Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-12
EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE
Discussed by Dr.. Tracy at the Hearne
Tabernacle
Last Night-Second Of a Series of
Twelve Illustrated Lectures-Bis-
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The series of meetings at the Hearne
Tabernacle, on South street. under the
auspices Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, promise TO stir up
a great deal Of interest in temperance
work. They are in charge of Dr. NJ.
w Tracy, the Kentucky Temperance
Evangelist, who illustrates his talks
with appropriate stereopticOn views.
Last night he delivered the second of a
series OF twelve lectures, and there was
a remarkable increase in attendance
over the previous evening. 1t was a
noticeable fact that there were many
young men in the audience.
The subject of DR.. Tracy's lecture
last night was Power of Appetite"
After the usual devotional exercises,
he made a brief Introductory talk, in
which ne dwelt upon the character of
the work TO be done, and pointed to the
fact that men are usually more willing
10 contribute TO idle, often pernicious
pleasure, and draw their purse strings
very tight when they are asked for aid
in a wark which has for its object the
retaining of souls.
After a hymn by the choir. DR.. Tracy
began his lecture He talked for over
an hour. and held the undivided atten-
ton of his audience. He illustrates his
arguments with many stories, usually
pathetic but witty at times. He start
ed by saying that on the previous night
he had tried TO show the fallacy and
wickedness Of the common saying
The man who can't take a glass Of
liquor and let it alone, is no man" He
said manhood had nothing to do with
it. There appears to be an Incorrect
impression about manhood, and some
young men try TO develop ii by stand
ing al bar and drinking. There is no
man in Wheeling, who is less a man
because he does not drink.
The speaker took up another saying
heard as requently-"When l find out
that strong drink Injuries me I will
quit" The first saying is detrimental
to the interests of society; the second
affects only the individual. He prayed
God TO give him grace to convince men
of the fallacy of both. To illustrate
his point. he would suppose that he
was lying on a railroad. A friend
warned him of the approach Of the ex-
press train. He would retOrt angrily
that he knew all about the mail train,
and when he found out the train
would hurt him, he would get on the
track" Then the train came. 1t was
too late, too late!
The speaker dwelt upon the influ-
ence of example, especially upon the
part of parents and employers. He
wondered how the Christian citizen
ship of Wheeling could be Indifferent,
when they could not walk block with
out seeing examples of the evil effects
of the liquor traffic. He understood
there were 200 saloons in Wheeling.
Those 200 saloons welded a greater in
fiuenee than all the Christian churches
and Christian people. There was
something wrong. The Christian SEN
timent must be cTystallized, and the
dram shops driven out. If the officers
will not enforce the law, they must be
turned out, and others put IN power
who will discharge their duties fear
lessly.
Many persons. he said. would declare
'I am for temperance" But are they
with temperance? There is vast diff
ference between being for temperance
and with temperance. Every saloon
keeper. every brewer, every keeper OF
a den of iniQuity, is for temperance,
but not with it. AS an illustration, he
smoke of the soldiers who fought the
battles of the sixties, and of the thou
sands of men who stayed at home or
vent 70 Canada. Who saved the coun-
trvq The latter were for the Union,
the former were with 1t.
DR.. Tracy will speak tonight To-
morrow night, and every night next
week.