The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-21


way Of settling it. Some people up
north don't do 1t that way.
THE SIN OF IHTRNPERANcR,
The last sin that bog you to run from
and escape is the ain at incompetence,
o, my God down this river, from
source to mouth, ia lined with human
wretchos enough to make the devil him
self hide his face and weep withhorror,
The sin OF intemperanee Here Is one
man that can speak OF that SIN ana
knows what he il talking about, aud |
want you to hear me u few minutes. l
put you on notice now that am going
to make YOU stand up aud indorse what
| say, or else make you hug that bench
like sick kitten.
Intemperance! said in Chattanooga
eight yenrs ago; nobody but an iaseEh%
scoundral will soil whisky, and nobody
hut IN internal fool will drink II, aud II
you can get it down any palmer than
that without cussing l will sign u Tor
ym.
You arc in that low down business,
and you know it Ia the lowest down
business this aide al he'll aud ostraolaes
you from society, but when Il man talks
about you you 90 around mad, you bull
neeked devils, why don't you take your
medicine like decent man ought
to doY
In conclusion, hear me Just minute.
II there is man that would lit you
above these sins and mako you an
honor to your country, u blessing TO
,,ouv family a iou In Unuranlf | am thnt
mNu, aud have u right to speak, At
twonty-one years OF ago L aa admitted
to the bar OF my state to practice law
in tho courts OF our state, No boy ever
started out with brighter prospects. AT
the very court / was licensed to prac.
tiCe law, and the first week OF my legal
life l was full OF business, and tho day
after tho court adjourned boarded the
train, came through Bowling Green and
Louisville, took the Short Limo train,
got OF at Emihence, KY, rode out four
miles and married as sweet and pure
Kentucky girl Us ever saw in this
world. 1 carried her to my Georgia
homo, and in the three long, dreary,
hopeless years that followed / saw the
roses fade out OF her cheeks, the light
OF hope fade out of her eyes. / look
back over those three years Of de.
b0uChery and it seems weird dream
OF the past that l do not understand.
Many night l have come homo In the
debauGheries OF my maynard life, and
at midnight wake up from my stupor
and find my wife kneeling at my side
bathed in tears, crying, "0h God, save
my poor hayward, ruined husband"
God sent IN angel child to bless our
homo and permitted it to llnger with us
nineteen months to cheer q broken
hearted mother, and when it was nine
teen months old He took it to His
home. l remember one day when
started rudely from my Preside, the
little child got my finger and looked up
ut me SO pleadingly. i wrenched my
finger from her hand and went rudely
oil. Ihayo thought OF that day many u
time, and thought If ever got TO heaven
l would bog her pardon for my treat
ment Of her that night. That was the
only child God ever gave me that looked
in its fathers face but saw sober face.
have siX children ut home to-day and
they havo never seen me but was try
ing to servo God and live sober.
He concluded with an eloquent pict.
ure OF the joys OF meeting friends in
heaven. At the conclusion nearly
every man rose at his request as a
pledge to lead a better life.
The meeting in the auditorium at s
p. IN. was packed like herring in Il box,
even the preachers lchair being taken
and he had to sit on the platform.
Rev. S. L. Jones preached from the
text, "Becauso l have called and ye have
refused, l will laugh at your calamity
and mock when your fear Cometh." For
an hour and twenty-five minutes the
speaker talked. This is one OF his best
sermons and was well listened to.
Several times he got astraY from his
text, because he wanted to DO with his
audience.
His many sharp and pointed remarks
ELECTED much applause and his apt
hits were thoroughly in harmony with
tho feelings OF his hearers.
At the close OF the meeting he step.
| pod to the front and asked all who were
Interested in the orphanago he was
supporting to come forward, and us they
shook hands give him what they wished
to. The result was satisfactory
THE CLOSING DAY.
morning service to-day at the audi
forum at 1880 a. IN. under the leader
ship Of Miss Wray,will close the Mounds.
vile campmeeting for this year
There will eameeting on the grounda
in tho evening, however, ut which there
will be no charge ut the gates and all the
people are invited. Miss Wray is>ex.
pected and there will DO general good
time.
This meeting has boon great success
aud many think it would DO well to con-
tinuo the meeting longer. Do that as it
may, many from the town proper win
DO out this morning at q, IN. to tho
farewell meeting by Miss Wray.
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