The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-10

ms teachings were against cOwardtce
and scabbing. He cried out compass
sionately for the rights Of the com
monest laborers TO enjoy the blessings
/ q God. Lots OF men have an idea
mat lie is mad at them and that He
Is their enemy. but no worse fallacy is
conceivable. The Lord is the best
partner and helper any man ever had.
Now, YOU union men are continually
nghting for a square deal from your
employers and you offer In return a
square deal as employees to the ones
who hire you. | want to ask you why
don't you put up as strong a fight in
an enort 10 give the Lord a square
deal. too? He is always faultlessIy on
the square with you, and why don't
you reciprocate?
sides OF sin and salvation. death and
life. hell and heaven. In this text we
see the antithesis between life and
death. Life is a builder. death a de-
stroyer. Man can merit hell but not
heaven; that is the wages of sin. COM
pensation for your labor. salvation
and heaven are the gifts of God.
Devil Will Tell You.
II you ask what your pay for work
is TO be, the devil win tell you about
the pays He will lie every time and
picture the pleasures OF sin. But look
over his fence and you will see ruin,
murder. wreck, suicide and the d.
On the other hand is Christ. healing
the sick and binding the wounds. You
cannot serve two masters, God and
mammon. You will love the one and
hate the other
business is not for speculation. The
loafer Is the one who expects some
thing for nothing. Idleness is harder
work than work. Men of action are
. the need OF the hour. Glass feeling is
wrong. An employe in one depart
! ment Is Jealous of another in another
/ department which may allow or re-
quire different dress All work is
honorable. II should be a square deal
between employer and employe. and a
square deal for Jesus Christ
The workman averages $500 wages
year The criminal costs 1000.
| sin Is the cause of the trouble Sin
Is from lust. Sin Is from booze.
To whom do you yield yourself ser
vantt You cant serve two masters:
/ you can't play the hypocrite: there
Is no mixture, no sham. You are
{ either Tor me or against me-" satin
the Lord
The wage question is an issue Of
bread and butter. Men have said to
me: i don't have time to think OF
salvation. ! am too busy earning my
living. Men. hear me, You don't
have 10 live. but you do have to die,
and the greatest question az issue to-
day and every day is How SHAH I
meet eternity
Gambling and Drink.
Gambling and drink are two of the
: greatest material millstones about the
neck Of the laboring men The slot
machine Is an insult TO your town and
should be raided and sent out Of town
4 man who Is trying TO get something
Tor nothing Is gambling and one thing
leads 10 another.
} The 1abnrinR man Il NJ Lone. =.
beast of burden. but II taking his
place in the front ranks OF progress
/ lie is beginning TO realize that he has
b greater evils 10 face than trusts and
grinding employers to assure him Of
an ample income Labor Is Just al
the dawn Of it, greatest day. for they
/ have discovered their hidden enemy.
that which steals their money. brains
and physical strength and takes the
bread from the mouths Of their wives
and family. she has started a little
late. but. thank God she IL putting up
noble fight against that which saps
the life blood and drains the purse
the cursed legalized liquor traffc.
All sins. want. poverty and prtva-
ton can be traced 20 whiskey When
the saloons thrive the banks suffer
and when the saloons are deserted
the small accounts Of the laboring
men BEGIN to assume larger totals
The saloon IL the nations greatest
foe. n fosters ignorance. immortality
crime. pollutes the ballot intrenches
the political boss and crucihes labor"
Wages OF Sin.
What's the pay the old devil gives
yOuf Nothing but ruination. damua
ton and the wages Of sin. which IL
death Gold and other attractive
thlnrs man covetE are extended by a
sly hand. and the average man viii
do ANYTHING 20 satisfy bis lust for
gold That weakness IN character
De- the vantage point from which the
devil works 80 encctually and once
b. has his victim ln his clutches 10 IL
next 10 impossible 60 loosen his fend
iFh rrip We see men Induced into
onlcc who during their campafrns
promised 10 nrht graft and then We
are amazed TO behold them ioin the
ranks % the graftera themselves
I Ihcir promises were tempting and the
devils promises are tempting too. but
smite him In his wicked. unscrupu-
lous deception and lying Be n brave
aud courageous man Say n viii not
cast my soul down deep In caverns u
eternal darkness for the filthy lucre
promised hy 90 unreliable a fellow az
satan"
Right nov want TO say that the
open. Organized saloon ia the worst
enemy the laborinr man has. and the
LONGER he allows rotten hooEo % en-
ter into HE Affairs the longer viii his
woes continue. " has come to pass
when the labor movement and The
saloon must divnrce They cannot
longer travel together and the saloon
fought TO so. hate saloons! on.