Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-28
TWO SERMONS
UPON THE PERTINENT TOPIC OF PRO-
HIBITI0N,
Preached Last Sunday By Two Of TIL
Leading German Ministers Of
This City.

The following extracts from sermons
preached by Rev. William Ulfert, of st.
Johns Church, and Rev. A. w. Werder,
of the German Lutheran Church, on Sum-
day last, upon a topic of prime importance
at this time, will be read with consider
able interest by our citizens:
REV. WILLIAM ULFERT's REMARKS.
After a few Introductory words Rev.
Ulfert explained the difference between
temperance and prohibition. He said q
certain class of ~clergymen and their fol-
lowers always hold temperance meetings,
while in reality they were meetings IN
which nothing but the strongest prohibi
ton is preached. Temperance is neces-
sary for weak characters who
can not resist a temptation,
but %prohibitory laws are unjust and have
no effect. 1t was Just IS possible to hin
der murder by prohibiting the manufac-
ture of guns, knives, and other weapons,
~ it was to abolish intemperance by pro-
hibitory laws. The human and Christian
moral is free, not one to be forced upon US.
A virtue enforced ceases to be a virtue. An
enforced abstinence generally breaks down
at the first opportunity.
He said: Experience teaches that sudden
abstinence is injurious to the body 81
We have to car for u souls, so We
have to care for our bodies. VIVA
will Wheeling become If prohibition
should he introduced in this State
There will be consumed the same
quantity of alcohol, although perhaps IN
smaller volume. People will find stun te
drink and will drink, with the difference
that while under license laws they drink
openly, in decent houses, under prohlbi
ton they will drink in dens and bad
houses, where our young people will fall
into more pernicious vices, which destroy
body and soul.
The reverend gentleman gave statistics
showing that in the Prohibition State
drunkenness was more prevalent than II
States where one IS allowed TO openly drinl
a glass of beer, wine or liquor. He retutef
the claim that prohibition vii
reduce poverty, by showing TIT
number Of paupers in the prohibition
States and in the States where license
reigus. He said:
"It is proven that wherever prohibitiot
has been introduced in a community o.
State, the result was injurious and harm
full in every respect
Rev. UlfeIt then continued by giving
picture of the consequences OF drunken
ness, gluttony and d~ebauchery, and sale
whenever a community suffers by TIT
above vices it is the duty of the authoritie'
TO enact laws to Cure the evil. These
laws should be enacted against drunEard'
and | OF against decent men who enjoy {
glass of %stimulants and know when u
quit. They should appeal TO theil
sense of honor, and if that ia oil NJ
avail, then punish them and
deprive them of their liberty
But, the evil must be eradicated by thu
root. The education of our children mus,
not be in conformity withtheir in~clinations
They had too great Independence; theil
own will must be suppressed in some way
they must learn how to obey. Our chill
dren believe they have the right to do what
old people do. You can see little bits o.
boys smoking their long stogies and chew
ing like old sailors. So will they drink,
Empress your children" he said, "wher
Young with q sense Of obedience towards
their parents and elder people and they
will prosper"
Rev. Ulfert concluded with expressing
the hope that ".Montdni semper hbs1'
may prove true; that the inhabitants Of thu
mountains may he free from prohibition.