The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-11-24
MIR. TALMAGE ON DEBTS.
He AdmOnishes His COngrega.
ton With a Selected Illus
tratiOn From his Own
EXDerience.

la pCAICACCs
New York World
Mr.. Talmage preached a sermon
to young men yesterday from the
brief and fragmentary text: LAS an
OK to the slaughter" There is
nothing" he began. lin the voice or
the manner of the butcher which IL
dicates to the OK that death is ahead.
The OK. no doubt, fancies that he is
beirg led to the herbaceous luxuri-
snce OF some distant pasture. But
after while appear men and boys,
who, with sticks and stones and loud
cries, drive the poor beast in a dark
doorway. The animals nose is fu.c.
ed down upon The blood stained floor,
ard The unerriDg blow descends. So
many q young man is being driven
down unsuspecting to the slaughter.
Society slaughters many by its cruel
demand that, UG matter how small
the income, appearances must be
kept up. Whatever your salary,
poor unfortunate young man, you
must live in fashionable boarding
house, must smoke expensive cigars
and must give wine aud brandy to as
many Of your friends as your ueigh-
bor If you haven't the money, why
borrow, aud if you can't borrow,
why, then-steal. Do anything, buJ
don't appear mean and close. BY
this awful process 100000 men have
been slaughtered. When will you,
young man, learn the curse OF debt!"
(Mr. Talmage had his giitteging eye
Gxed upon a beardless youth in the
gallery who iidgeled III an unComior
table way upon his seat.) Debt iA-
duced Lord Bacon to take briOes il
broke Walter SCOTS heart it drove
Burns to drinking. Perhaps some
Of you don't know that Lord Byron t
mother died in q fit of rage produc-
ed by reading an uphoIsterer's bill.
Oh, the curse of debt-lho curse Of
debt! II l go into a grocery store
and buy sugar and meats without
any visible means Of paying for them
! I'm more dishonest than if / 60 in
quietly and carry away ham under
my coat. In the one case | rob the
grocer not only OF his sugar and
meat. but also Of a measure of his
time. 10 the other case l take uoue
of lie time, simply help myself. Ia
other words, sreak-,hief isn't as
bad az one who contracts debts he
caonot pay. (Appiause.l And ye.
in all our cities are families who
move every May day t. get out of
the neighborhO0d Of certain butch
ers, bakers and apothecaries and in.
to the neighborhood of others.
suppose a good many Of you have
had that unpleasant experience up.
on moving into some suddenly vaca.
ted house Of irate and unhappy
tTadesmen calling at your doors
twenty times a Gay with little hlls
against The family that has just NOV
ed out? And the family that has
just moved out in some fresh negh-
borhood is mean time leaving royal
orders a. the butchers for tenierIUin
steaks and ordering the nearest
newsvender to leave at the door
each morning All the papers Eagle |
or argus. World, Tribune or TimeS.''
MIR. Talmage rolled out This fa-
miiar Brooklyn street cry so glibly |
that several members Of the cougre-
CATION Uttered. The laughter APP
peared 10 have irritating effect, for
with considerable warmth he ex-
claimed: If any BODY in this au-
dence finds that my picture fits his
case, [ don't mind telling him that
he ought not to be in this church.
he ought to be in the penitentiary
lawful silence.) Detestable sneaks.
they cheat the grocer out of the
green apples tina make them sick,
they rob the doctor that attends
them and the undertaken who fur.
nishes them with 40 outfit when
they pay the final debt of nature
he only debt they ever do pay.
Young man, young man, don't get
into debt. for Gods sake don't get
into debt. I've had a little expe-
rience that way. My first settle
ment as pastor was in village
salary $500 ear and a house. The
amount seemed TO me enormous.
said, What all this for one year?
| was afraid Of growing purse-proud
and worldly, so resolved to spend
the surplus of my fortune in enters
tanning my neigbbors. l began the
amiable task of having them to tea
10 groups of twenty-five. l never
completed the task. learned the
great truth that you must measure
the size of a mans body before you