Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-07

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THE INFERNO FROM WITHOUT AM
wITHIN-IMPURE LITERATURE, TIL
DIssoLUTE DANCE, ALCOHOL AND IN
DISCREET APPAREL.
From Mondays New York Herald.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle was
again crowded to its utmost capacity
yesterday with a multitude who haC
come to hear DIR. Talmage's descrlp
ton of the "Gates of He'll" This
is the third one of his sermons on the
night side of city life, which are at
tracing SO much attention from the
circumstance OF the preachers ro-
mantle wanderings among the haunts
of vice in New York about five weeks
ago in search of subjects for his SER
mons and In order that he might first
see these places before describing
them and learn their real dangers
before warning people away from
them. Yesterdays throng in the
Tabernacle was only surpassed on
the occasion of the first sermon of the
series. Morgan occupied his usual
place at the organ, Arbuckle gave
several cornet solos and some hymns
were sung, after which Mr.. Tain age
gave out the weekly notices. Among
the m was one to the effect that next
Friday night he would lecture upon
Brooklyn politics, SO that his hearers
might oil know whom to vote for in
the coming election.
just before commencing his SER
mon Mfr. Talmage made the follow
ing announcement: 'sI wish that
what l say in my sermons should be
received in silence, as otherwise it
disturbs some of the good people of
my church, and disturbing them dis
pleases me. would be much OBJ
liged, therefore, if you would receive
my words in silence" After this in
junction the audience was compare
lively quiet, only applauding once
and bursting into laughter twice dur
ing the sermon. Mr.. Talmage took
his text from Matthew xvi. .18-
." ."The gates of hell shall not prevail
against )" and then began his SER
mon as follows:
THE TIGER IN HIS DEN.
ut is onle 10 o'cl ok, said the
Eoffirer, as he got into the carriage for
the midnight exploration, land it is
too early, for the theaters have not
yet dismissed. :" The places of in
ibuity are not in full blast till the
people have time to arrive from the
theatres, So we loitered on and the
officer told the driver tc stop on the
street where is one OF the costliest
gambling houses of the city. Com.
ing mp in front all seemed dark; the
blinds were down; the door was guar
ded. We were admitted and found
around one table eight or ten men in
mid lite ant; well veil dressed. All was
going on in silence save the noise of
the rattling chips on the gaming Ia
BILE in one parlor 2nd the revolving
ball Of the roulette table in the 9th
er. There was something awfully
solemn in the silence, the intense
gaze, the suppressed emotion. No
one looked up. They had money in
the rapids. Some of them may have
seen horses and carriages and home
and family rushing down into the
vortex Some of these men come in
by private key, some by careful in
PRODUCTION, some are taken in by the
patrons of the establishment. A
young man put his money down on
the roulette table, and lost put more
money down, and lost. Then he
felt in all his pockets for more money,
but found none, and severely silent
he turned his back and passed out.
Willie we sat there men lost their
property and their souls. MerciIess
place. Not once in all the years of
that gambling house has there been
one word of sympathy uttered for. the
losers. When men have their pro-
perty wrung out of them they go out,
some to drown their grief in strong
drink, some to ply the counterfeiter's
pen to repair their fortunes, some to.
the suicides revolver-alI of them
down. Itis estimated that every
day in Christendom $50, ,O0o, 900 pass
from handtc hand through gambling,
or 1928; 10o. 900, 900 every year.
BAD BOOKS AND NOVELTIES.
''But,Y said, cit is IL O'Clock,
and we must be off, r and our car
rage rolled on toword the gates of
hell.s We shall describe them? They
are FURNISHED until they sparkle in
the gasiight /; they are mighty and
set in sockets Of deep and dreadful
masonry; they are high, 30 that those
Inside may not ciimb over; they are
heavy, but swing easily In to let those
in who would be destroyed. I went