Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-19
GOOD TBNPLARS
LISTEN TO AN EXCELLENT SERMON BIZ REV.
DR.. A. ]. TREY.
Interesting Services at the First Baptist Church
Last Nighi-ClOss Of Rsviyal-Bish0P
Doaahue's Plans

A congregation which tested the seat
ing capacity-of the ediice assembled
last night at the First Baptist Church,
on Byron street, to listen to a special
sermon to Good Templars, preached by
the pastor, Rev. DR.. A. ]. Trey. A
great many members Of the order at
tended. The services were very inter
esting. The ceremony of baptizing by
immersion took place before the SER
mon. Seven children and two adults
were baptized.
The subject Of Rev. DR.. Irey's discourse
Was-''The carousal in the palace. "
The text was taken from the book OF
Daniel, 1st v.-Belshazzar the king
made a great feast" etc, and 50th v
In that night Belshazzar was slain"
He spoke in substance as follows
"Belshazzsr made great feast to
one Thousand of his lords, and he drank
wine before them" The feast had
good beginning. A thousand lords
were gathered in that festal hall, and
the King was surrounded by all the
brilliancy and magnificence OF that
eastern emperor. What shall mark the
progress Of il? What shall be the end
Of il? Tell me what of truth, Industry,
and morality, are in 1t, and l shall pre-
dict the end. Many Of you are just
beginning life, business life, social life,
Christian life. care not what may
characterize the beginning, the ques-
ton which we have raised are impor-
tant. What shall the progress be?
What shall the end be? Set this down
as a fixed fact, that nothing good ever
CANE FROM A BAD SOURCE.
You shall sometimes be asked per-
picking questions as to the moral, in
trinsic worth Of things. For the time
being you may be puzzled little in
your own mind whether it is good or
bad. If good, you may rest assured
nothing bad will come of it. j bad in
Itself, or prsponderatlngly bad 10 its
influence, you may be certain it is dan
gerOus.
There is nothing wrong In Belshaz-
zar's feast, 10 Itself, intTinsically. II
we had il In our power we would set a
magnificent feast aud Invite 10 it all
the hungry men and women In the land.
But we read further in the teXt-"and
drank wine before the thousands. This
statement gives a bad character to the
whole Of the occasion, and predicts a
disreputable and destructive end
to that feast. 1t vitiates the
whole. BelshaZzar himself spoiled
the feast. Who is it that has the most
to do with spelling the good times we
have planned and longed for? Ourselves.
We choose or permit the wrong. God
puts no man in the wrong primarily,
nor does the devil. Look back into
your lives, and mark the failures and
disappointments, and ask yourselves
who had the most to do with spelling
YOUR plans. II has been self, not God,
not Satan. II l have not been as good
as might il is l who have spoiled the
picture.
As the feast progressed one idea
struck the king, by which TO add to the
Splendor of the occasion, and he told
his servants to bring in the sacred yes
sells which his father, NebuchaneZar,
captured in Jerusalem. The guests
filed the cups with wine and drained
them to the dregs We say this was an
impious act on the part of BelShazzar.
Does wine taken in due quantities ever
fail to awaken