The national leader., 1889-04-27
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Slaughter.
"As an OK 10 the slaughter. -Prov7: q.


There is nothing in the voice or
manner of the butcher to indicate to
the OK that there is death ahead. The
OK thinks he is going on to a rich past
ure-field of clover, where all day long
he will revel in the herbaceous luxuri-
ance; but after while the men and
the boys close in upon him with sticks
and stones and shouting, and drive him
through bars and into doorway, where
ne is fastened. and with well-aimed
stroke the axe fells him; and so the
anticipation of the redolent pasture
field is completely disappointed. So
many young man has been driven on
by temptation to what he thought
would be temptation to what he
thought would be paradisiacal enjoy
ment; but after a while, influences
with darker hue and swarthier arm
close in upon him, and he finds that
instead Of making an excursion into q
garden, he has gone ''as an OK to the
slaughter.
SLAUGHTERED BY SOCIETY.
/. We are apt to blame young men
for being destroyed, when we ought to
blame the influence that destroyed
them. Society slaughters great many
men by the behest. ''You must keep
up appearances; whatever be your sal
AIRY, you must dress as we'll as others;
you must wine and brandy as many
friends, you must smoke as costly ci-
Gars, you must give as expensive en-
tertainments, and you must live in as
fashionable clearinghouse. If you
haven't the money, borrow. If you
can't borrow, make false entry, or
subtract here and there a bill from a
bundle of bank bills; you will only
ha e to make the deception little
willie; in few months. or in year or
two. you can make all right Nobody
will be hurt by it; nobody will be the
Wi ar. Yop yourself will not be dam
agvd." By that awful process hun
died thousand men have been slaugh-
terei for time and slaughtered for
ct rnity.
suppose you borrow. There is
no hing wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly man in the house but
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast
estates have been built on borrowed
& do lar. But there are two kinds Of
BORROWED MONEY.
Mo ey borrowed for the purpose of
Starring OF keeping up legitimate enter
prise and expense, and money borrowed
to get that which you can do without.
The tirst IS right, the other is wrong.
If you have money enough of your own
you borrow money for a dandy's outfit,
hnw 4rlZ %hn Erok 1Vrff@ <~Q
the wheel down grade. Borrow for
the necessities; that may be well.
Borrow for the luxuries; that tips
your prospects over in the wrong d.
rectiOn.
The Bible distinctly says the bor-
rover is servant of the lender. 1t is a
bal state of things when you have to
go down some other street to escape
meeting some one whom you owe. If
young men knew what is the despot-
ism of being IN debt more of them
would keep out of it. What did debt
do for Lord Bacon, with mind tower
ing above the centuries? 1t induced
him to take bribes, and convict him.
self us criminal before all ages. What
did debt do for Walter Scott? Broken
hearted at Abbottsford. Kept him
writing until his hand gave out in
paralysis to keep the sheriff away from
his pictures and statuary. Better for
him if be had minded the maxim
which he had chlseled over the fire.
place at Abbcttsford, Waste not,
want not"
The trouble is, my friends, the people
do not understand the ethics Of going
in debt, and that if you purchase goods
with no expectation Of paying for them.
CT going into debts which you cannot
meet, you steal just so much money.
If 60 into grocer's store, and buy
sugars and coffees and meats. with no
capacity to pay for them, and no inten-
tion of paying for them, 1 am more
dishonest than If 60 into the store.
and when the grocer's face is turned
the other way 1 fill my pockets with
the articles Of merchandise and carry
offa ham. In the one case take the
merchants time, and take the time of
his messenger to transfer the goods to
my house, while in the other case
take none Of the time Of the merchant,
and ] wait upon myself, and l transfer
the goods without any trouble to him.
In other words, a sneak thief is not So
bad as man who contracts for debts
he never Intends to pay.
PER1PATETIC DEBTORS.
Yet in all our cities there are fami-
lies that move every May-day to get
into proximity to other grocers, and
meat shops, and apothecariss. They
owe everybody within half mile of
where they now live, and next May,
they will move into distant part of
the city, finding new lot of victims.
Meanwhile you, the honest family In
the new house, are bothered day by day