Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-17
'WsPraise Thee, 0, Thou Almighty
D0Ilar!"
re VICES OF A GREAT CITY
Not Worse, All Things Being Equal, Than
the Sins of the Rural
Sections.
INFLUENCE LASTS ALL TIME
Special 10 The Register.


rise 70 begin the service by singing first the
GloIia IN ercelsis and afterwards, the tune
being changed by few notes of the organ,
singing the longmeter doxology to the tune
of "0ld Hundred" the scene is one never
to be forgotten. After the invocation to-
night DIR. Talmage gave out the hymn
Guide me, o thou great jehovah The
subject of the evening sermon was THE In
huense of cities" The text was from
Genesis iv-l7; "And he builded a city
and called the city after the name of his son
Enockes,
$50, you, ,see," said DR.. Talmage, "Cain
was the founder of the first city, and | sup
pose il took after him in morals. 1t takes
city long while to escape from the char
acter of founder. Where the founders Of
city are criminal exiles, the ilth the vice
the prisons, are the shadows of those found
ers. 1t will take centuries for New York to
get over the good influence Of the pious
founders OF that city-the founders whose
prayers went up in the streets where now
banks discount and brokers shave, and
companies declare dividends, and Snug
clers swear Custom:House lies; and above
the roar of the wheels and the crack of the
auctioneer's mallet ascends the ascriptiou
We worship thee o thou almighty dollar!
The old Church that used to stand on Wall
street is to this day throwing out its bless
ING on the scene of traffic and on all the
ships folding their white wings in the har-
Dor. In other days people gathered in the
citiesfo defense None but the poor who
had nothing to be stolen lived in the coun-
try. But in these times when, through
civilization and Christianity, it is safe to
live anywhere, people gather in the cities
for purposes of
Rapid Gain.
The city is no worse than the country.
The vices of the metropolis are more evil
dent than the vices of the rural districts, be
cause there are mo people to be bad if
they wish to be. The merchant is as good
as the farmer. There is no more cheating
in town than out of town-no worse cheat
ing; it is only on larger scale. The coun-
tryman sometimes prevaricates about the
age of the horse that he sells, about the
size Of a bushel with which he measures the
grafru, +4bout the peaches at the bottom OF
the basket as being as large as those at the
top, about the quarter Of beef as being ten
der when it is tough, and to as bad an ex-
tent as the citizen, the merchant over pre-
varicates about calcoes or silks, or hard
ware, and as to village think that in some
respects they arc worse than cities because
they copy the vices of the city in the mean
est shape, and, as to gossip, its heaven is a
country village. Everybody knows every
bodys business better than he knows it him.
self The grocery store and the blacksmith
shop by day and night is the grand depot for
masculine tittle.tattle and there are always
in the village a half dozen women who
have their sun bonnets hanging near, so
that at the first item Of news derogatory
they can fly out and cackle it all over the
town. Countrymen must not be too hard
IN Il cir criticisms of the citizen, nor must
he r!vw run tCo sharply against the yard,
lick.
Cities are not evil necessarily, as some
have argued They have been the birth
place of civilization. In them popular lib,
,riy has lifted It's voice Witness Genoa
AID Pisa and Venice. After the death Of
Alexander the Great among his papers
were found extensive plans of cities, some
to built in Europe, some to be built in Asia.
The cities in Europe were to be occupied
BY Asiatics and the cities in Asia
according to his plans, by Europeans, aud
so there should be a commingling and a
fraternity and Kindness and goodwill
between the continents and between the cit
les. So there always ought to De.
The strangest Thing
in nv comprehension is that there should
be chickering's and rivalries among our
American cities. New York mus stop car
featuring Philadelphia, and Philadelphia
must stop picking at New York; and GER
tainly the continent is large enough for St.
Louis and Chicago. What is good for one
city is good for all the cities. Here is the
great highway of our National prosperity.
On that highway of National prosperity
walk the cities. A city with large forehead
and great brain, that is Boston. A city with
deliberate step and calm manner, that is
Philadelphia. A city with its pockets fall
OF change, that is New York. Two cities
going with a rush that astounds the CONT
pent they are St. Louis and Chicago. A
CITY that takes its wife and children along
with II, that is Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Louis
vile. Atlanta, Pittsburgh, all cities of the
North, and all cities of the South, some dis
| tinguishable for one thing, some tor an
other; one for professional ability, another
for affluence, another for fashion, but not
one to be spared. What advantages one
advantages all. What damages
Boston Common, damages Washington
Square. Laurel Hill andGreenwood weep over
the same grief. New York helping to pay
| for the obsequies OF plague-stricken Ne"
| Orleans. The fires of Chicago and Boston
a sore burn on the whole land. The statue
of Benjamin Franklin in New York greet
| ing the hronze statue of Edward Everett II
Boston. All the cities confraternity.
cannot understand how there should 9;
on chickering's aud rivalries. Iplead for
higher style OF brotherhood or sisterhooI
among the cities OF this country. Bu
while there are great differences IN SOM
respects have 10 tell you that all thes'
cities impress upon me and ought to I'm
SIS upon you three or four very inn poFtsn
lessons all of them agreeing in the sam
thing. |, does not make sny difference Il
what part OF the country we walk the street
OF great CITY there is one lesson thin
| which ought TO strike
Every Intelligent Christian
msn and that is that the world is a scene
| toll and struggle Here and there you IN
man in the street who has his arms iolte
and who seems to have no particular e