The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-11-12
WHEELING DAILY 1NTEILIGENcER MONDAY,

assert Itself within 1t carried his soul
up into a red hot ingot 81 passion. and
he began to paint by impulse. Every
stroke OF his brush was n masters
stroke. Every conception of the mind
was divine conception. His soul Sc
cured inspired with the divine spirit.
and acting under the impact Of lnspl-
ration he painted the TRANSPORTATION"
the "sistine Maiden" and the "N1adona
of the Chair" - Incompatible MASTER
pieces. and one Of which would bring
s2,OOO.o0O in the market OF the world to-
day. .
Morality which reduces life to con-
formlty, to a set OF llfeless rules. is
therefore deficient MS a system. 1t Is
not Christianity. 1t cannot be substi-
tuted for II.
Let us consider one or two points In
which morality as system Is deficient.
Morality lacks the power by which men
grow up into Christian manhood. a
great many people conceive religion to
be negative thing. Many proceed
upon the principle that rlght-llving con-
slsts in not doing wrong. A good moral
man says II do not steal. I do not
drink: do not defraud In business:
am not guilty Of any Of the lower
vices" Am not as good rs the man
whose life is no better outwnrdly than
mine. but who makes profession Of re-
lision? You might be as good as the
protesting Christian II the Christian
religion were not a decidedly positive
religion. Righteousness does not con-
sist in not doing wrong, but in doing
right. Man is to be rewarded not for
what he does not do, but for what he
does. 5-5.-,s
Christ said: "If we love Me We will
keep My words" The condition of obc-
dience to. God Is love. Love first. then
follows obedience. Mark you. Christ
does not say keep My commandments
and by and by you will fall in love with
Me. He says fall in love with Me first
and you will afterwards keep My
commandments. This is the divine or
der. Religion is Inward to man. 1t
springs from the heart. Its central
principle Is love.
Now, man grows up into Christian
manhood he unfolds his spiritual pow
ers. In manner analogous to that by
which he develops his natural powers.
In order to develop the natural facul-
| ftoc ,,,,ot ho,.a n .Iacira will
insness to proceed along the line Of his
development. In other words, he must
have love for that which he Is to be-
come. Suppose you want your boy to
become merchant. You open the way
for him. You help him to make money
You equip a store and put him In It.
and then look forward to his success
But suppose you discover that he does
not like. the business He won't apply
himself. VIII he ever make business
man?
Send your boy to college. 2.irnlsh
him with everything necessary to stu
dent life. a home. books. money and
teachers. But suppose he doesn't like
study. will he ever come to anything?
Give man paint and brush and can
vass and landscape. but II he has no
task for art will he ever paint a pic
ture?
Almost every night for the past six
weeks Wheeling has been the scene OF
q political demonstration. One night 1t
was Republican. the next 1t was DEM
ocratic. Some nights It was Republican
early in the evening and Democratic
late in the evening and vica versa.
Each party strained every nerve to out
do the other regardless of personal feel
ing. and both doubtless made votes.
But on last Monday evening the climax
came. Up to that time both parties
worked In the interest OF party politics.
On Monday night both parties united
In n demonstration In the interests Of
good WILL which was most enjoyable
How many sores the Mother Hubbard
parade healed over! How many men
who got angry and used hot words
during the campaign were sorry for
what they had said! How many busI-
ness men who had become more
or less estranged,, were drawn
together! How much Ill feeling
died out that night! The party demon
STATIONS wer political movements. The
Mother Hubbard demonstration was a
movement Of the heart. Which did the
community the most good?
A Power in the Heart.
The Christian religion is love power
In the heart. The love of Christ begets
In the heart right ideas of virtue, Of
meckness, of temperance and inspires
holy fear and faith and hope toward
God. Love Is the foundation from
which all goodness proceeds.
1t was my sad duty to conduct the
funeral service OF one Of the soldier
boys who fought Mt San Juan. 1t was
one OF the saddcst funerals l ever at
tended. The funeral itself was not
more sad than many others, but an un-
usual sadness grew out of the fact that
It marked the climax OF bit OF family
history almost tragic. a year before
the wife Of the young soldier suddenly
died, leaving 4 dear little baby two
weeks old without mother. The
father then died and the babe was or
phaned before 1t was year old or ever
knew father or mother.
The presence OF the child Mt the
funeral touched the heart OF every one