The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-10-17
INNOCENCE ABROAD.
I,ALMAGE ON TIE NIGHT SCENES
or NEV YORH.

Haunts Of Vice--Words Of Warming.
Some time ago Mr.. Talmago in
company with q policeman visited
somo of tho most notorious variety
shows and boor gardens of New
York, in order to secure materials
for q crusade against the crimes of
tho city, On Sunday he preached a
sermon before seven thousand peo
pie, of which tho following extracts
ore given as specimens of his style.
His effort evoked repeated applause
and laughter.
After the usual preliminary cxer-
cises, during which the immense
assemblago sang with vigor the
hymns, ''Revive us again" and
"Jcsus, lover Of my soul )" and after
Arbuolle had played the usual cor~
net solo MIR. Ialmage arose and
began his sermon.
RESOLVED TO EXPLORE.
The text was taken from Ezekiel,
viii, 8-"Then said He unto me,
son of man dig now in the wall, and
when l had digged into the wall 1
beheld door, and he said, go in
md behold the wickod denominations
that they do here. SO T wont in and
saw, and bohold every form of creep,
ing things a'ld abominablo boasts"
So this minister of religion, Eze.
lIiol, said Mr.. Talmage, is COM
manded to make exploration of the
sin Of his day. He did not stand
outside guessing what it was. He
did not say, 80, Lord, I dare not 20,
please let mo off, but ho wont in
md saw and reported. I, as a
minister of religion, felt I had a
divine commission to explore the
iniquitios of our cities, so wont in,
saw and beheld
AS MIR. Ialmage said this he out
stretched his arms before the peo-
pie, rs much as to say, "And here I
nm, to tell you all about it," causing
great laughter and applause,
Do I think this will induce others
to go there ? I answer, yes just as
the description of the yellow fever
in Grenada would lead people to go
there. I shall not gild iniquity,
and while T shall not put the faint
est blush to the fairest check
will kindle the cheeks of many a
man into q confagration and will
make his ears to tingle. You say
don't you know that the papers are
criticising you? L say yes, and do
you know how L feel about itq
Qlaughter) I tell you no living
man is more indebted to the news,
papers than I am. My business is
to preach the truth, md the wider
audience I got through the news
paper press the wider my field. AS
the secular and religious papers Of
the newspaper press Of the United
States aud tho Canadas, and of
England and Ireland. and Scotland
and Australia, and New Zealand, are
giving me every week 100000 souls
for an audience 7 am indebted to
the press anyhow, So slash away,
gentlemen. The moro tho merrier.
IF there is anything despise it is
dull time. Laughter Brisk
criticism is tho crash Turkish towel
with which every public man needs
every day to be rubbed down to
keep healthful circulation. Give my
love to all the editors, with full
permission to run their steel pens
clear through my sermon from in
PRODUCTION to application.
INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH,
It was ton o'clock of calm, clear
starlight night that our carriages
rolled away with US from the most
beautiful part of the city down into
the places where gambling and
Crime and death hold dreadful CAR
nival. AS the horses halted we
passed into world Of which we
were practically ignorant. Not
many signs of death, but the dead
were there. AS T moved through
these places I said, "This is the
home of lost souls" It was
Dantes Inferno. Many things
there were to fill the eyo with tears
of pity. There were moral corpses
on the stair, eorpsas in the gallery,
corpses in the garden. Leper met
leper, but no bandaged mouth kept
back the breath. I felt as though
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