The New York herald., 1879-12-01


adas to Mexico. from San Francisco to Bangor.
There were the best men and the worst-unswerving
| integrity and tip top scoundrelism. heaven-born
for tried integrity and the most outrageous vllany
From the seyen-times-heated furnace OF Wall
street excitement a man came out a shadraeh.
with hair unsinged else he turned into
cnder. No half way work about 1t. To hnd
integrity bomb-proof. 60 among the bankers and
been such villanies enacted there some men ina
gined it a scene OF financial debauchery aud hardly
| pockets and had their lives insured. When bread
stuhs were wanted for tamshing Ireland, ana
churches were to be supported, and missionaries
were to be sent around the world, money came from
Wall street. There also the spiders waiting for
innocent es the crocodiles that crawl through the
slime. the anacondas. with lifted loop. to crush the
unwary. 1t no place for q man whose principles
! were not thoroughly settled. How many men had
risked themselves in that vortex and gone down.
Remember that famous man whose steamboats,
| and whose opera house could not atone for his
Of decent New York. and whose behavior on Wall
street. by its example, had blasted tens of thousands
OF young men of this generation hold up his pol.
luted memory to warn young men whose moral
principles are not thoroughly established to keep
out OF Wall street. Let all men doing business
| low the lions to hurt Daniel and He will not allow
| the "bears" to hurt you. u.aughterl All these
scenes Of business will pass away II pays best
to be honest this world and in the world to
DIFFERENT PHASES OF SPECULATION.
Again. Wall street is the type OF legitimate specu-
chant is in some sense speculaor 1t is as honest
to deal in stocks to deal in coal or iron or dry
goods. The stock dealer is only commission mer-
| chant under another name. But traffic in fiction.
! betting ON chances. Is as much gambling IS any
thing that goes i'll the lowest gambling place
| in New York or Brooklyn. Here they come--men
celebrated for prudonce-to hazard the fortunes and
| the livelihood of widows and orphans. Do you
| wonder that they sometimes become insane? Thero
are hundreds OF young men pershing under the pas
sion for stock gambling. In all Christian lands this
is of the great There hundreds in this
house in peril. 1t As not peculiar to America. The
Hoilanders, most phlegmatic people, had their
17l6. in John Laws Mississippi scheme. lady of
| great position had her coachman upset her coach
obtain interview with that benevolent and sympa-
thetic gentleman. taughter.l England in 1920 had
her South Sea bubble and all sorts Of companies
were formed under its wing. Among them was
| company to provide funerals for all parts OF the
land aud another for "a great undertaking. nobody
| was reserved for America to surpass them
all. We have the biggest rivers and the highest
| cataracts. and must have the largest swindes
Great laughter) We had done pretty well in tho
days when every man had lot OF crawling silk
| tune; but the climax was reached in 1854 when .
| man near Titusville struck OIL Twelve hundred
companies were calling for $4,000 100000 Of stock
and never expected to have any. Their entire equip
ment was a map showing where oil might be
clarified. Laughter.) young man who had
sold his farm at q fabulous price paid
the change. and then lit his cigar with thousand
dollar bill. Elders and deacons of churches joined
these associations SO that people said ITO join this
Qaughter.) They did not know that when pro-
fessed Christian goes into stock gambling he lies
like sin. Haushter.l
All the best interests OF society are against It, Goo
will damn it for time and damn 1t eternity. Life
is rapidly going away ard eternity is coming. Al
the judgment day for the stock gambler it will be
| u "break" at the FIRST call" No smuggling into
heaven. No collaterals to trade your way in. Go IL
through CHRIST or you will forever stay out.
THIRTY-sEvENTH ST. METHODIST.
WHAT HAVE WE TO BE THANKFUL FoR?-
SERMON BY REV. E. A. BLAKE.
| The Rev. E. A. Blake, who preached in the Thirty
seventh Street Methodist Church. took for his sub
| ject t:--"What Have We To Be Thankful ForY' The
text chosen from Psalms, cxlvii., "A. in these
Words -"He maketh peace in thy borders and flleth
thee with the finest Of the wheat" The preacher
went on to say that this country, like ancient
Greece. fourished because of it's peculiarly
favorable geographical position. Greece was
in her days. invincibe i'll war and unapproachable
in philosophy and the arts of peace. But among
| ancient nations of the earth there was more
remarkable than the Israelitish. Its power and
prosperity guided by divine inspiration. such
that the psalmist broke out in the enthusiastic
words of the text. And seeing the that there
was for replacement last Thursday the people could
not help joining in praises for blessings received
We rejoice IN being able to record 30 noble showing
| as the country can do, and although there is NO
clause in the constitution to tell that recog
nize the God who rules u.s. STILL in looking
our history nation We find cause to rejoice that
with wit g gratitude that While harvests W failed 'in in
| other lands peace and plenty have smiled in
this Here the preacher s sad, IN substance that
on the battlefield America has few deeds Of vaor in
history to be proud Of 1 BY and by there will be a
ira lition will be attached to it, This he mourned
while looking with respectful awe upon that monu-
ment of the ancients; aud although there some
| grand deeds OF valor record among us. yet
they could not be compared with those of the Old
| World. What we have justly to be proud of are
| factories, with their thousands of looms and
busy shuttles flying in peaceful rivalry. They
things so grand in themselves that imperial Rome
| in her palmiest days never dreamed or them. He
drew attention to the columns of the HERALD last
| Thursday, where the astounding record of the
tion's prosperity was presented. Looking along the
| vista of time he saw this nations history inter-
woven with that OF other great Powers and though
aucient nations to boast she will have more i'm the
future to expect What stands out In the history OF
| other nations are the deeds Of valor done on the
battlefield and 1t IS worthy of notice that while the
debt of Europe is $4,000 100000. that of the
United states is but s200o,Ooo,0 900 Look at our
army of 25 900 men. II is like border police guard
| as contracted with the nearly two million OF armed
men that are watching each other in Europe
CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH.
THE SUPREMACY OF LAw-sERMoN BY REV. DR.
NEWMAN.
| The fifth commandment was considered by Rev.
| Dr. Newman. in the Central Methodist Episcopal
| Church--.'Honor thy father and thy mother, that
thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord
| thy God giveth thee" There three immutabe
things in this world. said the Doctor-the family,
the Church and the State. Paoy has said that in the
| family are the rudiments OF empire In the
| original family, and by divine appointment, tho
| father was prophet priest and king but when tho
number of families increased, the father became
subject to power higher than himself
! which was the State, and which en-
| Common law comedies to the father the right to
| command and TO discipline his children. and from
| the beginning the father was esteemed the priest
and prophet OF the household the ponti,es mdrimqs
| OF lis family And out Of the assembled families
| originated the Church. which will last while man
has spiritual hopes to be realized. The father and
the mother esteemed equals and worthy OF equal
honor Why should pArents receive this honor