The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-29
THE GATES OF HE'LL.
ANOTHER SERMON FROM MR. TAI
MAGE ON HIS LATE VISIT TO
PECULIAR PLACES.
FRae Four Gateways that Lead to Hpagnna~
tiOn-"G10h's Red-H0G~ Truth" to- tse
Used to Destroy Them-A Pertinent

The Four Gateways that Lead to HeREsana~
tion-''a1oA's Red-Moe~ TRUTH" to- be
Used to Hbestroy Them-A Pertinent
question.
BROOKLYN, Oct 28::-~~Mr Talmage continued
his series Of sermons on the wfGkedness Of
New, York yesterday before an audience that
filled all the available space In Brooklyn
Tabernacle AS usual, q large nurnber OF la
dies were present, and eager to hear the dis
course.
Mr. Talmage described tho four gates Of
hell through which he took q peep. He said
at the gambIing-h house night business did not
commence actively until the theatres let out
Or the frequenters some had served In the
State prison, some were bankers ana snip
brokers. some were fEaIng the first rounds of
their vicious cafeer. En- gambling processes
1928 100, ,O0o,0 900 changed hands every yeslr.
The first gate Of hell Talmage said, eTas
bad literature, Anthony Gomstook had seized
twenty tons Of bad literature, yet not ell was
grpped by the law. P;sriors and libraries
were full OF it, and children retire and read
it with gas jets swung near their pillows. 1t
exists under the table Of scientific infor1na-
tion, and under this guise one vender IN q
an Infamous book, selling them all to women.
AS for novelettes, nobody who read them,
Talmage said, could keep either integrity Or
virtue. He pursued, pleasantly: One hundred
Thousand men and women In the nited States
to-day are reading themselves into hell The
leprolls booksellers had gathered up the cata-
logues OF girls seminhrles and boys schools
and sent their circulars OF death to every one,
without exception,
Gate second was the dissoute dance. He
said there was dissolute dance which was
pursued both in haunts OF death and elegant
mansions. You know, he said, what postures
and motions arc suggested by the devil. He
contended that the dissoIute dancer slips into
the dissOlube dance over an Inclined plane,
swift and sWitter, and wider and wider, until
with sheets Of light he whistled off tho edge
| F,,j, Mr.
had g. right to take position to music which
he would be asha med to take without music
Gate third is indiscreet apparel. Mir. Ial-
mage had beCn told that there was o new
fashion coming from Paris, which was shock
| ing to all righteousness. Mutitudes of men
| owed their eternal dnmnatlun to the boldnesS
| of female attire.
| Gate four was alcoholic beverages. The
captive Of the wine cup was also the captive
| OF all other vices, which went In Hocks like
| cnrrion crows, SO that when you saw that
| beak ahead you might know that other
| beaks wero coming. Courts and Legislatures
swung wide open this creaking, stupendous
| gate Of the lost.
In the coming war to be waged against the
gates of hell, Mr.. TaImage said the Christian
press was to ne tho battcrng ram; that
pulpits wore to be arranged In stormiDg line
and that Gods red not truth vas to be the
| At the Park Congregational Church DE-.
Silver, on the subject, 'tHow st. Paul views
Talmage's explorations" asked: Need g man
examine sewers to find good: need he go into
! a dungeon and let all the Shiny reptiles Of
| damp and filth creep over him that he may
| tell what he has seen2
Hs I'm the Pulpit. why Rot I'm Inc Theatre ?
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Tho Sur says: An
actress advertised that she would read q
dramatic composition In New York on Sun
day evening of last week but the Young Men s
Christian Association interfered and the police
| forbade the entertainment. It is an entirely
moral work, she says, and is devoid Of any
thing that would stimulate evil thoughts
vet Talmage was permitted to deliver his ad-
/ vertised nrnrient discourse in BROOKLYN with