Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-26
That BETTER TIME.
,,ass Spectators and Stock
Gamblers VIII Ha,~: to
Walk the Plank.

Gamblers Will Have to
Walk the Plank.
,sprer Of Crimes Will Disappear,
md the Churches VIII Not Ac.
co,nmodate the MEltitudes,
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmaee, DID
q =, his subject "Tlze Victory" and for
,.rt Zachariah viii. s: "And the streets
!. S city shall be full of boys and girls
" eec in the streets thereof" He said:
n,nnse Of our cities redeemed. Now
and girls who play in the streets run
r;sks that multitudes OF them end in
But in the coming time spoken of
s,;os will be 80 moral that lads and
;ss shall be as safe in the public thor
Mare l as in the nursery
nr the purpose of rousing the people to
work to be done have preached some
,'ons about the dark shadows of the
Pulpit and printing press for the
part in our day nre busy in discussing
condition of the cities at this time: but
I'D il not be BEAUTIFULLY encouraging to
christian workers and 10 all who are
inc TO make the world better if we
trll this morning, for little while, look
ward to the time when orr cities shall be
authorized by the Gospel of the Son of
and all the darkness of sin and
nbla and crime and suffering shall be
IA from the sky.
Every man has pride in the city Of his
iyitv or residence, if it be city dis.
rushed for any dignity or prowess.
Ear boosted Of his native Rome, Virgil
,lantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demos
mes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse,
Paul of Tarsus. should have sus-
ion Of base heartedness in man who
no especial interest in the city of his
q or residence--no exhilaration at the
lenee of its prosperity, or its artistic
belhshments, or its scientific advance.
int.
have noticed that man never likes q
where he has not behaved we'll! Swar-
/. did not like New York, nor did Park
IN like Boston, and people who have q
Ee ride in the prison van never like that
that furnishes the vehicle. When I
d Argos and Rhodes, and Smyrna trying
prove themselves the birthplace Of
bme, conclude right away that Homer
hayed we'll. He liked them and they
<etl him. We must not war on laudable
pride, or, with the idea of building our
ives up, at any time try to pull others
&wn. Boston must continue to point to
! laneuil Hall and to its Common, and
its superior educational advantages.
|bilalelphia must continue to point to its
ldependence Hall, and its Mint, and its
trard College.
/ ii should find man coming from any
h. having no pride in that city, that city
living been the place of his nativity, or
bw being the place of his residence, I
! ud feel like asking him right away:
What mean thing have you been doing
ere? what outrageous thing have you
ben guilty of that you do not like the
5ace:a
New York is a goodly city. 1t is on both
de- Of the river, the East River only the
lain artery of it's great throbbing life. We
gu, children will live to see two or three
Fdges spanning that river, and more and
|orc as the years go by We will be one; so
hen say in my sermon New York mean
ell OIL to two millions population, and
from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to
owanus. That which helps one city will
lip another; that which blasts one city
IL blast the other. Sin is giant, and
hen it comes to the Hudson OF the East
yer it steps across it as easily rs you
Up across figure i'll O carpet. Gods
gel Of blessing has two wings, and one
ing hovers over that city and the other
ing hovers over this city.
III infancy our metropolis was put down
!, the banks of the Hudson. 1t WAS as
che as Moses in the ark Of bnllrushes
the Nile, and like Miriam there our
;hers stood and watched it. The royal
yrit of American commerce came down
bathe. She took it up in her arms and it
s1ed strong, and foreign ships brought
I'D and silver to its feet, and it has
FETCHED itself up into great metropolis,
oking up to the mountains and off upon
e sea, the mightiest energy in American
Vllizalion.
Every city is influenced by the character
the men who founded it. Romulus i'm
'essed his life upon Rome. The Pilgrim
athers will never relax their grasp from
ew England. William Penn left a legacy
fair dealing and integrity to Philadel-
lia, and you can now, any day, on the
reefs Of that city see his customs, his
anners, his morals, his hat, his wife's
onnet and his meeting-housc. So thu
ollaniers, founding New York, left theil
npression on all the following genera
oEs.
What Southern thoroughfare was evel
nitten by pestilenco, and our physicians
i'd rot throw themselves on the sacrifice
hat foreign nation was ever struck will
mime, and our ships did not put out lade1
18th breadstuffs? What national struggle
I'D our citizens did not pour their BLOOD
ITO the trenches? What street in Damas
Is, or Beyrout. or Madras, has not re.
Funded with the step of our missionaries
that gallery Of art, and our painters hav'
OF hung in it their pictures? What de
artlnent of science or literature, and GU
:hoiars have not Eaode to it contrlbu
ons?
] need not talk to you Of our Public
chools, where the children Of the cord.
amer, and the mechanic, and the glass
lower sit side by side with the favored
Dns of millionaires and merchant princes
or need l tell You of the asylums for thu
lsane Oh these islands, where those Wit
ut themselves among the tombs come
orth clothed in their right mind. No
sed tell you of the asylums for tn
lind, the deaf, and the dumb, and tn
fphans, the widows, the outcast,
thank God for the place of our resi-
ence, and while there are Thousand
hlngs that ought to be corrected, an
many wrongs that ought to be overthrown
'h'le ! thank God for the past, l look for
i0ru this morpinO IN a UlOriOuS future.