The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-08
re THE SLAUGHTER.
Rev. Dr.. Talmege breaches q Ser
mon at st. Louis.
How Young Men are Led Into Temps
tion by Evil Companions and E1-
travaaance-The Horrors of Debs
"A Sneak Thief Better thaR
Deadbeat.

Rev. T-DeWitt. .Ta1naee. D.. D., preached
at St. LOUIS recently TO q vast audience.
His subject was ''The Slaughter" and his
text Proverbs, vii, 81: "As an OK to the
slaughter The eloquent preacher spoke
as follows:
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 to ar;ch pasture field Of clover, where
all day loag he viii revei IN the heroaceous
luxuriance; but after awhile the men and
the boys close in upon him with sticks and
stones and shouting. and drive him through
'bars into doorway; where he IS fastened,
and with a weN-aimed stroke the axe fells
him: and so the anticipation OF the reoolent
pasture field is completely disappointed. So
many Young man has been driven on by
temptation to what he thought would be
paradisaical enjoyment; but after while
influences with darker hue and swarthier
arm clese:in upon him, and he finds that In
stead Of making an excursion into garden
he has been driven ''as an OK to the slaugh-
ter"
First-We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to blame
the influences that destroy them. Society
slaughters great many young men by the
behest ''You must keep up appearances;
whatever De your salary, you must dress as
well as others you must wine and brandy
as many friends, you must smoke as costly
cigars, you must give as expensive enter
tainmeats. and you must live in as fashions
BILE q boarding house. If you haven't the
money, borrow. II you can't borrow. make
false entry, or subtract here and there
bill from bundle Of bank bills; you will
only have TO make the deception little
while; ma few months, or year or two,
you can make all right. Nobody will be
hurt BY it; nobody will be the wiser. You
yourself will not be damaged" By that
awful process hundred thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaughtered
for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
wrong about borrowing money. There is
hardly man in this house but has some
times borrowed money. Vast estates have
been built on borrowed dollar. But there
are two kinds Of borrowed money. Money
borrowed for the purpose OF starting or
keeping up legitimate enterprise and ex-
pense, aud money borrowed to get that
which you can do without The first Is
right the other is wrong. II you have
money enough Of your own to buy coat,
however plain, and then You borrow money
for dandy,s outfit. you have taken the
first revolution Of the wheel down grade.
Borrow for the necessities: that may be
we'll Borrow for the luxur!es; that tips
your prospects over in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower IL
servant Of the lender. It is bad state OF
things when you have to 80 down some
other street to escape meeting some one
whom you owe. If young men knew what
is the despotism of being in debt, more OF
them would keep out Of it. What did debt
do for Lord Bacon, with mind towering
above the centuries! It induced him to take
tribes and convict himself as a criminal be.
fore all ages. What did debt dosfor Walter
Scotia Broken hearted at Abbotsford. Kept
him writing until his hand gave out in paral-
ysis to keep the sheriff away from his piet-
ures and s:atuary. Better for him If he
had minded hemaxim which he had chiseled
over the fireplace at Abbotsford, 'Wa<te
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 ex
pectation OF paying for them, or 80 into
debts which you can rot meet. you steal just
so much money. II ] 50 into q grocer's
store, and buy sugars. and coifees and
meats, with no capacityto pay for them
and no intention Of paying for them, am
more dishonest than if I go into the store,
and when the >grocer's face is turned the
other way I'LL my pockets with the art;-
cles sekmerchandise and carry of ham. In
the one case ! take the merchants time,
and I take the time, of his messenger to
transfer the-soods tony house, while in the
other case I take none OF the time Of the
merchant. and wait upon myself, and
transferthe goods without any trouble 10
him. Ia, eshsr~&5Eords, a sneak thief is not
so bad as a man who contracts debts he
never expects to pay
Yet in alf our cities there are families
that move every May day to get into prox-
unity to other grocers and meat shops and
apothecaries. They owe everybody within
half q mile Of where they now live, and
next May they will move into distant part
of thecity; finding new lot Of victims
Meanwhile you, the honest family IN the
new house. are bothered day by day by the
knocking at the door of disappointed bakers
and butchers and dry goods dealers, IN!
newspaper. carriers, and you are asked
where your predecessor is. You do not
know. 1t was arranged you should not
know. Meanwhile your predecessor has
gone to some distant part Of the city, and
the people who have any thing to sell have
sent their wagons and stopped there to So
icit the ssvaluable'' custom Of the new
neighbor, and he, the new neighbcr, with
great complacercy and with an air Of afflu-
ence, orders the finest steaks and the high
est priced sugars, and the hestof the canned
fruits, and, perhaps, all the newspapers. All
the debts will keep Son -accum Hlating unit
he gets his goods or the S0th Of next April
in the furniture cart.
Now, let me say, II there are any such
persons in the house, # you have any re
gard for your own convenience, you had
Of the city. It is too bad that, having had
all the trouble Of consuming the goods, you
should also have the trouble Of being
dunned! And let me say that If you find
that this pictures your own photograph,
instead OF being in church you ought to be
in the penitentiary! No wonder that so
many Of our merchants fail in business.
They are swindle6 into bankruptcy BY these
wandering Arabs, these nomads Of city life.
They cheat the grocer out OF the green.
apples which make them sick, the physician
who attends their distress, and the under
saker who fits them out for departure from
the neighborhood where they owe every
body when they pay the debt of nature, the
only aeot they ever do pay!
Now our young men are coming up in this
deprayed state Of commercial ethics, and l
am soiioitous about them. want to warn
them against being slaughtered on the sharp