The New York herald., 1875-12-20
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAoE ON PUBLIC

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text of Mr.. Talmage's discourse was taken from
Luke xix, as folows;-"when he bcheld the
city he wept over itn The reverend gentleman
began by describing how Christ stood upon the sum-
nit OF Mount 0ve before His entrance into Jerusa-
lem and looked out and the vision of tho citys sin
and doom, and then continued as follows standing
on some high Of the beloved city Of our resi-
dence we might look of and see wondrous scene OF
enterprise and wealth and beauty long Streets faced
4 by comfortable houses while might find thousands
people who would be very glad to cast palm branches
in the way OF Him who comes from Bethany to Jeru-
SALEM greeting Him with the vociferaton 'Hosannal
hosanna to the Son Of David And yet my friends,
how much there is to mourn in our cities
Passing along the streets to-day great multitude.
Whittier do they go9 To church. Thank God for that
Listen this morning you hear multitudnous voices
OF praise. Thank God for that When evening falls
| you will find Christian and women knocking at
homes of poverty and, finding no light taking the
! matches from their pockets and, by momentary
glance revealing faces and wasted hands and
ragged bodies sending in before morning candles and
vials of medicine and Bibles and loaves OF bread and
two or three flowers from the hothouse Thank God
for that But listen again. and you hear the thousand
\ voiced shrek Of blasphemy tearing its way up from
| TIE DEPTHS
| You see the upned decanters emptied now, but up
lifted to fight down the devils they have raised Listen
to that wild laugh the street corner that makes the
/ pure shudder and say, "Poor thing; that's lost
soulle Hark to the clicks Of the gamblers dice and
the nysteric gufaw of him who has pockcted the last
dollar of that young mans estate This is the banquet
4 of Bacchus. That young has taken
1 the first glass That has taken down
| three-fourth Of his estate. This is
pawned everything that old coat This man is in
/ delirum Oh you say, is it not strange that there
should be SO much suffering and so much sin in ali our
VI r M 1OoL alar aai
and the temptations that are attempting destroy
men for time and for eternity am surprised in the
other direcon-tbat there any true upright
honest Christian people left. In this opening sermon
Of series which intend to preach on Public Iniqu.
ties' have thought would first take cursory glance
of most the whole SUBJECTS and in doing So before
, go on on the coming Sabbalhs, to be more specific
nodes OF eradcating them. want you this morning
st look about in this aud other cities and see what
are the temptations that destroy in this life and for
the ne that is 10 come For instance only give
nowss an lustratioolook all around about YOU and
see the temptations TO
Here Is man who starts in business and he SAYS,
but on e Sock are g2ng o Be hon
no. nSnest and they pu. hm aa a. ir3ips Srea 20
penalty Of the law and despises God, while no IS just
a little anxious about the Sheriff Go through the
and Offices in our streets and tell in how
many of those stores the principle Of Christian religion
Is dominant. Not in one-tenth OF them. The
merclal world today is rotten through and through
and many OF you know, great deal better then can
tell YOU that 1t requires great strength Of moral char
acter TO withstand the temptations TO commercial dis
honesties. When has sacrificed any temporal
financial good for the sake of his spiritual Interests
Lord is on his side and one with God is a majority.
But look around you and there other tomptltons.
See the pressure IN our cities Of political life How
many are going down under this pressure. There Is
not one out OF a thousand that can stand pocal
life in our cities once a while a man comes and
says, sNow, love my city aud my country and in
the strength or God am going in AS sort Of Ylssion
airy to reform politics. The Lord is on his ste He
comes out pure when he went in ana with such
idea believe he will DC sustained; but he is the OK
hans oh .Vfuht
politics the first thing the newspapers take the lob
Of baekenng him all over, and they review all lis past
life and they distort everything that he has done until
from thinking himself highly respectable citizen he
begins contemplate what mercy 1t is that he has
been 50 long out Of Sing sing tLaughterl Oh what
POLITICAL LIFE
for many Of our young men, They go in al the grog
shop caucus they come out al the ballot box To get
nominations they must side up along the rum soaked
population. They must treat" they must 60 into
the low saloon which Is marked by mug of beer on
the sign; they must cross palms with The echerous
wrctches; they must chuckie their low okes-
yea thcy must 20 down 10 the level OF their eonstlt-
uency What is the matter with that who once
moved in polite circles and often in Christian circles?
What i the matter with his eye2 1t is not clear.
What is the matter with his cheekf 1t has unnatural
flush. What Is the matter Of his hat II q rowdy's
hat Why has his entire nature gone down seventy
FIVE per cent In moral toney lie has gone into pocs.
The most hopeless Godforsaken people ia cities arc
those who, missionary spirit but with the
idea Of sordd gain have gone into political life pray
for the prisoners In Raymond Street Jail and tBink
they may be converted to God, but / never
have any fan 70 pray for old politician? laugh
teri suppose God could convert him, but don't
know Of any case. For the last twenty 1--WE years in
our great cities hc political history has been history
or fraud OF discovery OF gOugng and OF swndling until
sister city has debt Of $40 COO 600 Park swim
dies, water board swindes, pcntentlary swndes city
armory swndles; swindles black and white; swindes
OF all sizes Fraudulent applying for fraudulent
fraudulent officers who wrote OF tile CON
tracts on stolen paper, and then vent home over a
pavement every stone Of which was laid in dishonor
carriage every spoke and rvct OF which were wit
nesscs OF their crime. Fraudulent election inspectors
aA t1uln halir
lent votes, giving IN fraudulent returns sending
the State Legislature 1t Tor the asylum
or the peniteutaryl oh, what appalling state Of
political life-the simple TACT that this day
JOHN MoRRissEY A SENATOR
Ever and anon get up class Of refOrncrs and we
send them into political ifc and before know it
great many or them ia the race or dishonesty un.
til We are in state Of bewdcrmcnt and don'tknow
who the worse, the IN the 'ring or those who
arc or the 'ringn New York Court House costing
more than the Parliament Houses o Eugland-moro, /
am told, than the Capitol at Washington But whore
went the money! ASK the Connollys and the Sweenys
and the Tweeds Of modern politics. oh, how much
bewilderment there is for our young men in politics.
They say 1t is quick road to fortune They say II
know men who Eve years ago were worth nothing
who now arc worth money OF the one hundred
who GO into political life | bid an eternal
farewell to ninety nine Of them Their morals will be
debauched their families will bc disgraced their souls
will be damned. For little while they will lounge
about the Court House in the winter and ID the sum.
flash in and out at the Saratoga races, and then
there Will be big unerala long line OF carriages full
OF bloats, and that viii be the end OF the politician
starting in a grogshop, ending at Greenwood tho
family doctor certifying TO the Board OF Health that
the honorable Soand 50 died OF congcstion-a soft way
Of putting delirium tremons Oh that is the PRESSURE
the maestrom. that Is taking down hundreds OF the
best men OF our city. Tho temptation Is oycrmastcrng
some TO whom am speaking this morning. They are
going down for time and eternity Beware Bewarel
Mr.. Talmage closed by warning young men against
all the temptations TO which they exposed
FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
taking SIDES" s"-sERMoN BY REV. DR. ARMI-
TAGE.
After the singing OF the hymn yesterday morning
commencing,
Lord, In the morning Thou shalt hear,
Dr. Armitage the pastor Of the Fifth avenue Baptist
church, delivered a very impressive prayer, in the
course OF which he said that there not heart
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