The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-04
ETERNAL SMASH UP,
On the Grand Trunk Line to PerditiOn.
National Associated Press to the Star.

National Associated Press to the Star.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. 4.-The Taberna-
Gle was again jammed yesterday to hear of
the wickedness of New York. Mr.. Talmage
began his sermon by saying he thought the
time had come for him to preach from the
text "And the vale of Sodom was filed
with slime-pits," and tens of thousands are
falling into them night after night Stand
ing within these pest-houses of death, | was
as much surprised at the people whom |
missed as those whom | saw. There were
bankers, brokers and merchants, but 1
looked in vain up and down the
galleries and the illumined gardens
not there. You tell me they could not af-
cents | tell you they could, but they pre-
and children. The moral pollutions of
these cities are supported by men who go to
business at 10 a. m. and get through at or
a. They have plenty of time to go to de-
struction ), plenty of money to buy through
ticket on the Grand Trunk Railroad to Per-
dition, stopping at no depot until they
get to the eternal smash-up. We are
told that $500 police can't put down 500 or
500 dens of infamy, exclusive of gambling
houses and unlicensed grog shops. reply,
swear me as a special policeman with 200
police officers and / will break up the lead
ing haunts of iniquity in these two cities,
and l would create such CONSERVATION
among the large places that the
smaller ones would shut up
themselves (applause). l shall not be
afraid of lawsuits and arrests What
we want in those cities is Stonewall Jack
son raid. The keepers of all these haunts
OF iniquity are afraid as death of a police
officers slar, club and revolver. l declare
that the existence of these denominations is
to be charged either to police cowardice or
to police completely. Great applause.)
BROOKLYN, Nov. 4.-Rev. Justin D. Full
ton preached yesterday to large congrega-
ton in the Centennial Baptist Church.
The subject of the sermon was THE bright
side of New York" and the preacher said:
81 look at this great city with pure eyes,
and everywhere, instead of gloom and mis-
cry, there is light in the lowest haunts of
wretchedness and shame, in the abode
of beggars as well as in the dwell
ing of the princely merchant. |
know that Christ lives. Let others in the
way of the devil and follow its windings to
their hearts content. | will look rather
for the footsteps of the Savior Many, no
doubt, who have read of this foulness or
listened to The highly colored descriptions
of it, have followed in the track of the
devil. In all connection with sin
there is peril; in righteousness
there is safety. In this same city of New
York | see prosperity, progress, a high civ
lizaton, life astir with noble aspirations.
New York is the foremost city of the West
ern Hemisphere. Who wants to cover her
with abuse and with mire? Why not lift
her up rather than drag her down?
Surely God has his eve on a
place which holds such manifold treasures;
| know nothing of the wretchedness and
foulness of its haunts of vice, and | want to
know nothing. To my notion no earthly
good can be derived from these exlraordi-
nary excursions. 1t only leads people to
think vice, which is so sedulousy tracked
must be inside, and not outside of those
who are hunting for it.
New YORK Nov. 4.-Rev. Mr.. Goss, in
the Blue Ribbon Temperance Meeting yes
terday, denied Talmage's assertion of the
superior m' "ality of Brooklyn over New
York, and was about entering upon de-
scription of vice, when an old man in the
audience said that neither he nor any one
else wished to hear such talk Mr.. Goss
said he did not care what anybody wanted,
he was going to speak his mind. President
Gibbs however, interfered, and Mr.. Goss
then talked temperance.