Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-09

of the distillery becomes the worm that
never dies. and The smoke of the heated
wine watts becomes the smoke OF the
torment that 2scendeth ND forever and
ever. A'c0hiNsm. swearing with
hand uDElted towards heaven. for from
thal direction il can get no help; but
with right hand stretched down to-
ward The perdiGon from which it came
u9-sWeariug that il viii not cease as
lcnr rs there are any hOmeSteads TO
despoil. any magnificent men and wo-
men 20 destroy, any immortal souls to
damn any more nations 10 balk, any
more civilization 20 eXtinguish.
Then there is what in America We
can Socialism. in France Communism,
AID in Russia Nihilism-the three
names for one and the same thing
and having but two doctrines in its
creed: First, there is no God. Second,
there shall DE no rights OF property.
one Of their chief journals printed this
sentiment. Dynamite can be made
ont of The dead bodies OF capitalists as
vel as ont of hogs" one of The lead
egs Of Communism left inscribed on his
prison wall. where he had been justly
iucarcerated. these words: When once
you are dead. there is an end of every
thiug: therefore, ye scoUndrels,
GRAB WHATEVER YOU CAN
only don't let yourselves be grabbed.
Amen" There are i'm this country
hundreds of thousands of these lazy
scounarels. Honest men deplore it
when they cannot get work, but those
OF whom I speak viii not work when
they can get &c. I tried 10 employ one
VINO asked me for money. l said.
Down In my cellar I have some wood
20 saw. and will pay you for it," For
o little while I heard The saw going.
and then ] heard il no more. l went
down stairs. and found the wood, but
the workman had disappeared, taking
FOR company both buck and saw.
Socialism. Communism and Nihilism
mean, TOO wicked 10 acknowledge
God and TOO lazy to earn a living, and
among the mighdest obstacles to be
overcome are those organized elements
OF domestic social and political ruin.
There also are the Businesses of inf
deity. and theism. and fraud and pOlit-
zeal corruption. and multifOrm. hydra
headed. million armed determinations all
over the land While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good and healchMl newspapers and
good and healthful books. and our
CHIEF dependence for intelligence and
Christian achievement is upon them,
what word among the more than one
hundred thousand words in our vOcabu-
larry can describe the work of that arch
angel of mischief q corrupt literature?
What man. attempting anything for
God and humanity, has escaped a stroke
of its filthy ving2
WHAT GOOD CAUSE HAS ESCAPED
its Underwent? What other obstacle
in all the land so appalling? But I cam
not name more than one-half the battle
ments, the basJiOns, the intrenchments.
the redoubts, the Notifications TO be
stOrmed and overcome if this country
is ever taken for Cod The statistics
are so awful that if we had nothing but
the multiplication table and the arith-
meic, Che attempt TO evangelize Amer
lea would be an absurdity higher than
the Tower of Babel before it dropped
on The plain of Shinar. Where are The
drilled troops 20 march against those
Qualifications as LONG as the continent?
Where are the batteries that can be un-
iwberrd against these walls2 Where
are The guns of large enough Cali5re 10
storm these gates? Well. let us look
around and see. the first of all. who Is
our Leader and will be our Leader ,;-..il
tho work is done Cari6aldi. with .
thousand Italians could be more than
another commander with ten Thousand
Italians. General Sherman on one 20
and Storewan Jackson. on the 90
each with ten thousand troops. could
do moro than some other generals with
twenty thousand troops. The rough
boat i'm which Washington crossed the
icy Delaware with few half-srOzen
troops was mightier than the ship Of
war that. during the American Revolu-
ri0n came through the Narrows. a gun
ar each rort-hole, and sunk at Hell
Gate. Our Leader. like most great lead
ers. was
BORN IN AN OBSCURE PLACE. "
and it was arr humble home. about fifty
miles from Jerusalem. Those who were
Out of doors that night said that there
was stellar cOmmCtiCn. and music thar
came CvJ OF Che clouds. as though the
front door of heaven had been set open.
and that the cameis heard his first in
rantile cry. Then he came TO the failest
DOyhC0d that mother was ever proud
of. and from twelve to thirty years of
age was off i'm india. if traditions there
are accurate, and then returned TO his
native land, end for three years had his
pathway surrounded by blind eyes that
he illumined. and cpileptic patients to
whom he gave ru5icund health. and
tongues thGt he lCOsened from silence
INFO song. and those whose funerals he
stopped that he might give back to the
ocrcayed mothers their only bows and
those whose fevered pulses ne had re-
stored into rhythmic thr0b. and whose
paralytic limbs he had warmed into
healthfui circulation-pastor at Carer
ncum. but flaming evangelist everv-
where. hu-hirg crying temnests and
turning rolling seas into solid Sam
hire. and for the rescue of a race sub
mitted to @ court room filed with howl
ing miscreantS. and TO q martyrdom al
the sight of which the sun tainted and
fell back i'm the heavens. and then tread
ing the clouds b0meward. like snowy
mountain peaks. Tin heaven took him
back again, more q favorite than he
had ever been: but. coming again. he is
on earth now and the nations are
GATHERING TO HIS STANDARD
Following him We're the Scotch coven.
anters. The Thcban legion. the victims
OF the London Halmarket. the Pied
montese sufferers, the Pilgrim Fathers
the EuguenOts the uncounted multi