The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24

Yesterday was Epworth League day
at the Moundsvllle camp grounds, and
1t was great day for the league in
West Virginia, The Leaguers of
Wheeling, Benwood and all the sur
rounding country turned out en- mass
to hear Bishop Fowler's address to the
league at 1880 a, m, The large audIto-
rum was well filled and u more enthu-
slastic, wide-awake crowd Of young
people is seldom seen together. This
was the third and last address OF the
bishop. At o'clock he bid his many
admiring friends good-by and left for
other fields OF labor, All join In wishing
that this Will not be his last visit 10
the camp ground.
In the bishops talk to the league he
said: What we want in the Epworth
League Is power In the workers. Too
many people merely exist He said that
We under rate the value OF our bodies
ii is like n good house that the wind
won't blow over II the door happens 10
be left open. We live little up in our
brains. We live down in the cellar of
our bodies, where vegetables are de-
caying. We spend much OF our time
eating and the rest getting over Il. IT
Is seldom that we get up In the INTEL
lectual observatory OF our bodies.
Everybody admires a great big. stout
robust man, who looks like he could
catch a coming engine by the cow
catcher and throw It over the bank.
You can get great deal more In q
newspaper concerning u prize fight
than you can about o camp meeting or
a great revival where souls are being
saved. Now this Is not because the
newspaper men are any worse than the
rest OF US. They doRot run their pa
pers as missionary papers any more
than you run your shoe store as a mis-
sionary store. They have as much
right 10 run their papers for what
money there Is in them as you have to
run a milk wagon for the same purpose.
l win tell you why they would rather
publish the prize fight. 1t is because
we, the dear people, Will buy more pa
pers.
He next spoke of the invisible forces;
how little We know about what or where
our soul Is. have never been able TO
find my soul. have searched my body
through, but l have never been able to
see 1t or hear 1t, but know that It ex-
lists, that something that thinks, re-
members, forgets. 1t is n fine idea to
develop yourself above the ears. II
you see larger hat band, make for It.
The first bridge that ever spanned Nj
agara was an imaginary one. 1t was
built by thinking. remember q man
who was driving oxen for my father.
He put the log chain around the log,
pushed one link through another and
looked around for stick to put in the
link but could find none, so he put his
finger in; but he said that the oxen had
not more than started until he saw that
he had made a mistake. Think before
you act. Look at that house with the
flames breaking through the roof; see
that little child at the window; see that
fireman, above the police, above the
crowd, as he climbs from round to
round. from rope to rope, until he
clasps the child in his arms. What
took him there Up among the flames?
A single idea Some people think so
that when they think II rests their
brain. Don't think that way. II won't
do you any good. This seems to be the
age when everybody is saving their
protoplasm. When was boy used
to take the old fashioned grain cradle,
go into the field and swing II back and
forth, doing full days work. l was
harvesting. But now as ride about /
see a beautiful young woman, nicely
dressed, sitting on a beautifully con-
structed machine, holding two ribbons
in her hands. with great big umbrella
over her. driving around and around the
field. You say she IS harvesting, but
she isn't. She is saving her protoplasm.
The Epworth League, rs take 1t, Is
the hope Of the future, 1t is the hope
OF to-day, but II is not the church.
Remember that. The poorest thing you
can do is to try to do the work OF the
official board. II Ia the hind legs OF the
kangaroo that causes II to jump, but
remember that II is the kangaroo that
jumps. 50 the league can make the
church go, but It Is the church that
goes.
The trouble with too many preachers
is that they do too much. ] have known
n preacher and his wife to pray the life
out of q prayer meeting In three
months, This work you are In Is the
real work OF life. II is what makes
character ! don't mean reputation.
Reputation Is the dust that swine stir
up in passing down the street Char
acter r. the sun that shines In the firm
ament through eternity.
Miss Hull. Of Wheeling led the Junior
League meeting In the afternoon. At .
o'clock nm Epworth League love fenst
was led by Rev. C. II Melony, Much
interest was manifested. The willing
ness Of the LeagueFs TO take part was
particularly noticeable.
At TAO Dr. Swadener addressed the
league. II was an able and thoughtful
talk He IL an earnest league worker
md showed much oarneBtness In his
address. After his address n league
conservation service was held. The
doctor has been particular favorlto
here during the entire meeting. His
evangelical services were Of intense In
tcrest. Hc has done much good while
hero and the people all want him back
again, The want al space has prevent
cd deserved mention of him In these
columns before. Under the supervision
OF Rev. Mclony the auditorium was
very tastofully decorated with flags and
league colnrH.
This ends very Buccessful camp
mcetlng one NJ the most succeRsiul IN
the history Of Wheeling district.
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