New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-02
A SERMON ON WALL STREET.
AN ABSTRACT or THE REMARKS OF TUE PASTOR
on SUNDAY.

on SUNDAY.
"Recent Doings in Wall Street" was the
subject Nr TaImages discourse a; the Brooklyn Tab
ernsce Sunday morning The decorations OF the
church when displayed on Thanksgiving Day stu
remained IL their places. The church flled TO its
utmost capacity. The text was Proverbs xiii. D:
Riches certainly mako themselves wings They ny
aw ay as an eagle toward heaven" Mr.. Talmsge said
Money golden breasted bird with silver besk It
lights Office desk, and IN the eOuntngro and
on the rarlor table. Men and stand and
admire it, They do notice that II has wings larger
than veus larger than haniIgos, larger than an
eagles. Ono OF the hand OF misfortune and it
spreads beautiful plumage and ia goneas an eagle
toward heaven. my text says sometimes think that
IL goes Ia the other direction What vercaOn We have
recently OF the capacity OF riches IN Wall Street!
Encouraged by revival OF trade and because the
o,asters which occurred far back 10 be
almost forgotten. SPECTATORS ran up stocks from point
To point until innocent people supposed tina, they were
always going ascend and gathered In from all parts OF
the country The crash eams-thank God In time 10
warn many who were on their thither. The sad
ness " Is that great many young mcn OF integrity
who had saved little money for the purpose Of starting
in business into Wan street and lost all. II ever
there Was a the pulpit should speak out con-
cerniug certain kinds az nefariou5 eneipFlses,now Is
the time. Stocks are again rising and they VIII iall
ana 10 900 Will be ruined unless the press and the
pulpit give emphatic utferance.
and TO keep Of Wal sree., the vortex IN which
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recent Disasters have not depressed trade. Thank God
wall Streets capacity to blast tue country Ia for
Sistory Is unique. Except Lombardst. London it is
miebtes; stree, on the planet There the Govern
held his levces. There Mesdames Adams and Knox and
Others dsplayed their charms rnce Jonathan Edwards
Mason chidcd Alexander Hamilton for writ.
| ing Constitution Of the United States without
God III 1t. There sold in the slave market
There criminals were bGrnessed to wheelbarrows and
compelled TO draw them or dashed bshind carts 10 which
| they fastened. There fortunes have come 10
coronation or oIra The history OF wall street ~ to
moral aud religious history OF this country IL Is only
blocks long. but hss reached from the Canadas
TO tho Gull or Mexico. and from san Francisco TO Ban
The best and The worst snen In he country are
scoundrelsn. from heaven-born charity to bioOdless
Wall street stands as type tried integrity and for
the most outrageous vjliany. Farmers with but few
hundred doars wor,n Of proaase 20 pun on me rxet
ssvenmes heated furnace Of Wall Street, aud ne either
wane O to ad integrity bonn Would 20 among
the brokers and bankers OF Wall street Some suppose
Yet if you The business signs FROM 81 Wall
street TO- the other you %i nnd more msn OF Integrity
space n any other street in any Of our
swinde. There spiders waiting Tor innocent flies.
There anacondas ready H. crush the unwsiy There
Caribbean wbm Wind to sweep across our commercial
interests IL - no place for man TO go m business un-
famous whose steam oats and opera-nouses could
atone for ns adlterous rides Ia Central PARK IN tne
Il
street, By s examp has blasted 10000 Oun2 mep
hod up he polluted memory 10 warn yOung men whose
moral principles not settled 10 keep out o. Wall
street lhere suc thing as the hero OF bank Of
a Stock Exehange-do you be that hero God didn't
allow rhe Iona hurt Daniel and won't allow the
{" bears" to hurt you Honesty best for both
worlds.
Wall Street the tyne throughout the country OF le-
gitInste speculation and OF rninons gambling Almost
every merchant Ia TO extent Speculation. 10 Is
honest Ia deal IN - cLs In coal hardware.
stop legitimate speculation aud stop the banks.
storehouses. and AL great pr sperltes. Tho stock
dealer Is commission merchant under another name.
The dollar which he makes bright and honest
dollar earned by daily labor But II stock broker
sells 800 OF nothing anu gets paid for It, that's traffic
Ing In FELTON, and involves the split OF gan bling "a
he'll in the country. DO you know that there hua-
dreds or young men IN New-York and Brooklyn who
perishins under passion for stock gamblngf Do
know that this or the Of thris
men III this house who arc in peril When professor
OF Christianity into stock gambling be lies like sin.
God Il inst n lie hates H. blasts and Will damn
N In time and In eternity o. OF Wall Street. aud or
all streets stand back from nefarious enterprises In
the morning hen you open your business ask Gods
blessing upon D.. and when you close the day
pronounce benedicIi0n upOn IT, kind Of
business which you cans engage IN prayer
about 10 business To do. I hope you will all
make fortunes for time and eternity. pray you al
prosperity. Stand close 10 CHRIST and Christ Will si0nd
close 10 you. Alas the stock-gambler What will he
do IN the Judgments That day VIII settle every thlnz
No smuggling INTO Heavenl No C0llaterals 10 Irsde
your way in God forbid after you have done your asst
days work earth aud the hushed assembly stands
with bowed heads at your obsequlos, God forbid that
the most appropriate text should be: As a partridge
sttoih and hatcheh them not he that gettetn
riches and by right shall leave them IN midst on
nttin2 psalm be rae words Of the poet:
Tho price of many a crime untold