Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-13
POISON In THE FEAST.
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under ground IS = tcunlal0 OF lnlqulty. II
may have s license and it may 20 along
quite respectfully for p while, hut after a
while the cover will tail of and the color
OF the iniquity will be displaye1.
"Oh." saye some one, "you ought 10 be
easier on such traffic when il pays such
O lsrg. revenue to tie government, and
help support your schools and your great
institutions OF mercv.N And then think
If what William f Gladstone said
think it was the first time be Wss Chan
celior OF the Exchequer- when men en-
gagged in the ruinOus traffic came TO him
and said their business ought to have more
consideration from the fact that it paid
such large revenue to the English gov
eminent. Mr.. Gladstane said Gentle
men, don't worry yourselves about the
revenue; give me thirty millions OF sober
people, and we'll have revenue enough and
a surplus
We might in this couutTy-this traffic
persisted have less revenue, but we would
have more hsppy homes, and ne would
have more peace, sud we would have fewer
psopls in the penitentiary, and there
would be tens Of thousands of men who
start on the road 10 heaven.
But the financial ruin Is very small
part " it. This ipiquity OF which /
speak takes everything that is sacred out
of the family, everything that is holy out
of rel igion, ever ching that is infinite in
the soal and trsmples it under foot. The
marriage day has come. The twain are al
the altar. Lights fash. Music sounds.
Gag feet 30 up aud down the drawing
room. Did YOU ever zee vessel launch
on such blight ard beautiful see? The
scene changes. DiDgy gerret. No fire.
On a broken chair sorTowful wife. Last
nope gone Poor, foraker, tTcdden under
foot, sne knows sll the sorrow Of being a.
wife. on" she says,
she was the kindest man that
ever lived, ne WAS no noble, De was so
good God never made grandeT man than
he was. but the drink did it, the drink
did itr' Some day she will press her
hands against her temples end cry: "Oh,
my brain, my brainr' or she will 90 out
on the abutment of the bTidg2 some moon
LIGHT night and look down on the CLASSY
surfsse aud wonder If under that CLASSY
surface there is not some rest for a broken
heart.
A Young man, through the intercession
of metropolitan friends, gets q place in a
bank or store. He is goiog TO leave his
country home. That morning they are
up early in the old homestead. The
trunk il on the wagon. Mother says:
my son, put a Bible in the trunk, l
hops you will read il often She wipes
the tears away with her apron "Oh, y
he saws. come, don't you be worried, /
know how to take care of myself. Don't
be worried about me The father says;
''Afy son. he good boy and write home
often, your mother will he anxious to
hear from Won" Crack, goes the whip
and over the hills goes the wagon. FIVE
ves,s have passed on, and dissipated life
mss done its work for that young man
There Is a hearse coming up in front Of the
old homestead. The young men of the
neiphborhood who have stayed on the farm
come in and say: rs it possible? Why,
he doesn't look natural, does he? Is that
the fair brow we used to know? Is that
the healthy cheek we used 10 know? Ii
can't be possible that is him" The par
ents stand locking at the cash in the fore
head from which the life COED out, and
they lift their hands and say: 20 my son
Absalom, my son, my son Absslom; would
God had died f,r thee, o Absalom, my
SOD, my sOnl'
Lorenzi de Medici was very sick, and
some of his superstitious friends thought
if they coald dissolve 3 certain number OF
pearls in a cup and then he would drink
them il would cure him Of The disease.
So they went around and they gathered mp
all the beautiful pearls they could ind,
and they dissolved them in cup, and the
sick man drank them. Oh, it was an ex-
psnsiye drsugat Bot l tell you OF more
extensive draueht than that. Drunken
ness puts into its cup the pearl OF physical
health, the pearl of domestic happiness
the pearl of respectability, the pearl OF
Christian hope, the pearl Of an everlasting
heaven, aud presses it 10 the hot hp7.
/ tell Won the dram shop is the gate OF
hsil. The trouble is they do not put MP
the right kind Of a sign. They have
great many different kinds of signs row on
places where strong drink is sold. One Is
called the restaurant, and another Is
called the "salOop, " and another Is called
the "hotel.u and another is called the
t'wire CELLAR" and another is called the
- .mnle room" What a name to give
one of those places 4 sample room
7 saw a man on the steps Of one Of those
"sample rooms" the other day, dead
drink. I said to myself 81 suppose that
is a ssmpler' tell you it is the gate oil
hell
.'Oh. 8, saws some man, 81 am kind l am
indulgent to my family, l am right ln
many respects, am very generous, ana
have 90 grand and generous a moral MS
fnre 10 be overthrown in that way. Let
ros saw that the persons who are in the
most peril have the largest hearts, the D. pest
education, the brightest prospects. ms
sin chooses the latest lambs for lts ssefi-
fee The brightest gsrlsnds are ~ TINS
hand OF drunkenness torn Gil
the brow of the poet and the orator.
Charles Lamb, answer! Thomas Hood, an
aver sheridan, the English orator, an
aver Edgar A Poe, answer! Junlus Bru-
tins Booth, answer. >
Oh. come and look over into 1t while l
draw off the cover-hang over 1t ana LOOK
6o,rn into il. and see the seething, oolllog
Iosthsome. smoking, sgonizing. blssphem-
Inc, hell Of tie drunkaId. Young man, be
msster of your appetites and passions.
There are hundreds- might l not say thou
sa+ds9-of Young men in this house this
,,orning-young men of fair prospects.
prt vour trust IN the Lord God and all 10
ell But YOU will be tempted. Perhaps
ION NAV this moment be addressed on the
}irst Sabbath of your coming to the great
ci,v and I give you this broth rly coun-
sci | speak not in perfunctory way. 1
snssL A. an older brother talks TO
vonrcer brother. Iput my hands on your
sbouider this day and commend you to
Tasns Christ. who himself was a young
msn and died while yet young man, and
has sympathy for all young men. On, he
master. by the grace Of God, Of your sppe-
tites and passions!
I close with q peroIation. Ministers
and sneakers are very app to close with
peroration, and they generally roll up
some grand imagery 10 express what they
have 70 say. close with a perorahon
mivbtier than ever was uttered by mere
hnmau lips. Two quotations. The frst
;s this. "Who hath wos9 who hath bso-
bling? who hath wounds without causeF
They that tarry long at the VINE, they