The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
TALMAGE AT ST. LOUIS.
-uE SUBJECT OF HIS SERMON WAS
THE SLAUGHTER"

THE SLA UGHTEh
ror+ Found In Proverbs VII, al
Nothing in the Manner of Sin to
warn Young Men That They Are
coing to the Slaughter.
Ct LOUIS, April THE Rev. T. De-
Z vitt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
\ -oscbed here this evening to a vast audi
no ancs His subject was "The Slaughter"
I'D his text, Proverbs, vii, 81 LAS an OK
- the slaughter" The eloquent preacher
said
There is nothing in the voice or manner
oftbe butcher to indicate to the OK that
.h.-s ia death ahead The OK thinks be is
ling on to rich pasture field OF clover,
sSbare all day long he will revel in the
barbaceous luxuriance; but after while
tba men and the boys close in upon him
II Ti,b sticks and stones, and shouting, and
Il driva him through bars and into door
Tsv where he is fastened and with a we'll
N ,in3ed stroke the axe fells him; and so the
n snticipation of the redolent pasture field is
4 comDletely disappointed. So many young
nan has been driven on by temptation to
II ,rhat he thought would be paradisiacal en-
iovment: but after while influences with
darker hue and swarthier arm close in upon
Il him and he finds that instead of making
q an excursion into a garden he has been
driven las an OK to the slaughter"
We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to blame
4 the influences that destroy them. Society
slaughters great many young men by the
bahest, "You must keep up appeara ces;
whatever be your salary, you must DIR IS as
well as others, you must wine and brandy
AZ many friends, you must smoke as costly
cigars you must give as ex en-
nd
live in as fashionable boarding
house. If you haven't the mo lev,
borrow. If you can't borrow make a false
entry, or subtract here and there bill
from bundle of bank bills; you will only
h have to make the deception little while;
in few months or in a year or two, you
4 can make it all right. Nobody will be hurt
by it; nobody will be the wiser. You
Yourself will not be damaged" By that
awful process a hundred thousand men have
\ been slaughtered for tim and slaughtered
for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
N wrong about borrowing money. There is
hardly man in the 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
Il keeping I'D legitimate enterprise and ex-
Il pense, and money borrowed to get that
which you can do without. The first
is right, the other is wrong. If you have
money enough of your owl to buy a coat,
however plain, then you borrow money
for dandy'S outfit, you have taken the
first revolution of the wheel down grade.
e Borrow for the necessities; that may be
we'll Borrow for the Injuries; that TIPS
b your prospects over in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower is
servant Of the lender. 1t is bad state Of
wi WI hnv fn anxxyr
II other street to escape meeting some one
whom you owe. If young men knew what
81 is the desDotism Of being in debt more of
them would keep out of 1t. What did debt
do for Lord Bacon, with a mind tower
n ing above the centuriesp 1t induced
. him TO take brides and convict himself as a
n criminal before all ages What did debt
n do for Walter Scots Broken hearted at
N Abootsford. Kept him writing until his
hand gave out in paralysis to keep the
sheriff away from his pictures and statuary.
Better for him if he had minded the maxim
which he had chiseled over the fireplace at
Z Abbotsford, "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 ex-
pectation of paying for them, or 60 into
debts which you cannot meet, you steal
Just so much money. If go into grocer's
store, and l buy sugars and coffees and
meats, with no capacity to pay for
them and no int ttion of paying for
them, l am more disho1e est than if go
into the store, and when the grocer'S
face is turned the other way fill my peck
cts with the articles of merchandise and
carry off ham. Ia the enc case take the
merchants time, and take the time of his
messenger to transfer the goods to my
house, while in the other case l take none
oil the time OF the merchant, and | wait
upon myself, and transfer the goods with
out any trouble to him. In other words, a
sneak thief is not so bad as man who con-
traits for debts he never expects to pay.
Yet In all our cities there are families
that move every May day to get into
proximity to other grocers and meat shops
and apot ecaries. 7 ey owe everybody
within half mile Of where they now live.
and next May they will move into dis
tant part of the city, finding a new lot of
victims. Me nwhile you, the honest family
ID the new house, are bothered day by day
by the knocking at the door OF disaD-
pointed bakers aud butchers and dry goods
dealer and newspaper carriers, ard YOU are
asked where your predecessor is. You do not
Know. 1t was arranged you should not know,
meanwhile your predecessor has gone
70 some distant part of the city, and the
people who have anything to sell have sent
tneir wagons and stopped there to solicit
Tue valuable" custom of the new neighbor,
AOs Luo new QelRQDOr, WIN
great complacency and with an air of
sfluence, ders the finest steaks and the
nlghest priced sugars, and the best of tie
Sdnhed fruits, and perhaps all the newspa-
pers. And the debts will keep on accum-
u1satinR until ne gets his goods on the 30th
Vi next April in the furniture cart.
NOW, let me say, If there are any such
peISons In the house, if you have any re-
salo LOT your own convenience, you had
os.ter remove to some greatly distant part
o on me city 1t is too bad that, having had
al the trouble of consuming the goods,
you should also have the trouble of
yshg dunned. And let me say that
you find that this pictures your
1--WE Jwn photograph, instead of being in
Guutcn you ought to be in the PEN
mentary! No wonder that so many Of our
ane me, fail in business. They are swim
J A INTO bankruptcy by these wandering
MaoS, these nomads of city life. They
,Jeas the grocer out of the green apples
'. aIcl make them sick, the physician who
aVehus Their distress, and the undertaken
~, Iuo nus hem out for their departure from
sas neighborhood where they owe every
10y 10y when they pay the debt Of nature, the
'us{ ueot they ever do payl
n; A." our young men are coming up in
.-S sqqepraved state of commercial ethics,
a.ol am solicitous about them. want to
b ah Cnem against being slaughtered on
IIessuarp edges OF debt. You want many