Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-11

''THE DEVIL WOULD REJOICE.
"What is your opinion of modern
methods Of church work, providing IN
large churches reading rooms, gymnas-
iums, halls for drilling, etc. ?"
81 think all appliances such as
libraries and other healthful social fea-
lures in church work are crowned in
strumentalities to help men to be good,
to do good, and to keep good. But,
after all. the church has but one busl-
ness in the world and that is to pitch In
and roll up its sleeves and bring the
world to Christ. If YOU stop short OF
that then it is a literary society, or
benevolent institutions; Christianity is
revolutionary or IL is nothing. You
might as we'll take cholera patient to
a fashionable restaurant and ask him TO
eat big meal, as to expect gymnasium
or library to erase the stain OF sin on
the human heart, or to reform the
wicked habits Of bad men,"
Sometime since a Methodist clergy
man proposed that the easements OF
churches should be used as billiard
rooms to draw young men away from
the regular resorts, and in Jersey City
there is q church house which has bar,
where temperance drinks are sold.
What do you think OF these enter
priSes?"
THE pastor who would put billiard
tables In the basement of his church, or
open a Christian saloon so as to draw
men towards the better Influences is
like the foolish farmer who had q rot
ten potato and said he would pack
thousand sound potatoes around it and
try and save it. A short time after
wards he went to tae pile of potatoes
and they were all rotten. do not be-
lieve that the best way to manage evil
is to pull it in and make it respectable.
To taboo 1t. denounce it, eliminate it,
cast ii out is the only true method OF
procedure. Be not unevenly yoked to-
gether. There is not an infernalism
practised by men that the devil would
not rejoice TO see it foStered and pro-
tected by preachers and churches"
"Are the two great political parties
doing their duty at the present time in
promoting the cause OF good govern
ment?"
81 have no confidence in either the
Democratic or the Republican parties
for reforming anything unless they first
reform themselves. We need wise leg
isIation on the Sabbath question, on the
liquor question, on the pension ques-
ton, and so on, but the average Con-
gresham who stands in Washington
with the money-bags of the monopolists
shaking at him on the one side, and his
constant desire TO be retained in office
and the populace on the other side
the average Congressman Is indeed be-
tween the devil and the deep blue sea.
A wise legislation on monopolies, the
labor question. the pension question,
the immigration question, and so on, is
an absolute impossibility as long as the
present influences are brought to bear
upon the average member of Congress"
what is your opinion OF the Prohi-
bition party?"
THE Prehibtionists advocate tho ex-
termination of the liquor traffic. They
differ from all other parties on that
point. AS a ProhibtOnist myself, l
would be willing to adopt every plank
in the three other platforms presented
by the three other parties, without a
word of remonstrance, II we could en-
force the one idea of the Prohibition
party. What matters II about the tariff?
What would the discussion between
labor aud capital amount to II the ST.
200, 000, 900 wasted on drink could be
emptied into the pantries and upon the
tables of all homes? II whisky was
banished from our land no more chill
dren would cry for bread, aud the reason
children cry for bread to-day is because
their parents do not cry for beer-they
have all they want.
"May enquire, Mr.. Jones, II the
newspapers of the United States have
generally '-eated you fairly?"
"As a rnle, yes, any public man Is
much indebted TO the newspapers. But
1 am frequently misrepresented, some
times not Intentionally, but at other
times purposely. 1 have frequently
been at the mercy OF the newspaper re-
porter. who sat before me taking down
nv utteranceS when he was so drunk he
didn't know his head from his heels.
Som etimes q little Smart Aleck Is on
duty as reporter. He thinks that bis
position on his newspaper and the pub
lie both demand that he should make
as big an ass Of the speaker as he, the
reporter, is naturally. Sometimes they
send q base ball reporter 10 report my
sermon; in such case the preacher
generally loses the innings. Some
times they get q race-traek reporter af-
ter the preacher; be brings the dominic
in on the home-stretch, neck to neck,
nth his text Sometimes the DFiZe-
sghting reporter is after Us; he gener-
ally knocks us out in the third round
with a mashed mouth. have never
cared what newspapers said editorially
about me or my work. but when they
misrepresent me that is the most dis
agreeable feature OF all. II . photo
grapher were to take my knees. elbows
and nose aud present II as life-sized
picture Of myself it would Of course be
considered an outrageous piece OF bust
ness. / have frkquently seen reports