West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-21

ors waiting to demand what IS duo them. ~
Yet at that very time the French psasantry
: were bringing their valuables 70 him TO keep.
a celebrated writer says OF the trans
more nobly original than this admis
sion. This old soldier after thirty
years service, this iron man aud vlctoriou,
general, established in an enemy's country
az az .ne heaa OK a. Immense army, Is afraid Of
ms creditorsl This Is the kind OF fear thai
has seldo n troubled conquerors and invaders.
and doubt il the annals Of war present
ANYTHING comparable to its sublime sim
OH Is IL not high time that we preached
the morals OF the Gospel, right beside the
faith Of the Gospel Mr. Froude, the cole.
DRAFTED English historian, has written OF his
own country these remarkable words.
IRON the great house I'm the city OF Lon
don TO the village grocer, the commercial
NE OF England has boen saturated
s w,us that fraud srcsS ho dssa .rhas.m,
can hardly hold his ground against competi-
ton. You can no longer trust that any ar
ticle you buy is the thing which IL pretends
70 be. We have false weights, false msas-
Tres, cneatlng' ana shoddy every where. And
ret the clergy have seen all this grow up in
absolute. indifference. Many hundreds
)f sermons havo / heard in Eng.
and, many dissertation on tho
livine mission Of the clergy, on bishops
and Justification. and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacraments but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one that
can recoHect on common honesty
Now, that may be an exaggerated stato-
mont of things in England, but am very
certain that in ali parts of the earth we need
20 preach the moralities OF the Gospel right
along beside the faith of the Gospel
My hearer! what are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pockets My other
nearer How are you getting along with that
wicked scheme you have now on footl Is
that pool ticket" you have in your pocket
why, y young man, were you last night
practicing in copying your employers sig
naturei Where were you last night Are
your habits as good as when you left your
fathers housei You had Christian ances-
try, perhaps, and you have had too many
prayers spent on you TO go overheard.
DIR. Livingstone, the famous explorer was
descended from the Highlanders, and ne
said that one of his ancestors, one OF the
Highlanders, one day called his family
around him. The Highlander was dying: he
had his children around his death bed He
said: ''Now, my lads, have looked all
through our history as far back as can fluid
in all the limo, and want you to understand
you inherit good blood. You have no excuse
for doing wrong. My lads, be honest
All, my friends, be honest before God be
honest before your fellow men, be honest be-
fore your soul II there be those here who
have wandered away, come back, come home,
come now, one and all. not ono exception
in all the assemblage, come into the king
dom OF God. Come back to the right
track. The door of mercy is open and the
infinite heart OF God is fun of compassion.
Come homel Come homel Oh | would DO
well satisfied IL l could save some young man
this morning, some young man that has been
going aStraY and would like 10 get back
am glad some one has set ID music that
scene in August of 1881, when a young girl
saved from death whole rail train of pas.
sengers. Some OF you remember that ont
west, IN that year on a stormy night, n hur-
rlcane blew down part of railroad bridge
A freight train came along and it crashed
into the ruin. and the engineer and conduct
or persisted. There was a girl living
in her fathers cabin near the disaster,
and she heard tho crash OF
the freight train, and she knew that in a
Few moments an express train was dua
She lighted a lantern and clambered up on
the one beam of the wrecked bridge on
10 the main bridge, which was trestle work
and started to cross amid the thunder and
the lightning of the tempest and the raging
OF the torrent beneath. One misstep and
II would have been death Amid ali that
horror the lantern went out Crawling
sometimes and sometimes walking over the
slippery rails and over the trestle work sha
came TO the other side OF the river She
wanted to get to the telegraph station. where
the express train did not stop, so that tho
danger might be teiegrapehd 70 the station
where the train did stop Tho Graf,
was due in Ave minutes. She was one
mile Off from the telegraph station,
put fortunately the train was late.
with cut and bruised foet she few
like the wind. Coming up to tho telegraph
station painting with almost deathly exhaus.
ton, she had only strength TO shout. The
bridge Is down. when she dropped uncon.
scious and could hardly be rssuscitated The
message was sent from that station to the
next station and the train halted and that
night that brave girl saved the lives of hun.
dreds OF passengers and saved many homes
from desolaton.
But every street is a track and every STYLE
OF business is track, and every day Is a
track, and multitu0es under the power of
temptation coming sweeping on and sweep.
ing down toward perils raging and terrific.
GOD hep us to go out aud stop the
train. Let us throw some signal Lei
us give some warning. BY the throna
or God let US fash some influence to stop the
down ward progress. Beware! Bewarel Tho
bridge IS down, the chasm is deep, and tho
lightnings of Col set oil the night OF sin on
fire with this warning: "He, that being
often reproye1. harde1oth his neck, shall
suddenly DO destroyed, and tn at without
remedy.n