Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-08

can commend it to all. Without 1t 1
should have gone the whole downward
career. Stolid and phlegmatic natures
going astray do not go so far, but ma
lures like mine sanguine, intense, emo
tional, optimistic, social to the last de-
gree, and echoing to all the heights and
depths of mirth, il they get on track,
they 60 with one wild leap TO
hell. As to the restraining power OF
this religion upon a mercurial temper
ament, / testify. This is not abstrae-
ton or something gotten from books. l
speak OF what / know. Go out and ask
all who have tried this religion and ask
them how IL works. Three young men
In factory came out on the Lords SIDE
| but two OF them overcome by the
ieers of their comrades went back, and
Joined the scoffers. The one held on TO
his Christian hope, and one day when
they pressed him hard, and were telling
how much infdelity had done for the
world, and that Christianity had done
nothing. the prosecuted Christian turn
ed upon them, and pointing to Henry
and George. who had for little while
followed Christ and then turned back,
he said. 'You have tried your princi-
pies on them, and know what they have
done for them. When they tried to
serve Christ they were civil, good-tem-
pered, kind husbands and fathers. They
were cheerful, industrious and ready to
oblige. What have you made them?
Look and see. They are
cast down and cross; their
mouths are full of cursing and filth
ness; they are drunk every week; their
children half-clothed, their wives bro
ken-hearted, their homes wretched.
That is what your principles have done.
Now, have tried Christ and his re-
ligion, and what has it done for me?
You know we'll what / nsed to be.
There was none Of you that could drink
so much, swear so desperately, and fight
so mastery. / had no money, and no
one would trust me.
MY WIFE WAS ILL-UsED,
I was ill-humored, hateful and hating.
What has religion done for me? Thank
God, am not afraid to put it to you.
Am | not a happier man than ! was?
Am | not better workman and a kinder
companion? Would I once have put
I'D with what now bear from
you? 1 could beat any OF you as
easily now as ever. Why don't l?
Do you ever hear foul word from
my mouth? Do you catch me
at at public house? Has any
body a score against me? Go and ask
NV neighborS if / am not altered for the
better. Go and ask my wife. Let my
L lfOA ha OrQisnA
here is what Christianity has done for
me; there is what infdelitV has done
for Henry and George" Out OF this
audience could gather thousand men
and women who could tell you as thrill
ing story as that as to what religion
has done for them. Yea, ii times OF
persecution should come as Of old, and
they may come, there are thousand
here who would for Christ's sake as
cheerfully walk into the furnace OF fire
as though it were an arbor OF thyme
and honeysuckle, and face the lions
as though they were lambs fNsking
on the hillside, and wade down into the
deep waters which are TO submerge
them as happily as ever at Narragansett
Beach they took the surf at a summer
bathing. Come up and join those on the
way to Palace. What an absurd thing
for king to be eating grass. Instead
OF living on the poor fodder that the
world affords come up and sit among
the princes Of God at the royal banquet,
and hear the bands play, Eat, 0
friends! Drink, o beloved" Here is a
crown; wear it. Here is a sceptre; sway
It. Here is a throne: mount IL. This is
your hour; improve it.