The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-28

Pointing the Way by the
Light of the Gospel.
OUR MORAL CONDITION.
History OF Tears and Benefits or
Affection.
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
MORAL CONDITION OF NEW YORK AND BROOK
LYN--sRBMoN By THE REV. 7. DE WITT TALL
MAGE
Mr. Talmsge preached yesterday the moral condi.
tion OF New York and Brooklyn taxing his text from
Psalm Xxx, IL, 13-"Why hast thou broken down her
hodges, that all they which pass by that way 90
pluck herr Tho boar out OF the wood doth waste It,
and the wild beast OF the ned doth devour II.
BY this expressive ngure SAID Mr.. Tamage, the
text forth idea that in olden times there were
bad influences which as with swine's feet trampled
ana as with swines crushed the vineyard Oh the
Lord So II is now. Long ago the temple oil truth
and Justice would have been complete had there not
been these bad influences Day by day the shuttle
flies to and weaving these two cities together, aud
every additional wire is another nerve OF sympathy.
There never have been good men and women
In these cities to-day, but there are classes OF
persons whose whole influence is baneIul and destruc
In the first place, thore are the public criminals
The vast majority criminals who ship from Europe
come into ports. Out Of 10000 criminals
in tho penitentiaries oil this country, $1,000
are of foreign birth The entire business OF
that population whom We call professional
criminals ID to work iniquity. l don't suppose
that once year the immortality OF the thing COMES
across their souls In addition TO these there Is an.
other class who more or less are 1T distributors OF
crime. The police arrests in year in New fork,
Brooklyn anu Jersey City were-For theit, 10000;
assault and battery, 10000; Tor ntoxicalion $4,000
Rum responsible tor good deal OF The thet and the
assault and battery. In these three cities We pay
$1,000 600 oil taxes 10 support criminals Our morais
Affected by II. When man Is caught we put on
the handouts, but what provision are We making Tor
The time when the handouts Will come olY Instead OF
teaching reformation make crin nais eei that SO.
cely has a grudge against them, and thcy come OF
prison more inturiate and depraved Than when they
had been there before. You say these CRIMINALS are
incorrigible l deny It; believe there are thou-
hunks whose hearts would leap ut the thought OF
coming back To uecency and honest lie. we want
more potential influences for these depraved classes.
i have recently been visiting Raymond street Jail, in
Brooklyn, and the fombs, III New YORK, and pro-
nounce those institutions disgrace TO our mod
ern civilization. (Appiausc) 1t is an outrage winch
ought to be brought 10 the attention OF the city gov
ernmepts and The State Legislature II you want
these classes redeemed aud elevated you must
give more attention your schools and colleges.
What Is the state OF things to-day AT a time when
you ought be ap ureciave lnan ever oi those
cultured men and women who educate the young
you economizng on their salaries. There are fifty
other directions Ia which you might ecohomlze IN
Brooklyn and New York better than THIS.
CORRUPTED.
untruslwar,hS oic'as VIM did crime 20 ramnant
in New York between 1866 and lS7lY Because tue
police judges were corrupt as the vagaoonds that
brought before them. Out OF s. 900 cases brought
up only 1900 were tried New York bid u nigh price
1or wnen 1t did that Let the criminal go and
you open The door to more crlminalny. There are
walking the streets to-day men and women Toes OF
society, unwhipt OF justice; ''iences," those men
sheltering The thief; funeral thieves who come 10
mourn with iamilies and pick their pockets; con-
ndence men, who nave had fortune LETT them
IN England and want you 10 pay Their
fare there, promising TO send it back by the
first mail Let The lawyer swoop on them;
let be understood that gets quarter in these
cities. (Applause.) Again, among ,he dangerous
classes l must place the idle Out OF Idle classes
the criminal classes. Character, like water,
stagnates If II stands still 100 long, have watched
these DO nothings For while Ihey move In very
nne society, but alter whno as by law of lnexora-
bic gravtation, they come 10 the almsh0use or the
penten.lary. The governments OF these three cities
provide lodgings for 200 600 and women who are
as able work you ana L These men 90 INTO the
station houses to sleep and IN the daytime come 70
your door thing eat and steal what they
the while the servant spreading the
bread In the back basement They ask Tor work, but
out OF "a thousand nlns hundred and Ninety nine
Gu hot, sury day in August tramp asked the
farmer Tor something TO eat "Why don you go 70
work? big, healthy fellow like you ought 10 be able
TO work, sad the Iarmer ii can't get any work at
my business, SAID the tramp, wipng the perspiraton
from his brow ''And what Is your business?' further
Inquired the farmer. ''Its shoveing snow" replied
The tramp. tLaashter) That's the way. have tried
cellar, tut he offered his arm to the saw ana they
walked of together. wish we could have re-cstab-
Iished for such men the old fashioned whipping post
Are we called 10 take care OF the 1000 900 oaers
in the United StatesY 1 like that scant bill oil fare
which Paul Tor the Tbessaonian loaiers-"If
man will not work neaher shall he cat"
must also put among the dangerous classes the
oppressed poor When IL comes 50 far that children
cry Tor bread and there none men get desperate.
There Is an underground lilo in New York and Brook
lyn which is simply appalling. Ouly TWO outlets Tor
1.-THE police station ana the potter's held In other
WORDS they must either 20 10 prison go to he'll.
There Is another Class OF poor almost as hcplesstho
sick and disabled poor. There are 45,0O sewing
women, toilng day after day aud night alter night,
until sometimes blood spurts from tLer nOstris and
lips. 1 should not wonder If some oil these people
have IA better Time IN the next world than We do l
have preached this sermon for Ave practical reasons
Iecause want you TO see the dan ferrous classes and
beware OF them 10 be discriminating IN your char
be friends of all city evangelical missions,
TO help the deserving poor Above all, want you TO
see how good God has been to you.