Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03
The 6enefeent Wheel.

IN recent ScI uOu Oil Inc biN W.
its Use and Abuse" Rev. John F.
Clymer, pastor Of the State Street
Methodist Church, Troy, n Y, after
enumerating the possible evils of eye
ling, spoke as follows OF the benefcent
uses Of the wheel
l. The wheel Is a medium Of safe
amusement The central thought of
amusement is happiness The central
thought of Christianity is also happi-
ness. Anything that Is the medium
Of JOY or happiness to human life is a
Christian institution. The bicycle
rightly used is a medium Of human
happiness, and as such becomes an
agent Of mora reform The wheel IN
thousands of instances Is supplanung
tobacco. the beer mug and the saloon.
The bicycle is a conservation Of health.
The man OF woman who attends to
business in this age OF steam and elec-
tricity has all the powers Of mind and
BODY taxed to the highest tension
Rest and recreation aud exercise are
great couseryotors of health. The
wheel is am opcn.air institution, and
as such NAV be made a health reform
er. For all the physical ills that effect
humanity the wheel isa thousandtold
better than all the tonics and patent
medicines In the matera medlca. II
Won are sick and taking medicine to
get we'll throw you medicine bottle
into the sewer and get a bicycle and
take the divine tonic, oxygen, with
which God has imprcgnated the air Of
the hills that girt our city
II. regard the wheel as modern
exponent Of divine democracy It's
am instrument tha. can be used by all
the people. / mean women as we'll as
men lam glad that society has voted
that It is the proper thing for a woman
to ride "a bicycle. hail the bicycle
as cool exponent OF divine democ-
acy ON thataccount ! always doubt
the moral influence OF any institution
that cannot be used IN common 10y wo-
men AS we'll as men. ! have deep
seated conviction that any amusement
or work not proper for a woman Is not
proper for man \ young man is
not very safe IN any amusement whore
he cannot take his mother or has wife,
if he has one. or his sister, or some 9th
er mans sister In my judgment hui
man amusemcnts or human rights
should never be determined by sex. \
woman has divine right to do any
thing that is in itself right, that she
has the ability 10 10. If she has the
ability she has the night TO teach, 10
preach, to talk in public as well ms to
sing in public, to plough, to sow, to
roam IN NOV 10 ride the wheel and to
vote for the persons who make and ex-
ecute the laws for her government.
| Her humanhood and not her sexhood
/ should be the basis Of her rights. HUI
manitv, not sexuality, is Gods basis
for human rights The bicycle rs a
nineteenth century sign Of the emarcl-
patton of woman from the bondage OF
sex. Mark what say--not the eman-
cipation from sex but emancipation
from the bondage Of sex.
III. Furthermore, the bicycle is a
mechanical illustration Of Gods life
and power, and a symbol Of the pro-
gressive force in creation and redemp-
ton. Science teaches us that the rotary
Of rolling motion is the mode for the
development Of life, expression Of power
and the condition Of progress. All life
has its development IN spiral or wheel
| ike revolution. The life in the chaos
Of creation evolved or rolled itsell
into planets By the rotary motion
Life moves in wheel-hke motions,
whether in planets or persons. The
planets have been rolling for ages on
wheel-like axes and in wheel-like orb
its. The earth keeps itself and all on
it, in life, by wheel-Ilke motions oftwo
forms, daily and annual. Vegetable
and animal and human life get their
development aud power and progres'
/ in the same way. The bicycle, 30 me
il an emblem Of life, and Of Him who
is the life
Another Application.