Smyrna times., 1878-10-30
Talmages Visits to the Dens of New
York Vice.

We gave in our last issue the first of
series of sermons by DR.. Talmage showing |
up the iniquties of New York life. His |
second discourse was upon the dance |
house, gambling hells, sc. The people came |
long before the doors of the church were |
open and almost fought for places Of admis
sion, so that many Of the regular attendants |
upon the services, as we'll as strangers, were !
unable To gain admittance. Dr. Talmage
spoke with great vigor and eloquence, and
at times the congregation was profoundly
moved. Home, Sweet Home" was sung to
loud that the sound was heard two blocks
away When the preacher incidentally
mentioned that he had the names of many
of the patrons of these places there was an
evident query on many faces as to whose
names might possibly be mentioned. The
/ following extracts will give some idea of
the discourse:
THE YOUNG MEN FROM THE COUNTRY.
| l have discovered in my midnight eX-
| ploration that the haunts of iniquty are
supported by what are called the better
/ classes. The young men from the country.
of whom l spoke last Sabbath morning,
are on small salaries for the most part
Their employers, at any rate, soon find out
! from the marks of dissipation that they
are on the down grade, and the day of dis
charge soon comes. But the men who in
our cities support luxuriant vice come
down from the fashionable avenues Of New
York and cross over from some of the
finest mansions of Brooklyn, or are promi-
nent citizens from Chicago, Cincinnati,
Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Boston.
could call the names of many OF the
/ frequenters of these haunts of sin, and may
! call them before | get through these SER
mons, though the fabric of New York and
/ Brooklyn society should tumble into wreck.
Judges of courts, distinguished lawyers,
officers in churches, political orators that
talk on the Republican, Democratic and
| Greenback platforms about God and good
morals till you might almost take them for
evangelists expecting thousand converts
in one night. On the night of our explora-
ton saw their carriages leaving these dig
ntaries at the shambles OF death. Call the
roll in the house of dissipation, and if the
inmates will answer you will find stock
brokers from Wall street, large importers
| on Broadway, iron merchants, leather
! merchants. hardware merchants, cotton
merchants, wholesale grocers and represen-
tatives from all the wealthy classes. Talk
about the heather below Canal street, New
York there is more heathenism above
Canal street prefer heathenism when it
wallows in filth, and so disgusts the specta-
tor, to the heathenism that covers up its
walking putrefaction with camel-hair shawls
and point lace, and rides in n $4,000 turn
out, with liveried driver before and resetted
funky behind. We have been talking so
much about the Gospel for the masses, let
US try little Gospel for the bloated princes
Of pollution, the lepers of high life, the mil
lionaire sots, the walking lazarettos ot
uppertendum. 1t is the scorched ini9uity
of high life that is cursing our cities and
which, if not rebuked, will leave then
Sodoms and Gomorrahs, waiting for fire
and birthstone tempest from the Lord Goo
who overwhelmed the cities of the Plain
We want about fifty Anthony Comstocks t.
explore and explode and abolish th'
denominations Of high life. Year afteryear
in sight of the most fashionable drive o
New York, stood a Moloch temple,
brown.stone hell or earth, which all tn
Mayors and police and judges of Ne'
York were afraid to touch, when Anthem
Comstock, a man of less than ayerag
statue and with cheeks Scared by the knit
of desperate who tried to escape arres
entered the palace of the damned on Fift
avenue, and in the strength of the Eterni
God nut an end to the abomination, th
priestess who had presided at the orgiC
.,f retreating by suicide into the lost worlC
50 her bleeding carcass found in her ow
:, bath.tub. When will the merciful Go
4 deliver our cities? Sin falls back from tt
IL costly parlors to the haunts of which
speak, and gradually down, and in a6o'
three years ordinarily makes the who
- Journey, from the marble pillar OF the br
d. liant avenue clear down to the cellars
Water street "You would not kno
in them" said the police officer. " In lit
nd while these glittering things will end
sH heap Of rags in the station house" )
}. would perish from the city in short viii
but for this descent from high places. II
- officer said to me in that midnight explol
ton: THAT is the daughter from one
the wealthiest families of Madison Square
do HEADS OF FAMILIES ARRAIGNED.
six But have something to tell you me
SAi astounding than that the houses of iniiqui
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