The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-16
SHARES of THE day.
Powerful Sermon by Dr.. Buckley
ut Thomson Church.
SOME SPECIAL MUSICAL FEATURES
Wcro Also Givon-Thc Shares of Ir.
responsibility, Physical bondage,
Gambling, Bad Reading aud lire.
l%tSiousncss Clearly Treated by tho
Ministerial Large Congregation
Present.

VNoHInR W 1HOHlhon Me Il.
church, on tho Island, tho pastor, Rev.
Dr.. L. D. I. Buckley, preached IN inter.
csling and powerful sermon OH "Snarca'
to a large congregation. Tho musical
features Of tho evening wCro lrst.cluss
and Srcutly enjoyed. The text taken
was from Job IS. Is. 10: "IIo walkcth
upon u snarc. Tho snare Is laid for
him in tho ground, and n trap for him
is in tho way"
Akaba was tho captain OF n horde OF
thieves, was tho posscssor OF great i'll
gotten wealth and many slaycs. 10
came to Ben Achmet, who lived in
Arabia, and after describing tho slaves,
band and wealth, asked: GLOW may |
add TO these, eternal liicT' The good
man led to n mountain and pointing
to three large stones, bado him to take
thom up and follow him, and 10 then
started up the hillside. Akaba gathered
up tho stones and cndeavorcd to follow,
but found himself impeded 80 dropped
ono OF tho stones: atill his feot dragged
along heavily. and so he dropped tho
second and third stones. Then he
easily gained the eide OF Ben Achmet
and asked: Good master, what is the
lcssonH ?" And the good man answered
him thus: "YOu have n thrcefold anare
to hold you from attaining your desire.
Go, dismiss your band, free tho slaves
and give back the ill.Cotten gain. and
you shall have life" lie did.
There are snares OF every device 10
hinder progress toward better lie and
fullest freedom, and every young man
vii! moct them. The fret snare Is in.
difference to individual responsibility
responsibility. This is 4 great dan
ger and snare. Men may talk and
preach, but example is tho more potent
element. If Christianity is not OF
enough consequence to shape our plans
individually, we proclaim to the world
u preference to stay ont. A number
Of examples OF influence were given by
the speaker.
Tho second snare ia the bondage to
physical appetite. How many n poor
fellow is struggling with this snare, and
how the heart blecds for them. Appetite
developes before conscience and reason,
but conscience soon aifirms n higher
purpose than the seeking after pleasure,
and then comes tho conflict between in
clination and obligation. These snares
are everywhere; saloons are everywhere
and at all hours open. Three-fourths OF
our young men arc in these places OF
destruction mingling with the course
and vulgar, treated TO blasphemy and
%obscenity, where they are Taught that it
is courageous to sin. where recklessness
is smartness, and that it is manly 10
despise home, law and God. These are
snares for young men. traps deliberately
set, and every door should be decorated
with skull and cross bones. The rails
ing up OF u%nfaithful magistrates who
look upon this traffic and its snares with
tscit approval was deprecated by the
speaker in strong terms.
Another snare is the fascination of
sinful amusements. No one is living to
merely be amused, but the tendency
seems to be in the direction OF amuse-
ment ratocr than usefulness. Sin is a
thing that is laughed at, and vice is
paraded as 4 cunning thing, acted out
to make fun. On the other hand, re-.
ligion is ridiculed and bantered MS being
stupid. All proper convictions OF sin
arc lost, once you are in love with this
dissipation. God. church and home arc
forgotten. At the last there will be 4
fearful reckoning.
The fourth snare is the attraction of
gambling, which begcis dishonesty.
This is m evil that is constantly in
creasing. In its trail are found loss OF
character, systematic deception, and
finally suicide. There are the pool
rooms, billiard parlors, casinos, faro
banks, roulette tables, from which n
whole army have gone t prison. Con-
tinulng, the speaker graphically de-
scrlbed the fascination which gambling
possesses for its devotee. and strongly
c%ounseled letting it alone.
Tho fifth snare lies in the question
able books Of the day. The influence Of
reading is unreasonable; books and
papers are men and women talking to
US. Badtlncn and bad women in type
are more dangerous than bad men and
women in broadclo.h. There are those
who aro using their ems and brains in
diftusing that which debauches limo.
cence; pandcrs to sin, arouses hurtful
passions, lead thought and Imagination
astray and debases character. Our bud.
get OF crimes is the daily newspaper;
raking up the sewers OF ~iniGuity with.
its reeking Generalization is most I'm.
healthful and unwholesome. Printers
ink is very good but may prove hellisb.
Novels OF the yellow cover or blood and
thunder types, with their smoothly mr.
rayed lies arc disseminating their awful
coutagion everywhere. Their heroes
are too often a traycsty OF morality,
stealing, swearing and the like, and in
the end Guiding justice. Or come
wrotchcd woman, handsome, rich, adj
mircd. yet false to every instinct of her
nature is the bright attraction like
secret poison, steadily makink its way
to the vitality OF life.
The sixth snare is ridiculc OF religion,
or righteousness. The intidclity OF our
times is peculiarly \ type of its own.
The struggle is advancing. Who has
not felt 1t and seen Its coming with an
prehension? The clash OF ideas be.
tween Christianity and the civilization
of Christianity. The weapon now and
for the past eight or ten years has been
ridlcule. Continuing, tho speaker
spoke deliberately and clearly on this
phase, and warned his hearers against
listening to the false logic Of the mod.
crn disbclievor.
Among tho musical numbera rem
dered ut the services last evening were
a solo by DR.. Buckley, Can 4 Boy For.
get His Mothers Praycr?" and selcc.