The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-22
IN DARKEST WHEELING"
Rov. Dr. y. W Cu,h,nE Intercsta n Large
Audience Mt tho r0uith Street Churc,

Audience Mt tho Fouith Street Church,
Rev. DR.. G. W. Gushing preached to ,
large audience last night 4. the Fourtl
Street Church on tho subject. "ir
Darkest Wheeling" taking his toxt from
Proverbs, 7:xi.
DR.. Cushins'ssubiec. was taken from
the title OF y book recently published in
London by Gen. Booth, OF tho Salvation
Army, entitled, "ln Darkest England.
aud the Way Ont" His discoutGe was
upon the sQualor and misery and vice
and crime found In tho city, and hr
called attention to the importance Of
placing people beyond tho reach oj
temptation aud in such position TINT
they may earn HI honest livelihood.
Or. Gushing stated that with all
tohdons vice andcrimo he doubted il
there WAS auy more there in proportion
than in the city Of Wheeling. In Lon.
don General Booth proposes to give 10
every honest Englishnan at least as
many comforts and az good shelter md
food as are provided for the inmates of
thejai!s. He asserts TIM. cob horses
iArc better than many human being,
They have shelter and suitable food To
give them strength and health, which
nre more than many men aud women
have.
DR.. Gushing drew from this an illrg.
tration OF the comparative treatment re.
celved by men and horses in case of II
iall. II the horse falls he is ,liyeste,i nj
his harness and is elped to his feet. To
get him onto his feet is tho first aim
With men 1t is not 60. When man
falls it is different. The weight Of effort
is against him. Ee Is allowed to riae
again il he can, but he is seldom helped.
He then contrasted thecomiogtg enioved
by mule driven in harness in Wheel.
inv and come men who work proportion.
ately hard.
lie said there are in Wheeling as Gen.
eral Booth says there are in London.
three classes that need help. FIRST, Tho
honest poor; second, those who 1.-Two or
derive y living from vice, and third, the
criminals. Some honest men through
circumstances over whiall they have
az least but little control, are down and
need help. They can not secure work
and are in mental and physical misery.
Gen. Booths book says that it is as.
serted that one man in every twelve in
Great Britain is an habituai drunkard,
but Gen. Booth himself feels confident
thst be ssafe in saying that one man in
every sixty is dtunkArd. Dr.. Cushing
says he believes the same proportion
will apply in Wheeling, and that one
man in every sixty il the city gets drunk
sometimes from the habit OF drinking. |
He said he is not surpriecd that a man
who has worked hard all day, and has
few or no comforts at home, should be
tempted to enter the saloons, because |
they are kept bright and cheerful and are
warm and inviting to euch none.
He closed with an earnest appeal for
aid for mission. he stated that he
and others had looked with earnes. hone |
upon the work bsing done in crude |
way in the city, and tha. while it had |
zone much good, an institution where |
man could get meal or q night's iode-
ing or could spend AL hour reading or |
hearing divine worship would do in.
tinitely more.
He cited the fact that there is in the
city home fcr aged women, Il home for
frierdless women ald Gsyluus for or
phans, but no place where ffiendless
man can get a meal when hungry or a |
bed when tired and sore.
"The man who builds house for
SUI ch an institution or who conBecrates a
building now erected, to such use ia
the city OF Wheeling will be tho greatest
benefsctor Wheeling has ever known"