Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-06

THAI is not the Ordinary circumstance
that is
THE EXCEPTION.
How often you see men coming back
from the political conflict, and their
eve is glazed, and their cheek has an
| unnatural flush, and they talk louder
than they usually do, and at the least
provocation they will beb, and you say
they are eonvlvial, or they are exceed
| iugly vivacious, or you apply some
other sweet name to them. but God
/ knows they are drunk Some OF you,
month or six weeks ago, had no more
religion than you ought to have, and
after the elections are over, TO calculate
how much religion you have left VIII oe
sum in vulgar fractions. On, the
| pressure Is tremendous.
How many mighty intellects have
gone down under the dissipation OF
politics! l think of one who came
! from the West. He was able TO stand
out against the whole American Sen
ate. God had given him taculhes
enough to govern kingdom, or TO
frame q constitution. His voice was
TERRIBLE to his countries enemies and
! mighty inspiration in the day or ma
tional peril. But twenty glasses OF
strong drink day were his usual al
| lowance. and he went down into the
habits OF a confirmed inebrate. Alas
for him! Though q costly monument
has been reared over his resting-place,
the Young men of this country shall
not be denied the awful lesson that the
agency by which the world was robbed
of one of its mightiest intellects, and
our country of one of its ablest c0nstl-
tutional defenders, was the dissipation
of political life. You want to know
who mean? Young man, ask your
father when you get home. The ad-
verse tide is fearful, and l warn you
against it!
You need not go far of to find
THE WORKOUT POLITICIAN.
Here he is, stumbling along the high
way, his limbs hardly able to hold him
up. Bent over and pale with exhaust
ing sickness. Surly TO anybody who &C
costs him. His last decent article OF
apparel pawned for strong drink. Glad
/ If, when going by a grocery, some low
acquaintance invites him in to take a
sip of ale, and then wiping his lip with
his greasy sleeve. Kicked off the steps
by men who once were proud to be his
constituents. Manhood obiterated.
Lip blistered with a curse. Scars OF
brutal assault on cheek and brow.
FouI-mouthed. A crouching, stagger-
ing, wheeling wretch. No friends. No
God. No hope. No heaven. That is
your WORKOUT politician. That is what
some of you will become unless by this
mornings warning, and the mercy OF
God, your steps are arrested. Oh, there
are no words enough potent, enough
portentious, enough consuming, enough
damning, to describe the horrible
| drunkenness that has rolled over this
land, and that has beat down the necks
of some of the mightiest intellects until
they have been combelled to drink out
OF the trough of bestiality and abomina-
tionl / warn yOuag men against politi-
cal life, unless they are teetotlers and
consecrated, Christian men.
Again, I counsel you that, when you
go to the ballot box at the city or the
State or the national elections, you rec
ognize God, and appeal to him for His
blessing.
THERE IS A POWER HIGHER
than the ballot box, than the Guberna-
torial chair, than the Presidential
White House. 1t is high time that we
put less confidence in political plat
forms and more confidence in God. See
what q weahthing is human foresight.
How little our wise men seem to know!
See how, every autumn, thousands OF
men who are clamberIng up for higher
positions are turned unders God upsets
them. Every man, every party, every
nation, has mission to perform. Fail
ing to perform it, down he goes.
God said TO the House OF Bourbon,
Remodel France and establish equity"
House of Bourbon would not do it,
Down it went. God said to the House
of Stuart, MAKE the English people
free, God fearing and happy" House
Of Stuart would not do it. Down 1t
went. God says to the political parties
in this day, SPY the principles of Chris
tianity remodel, govern, educate, save
the people," Failing TO do that, down
they go, burying in their ruins their
disciples and advocates. God can spare
all the
POLITICAL INTRIGUEs
of this day, and can raise up another
generation who shall do justice and
love mercy. II God could spare Luther
before the Reformation was done; and
il he could spare Washington before
free government had been fully tested;
and IL he could spare Howard before
more than one out of a thousand dun
geous had been alleviated; and If he
could spare Robert 0'Cheyne just as
Scotland was gathering to his burning
utterances; and II he could spare Thorn
as Clarkson while yet millions OF his
fellow-men had chains rusting to the
bOue-then he can spare any party.
That man who, through cowardlce or
blind idolatry of party, forsakes the
cause OF righteousness, goes down, and
the armed battalions OF God march
over him.
0 Christian men! take out your Bible
this afternoon, and in the light OF that
word make up your mind as to what is
your duty as citizens. Remember that
the highest kind OF patriot is Chris
tian patriot. Consecrate yourselves
FIRST TO GOD,
then you will know how to consecrate
yourselves to your country. All these
political excitements will be gone.
Ballot-boxes and gubernatorial chairs
and continents will smoke in the final
confederation; but those who love God
and do their best shall come TO lustrous
dominion after the stars have ceased
their shining, and the ocean has beaved