Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-11
AT THE ASSEMBLY,.
THE LARGE AUDITORIUM OF THE OHIO VAL
LEY PROHIBITIONlSIS
At the Mounds7ills Camp Grounds Well Filled
Ysstsrday-Intsresting Services Through
out the Day-0ther Notes.

meeting Of the Ohio Valley Prohibition
Assembly at the Moundsvilie Camp
Grounds proved to be one Of the most
interesting OF the session. The attend
ance yesterday was much larger than
usual, it being made up not only Of the
camp people, but quite number from
Wheeling, Benwood and other points
within radius Of fifteen miles were
present.
The services in the morning were
opened with selections from the Silver
Lake Quartette, followed by a chalk
talk delivered by Mr.. Rolla Kirk Brien,
in which he drew picture illustrating
right and wrong. The picture was that
of Satan with an innocent child in his
grasp, which was endeaVoring to free
itself from the devil. BY reversing the
chart it showed the child as the con-
aueror Of the evil spirit The illustra-
ton was received with applause.
Col. L. L. Copeland then lectured on
"a gnosticism," or infdelity as it is
some times termed. He said, "Agnos-
ticism is largely the product OF shallow
thought, and, If instead OF attempting
to discredit an old theory as soon as 1t
confronts us, if we would but think OF
it, and consider it, instead OF immedi-
ately allowing that little vein OF agnos-
tic views to present themselves,
we would more frequently find
ourselves the master of our I'M
Outstanding, instead OF throwing
it carelessly to one side, and credit
1t as an impossible fact, there would be
less infidels than there are at the pres
ent day. In order to avoid this agnosti-
cism, it is necessary to give more rever-
ence to the Bible than we do. Making
light Of the clauses Ia the Bible is one
of the first points which helps to
make the agnostic. They pretend
10 claim that the Bible
and the teachings therein are
obsolete, and that during this
progressive age we need something
more definite In regard to the future
world. Every agnostic feigns to be a
scientist, so that he may disagree with
some great philosopher, chemist or ge-
ologist, and present views of his own,
and Try to assume a superior knowl-
edge. Agnostics are seemingly philan-
thropists, their claims are great but
amount to naIght-
He closed his interesting talk by stat
ing that "there were nine hundred and
sixty-four colleges in American, aud
but two out of that number were
founded by agnostics. There are also
thirteen hundred hospitals in America,
including Asylums and Homes for Aged
aud Friendless, and not one out OF the
whole number founded by an atheist"
His lecture was loudly appiauded.
The morning services were then at an
end.
At 2:3O in the afternoon Rev. Anna
Shaw, the only woman preacher in
America. occupied the pulpit and
preached an eloquent sermon, taking
her text from Joshua 10, in which are
found the following words:
''Be strong and OF good courage, be
not afraid; neither be thou dismayed:
for the Lord thy God is with thee
wither-so-ever thou goest."
Her sermon was mapped out under
different topics. The first topic was
strength of character. She said to have
a strong character we must develop it,
in order that our lives may be what we
desire them TO be.
"If man with a weak character falls
on the downward path, he is not
blamed; but the question arises that
some one of his ancestors must have
been OF weak character, and accord
ing to the law of heredity, he was the
unfortunate victim. II we find our
selves falling into an evil disposition,
why not then strengthen our character
and have resolution enough to over
come such evils? The condition, or es-
sential, TO strong character is moral
courage, which is one of the highest
and mightiest traits in the world. 1t
far excels physical courage, for the
simple reason that thousands and thou
sands have abundantly supplied with
physical courage, but alas! how few
have the moral courage to overthrow
all the evils in this life?
"There are two great forces contnu-
ouSly waging war, known as the good
and evil. He who tries to walk between
both will be trampled by both; we must
either fight on one side or another.
"There are times when a man gifted
with strong character throws his pow
ers away, so to speak. Take for exam
pie, Lord Byron, man Of wonderful
genius, and instead of living a true and
noble life, according to Gods law, ne
merely lived to write enough to let the
world know what he might have been.
But instead he died at an early age and
ended an ingloriouS and wretched life"
After several other illustrations of
men lacking moral courage, Rev. Shaw
brought her sermon to close by giving
three necessary things to aid the quaili-
ty of a mans character: first, moral
courage; second, faith in God; third,
obedience to God. This closed the after
noon services.
p. A. Burdick delivered an address,
which closed the exercises Of the day.
There-are but two more days OF the
Assembly meeting, and both bear excel
lent programmes.