The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-27

Doctrines, BY = Correspondent.
To ths Editor OftAe Eatelltgae4.
SRI read with much interest Biahop
Kaln's sermon on the sin Of intemperancsr
delivered ct the Cathedral on the 18th
instant. The reverend gentleman certain
ly gave the crime Of drunkenness the
darkest coloriDg I have yet seen. he
branded 1t Rs sin that dare not ask re-
pentance. The malefsctor may come up
with his hands crimsoned with human
gore and through faith and the meritori-
oua righteousness Of Christ may be for
given bat not go With the innebrtate.
He rejects the counsel Of the church, dis
pisea the power Of God and dRmns him.
self in spite Of love and mercy. Not only
intemperance but other crying sins got
such blister as they seldom get in our
town.
And prominent among them was the
fashionablesino Of Sabbath breaking, which,
as he says, is growing on US IS national
cancer; robbiIR us Of all the sacred ties Of
hume, Of church and Of Goodness, and
will coon break out In great bleeding
ulcer that will carry away our national
life, and our Ecspter will become ''aB the
drunken crown Of Ephraim whose glori.
Gus beauty is fading flower"
he also gave the rum traffic q serious
blow, but ! am sorry 10 say ! cannot In
dorse all be said on this line. His re.
markH remind ne OF q man who once told
me he prayed "Good God and good Devil"
for he did not know whose hands he
would fall into. He says that selling
liquor is not Gin in the aggregate, but
tain persons 1t Is.
Now, would ask him, ss teacher in
Israel, wherein all the Book Of God he
found such doctrine2
Is not the injunction plain, Touch not,
taste not, handle not the unclean thing2
And are not all the commands Of God
emphaically: Thou shalt not?" There
is NO compromise in Ged's word. "WhRt
concord has Christ with Belial?"
II, as he Gays, this Is dangerous and
likely to be sinful business, how can the
priest Of God tolerate it2
Are We not commanded to fee from
every appearance OF evilH Can life wed
death or God with mammon dwell?
He speaks to the effect that selling IL
quoris not sin unless the customer drinks
to excess. How can he tell what may
grow out Of this evil tree? Have not lite
fruits always been destruction and damna'
tion2
The great apostle ssys: "If my meat
cause my brother to stumble will eat no
meat while the world stands." Is not this
rum trsttiC stumbling block and stone oil
offence? The Bishop says that drinking
is not crime OF itself. A man may drink
for forty years and not Gin unlesa 1t over
comes him. We might make the same
allowance in any ether case. Is he willing
10 allow q msn to associate with harlots
for forty years and be communicate In
his church?
II there ia no harm in moderate drink
ing there certainly Is none in moderate
lying, swearing, stealing or Sabbath
breaking.
But the good Bishop admonishes US to
approach this subject with reverence and
Cody fear lest We tread on holy ground
in denounCing the creatures OF God. He
says that everything that is created OF God
is meant for some good purpose. l admit
ii, bu. who dare say that God ever created
@
l defy any man to prove by any
Scripturai history or experience that Ged
ever created or authorized any man to
make intoxicating liquors.
He refers to st. John, for example,
where Christ, showed the world that his
grace and power was sufficient to make
water satisfying beverage for all the
natural as well as superficial appetites Of
man.
1t seems very strange that men Of such
intellect should read the Scripture Tor
wears and years and not understand them
better. The trouble Is that many Of ia
don't read for ourselves; We read by other
mems light and our vision ia darkened.
God is His own interpreter.
The worthy Bishop said something
about the fruit Of the vine. The Holy
Saviour said he would drink 1t neU in his
Fathers kingdom. Now, il this has refer.
ence to the sacrament, he certainly did
not make mistake and say ne,o when he
meant old red wine, that giVeth ito
color to the glass, when 1t moveth itseIt
erect to the brain" Again, understand
BY this sacrament that man dediCates
himself snew.to God.
W.
how much il takes for this purpose. Will
Glaes do? II so, then q glass ought to
be enough to dedicate him to the devil,
Tor think the devil ought not to be any
more particular than the Lord. Now, |
really would like to ask the reverend gem
tleman who man belongs to after he has
gone 10 church and dedicated himself to
God and then to the saloon and dedicated
himself to the dsvii2 ! suppose they
have him in partnership. But the Apos.
tie Paul must have been much mistaken
when he said: "Ye cannot drink the cup
OF the Lord and the cup OF DEVILS"
once heard Of man on whom God
brought swift destruction for deseCrating
the vessels OF the temple by drinking
wine in them.
Now, If God was so offended ct desc.
Grating the vessels Of tine temple with
wine, what will he do TO the man who
desecratea the temple iteelt2
aye are the temple Of the living God,"-
/ Cor. s;IlG and II.
And now, my dear brother, 90 thou art
the prelate Of Cad and hath the care and
counsel OF many precious souls, direct
them by the Kings highway to the
pesrly gates Of the celestial city, and do
not send them through the saloon. They
may fall into the hands Of the giant dis
pair. "Lst not your good be evil spoken
Of"
The worthy father advises laymen to
assist In saving drunkards, and l advise
him to assist In saving sober men and boys
from drunkenness which Is the legitimate
fruit Ot moderate drinking.
DAVID TRATER.
Wheeling, ". Va, January 26, 1888.
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