at the heart. Do
you wonder that fathers and mothers are
anxious about their children, and that they
ask themselves the question day and night;
What is to become of them? what will be
their destiny?
shall devote the rest of my remarks to
ALIENATION
of parental anxiety. Let me say to you,
rs parents that great deal of that anxiety
will be lifted if you begin early with your
children. Tom Paine said: ''The first
five years of my life | became an Intidel." +"
A vessel goes out to see; 1t has been five
days out. A storm comes on it; it springs
4 leak; tho helm will not work; everything
is out of order What is the matter? The
ship is not seawOrthy, and never was. 1t
is Il pretty time to find it out now. Under
the fury of the storm the
vessel goes down with two hundred and
fifty passengers, to n watery grave. the
time to make the ship seaworthy was in
the dry dock, before it started. Also for
us, if we wait until our children get out
into the world before we try to bring upon
them the influences of Christ's religion! |
tell you, the dry dock of the Christian
home is the place where we are to fit them
for usefulness and for heaven. In this
world, under the storm of vice and temp
tatiOn, it will be to late. In the domestic
circles you decide whether your child
shall be truthful or ialse-whether it
shall be generous or penuriOuS. You can
tell by the way child divides an apple
lust what its future life will he. You
ought to oversee the process. 1t the child
take nine-tenths of the apple, giving the
other tenths 10 his sister, it, he would live
to be one hundred he will be graspng and
want the biggest piece of everything. |
stood in house i'll one of the Long Island
villages, and saw beautiful tree, and |
said TO the owner: That is a very fine
tree, hut what curious crook there is in
itr' YES, said he, 81 planted that tree,
and when it was year old went to New
York and worked rs mechanic for year
or two, and when | came back found
that they had allowed something to stand
against the tree; 50 it has always had that
crook" And so | thought it was with
the influence upon children. If you allow
anything to stand in the way of moral in
llucncc against a child on this side or that
side, to the latest day of its life on earth
and through all eternity it will show the
pressure. No wonder Lord Byron was
bad. Do you know his mother said to
him, when she ,saw him one day limping
across the floor with his unsound foot:
''Get ont OF my way you lame BRAT"
What chance for boy like that?
Two young men come to
THE DOOR OF SIN.
They consult whether they will 90 in. The
one young man goes in and the other re-
treats. o, you say, the last had better
resolution. No, that was not 1t. The first
young man had no early good influence;
the last had been piously trained, and
when he stood at the door of sin discussing
the matter, he looked around as if to see
some one, and he felt an invisible hand on
his shoulder, saying: Don't 90 in! don't
go in? A mothers hand, fifteen years ago
gone to dust. A gentleman was telling
me of the fact that some years ago there
were two young men who stopped at
THE DOOR OF TIE PARK THEATRE,
in New York. The question was whether
they should go in. That night there was
to be a very immoral play enacted in the
Park Theatre. One man went in; the
other stayed out. The young man who
went in, went on from sin to sin, and
througha crowd of iniquities, and died in
the hospital, of delirium tremens. The
other young man who retreated, chose
Christ, went into the Gospel, and is now
one of the most eminent ministers of
Christ in this country. And the man who
retreated gave as his reason for turning
back from Park Theatre that night, that
there was an early voice within him, say
ing: Don't 60 in! don't go inn' And for
that reason, my friends, believe so much
in Bible classes. But there is something