New-York tribune., 1878-04-15
THE PULPIT ON TWEED.
lUE IL IL ON 4 w i@bb'
LESSONS DRAwN BY PREACHERS FROM HIS LIFE AND


DEATH.
Fragments of L" IL Trovatorep fell upon the
ears Of the multtudes thronged TO the Brooklyn
Tabernacle yesterday morning Organist Morgan was
in his the great organ; floor aud gallery were
packed and on the steps the ascs sat many for whom
there were no seats. Mr.. Talmage read from the
Proverbs, "A good name is rather TO be chosen than
great riches" and preached from the text: Is the
young man AbsaOm safel"
Nothing is harder" he said I" in these great cities
than TO do right nothing easier than TO so wrong The
desoate wreck of last Friday Ia an illustration OF this
truth Let there be exutatOn over that mans fate
rather let there be In every soul deep sadness at the
fearful lesson teaches There of thousands In
this country who under similar circumstances, would
have fallen low Tweed. Instead OF trumphng, Leu
us thank God that We have stood safely. All my sym
pathes 90 out 10 that afflicted family who, for seven
years. have endured the agonies or torture Let us re-
member that he made full explaton to society for his
crimes against IT, that his were pangs OF bOdy ana OF
soul no doctor could heal will not throw one nettle,
one thistle on his grave Yet cannot allow that event
to pass without from the lesson that the way or
the transgressor Is hard indeed NO mans prospects
were brighter. man had more ausplcOus start he
conquered poverty and achieved position until he sat on
financial throne OF power at Albany, debating to ess-
atures Look at the contrast in the elegant palace
car surrounded by every luxury on his way to Albany
then again In the plain box in the undertakers wagon
az the door OF a prison the pictured and bouqueted
apartments the Deavan House. thronged Dy ceeor-
ties anxious TO shake his handthen the lonely cot IN
the jail clutching deathagony at the hand OF Luke,
his negro boy the sumptuous wedding banquet the
triumph OF DelmOnlco's lifetime-and the low
ceied room looking out on a ungy stree l.
where poor, fOrsaken, sick and betrayed,
Tweed lies dying. There were people In New-Yoik VINO
for years were persuaded by what they saw that an
honest laborious life didn't pay. But where today Is
the clerk $500 year, the porter sweeping OUT your
store the scavenger or the street who would take
Tweeds years OF fraudulent prosperity IL ne must
also take Tweeds dishonor, sunerings ana death lou
tell that in his last days he read the BlDle three
times day sur ON that it was beantliuli u
was appropriate. God could save nun as wen as you
and me. ANY man who for mercy shall get IL
but who would want to live life hostile TO the pest In
terests OF society even In the last hour oi ns o hc
could make his peace with God " ., -,
Mr. Beccher IN his evening sermon YESTERDAY, msae M
what doubtless meant reference 10 the ueath O
Tweed. He had described the results OF seltshness
which were speedy and evil This lesson ne sad was
needed these times Bad, ayaricious, unscrupuiouf
have grown and spread until they became great
Then they ran their bad " We nave seen, ne
said one shot dead another dying In prison and Others
scattered here and there and yagabonds III society