Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-19

NAL of the reports circulated by the funny
pictorials, in which we think the reverend
bombast has gone beyond the facts.
The case is very fresh in our memory, and
also the fact that Mr.. Talmage was requested
to vacate his pulpit on account of the scan
dial, in the city where it occurred, and where
the facts were we'll known The record of
the First Dutch Church of Philadelphia
would show the facts, the papers of the
day would furnish details of the catastrophe.
Mr.. Talmage would hardly, we think, try to
present and misstate facts, where proof can
be so easily obtained, but we have never be-
fore heard the statement questioned that the
rescued lady was his sister law, and not
his sister, nor that even nine months trans
pred between the catastrophe and the mar
riage. Mr.. Talmage was great fop in those
days. and mere sensationalist, and had no
influence, in Philadelphia or anywhere else,
till he took root in Brooklyn, where, as in
looking after some new thing. And there
his success has been merely sensational
What refined feelings, or sacred emotions,
or gentle sympathies do his daily scolds at
How do his fippant and often irreverent SEN
fences make the gentle chord of love to vi
brate, or draw tears of repentance or graft
tude from the Sinners eye? g What unison
haze they vie our Creators praise2" The
walls of Jericho fell at the footing of rams
horns. Query: Were they not battering
rams2 - but modern Notifications require
more persuasive arguments, as modern sins
require something more attractive than sins
themselves to supplant them; and mere dec
lamation, however snowy, or attractiye how
ever severe, has no more effect upon the
prominent evils which have taken root among
US, than would the blast of tin horn on the
walls of modern fort or the turrets of all
iron-clad. And this is Mr. Talmage's thun-
der He initiated Beecher by setting up a
journal and photographic reporter, to give
the world his wonderful utterances of reli-
gious truth but the world does not seem to
care much for them, and he is sick of his
journal and so is every one else, and now he
pitches into popular sins and
Displays to congregations wide,
Devotons every grace except the heart"
Though like the Hon. Mrs. STANTON, - he is
all heart '-.tois g,us we should call it-and
" dotes upon nature in most unnatural
way. Now don't call us irreverent, because
we have said these things about this :" ambas
sador, for we are not; we only enter a pro-
test against cant and iippancy in the pulpit,
and the meretrcious stuff which some men
force upon the public from pulpit and ros
rum and the press, gaining notoriety there
Y, for time, AMI then fading into oblivion,
leaving not beautiful tree planted, ner a
r refreshing veil dug. on all the road over
which he has rniied, as :. place of shelter
from the heat OF rufreshn";,t for the thirsty
travellers to come after. Nov this is not a
very inviting subject for a secniar paper, but
it is the one uppermost in our mind, and
must have vent, and your crowded columns
Of Legislative reports, so important to your
may not find room for it; so in
such case, just conSign it to oblivion. e.,
an editor waste basket. Yours,