The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-18
THE TABERNACLE.

THE TABERNACLE.
MR. TALMAaE ON TENEMENT HOUSE EVILS
IMMORAL LITERATURE AND THE THEArnm
AGAIN.
Tho Tabernacle was thronged to excess yester-
day forenoon by very attentive assemblage. The
pastor. Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, continued the
thread oil mis- discourses on "Pubnc InIquites"
He took his text from Judges, XVII, leland
she called for man, and she caused him to shave
or the seven locks OF his head; and she began to
anllct him, and his strength went from him."
Before opening hts sermon the reverend gentle
man. In the course OF the prayer, alluded to the
Louisiana trouble, which ne deeply regretted, and
prayed Tor wisdom for the President and the House
of representatives and that no State should DO
Inundated by the grounding OF arms in the halls
OF legislation.
He commenced his discourse, saying It would
take q very skillu photographer to picture SAM
son as he really was. The most lacile words arc
not supple enough to describe him. He was a
giant and q child, the conquerOr and the ue.
feated able to snap lions jaw aud get captured
by the sigh OF maiden. He was ruler and q
slave, a cOmmngling OF virtues and vices, the
sublime and the ridiculous; sharp enough to make
o gool riddle and yet weak enough to
be caught In the most superficial stratagem;
honest enough to settle his debt, and yet
Outrageousy robbing somebody else to- get
the material to pay It; a miracle and scofnng, a
crown OF glory and burning shame. the speaker
then drew an ideal picture OF Samson as he stood
before nc was sn" AND deprived o. his strength
that 1t Is high time that
PULPIT AND PLATFORM AND PRINTING PRESS
speak out against the impurities OF modern so
cIe,y. fastldiousness and prude!y say, "Betier
not speak; you win rouse up adverse criticism;
you make worse what you won't make better;
Subject IS too delicate for polite ears.S
SoQtimeQtallsca
dav, saying. 'Cry aloud spare notl Int thy voice
ape the house OF yacoS their sps So
tina, turning away rom the ADVICE OF men, take
| The trouble Is that when people write or speak
upon this theme they arc apt to cover It up wltha
attractive, instead OF making 1t horrible and re-
puslve. LORD Byron, In "Childc Harold" adorns
Mlchclet the great French writer. covers it up
with passionate rhetoric until 1t danes like the
today tnat am not making that mistake, for. II
God helps me. instead OF making this crime so
loathsonie as smallpox hospital. There are
to-day Influences abroad which, II unresisted Dy
ad a spS sna
ut only for the storm OF Ore and birthstone. You
compassed BY moral aud religious restraints, DO
not realize the gull OF inquity that bounds you
ns ne S s s DAY ops the the
| door OF ghastliness and horror and compel you to
see and compel you TO listen until. God helping.
one hand for help and the Otner for battle. While
speak this moment there are tens OF thousands
| OF men and women going over the awful plunge
OF an impure lie call upon you to marshal IN
dseoce O. your homes, your CnI u ana you.
never heard described. Its roof IS iretted with
fire, its floor Is tesselated with nre its chalices
chased with fire. It's song Is q song OF are. Its walls
han OF
Solomon refers IL ne Her quests
are in the depths OF hell" Pauperism is the cause
There are great multitude Of people in our midst
who have to choose between the almshOuse and
ana DO KIND o. worR to Go What about oU
Thousands or them have been fighting the battle
the plano, they sold the pictures. they sold the
library they sold the aipet they sold the chairs.
one thing To SELL and that is their immortal nature.
Az that crisis infamous solicitation is made, and
they 60 down by the ten thousand. With one awful
Beside this there are In this cluster OF cities-I
mean New York. Jersey CITY and Brookyn-there
houses with no opportunity for secluson or de-
cency, and do you wonder that so many OF them
aud fifty families sometimes crowded to-
eether under one roof Que hundred and
This tenement house outrage is more terrible than
anytnIng to be found In all Christendom, putting
and whtechapel Those tenement houses are
the hopper for the mill that is grinding up the
UOu't5 anu bOuls oI Iucn anu women ana Httle
children. DO ali you can Tor the poor. Keep them
from being crowded OFT into sin. Snur not up tho
idca In derision that ybOdy should surrender to
such temptations. There are sitting before me
to day 500 people in furs and diamonds, VINO, un-
der the same pressure would have gone overheard.
IT,, man! woman! you have not done as
badly as they, II is'because you have not been as
much tempted.
CORRrPT LITERATURE.
There are hundreds OF thousands OF sheets in
the shape OF novelette, literature going abroad,
every plot turning on lbertlnsm and full OF sala-
clous suggestions Much OF the printing prees or
this country reeks with pollution. The child that
comes 10 fifteen or sixteen years OF age now in
these cities mas read more bad books and seen
more bad pictures than your grandmother and
grandfather read or saw up to the time they put
on spectaces. There was one citizen In
Brooklyn who made 100000 by publishing
obscene books, and when he was seized
| by governmental authority there were found
100000 worth OF stock on hand. That man IL
dead, and gone to perdtion. but his wife mas his
money and now moves am told, In respectable
circles. Let 1t be here told that OF the four men
| who originally published all the dcpravod BOOKS
| and newspapers and pictures In this country,
! three OF them lived In Brooklyn. Two OF them
| are dead. wish they all we're There was
| house under the control OF q man VINO was n
| member OF the church, and that house did
nothing but make bad books, circulars ana
| pictures. When the authorities seized upon the
place they found SIX tons OF stereotyped plates