The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-16
Tho Text OF q Sermon by tho Boy
Preacher, ct tho Baptist Church.
THREE CANDIDATES IMMERSED.
Rev. Mr. ovInra makes practical De.
ductions from tho Words seen In
Eclshazzar's Fcast..."Wclghcd ut
tho Balance and Found Wanting"

Kingdom and finished 1t. Thou art
weighed in the balance and found want
ing. Thy kingdom is divided and given
TO tho AIedes and Persians." Rev. Mr..
O'IIara described the feast OF Bclshaz.
znr, the appearance OF the writing on
tho wall and the Interpretation OF the
mysterious words by Daniel. "God
was weighing the king" said he. "wllcn
he was icasting; He was weighing him
when he led the dance; lie was weigh
ing him when he ordered the sacred
vessels brought to be drunk from: He
is weighing you, my friends, aud sec
that you are not found wanting.
Some men say: Il keep thetcncom-
mandments, but not the new testament,
because it is not true Others say: I
do not have to keep the old testament;
the new testament is in force and tho
old abolished The old testament is
fulfilled. in that Jesus Christ died and
assembled from the dead to heaven, but
Jesus has not detractcd one iota from
the commandments OF God. They must
be kept.
God says: Thou shalt have no
other god before me- Wherever tho
heart is, there is the treasure; wherever
the treasure, there is the heart. Man
can neglect to worship God in other
ways than in worshipping craven
images. Those who are stepped in
earthly sins and value above all the
things OF the earth, are idolatcrs. Take
care, when you are weighed, that the
balances do not go up.
God SAYS: Thou shalt not take the
name OF the Lord, thy God, in vain
How many men are they that take His
name in vain? Not that all resort to
profanity. Profanity, tho most dis
gusting OF vices. Why, there are places
where the very atmosphere is tainted
with the fumes OF profanity. My
friends, never use the name OF God, I'M
less you hallow it. When you break
this commandment the balances 20 up.
JUSTICE on ONE SIDE,
yourself on the other. nothing there.
God says, thou shalt keep holy the
Sabbath day How many keep holy the
Sabbath, the institution OF God! Does
our country keep it? On this day trains
60 laundering along, the busy marts OF
commerce are going on. l have been
in cities where you would not know
that there is such an institution MS the
Sabbath. How many must give ac-
count OF their manner OF keeping this
commandment! Belshazzar might have
said: God won't hold me to strict
account God does. Ii in one thing
wanting, in all. Weigh such men, and
the balances 60 up.
"God says: Honor thy father and
thy mother That mother, whose SON
is on the wrong path, she may not shed
tears, as the spring is exhausted, but
her heart is broken. That father, his
hair silver, his hand palsicd, his step
feeble. They are going to the grave in
sorrow, dishonored by their children.
How many OF us have delicd our par
cnts? 1t is fearful thing to do. This
is the first commandment to say: THY
days shall be long on earth That
young man who does not cease to
honor his father and mother until he
has followed them to the cemetery is
the young man who keeps this COM
mandment.
God says: Thou shalt not kill
The man who takes the dagger and
buries it in the breast OF another, who
uses the deadly revolver to send bull
let to the brain OF q fellow man, are not
the only murderers. The man who
perseCutes another and hounds him to
his grave is murderer before God.
Many are murderers because they have
murderin their hearts.
'God says: Thou shalt not steal.'
The penitentiary below here holds
thieves-and innocent men besides.
But all men who IRE stealing here in
Wheeling, are not there, and will not 90
there, because they won't be caught up
with. The young man who. on q salary
OF twenty-five or thirty dollars month,
INDUCES in all kinds OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
must yet the money somewhere. 1t
comes from his employer. The burglar
began his life OF crime by taking what
did not belong to him. The men in
New York who sell every year ten mill
ions bales OF cotton, when only q few
millions are raised, are stealing. All
gambling. and all games OF chance and
like schemes, are stealing. I was glad
when Mayor Harrison, the MAYOR OF
Chicago, said few years ago that he
had tried to enforce the law against
gambling, but could not while the
churches, do not know whether they
were Methodist, Episcopalian or Catho-
lie, continued to keep up
GAMBLING IS'THE FORM OF RAErLEs.,
Many men will work six dnvs in thn