The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-02
TAIN AGE ON CLUBS.
gHAT HE saw OF CERTAIN POPULAR
INSTITUTIONS IN A RE
CENT walk"

| II sorts ot clubs Their Good ana Rad
Features The Test of the Moral Effect
| NJ club life A Charscterisg Ic Conclu-
sion.
| BRooRLYN. Dec. i.-Talmage talked about
| Clubs" today and took for his text from Sam
sl u: Let young men now arise and play be-
RI u.s.
J In my explorations of The night side Of city
fe, said Taimage, have found out that there
legitimate and iliegitimate use OF club
puses. In the one case, i may become n
salthy recreation. but In tho other case 1t may
aeome n massacre nf body mind and soul
II ages haye had their gatherings character
you have read history you know IT, aud IL
u clubs Of Eagianaa !raaud, France 50
ia oo @e years. s1''' be SiHs viii write Gt he she
STORY Of the world. The club was an instia9-
IN born on English soil but It has thriven In
u d United States. We have Ia this city 10000
I embsrs. Men put their purats together and
E,rm a sort of domestic establishment. n style
II club house, which - my opinion is far better
sDw is to speak ~ club-hOus of n different
Fl 'rt, such as the Union League. wnicha was
Httablished during the war. which has now be-
ispubllcanlsm Likewise the Manhattan Club
nth large admission fee. 400 or 5oo members.
le headquarters u the Democracy, like the
Tnon Club established In 1893 when New York
ad only - little over 100000 Inhabitants, the
resent building costing over f25o,ooo. With
u embership ~ 300 or 900 people. among them
ONE of the living merchant princes such as
ne Lotus Club ana the Areadan: tho Amei-
an which camps out In summer: tho Country
jub, which hNs It's largo crop Of venerable
oets and lawyers; the Army and Navy Club,
There members come ~ Talk over days Of car
age & ,he ne" iotR aannu o'op WIN ra ,ioa,
oekey p'" Club. to which S belong n0' mem mem
tho have passionate fondnass for faet hoisees,
nd the Travellers nb tho Blossom Club, the
lVomens Club. the Commercial Club. the Lib
4 raj Club. the stable gang" Club. The Amateur
.oat Club. the gambling clubs, tho Wine Club;
II good can be: clubs as bad as bad can be:
dbs Immune rabe.
4 The moral of a sermon on the night side of
ty life would not bs complete without the
ubs which after dark are la full blast. The
opse IL ablaze with light ~ we ASCEND the
larble stairs, finding galleries Of art VI h pic
Tres for every mood, and luxurious libraries
containing books OF all kinds Memhers como
a. Some stay ten minutes others many hours;
ome from lnxutiant homes. where thy have
hey may enjoy the larger social advantages Of
ne elsb house: others from dismembered fam
lies.
Passing up tho street come to another style
IL club house. Opening the door. W. find the
umes Of etrong drink and tobacco smoke a.
ave flushed cheeks. They are moving chips
nd gambling At another table are men tell
ng vile stories. and between = and o'clock
ney are booting shouting and swearing on
heir way home If the dissi pating club houses
II this country would make n contract with the
nfarnO to provide 10000 men year Tor twenty
FEARS on condition that no more would be
.aked. and the club houses could afford to
make that contract, they would save homo.
teada, fortunes. bodies. minds and souls. and
he 900 men who would be sacrificed under
hat contract would be but q small class OF the
Multitude sacrificed without contract
| make a vast difference between clubs. az
ave belonged tn n Theological society and two
terary clubs, from which | got physical ad-
s2nage and moral health. What shall we do
~ find out whether It l. . legitimate or an ille-
club2
First want you to test the club by ts infu-
nee on the home If yen have home. do not
acrifce home life for club ife but the trouble
y thousands Of homes and hearts In Brooklyn
nd New York are being cuhbad to death
aughterl Tell mo MN has Joined nartain
ub and tell me nothing more about him
r ton years and will write his history. II im
IF a wine guzzler. his wife broken hearted or
rematurely old his fortune gone or reduced.
ID his home not named In the directory. Tai
age congratulated the man who devoted four
ghts TO his home. one to a charitable institu-
Dn and one to a club. but tremhled for him
90 gave three nights to the club and left the
her three for other purposes The man who
voted nya nights to club life would have that
titaph Here lies the victim of n dlssipating
uh house" written upon his tombstone.
Another test as to whether the club was lagiti-
ate or iegtimate was the effect 1t had upon
q occupation, and on his moral and religious
legations. The fascination Of the dissipating
Ih-houee was 80 great that II was said man
rned his back upon home when his child
~ diving with scarlet fever and before he re-
rned home the undertaken had done his
rk.
Ir Talmage closed by making stout rope,
d fastening 70 tho end Of II n pardoning and
mpatbizing Christ he threw tho other end TO
congregation and yelled, Lay hold nf It
II for your life and Heaven" Mr. Talmage
M prayed, and tho people went home.