New-York tribune., 1881-12-12
WORDS OF MANY PREACHERS.
SUGGESTIONS OF THE GUITEAU TRIAL.
ras ber r. De Wit 7aimaCe at ne Brook's" 1a0sT"aoS
(IresbgteTidn.)

m. 6ev r. De Wit TalrnaCe at he Brooklyn 4d6sTnde'
(Presbgterian)
Mr.. Talmage suspended his series of ser
mons on the plaques of NewYork and Brooklyn yester
day morning in order deliver discourse on wha' n
called Guiteauism." He promised to resume the SUD
,ec of the plaques next sunday Before the sermon nc
said that strangers in the congregation frequently o
played marks OF appreciation when he spoke on TOPICS Vi
the day but members OF the congregation understood
that such action disaseful to Mn' ana nc "A'"
that the visitors present should restrain themselves
The text was Samuel xxi. 10 g Have need oi ihao
man that we have brought this fellOw 10 Pi"! '"o ~
man in my presence 2"
Ihad last week. said Mr. Tamage, an opportunity by
observation to confirm my theory of this case Of gaf-
tic crime There no mystery about It, II plain case
Of man allowing his evil nature to run loose In every
direction 1t is not as say, the work Of the devil
Itis only the evolution Of this mans nature There
is philosophy of crime. science of sin, which is very
old but has not yet had graphic and picturesque name
gwen IT, For purposes OF warning and elueidatlon
shall call it " Guiteauism."
First. by Guiteausm" able-bodied beggary'
There is large class of men who spend their Fes pes
cng although 1t is often under the pretence OF
ing The assassin on trial could have achieVeu an
bonor,le livelihood by saving wood or dchng farms
q, noun5ing n shoe last, but he turns his
back upon what he can DO ahc a'enP'e
that for which he has no quai'ncauoh'
There are in this country as near as can ten ABOUT
100000 Of what are commonly styled deau oea's' >
They have little smattering of learning and forthwith
feel themselves called to write BOOKS or eult newspapers
OF take the lecturing platforms.
After five or twenty years Of dead failure one
would supposc they would take the hint, and, not being
able TO win their bread by toll Of BRAIN go back to that
which is Just respectable-the toll OF hand ana FOOT
No they 90 TO borrowing They borrow in each neigh
borhood until the patience or the capacity OF the neigh
lorbood is exhausted and then they turn themselves 70
nastures new The assassin borrowed al he could in
Freeport then borrowed all he could in Boston, then
borrowed all he could in Chicago then borrowed al ne
coud in New-York, and then borrowed all he could IN
w,sbington He borrowed the money for the purchase
% tbe renowned pistol He borrowed the apnaTel In
,ib he now sits He is borrowing the time OF learned
ounsel Tie is borrowing hundreds of thousands of dol
lars Of the United states Government in TINS tra fou
and / are helping pay, his board st the prison son
nose 10 live by their wits They trying 20 see what
they pick up. They hang around the OF
hrh for the candidate who they think viii be success
fnl washington is fun OF them. All the trees around
tIe White House were fun of these crows when Garfield
was shot. That frightened them on their roostS out
tbev are now as thick They are rs strong and
ntbnsjas;ic now for Arthur they were for Garfield
then Their chief apostle is Guteau. The most OF them
viii soon be despondent and mad enough to shoot any
thing from President down to a saping The most Of
them will come home with no official appointment
they do Borrow. OF course; borrow They viii not think
OF getting work. 1t is only we vulgar people who work
nestle calamity Cyrus W Field did no graDder thing
ectn a nations with the sensitive of sympathy
15aI when he put under the Of this Nations sor
row that cable gold along which the sympathy Of the
world flashed into the heart Of that agonlzed Garfield
bousehold But after ell the aevatiOns the domestic
Grief Is unreasonable. Rather than half million dol
lars their orphauage and wid0whOOd would the broken
hearted family have had os cabin of the West with
two rooms and father and husband home with them
What broke up that domestic felicity, "Guteauism."
Eut tine ipnrier of James A. Garfield not the worst
mart of ths business" To show what Gutcauism Is look
in upon the courtroom at Washington and the at
tempt made by Guiteau and his counsel to deiame the
entire famiyfaber and sons daughters and uncies and
aunts-with the charge of insanity TO save tba, mur
Gcrer. .
kran "Guiteauism stands for those who employ the
cloak of religion mp their trrpitude. The
sassin was a successful prayeT-meetng eNhOrter. He
was usher at revival meetings; he quotes scripture
cibiv: he has been member Of the Methodist Church
The Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church. He
has hopared pretty much all denominations except
the Epjscopalian but the Apostle Judas hung
(niteau may yet in sense be in the line OF apostolic
sncceSsCn. Membership OF the church was 70 him
eat field OF usefulness for 1t enlarged his opportunity
and gave him facility for the chief end OF such men
the borrowing Of He IL only ripe Illustration
of that class people in the churches who worship God
ON sunday and devil all the rest of the week:
OF them are vesrymen, elders, deacons or Sunday
school superutendens aud prominent professors OF
iieion while they rotten clear through.