The New York herald., 1879-01-06
Mr.. Talmage Finds Much to Applaud
). in the National Capital
AND SOMETHING TO DEPLORE
More Piety, and Less Rum, To-
bacco and Gambling.

metre doxology, Arbuckle ieaeiiis VIII MS ismous
cornet The preacher, however looked as usual
when. holding small Bible in his hand he stood mp
and repeated the Lords Prayer. with two or three
,i,te ,mprovements not laid down in the King James
version. He then read the story of the building OF
Noab.s Ark from Genesis, explaining his ideas about
it as he read and after more music he STOOD up ana
said:-
81 am requested by the Session to announce tnas
Henry s. Elmore, having been found guilty OF gross
immorality and sin, has been suspended from the
membership of this church"
There was o profound silence as though the con-
gregation expected some comment on the announce
nent in view of the fact that Mr. Emore had led the
opposition to Mr. Talmage in the matter of employ
ing the organist of the Tabernacle. but without .
word on the subject the preacher laid the notice
down and made several other announcements Among
them he said Next Sabbath morning will preach
in review of my critics, clerical and lay. have been
preaching twenty-one years and have replied to
their criticisms bur shall then talk of the duties OF
Christian minister and of how he ought to treat the
evils of the day."
Mr. Talmape then announced his text from Zech-
ariah VIII 5-"The streets of the city shall be full
of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
He explained how the prophet had thus. with
single stroke of his pencil painted the glee OF city
on canvas and said that after Christians shall look
into the sins the day their children would be able
to fly kites and play ball in the streets OF their cities
without the protection of the police have laughed
for six weeks he continued to see the clergy OF this
land running about with courtplaster In their
pockets to cover up what have been showing.
blue piece for this thing and green piece for that.
and yellow piece for the other. All. courtplaster
can cover up but it cannot heal! He then said that
he was an alopathist in moral matters. and believed
hi of med
after as thorough an examination as he had been
able 70 give tell of the moral condition Of the differ
ont cities of the country. Then he specified the diff
ferent cities. He would only pause in this course
on Sunday next to have few words with his critics
on the duty Of Christian minister. Plunging then
into his subject Mr.. Talmage said:-As the cities
90 so goes land. Every city has its characteris
tics That Of Babylon its pride. That of Athens
it's culture That of Sparta its military prowess.
He sneciAed other cities and their characteristics and
then paused.
WHAT THE CAPITAL Is TO THE COUNTRY
BEGINNING again he said that the national capital
was located the Potomac because 1t was agreed ct
Alexander Hamilton's dinner table that If the South
would assume certain financial obligations the capi-
tai should be moved South. It would be moved to
81 Louis when people should come to realize that
the nub Of wheel should be at tho
centre instead of near the tire. Washington
WAS the heart of the nation. and the national
health depended on the quality Of the blood it sent
ont It was a fascinating city to Mr.. Talmage, and
he believed it was in better moral condition than
ever before He then spoke at length OF
the architecture and art Of Washington and said that
no ould nut the eight doors of the Capitol building
AGAINST the doors of the Madeleine in Paris. and
would put the white palace Of magnihcence in which
Congress meets against the Tuieres OF Paris or the
house in which the British Parliament assemblies He
smoke of many paintings in Washington by American
artists and compared them favorably with the best
vorks of art in Europe Then after speaking OF the
6ne streets in Washington he said:-It is city OF
huzzas and requiems; OF patriotism and debauchery;
OF samstion and of the Credit Mobilier Of the
best men and the worst. It's morals are nity per
cent better when Congress is away than when 1t is in
sesson This provoked considerable laughter in
The conpregation and he continued:-A man away
from elevated female society is naturally bear Il
s said that ministers OF the Gospel during their
vacations go to the Saratoga races
MORALS IN WASHINGTON.
There were. he said. plenty OF drinking establish
rpents and plenty of hels of infamy in Washington.
AMI the same sins were rampant there that are RAM
nant in New York and Brooklyn. He then gave
some statistics from the police reports OF wash
ington and said that its need more police There
had been great Improvement, however, since owing
to Henry wilson's influence the arinking e%staonsh. %
senators and Representatives used to repair for
inspiration before making their speeches. and for
The Keeper of a gambling house had presented to the
Congress orders for the greater part OF
the pay of many members. Inere were SUN gainoing
wide awake as those here as they did not publish to
the States the of those places where their Rep
resentatiyes spend their evenings. Things, how
ever were improved. There was no more duelling.
There was no more clubbing of Senators on the floor
of Congress. He then described several historic
6ghts with appropriate gestures. To-day there
were more truly Christian men at the heads OF de.
partments than ever before To-day the queen OF
Hoip m n nj
attire To save the country from that extravaganza OF
display that had we'll nigh ruined former admins-
traiions By the abolition of wine and holio
spirits from her table she had shown that people
could be jolly, yet sober. tApplause)
PIETY BETTER THAN POLITICS.
Aftcr the applause had died away Mr.. Tslmage
evoked another outburst of it by saying Whatever
your opinion may be of the politics OF the party now
In power at the White House-and know that your
opinions differ widely ON this pointyou ought all 10
rejoice that there is more pcty there and less rum
and tobacco there before lie then expressed
Che o,,inion that NO one should be sent there who
was q bias was an offence against
State laws; an atheist-for an atheist could not
swear uphold the laws. m an oath was OF no effect
If there was no God; or gamp,er-gainpssng ing w..
prohibited by all State laws; or libertne-tor thas
was an Insult 70 70 tSe sy said hs cor to the
Legislative halls of the state or to washington, you
should go through him with lighted candle ana
find out II he swears or lies or cheats or gam
bles," and then, fourishing an imaginary eanuie IN
his right hand, Mr.. Talmage went througn tho
81 ,h or a many ha them III he has them"
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he continued, 'go home and scratch ms name ON tno
ticket with the backcst ink ana pu. pot mere.
Ua,,phterl The nation did not need GOD In the con-
stitution but tod in the hearts OF the people The
politicians were walking charnel houses, ana notn-
mo wonld do them ANY good but the grsvediggers
spade. one had died some time ago OF delrium
tremens in a brothel. and IL had peen pro.
nosrd to rrect a monument TO him. He had
learned from his researches in Washington that
worldly greatness was very transitory and nnsats.
x,ra .a werc either dead In political disgrace.
..Call the roll Of Jenersons Cabinet" he shouted.
,,I :, here arc they all - Then sinking his voice he
sa,d after nm impressive pause They are all dead.
~. tbcn asked the same question In regard to Madi.
go Adams' Jackson's and Pierce's Cabinets and
.,av. The same answer. Coming to Lncons he said,
.srbev are all dead but one. and he is as good ~
dead or Grants he said, zone or two of them are
worse than dead" Political power he said. was the
urivilepe of being away from home. surrounded by
trmptation, prosecuted by oibcc-seekers. assaulted
with acriinony and kicked out shortly "Ameri-
can politics." he said. "is most unfair to
the best men. Ill forgive American
politics that IL slew Horace Greeley. He
was trying to make the North and South shake hands