The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-29
Mr. Cory Tells Lies Story
In Effort to Establish Rescue
Mission in Wheeling District
MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION WILL
CONSIDER PROJECT THIS
AFTERNOON
Founder of Parkersbure Mission Tell:
lin Thomson Church What Gospel
Of Christ Has Done For Him.

! TO induce Wheeling ministers 10 es'
iIabliSh rescue mission for men slmt-
lar 10 the one he helped build in Park
CrSbur%. q. w. Cory. IN evangelist
who was once Il "down-and-Oulc:.
!; will speak 10 the ministerial aSsOCla'
ton this afternoon
a clean bed. d square meal and Il
! straight gospel message" is the sort
Of service given al the missions IN
ParkerSburg and it is proving 4 life,
saver To he maii who has Slipped
from his rlInc in The ladder or vino
.. ~ oven had stepped up.
y lie stepped in sin and MOI vii L.
Out tragedy WAS that in story given
Ut himself by Mr.. Cory last night at
the Thomson Methodist Episcopal
church on tho Island.
q He was The worst SOL If person
after he had drunk moderately for
fifteen years, be said. Liquor S0l il
grip OF him then ami weekly suffer
ineS in drlirium tremens BECAME
common. With his drinking came the
other low habits and he was ais"
somewhat ri Il thief. he admitted.
Lifted BY the Gospel.
II" WAS lifted from the nlrc NY
Gospel of Christ inilurnCr. Recover
ing from drliriUus attack III 4 room
, vi
tunalrly been taken by friend, Il
doctor. who had hit the Trail al BILLY
Sundays tabernacle, presented tho
light of Christ 20 Coy SO that he SAW
One by one he threw OF his bad
habits with ease. He became a bless
ing 10 his family instead nt useless
bump in the path Of their progress.
He rrrrnlrd ul The time that hc IL.
nUrrd the death Of d Iitll" blue-tyri
baby. cursed and blasphcnlcd wnliG
its funeral sermon was being prraGil-
ed, laughed like an idiot al the slgnt
Iul the dead child in the coffin,
Later on another .bluc-eyed babI
died. Hut with this child he prayed
'anu loved and did all i'll his power TO
have her.
For three years since his rcsurrcc-
tiun into new life Mr.. Cory mas set
about TO help those who have not Ar
ri, ri In three years he has develop
20 lnto an attcnIiongrippinS speaker.
The Story last night held 10 strain
ing concentration the audience ul Inc
handsome Island church.
The task of starting and continuing
IL rescue station for men Is his work
in the world as he sees il. If the MIN
listers sanction such u thing he Will IN
all probability be put at the head OF
ii.
Mission Would Be Godsend. 49,.
The house would have $50 or ?Uu
rooms, and would be- Il GodSend Tor
the poor, the lonely, the dcprayed'
homeless men of the Wheeling region
1t would be rented building AT hrst
Cory wants 10 make up on earth ior
the sin he has wrought. Already ne
has induced 400 souls to iollo"
Christ's standards.
Mrs. Cory was present last night;
She has stood by her husband in all
the travail. She will be his sustain
ing factor in his further work
The strong chorus choir al the
Thomson church last night WAS a
great inspiration at the opening OF the
revival services. The personality OF
the leader, Mr.. F. H. kincheloe' radl'
ates through every singer, and the!
blend together their finest artistic ell
This afternoons meeting of the Min
istrrial Association will be held al the
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