Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-21

| but II you men uont mlhu youi N@POi
there will be no cradles 10
rock 1 often imagined which
was the most uncomfortable, the
life that a drunkard leads or TO be a
drunkard's wife. How a wife will
cling to her husband How much
more. yea ten hundred thousand times
more will the great heart OF God cling
to- his children. God only asked but
one thing/of any man in return. ii
you know God you will love him. Look
up today, ana see how good God has
been to you. Bless God for help, sym
patty, peace and pardon.
THE AFTERNOON SERMON
was Mr.. Jones' sermon to men only"
and il was listened TO by over three
thousand men at Prohibition Assembly
! Hall. He held his audience in close at
tention for over an hour and ha'f, and
was frequently interrupted by laug hter,
loud amens and applause. The speaker
started by quoting the text, Escape for
thy life," and said:
"God has implanted in every mans
! bosom an instructive love OF HE. he
has also implanted in the bosom OF
| every nan an instructive dread OF
death. We all love life, we all dread
death. We need not stand here to argue
! these propositions. Gall that man
hath will he give for his life" There are
thousands spent annually at health re-
sorts, upon all the remedies known TO
materin nedica: ali that is spent upon
musicians and upon famous mineral
| spripgs-these argue in the concrete
how men love life and how men dread
death.
There is but one thing in the uni
verse OF God that is stronger than a
mans love Of life and his dread OF death
and that is despair; and suicide is the
! last retreat of that despair.
! This text comes 10 US In tho form OF
an exhortation. Escape for thy life
When wisely Understood, II means
escape from sin. Poverty may harasS
me, grief may bereaYe me, disappoint-
ment may sadden me, but sin is the only
thing in the universe OF God that can
debauch and paralyze and damn and
doom the soul OF man.
THE SIN OF PROFANITY.
The first sin we will take up is the
sin of profanity. Thou shalt not take
the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
! He will not hold him guiltlsSs who TAX
eth His pane in vain. Let your COM
munications be yea, yea, and nay, nay,
etc. Our text reads this way when read
Kaleidoscope from the sin OF profan-
itys
"The old men swear, the middle-aged
| men swear, the boys swear. The sin OF
profanity! The old man cusseS, the
Young man cusses, they all cuss. What
! do YOU want TO cuss Cor? What is there
in IL for you? What is there in 1t to
add to your manhood, to your charac-
ter, to your integrity, to your honor? l
want TO look you in the face and say q
thing that burns like fire IL you have
sense: A man who will habitually and
persistently break one OF Gods COM
man6ments, If you will turn him loose
he will break them all. Let me Illus
trate: Suppose l say man who steals
will lie and get drunk and curse, you
would say that is right. Now let US
commence over on the other side, man
that will curse will lie and get drunk
and steal. All! but you say you must
not come back over that wav.' They
told me it is poor rule that won'twork
both ways-I have heard that all my
life.
THE SIN OF SABBATH DESIGNATION.
1.-The next sin l want to take up this
afternoon is the sin Of Sabbath desecra-
ton, | am not a transcendentalist, but
| believe ia the Sabbath. You hear
folks say they don't belve in this Chris
tian Sabbath, but that is the only kind
do believe in. Show me man that
will keep the Sabbath holy, and | will
show you man that will keep every
day in the week holy; but show me a
man that will deseCrate the Sabbath,
and l will show you a man that will
desecrate every day of the week. | am
talking to men now that never kept a
Sabbath in their lives. You old country
fellow!
II have seven dollars ia silver In my
pocket. go down the road and meet
an old beggar, and he says, please give
me something l give him six OF the
dollars, and that night he comes in
where | sleep and he steals the other
one. Amt he mean? God says, Il have
seven days, take six and leave me the
SEVENTH and you take the six DAYS and
then go back and steal the seventh
one from Him. Amt you dandy?
Brethren, If we live TO see another Sun
day let US try to spend 1t right. A Sun
day hardly ever comes TO me but l won
der If 1 will ever see another one."
THE SIN OF GAMING.
The next sin viii, take up this after.
noon is gambling-horse racing, Louisi
ana lottery tickets, betting, throwing
craps and playing cards. OF all the
contemplate scoundrels In the world
you catch them up in these things.
"By the sweat of thy face shalt thou
earn thy bread. l would rather my boy
would pillow all the week for a dollar
than win $4,000 10 the Louisiana State
Lottery. When be plows all the week,
and stumps his toes off on the roots and
clods, at the end of the week the fellow
pays him a silver dollar and he feel:
like it is his own; be comes home, and
as he lies in his bed trying trying 10 &c
to sleep the eagle on the dollar turns tc
a nightingale and sings him to sleep.
There is something good about an hon
est dollar that you have sweat over-I
have been there"
THE SIN OF LICENTIOUsNEss.
1.-THE next thing beg you to escape
IS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Purity Living OF
dead l will say it, never saw the day
that l would not lay my head on rail
road track and let the engine cut it of
before | would be untrue to the vows oil
the purity of my home. Sometimes the
homes OF honor are invaded, but it is a