News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-10
PRESENTATIONS OF CRIME.
DIR. TALMAGE ATTACKS THE TOLER-
ALTON BY SOCIETY OF CRIME IN
HIGH PLACES,

DIR. TALMAGE ATTACKS THE TOLER-
ALTON BY SOCIETY OF CRIME IN
HIGH PLACES,
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In the BROOKLYN Tabernacle Sunday
morning DIR. Talmage preached SER
mon against the aristocracy of crime,
decIaiming with great force against the
federation by elegant society OF vice that
possesses riches and what is called good
breeding. He especially warned the
voung against avarice, impurity and re-
yenge. In our time, said DR.. Talmage,
there is a disposition to put haIoround
iniouitv if it is committed In cOnSpicu-
GUS place. During the past two months
there has been an epidemic OF crime in
high places. There Is not State or
CITY or village which has not been called
to look upon a startling forgery or alb
sconding cashier or swindie moment
Gus. l propose to show that sin is sin
whether in high place or low place.
There are in our land hundreds of peo-
pie hiding behind communion tables
who have no business to be there. IN
less the life is right the heart is not
right.
! Shall we have the Tombs for a man
who steals an overcoat and all Canada
| for man to range in if he robs the peo-
pie of three millions? A different meas
ure has for years been applied to the
crimes of Wall street from that applied
| to the spoils which the wretch carries up
| Rat alley. For the man who steals an
overcoat, a ride in the city van, without
an opportunity of looking out of the
window. For the man who steals large
estate, splendid equipage dashing
| through Central Park. There is an i'm
preston abroad that the poorest way to
! get money is to earn it. A plain young
man gets tired, and although he gives
up his situation he has more money than
he ever had. If he can escape the peni-
tertiary three or four years he will get
into politics and have fat jobs. Then
| he gets so far along he is safe-for per-
dition. 1t is quite long road before a
man gets into the romance of crime.
Those are caught who are only in the
prosaics of it. If the officers let them
alone awhile they will steal as well as
anybody. If God should put into
money the capacity of going to its law
full owner there would not be bank or
safe deposit in the United States
whose walls would not be blown out,
and mortgages would rip, and gold
would shoot, and beggars would go on
horseback, and stock gamblers would go
| to the almshouse.
Young men have got to find out that
God looks upon this in a different
light. My young friends, you can be a
great deal happier in poverty than IN
prosperity which comes from i'll. gotten
gains. 1t is always safe to be right, and
it is never safe to be wrong. 1t has got
to be popular to take the funds of others
and speculate with them. Almost every
one in the course of his life has the
property of others put in his care. That
| is a sacred trust. When q man takes
such money and goes to speculatingwith
it he is guilty of theft, falsehood and
perjury. There are families to-day with
nothing between themselves and starva-
ton but the thread of a needle red with
| the blood of their own hearts, who had
been left with competency by husband
or father.
Here is young man with $500 year
salary, scarcely able to meet his ex-
penses. He sees another young man
spending S., 900 or So, 600 year. GLOW
do You do it?' he asks. "Oh, stocks
and all that sort of thing" is the an
swer. He thinks it over and thinks he
would like to learn how it is done, and
he does learn. Now he doesn't work
half as hard and has plenty of money to
| To IN
he enters politics and gets mixed Hp in
streets and buildings and docks. Now
heis safe. Safe for perdition. 1t takes
long time to get into the romance of
stealing There is romance in steal
ing a railroad, but none in stealing a
load of pig-iron. Just now there is a
great fascination about the use of trust
funds. There may be men in this house
who are practicing this form of iniquity.
When a man takes trust money with
which to speculate he is guilty of both
theft and perjury, and is in the most in
tense sense of the word miscreant.
Let us scatter these destinations around
about iniquity. Let it be understood
that if steal dollar am a thief if [
steal $500. 900 am 500, 900 times thief.
So there has been great deal of fas-
clnatlon thrown around hbertinism.
| Society is very severe about the impurity
| that turks around the low haunts, but
| becomes 1enient in proportion as it be.
comes elevated. Where is the Judge
that dare arraign the wealthy libertine
who tiaunts his iniquity in the face of
| society? The bag of uncleauliness
| looks out of the tapestried window. Tt
seems as if our society were going back
| to the state of morals in Herculaneum,
when it sculptured its vileness upon pill
lar and temple wall, and nothing but
the lava of a burning mountain could hide
| the crime. l believe Gods thunderbolts
! axe kissing hot, and when He comes to
chastise the community for these sins
! the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will
be tolerable as compared with the fate
of our modern society, which knew bet
ter and did worse Adulterers and
whoremongers shall fall into the lake
that burneth with fire and birthstone,
which is the second death. 1t is hell
on earth and hell forever. The pulpit
has been so cowed down on this subject
it hardly dares speak, and men are al
most apologize when they read the ten
commandments.
Then look at the fascination thrown
around assassination. In all communi-
ties there are men who have taken the
lives of others and got scot free. So
ciety is alert for certain kinds of muir
der, but when affluent men in high po-
sition avenge themselves on others,
great sympathies are aroused, the law
yers plead, the ladies weep, the jury is
bribed, and the man goes free If the
verdict happens to be against him,
new trial is granted, and the case is ad-
Journed till the community has forgot
ten all about it. Then the prison door
opens and the murderer goes free. He
who wilfully takes the life of another is
murderer, / care not what the provo
cation or the circumstances.
Now, do not be fascinated by the
glamor thrown around crime of what
ever sort. Put your confidence in the
Lord God and cultivate old-fashioned
honesty.
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