Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-14
FIRST ONION MEETING
of the Ministerial Association Held
Last Evening
AT THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH-ADDRESSES BY REV.
N. S. THOMAS AND ATTORNEY
c. S. MORRISON IN THE INTER
EST OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP-A
LARGE CONGREGATION.

EST OF GOOD CI1ILENSf1IE- "A
LARGE CONGREGATION.
The first of a series of union meet
ings under the auspices of the Minis
terial Association was held at the First
Presbyterian church last evening and
attracted a large congregation. The
meeting was under the conduct OF the
pastor, Rev. D. A. Cunningham, d. d.,
and interesting and instructive ad-
dresses in the interest of good citizen
ship were delivered by Rev. N. S.
Thomas, rector Of the ST. Matthews P.
E. church, and Attorney Charles s.
Morrison During the evening num-
Der of appropriate hymns were rem
dered under the direction of the choir.
In addressing the assemblage Rev. N.
S. Thomas. who was first introduced,
said:
MY dear friends it is pleasure for
one to speak to those about me OF
things which are near my heart. Why
is it that we do not get closer tOgeth-
er? Is it because you do not come to
me or that I do not come to you, or
that we do not come to each other?
There have been some reforms under
taken. Thank God we are not response
bic for results. We all make mistakes.
There may be mistake in this meeting
and there may be some mistakes in
the results of these meetings. But
thank God we are all anxious for some
thing better and SO we have gathered
together.
eff there are any mistakes we shall
know that the efforts were precious
in the sight of God. Observeand do not
what the Pharisees tell you. To vio-
late one law is to live in a lawless
community. 1t is our duty to see that
the laws of man are enforced. Why
are not these laws enforced? The dis
citizen. We must not expect reform
of the world until we have a reform
of the units. How delightful it would
be if providence and right were as
one. There are two forms of christian
ity, one takes care of your own soul
and the other is to take care of anoth-
er. But we must say take care of an
other soul and the Lord will take care
of you. We must labor, we must
work not only for self, but for others.
Let us try as far as we are able to re-
alize and make it understood that obed-
fence is satisfaction of law"
Rev. Thomas was followed by Attor-
ney G. S. Morrison, who spoke in part
as follows:
Most of us know what a law is.
The room for improvement is as spa
cious in our municipal life as it is in
other respects. Whatever corruptness
may have infected us as a body, we
are not prepared to admit that it has
affected us to the point of stagnation
yet. AS long as the American people
are possessed of the degree Of virility
exhibited by them in resenting the mis-
rule of Spain in the recent war with
that country, there is ample reason
to expect that the same quality will
exert itself to cleanse it's cities and
States from political corruption, when
the means are employed to this end
are as heroic, if need be, as those that
aroused the national indignation and
action in the case of Spanish corrup-
ton.
eve look upon that exhibition of
ourselves with no small degree of
pride, and justly so. The feeling was
universal, it was an expression of the
moral pulse and sense of Americans,
regardless of party or section, and when
the pressure or tension reached the
limit within, it naturally broke out
upon the offending foreigner. There
are many things that may be noted in
the results of that conflict as being of
peculiar benefit to us as nation. One
of them, and not the least important,
is that it has induced a keener appre-
citation of the value of our civil and
political liberties and the numerous
opportunities they afford us for work
ing out our national and industrial life.
Not the least conspicuous figure in the
Hispano-American war was the present
Governor of New York. 1t is instruct
i've to bring to our minds the motive
that animated him in supporting and
taking personal part in it's prosecu-
ton. His career as Colonel of the
regiment of Rough Riders makes his
name almost as familiar as a house
hold word. 1t is said that he is very
far from holding to the essential value
Of commercialism as an element of ma
tional virtue. Those who know him
best will agree that he believes that
virtue of itself, pure virtue, is paying
quality, and that the question. Will ii