Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-18
UPROoTlNG EVILS.
Talmags Dsnounces the litho-
graphs Of Nudity
HANGING IN The STORE WINDOWS.
Teaches Grand Lesson on the Virtues Of
Charity, and Shows the Contempt
bic Practice Of the ldars
and loafers.
Special 10 the RegiSIer.

Special to the Register.
NEW YoRK, June 1.-THE following SER
mon was preached by Rev. T. De Witt Tai.
mage in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning:
Opening hymn: Arm Of the Lord, awake!
awake"
Before the sermon, DIR. Talmage ex.
pounded the chapter in l. Kings which pre-.
sent the crime OF Jezabel and her punish
ments.
subject OF the Sermon: alarming
Things of To-Day
TENT-Miccah vi, 9: THE lords voice crieth
unto the city"
Whether God or Satan shall have COM
plete possession Of these cities is the ques-
tion of the hour, Never so many churches.
Never so many reformatory institutions.
Never so many good men and woman.
Never so hopeful prospect. But do not
think that righteousness will triumph
without many rebuffs and terrific and long
continued struggles. Take the one fact
that many Of the streets of our cities have
become deprayed picture gallery by rea.
son of the unclean hgureS represented in
show windows and on board fences. Many
OF the theatres and opera houses are by
their mode Of street advertisement
PrRe'ieing an Indecency
that ought long ago TO have the interdict OF
city authorities. Twenty-Five years ago
such pictures would not have been allowed.
The manager who ordered them and the
bill poster who carried them and the mer-
chant who allowed them in his show win
dow yrnn1l haya haay, hanlaH 1tn in Fn1icn
court to answer. Would you allow in your
parlors and in the presence of your family
on the part Of any one such a lack of ap-
parel No. Then why allow it in the
presence of the whole city. | denounCe
this wholesale immortality of the show win.
dows Of our American cities as an appalling
education in the wrong direction. Let the
merchants OF Brooklyn and New GorS for
bid this
Insult TO Public Virtue
banging in their window. Let the mayors
of these cities walk through the streets and
see the damnable spectacle on Fulton street
and Atlantic street, and in all the promi-
nent streets of our cities, East, West, North
and South. Here is practical reform that
| demand IN the name OF God and of all
decent citizens. II these pictures that pre-
sent the actors and actresses unparalleled
are intended as specimens of the reformed
American theatres than they are being re-
formed into a SodOm. In Southern Europe
the immoral pictures of Herculaneum and
Pompeii are kept under lock and key, as
specimens of a
Polluted Age
TO be looked at by severe antiquarians. But
New York and Brooklyn and Philadelphia
and Chicago and Cincinnati and New Or
leans and all the cities put the pictorial
indecenCieS in show windows and on board
fences and bulletin boards for men ana
women and children to look at as they 90
10 church or SChoO, or social call or busl-
ness. The tupepdouSnuisance is getting
10 be unbearable. While there never has
been an age since the world stood in which
the forces for EVIL were 80 unb,ushing and
hlatsnt. while We a:e toiliuG on toward
universe, victory, we must have an intelh-
gent view as 10 what the
Dangers Really Are.
Iprupose 70 point out 10 you those whom
consider to be the uprooting and devOur.
ing classes OF society. FIRST the public
criminals. We shout at the top of our
voice. stop, thief" When the police get
on the track we come out hatless and in
our slippers to assist in the arrest. We
come around the bowling rutfian and
hustle him of to Justice. and when he
gets in prison what DO We do for him
With great gustO we put on the handouts
and the hobbies; but what preparations
are we making for the day when the hand
CUTS ana hobbies come off?
Society seems 20 Say
10 these criminals, VILLAIN, go in there
and rot, ." when it ought to say, "Gou are
an offender against the law, but we mean
to to give you an opportunity to repent;
we mean to help you. Christ died for you.
Look and believe"
The police stations of this ueighborhood
of cities furnished in one year 2co,OOo
LODGINGS. For the most part these 100000
lodgings were furnished to able bodied
men and women. people as able TO work as
YOU and | are. When they are received
no longer at one police station because
they are repeaters they go TO some other
station, and so keep moving around.
They Get Their Food
AT house doors, stealing what they can get
their hands on in the front basement
while the servant is spreading the bread
in the back basement. They Will not
work. Time and again in the country dis
tricts they have wanted hundreds and
thousands of laborerS. These men vii
mot 90, They do not want to work. l
have tried. | have set them to work saw
ing wood in nv cellar to see whether they
wanted 10 work. | offered TO pay them
well for il. | have heard them saving tor
about three minutes, and then | Went
down. and 10, the wood, but no saw. They
are the
Pest of society.
and they stand in the way OF the L2rd
pCOr who ought to be helped and will be
helped. While there are thousands OF in
dustrious men who cannot get any WORK,
these men who do not want any work come
in and make that plea. | am In favor OF
the restoration of the old fashioned "hip-
ping post for lust this one class OF men who
will not work; sleeping at night at public
eypense in the station house; during the
day getting their food at your door step.
Imprisonment Does Not Scare Them.
They would like it. Blackwel's Island or
Sing Sing would be q comfortable place for
them. They would have no objection to
the aims house for they like thin soup-it
thew cannot get mock turtle. propose
This for them: ON one side of them put
some healthy work; on the other side put
raw hide and let them take their choice l
like for that class of people the scant bill OF
fare that Paul wrote out for the Thessalo-
man losfers: IF any work not, neither
should he eat" By what law Of God or
man is it right that you and should
Toll Day I'm and Day Out,
until our hands are blistered and our arms
ache and our brain gets numb, and then be
called on to support what in the United
States are about two million loafers! They
are a very dangerous class. Let the pubic
authorities keep their eyes on them.
Again among the uprooting and deyour.
ing classes in our midst are the idle. VI
course do not refer to people who are get
ting old, or to the sick or to those VINO can
NOT get work; but tell you to look out for
those athletic men and women who will
not work. When the French nobleman
was asked why he kept busy when be had
so large property, he said: Il keep on en-
craving so I may not hang myself. DO
not care who the man is, you cannot afford
10 be idle. II is from the idle classes that