The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-04-12
AN UNUSUAL
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! ATssTHE FUNERAL or ED AN
pERson So linda AFTER.
NOON. lLsRIL 10. 1sfO.

the face Of our Lord Jesus Christie
apologize for the mistakes Of tho dead
man whose body rests In this easket.
"Asg the eeffalls so 1t must lie.1
But, because Of our Limitations, and
flor the reason that we see through a
mirror darkly, we can not tell how
every tree falls.
After the tragedy Of last Monday
might enacted in the little room over
head. and before the actor left yonder
hospital to join the innumerable car.
avan that is ever moving into the
great beyond, he mad in my presence
a confession, part of which ] will re-
cite.
AS to the motive that lies behind
the confession, only he and his God
know. But judging from the manner
in which he spoke to me and from the
open expression of his scountenance,
the words and looks were those, Of
sincere man. On Tuesday morning he
said, 81 am sorry for what ] did last
night" at the same time stating that
he did not realize what he was doing,
yet said he, at was my own fault l
said to him, "Last night You seemed
determined to take your own life, and
you know that that is murder, and
that no murderer can enter the King
dom of Heaven" He replied, eyes, I
know that. and am very sorry; II
God spares me l will try to. be a
man." l said to him, I'VE believed
that you came with full purpose of
heart to- lead Christian life and as
a penient believer was baptised few
months ago." He responded by say.
ing, 81 was in earnest" A number OF
statements were made about his great
enemy, his appetite for strong drink;
how when he got taste Of liquor he
was defeated and then would say and
do things that when sober he would
not say and do, or had even desire
to say and do,
A few weeks after coming into the
church, and before he had yielded to
his temptation to drink again, he be-
came member OF the Christian
Church Brotherhood of Fairmont, af-
fliated with the National Brother.
hood OF Disciples of Christ Like a
man he stood up and with upllfted
hand subscribed to the following COW
enant: ~ recognize the Fatherhood
iof God and the brotherhood of man,
and believing in the ideals OF Christ
for individual and for society, here.
by accept them for myself. agree to
make an earnest effort to observe the
Golden Rule in all my dealings. AS Q
brotherhood man promise to be gen
tie with children; chiValrous toward
women, and helpful toward my fellow
men; to advance the Brotherhood OBJ
Ijects and uplift the Brotherhood
ideals"
On last Tuesday morning ! read to
IMr. Anderson from the Word of God
and prayed with him, but said to him
you must pray for yourself. He con-
demned himself for putting his life
Into the fire of temptation. said to
him, l am informed that some of your
old associates make the charge that
you have been carrying liquor to 9TH
ers-that is, "bootlegging." or such
a charge am not guilty" said he.
but what did while under the power
Iof liquor do not know"
Men, we need to be frank! You all
know that through weakness, tempta'
ton and sin, our dead friend and
|neighbor lies here. But l feel that
those who knew his weakness and
tempted him have committed the
greater sin. a
Sin will down any of us; even in
the best Of men It is too mighty to
contend against unaided. The evil in
us has so many roots of such infinite
convolution that nothing but the en-
ergy of omnipotence can pull them
tout.
The greatest delusion in this world
is that you can build yourself up by
pulling somebody else down, or that
you can reap success out of the frail'
ties and misfortunes Of others.
Upon this false principle the licens'
ed liquor traffic psts. By this delu'
sion the majority Of the male mem
bers of this community have by their
votes invited back into our fair city
the accursede stenchful, blackening,
blightlng, damning institution, the
licensed saloon. An institution that
fosters and perpetuates an. evil al
most as old as sin. An evil haggard,
monstrous, furious and diabolical, and
that for ages has walked and crawled
the earth, combining all that is hell
ish and obnoxious in the races OF