The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-03-13
brother Talmage on Merchants.


ed to merchants. The house OF exhibition
was full, the attention of the audience was
such rs it should have been, and Brother
TALMAGE was at his best
Now. there are no men in the community
who more need preaching to than the mer-
chants. In old days, Venice one of the most
charming as we'll as wonderful cities Of the
world, was the chief home Of mercantile en-
tcrprisc, and its adornmcnts Of art still en-
gage the attention and excite the admiration
Of all men. To-day. in England, the fine arts
gain oven greater encouragement from the
manufacturers If that hive of industry than
from the nobility itself. Though English
art bears no sort Of comparison with that OF
France, and seems rather an exotic yet the
chief painters, like MILLAIs and ALMA
TADEMA, mako largo fortunes out of their
pictures. England is now really under the
control OF it, middle class. of which the mcr-
chants are the head and front and from them
tho aristocracy gets its most stalwart re-
cruits. and their richly lowered daughters
supply new life to an otherwise fading ieudal
system.
Brother TALMAGE therefore did we'll in
preaching TO merchants, the princes of the
bears the sccptrc and wears the crown. His
text was that poetic uttcrance Of the
prophet ISAIAH: Tyre. the browning city.
whose merchants are princes whose
tralllckers are the honorable of the EARTH
Yet Tyre is lost, and the names Of these
tral,ckcrs are unknown tous. while the name
81 the cclchrator of their riches will ever
live. though he wds poor man. doubtless
despised by those same fortunate men II
affairs. ifindced they had ever heard Of him.
Brother TALMAGE says that what Tyre
WIS 10 that period and that land. New York is
now TO our time and cur country. This NAV
be true. though tho conditions Of the two
cities are different, and New York at pres
cnt is largely dependent ON foreign bottoms
for its commercial CARRYING business. which
was not the case with the Older and ruined
city. Stll, we find no fault with the text; it
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Or course I'll" child was right and the
merchant wrong. II was Of old sHid 10y One