Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-27

remark, in the first place, that some
people try to clean their soul of sin in
the snow water of fine apologies. Here is
one man who says: II am sinner; con-
tess that; but inherited this. MY father
was a sinner, my grandfather, my great
great grandfather, and all the way back to
Adam, and couldn't help myself" My
brother, have you not, every day in your
life, added something to the original
estate Of sin that was bequeathed to you?
Are you not brave enough to confess
that you have sometimes surrendered to
sin, which you ought to have conquered
ask you whether it is fair play to put
upon our ancestry things for which we
ourselves are personally responsible? II
your nature was askew when you got il,
have you not sometimes given il an addi-
tional twist Will all the tombstOnes of
those who have preceded us make barri-
cade high enough for eternal defensss?
know a devout man who had blasphemous
parentage. know an honest man whose
father was a thief ! know a pure man
whose mother was a waif of the street
The hereditary tide may be very strong
but there is such a thing as stemming it.
The fact that have q corrupt nature is no
reason why should yield to it The deep
stains Of our soul can never be washed out
by the snow water Of such insufficient
apology.
SINS HYPOCRISY.
Still further, some persons apologize for
their sins by saying: 1--WE are a great
deal better than some people You see
people all around about us that are a great
deal worse than we" You stand up col
umnar in your integrity, and look down
upon those who are PROSTATE in their hab-
its and crimes What of that, my brother?
If failed through recklessness and wicked
imprudence for ten thousand dollars, is the
matter allieviated at all by the fact that
somebody else has failed for one hundred
thousand dollars? Oh, no. fl have the
neuralgia, shall refuse medical attend
ance because my neighbor has virulent ty-
phoid fever? The fact that his disease is
worse than mine-does that cure mine?
If I, through my fool hardness, leap off
into ruin, does il break the fall to know
that others leap of higher cliff into
deeper darkness? When the Hudson
river rail train went through the bridge at
Spuyten Duyvil, did it alleviate the mat
ter OF all that instead Of two or three peO-
pie being hurt there were seventy-five
mangled and crushed? Because Others are
dspraved, is that any excuse for my de-
pravity? Am I better than they? Perhaps
they had worse temptations than have
had. Perhaps their surroundings in life
we're wore OverpOwering. Perhaps, o man,
if yOu had bsen under the same stress of
temptation, instead of sitting here to-day,
you would have been looking through the
bars of a penitentiary. Perhaps, y woman,
if you had been under the same power Of
temptation, instead of sitting here to-day,
you would be trampiug the street, the
laughing stock of men and the grief
of the angels Of God, dungeOned,
body, mind and soul, in the
blackness Of despair. All, do not let
Us solaoe ourselves with the thought
that other people are worse than we.
Perhaps in the future, when our fortunes
may change, unless God prevents it, we
may be worse than they are. Many a
man after thirty years, after forty years,
after fifty years, after sixty years, has
gone to pieces on the sand bars. oh. in
stead of wasting our time in hypercriti-
cism about others, let us ask ourselves the
Questions: Where do we stand? What
are our sins?,' What are our deficits? What
are our perils? What our hopesP Let
each one say to himself: "Whers will l
be? Shall range in summery fields, or
grind the mills Of a great night? Wherer
Where2'
A GOOD RESOLUTION.
But I hear some one say: II will try
something better than that; will try the
force Of q good resolution. That will be
more pungant, more caustic, more extir-
pating, more cleansing. The snow water
has tailed, and now I will try the alkali OF
the good, strong resolution" My dear
brother, have you any idea that resolu-
tion about the future will lquidate tine
past? Suppose l owed you five thousand
dollars and should come to you tO-mor-
row and say: "Sir, I will never run IN
debt to you again; if l should live thirty
wears will never run in debt to you
again" then you turn on me and say; III
Won will not run in debt in the future, l
will forgive you the five thousand dol
lars - Will you do that? Mo- Nor will
God. If for the future We should abstain
from sin, that would be no defrayment
Of past Indebtedness. Though you
should live from this time forth
Dure "a an archangel before the throne,
that would not redeem the past. God, IN
the Bible, distinctly declares that ne will
reouire that which is psst'-past Oppor-
tn5ities. past neglects, past wicked words,
mast eimaginations, past everything
The mast is a great cemetery, and every
dav Il hurried in it. Aud here is long
row of three hundred and sixty-ive graves.
They are the dead days of 1888. Here IS a
IoDg row of three hundred and sixty-tiye
more Orayee and they are the dead days Of
1881 And here a long row of three hum
dred and sixty-fve more graves, and they
are the dead days of 1886. 1t is vast
csreterv of the past. But God will rouse
tben ali nm with resurrectionary blast,
aDd as tbe nrisoner stands lace to face with
Juror and Judge, so you and VIII nave 70
come up and look upon those departed
davs face to face, exulting In their smile
or covering in. their froWn.
SIN WILL OUT.
sMnrder will out' is q prOverb that
stons too short Every sin, however small,
as we'll as great, will out. In hard times
in England, years ago. 1t is autnenucaLy
stated that a manufacturer was on the way
With a BAG of money to pay off his hands.
A man infuriated with hunger met him on
the road and took rail with nail IN 1t
from a paling fence and struck him down,
and the nail entering the skull instantly
slew him. Thirty years after tnat t9e
murderer went back to that place. de
passed into the graveyard where the sexton
was digging grave, and while lUs ne STOOD to- 4
there tbe spade Of the sexton turned up q
skull. and. lol the murderer saw nail
pTotrading 1 from the back part of the skull
and as the sexton turned the skull, II
seemed with hollow eyes to glare on the
murderer, and he, first petri6ed with hoI-
ror. stood in silence, but cried out, "Gnh-
tyl guilty. o GOdp' The mystery OF the
crime was over. The man was tried ana
executed. Ny friends, all the unpardS9neSe
sins of our lives, though we may tnink
49,, ara buried ont of sight and gone INTO