Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-01

7or tc.6ay Dr. Taimage chose mo-
nt.us and awful topic "Tbe Gates
b. feI" the text selected being The fa-
miiiar passage in Matthew 1918: THE
gates OF hell shall not prevail against
i,.8
Enhanced. until we could endure no
more Of the spleDdor, we have often
gazed at the shining gates. the gates o.;
pearl the gates Of heaven. But we are
Tor awhile to look i'm the opposite direc-
ton and see swinging open and shut
the gates Of he'll.
remember, when the FrancO-Ger-
man war was going on. that I stood ono
day la Paris looking at the gates of thN
Tuillieries. and I was so absorbed i'm the
sculpturing at the top Of the gates-Jhe
masonry and the bronchial forgot
myself. and after a while. looking down,
Z saw that there were officers OF the
law scruunizing me. supposins, no
doubt was a German, and looking at
those gates for adverse purposes. But
my friends. we shall not stand looking
nc the ourNde of the gates OF hell In
this sermofSI shall tell YOU of both
sides. and z snail ten YOU what those
gatoDare made or With the hammer
of Gods ruthG shall pound on the
lrqkeu panels, Ind with the lantern of
HnrrHH. rI..rNN HIn-n ID IHunf
the shining hinges.
Gate the first: Impure literature.
Anthony ComstOck seized twenty tons
OF bad books, plates, and letter press.
and when our Professor Cochran. Of the
Polytechnic Institute, poured the de-
stUctive acids on those plates, they
smoked in the
RIGHTEOUS ANNIHILATION.
And yet a great deal Of the bad litera-
ture of the day is not gripped Of the
law It is strewn in your parlOrs; ~ "a
in yOur libraries. Some Of your chill
dren read 20 at night after they have re-
ltired, the gas-burner swung as near as
possible 90 the pillow Much Of this
literature is under the title OF scientific
information. A book agent with one
Of these internal books, CLOSED over
with scientific nomenclature. went in-
90 hotel and sold in one day q hundred
copies and sold them all 90 women. II
is appalling that men and women Who
can got through their family physician
an the useful information theT may
need. and without any contamination,
should wade chin deep through such
accur5ed literature under the plea OF
getting useful knowledge. and that
printing presses hoping TO be called
decent lend themselves Co this inc
famg Fathers and mothers. be not de-
ceived bv the title medical works
Ninc-tenths of those books come hot
from the lost world, though they may
have on them the names OF the publish
ing houses of New York. Chicago. and
PHILADELPHIA. Then tlors IS ell the
novelette, literature of The day luus
over the land by the million. AS there
are go03 novels that are Ions So 1 sup
pose there ma. De good NOEL thr, "- e
silOi e. lruu SO lnerv ma De q good nov.
elette. but it IS the EXCEPTION. No one
mark tbis-p0 one systematically
reads The novelette, of this dav and
keeps either integrity or virtue The
most of these nCFelettcs are written bv
brOkeD-down literary men for small
compensation. on the principle that
having failed tn literature elevated and
pure. they hope to succeed in the
tainted and the nasty. Oh, ,his is
A WIDE GATE OF HE'LL
Every panel is made ont of Oh bad book
or newspaper. Every hinge is the iu-
teriOiaed type OF @ corrupt printing
press. Every b0i or lock oil that gate
IS made out of the plate OF on uncleau
pictorial In other words. there are
million men and women I'm the United
states to-day reading themselves into
helll r2
Gaze the second. The dissolute dance.
You shall not divert me to- the general
subject OF dancing. Whatever you may
think of the pari0r dance orr the meth
odic motion of the body TO sounds of
music TO the family or the social circle,
I am not now kcussing that question.
] want v0u mite with me this hour
fn rec0cuizit. the fact that there is q
diss0lute daf You know of what
speak 10 islseeu not only tn The low
hsun,s of death but in elegant man
slons. IL is the first step 20 eternal ruin
FOR great multitude of both sexes. Y0J,
know. my friends. what pastures, and
attitudes. and figures are suggested OF
the devil. They who glide into the dis
soiute dance glide over on inclined
Dlane. and the dance is swifter and
sl.fter wilder and wilder, until with
The speel of lightning they whirl OH the
edges 9th decent life into fiery future.
This gate Of hell swings across the AK
Minister tf many fire parlor and
across The ballroom OF the summer
watering place.
Gate The third. Indiscreet apparel
The attire of woman for the last few
wears has been beautiful and graceful
beyond anything / have known, but
there are those who win carry that
(Which Is right into the extraordinary
indiscreet, I chars
ga a CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
3 nsfh 49, stvie of dress nor ADJUST
ment II apparel. 90 become adminisra-
Five Of evil. Perhaps none else will dare
h, teil you. so L viii tell you that there
ora multimdos of men who owe their
eternal damnati0n Co what has been no
Inherent times the b0ldness Of woman
IL aftiro SHOW me the fashion,
mates Of any age between this and
ne time of Louis XVI Of France
ana Henry VIII OF England, and /
,rni fsu YOU the type OF morals or i'm
r,orais of that age or that year. NO
gr.s.flon to iL Modest apparel means
~-@hfoons people Imm0dest apparel
rways means contaminated ana Ce-
r rraved society. You wonder lndl --'-
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