Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-17
, A TALK OF OTHER DAYS
pc. TALMAGE REFUTEs A sroK,
THAT HAS EEEN CIRCULATED.

Before Discussn: the Experiences OF the
Past He DENIES Emphatica!iy That He
Ever Advocated MisceSenation-A Ser
mon on Religious Life.
AT the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sun
day, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D..
D.. preached a sermon on the subject.
"OtLer DAYS Lived Over. and made ret
erence to the falsehood that he had adj
yocuted m;scegeration of the white and
black races.
Dr.. Talmaces text was Deuteronomy
viii. q. Thou shalt remember all the
way which the Lord thy God led thee.
He said:
Before entering on my subject wish
to say that some newspaper correspon-
dents, referring to II recent sermon in
which / welcomed foreign nationalities
to this country. have said that l advo-
Gated as n desirable thing the inter
marriage of the white and black races.
never said so, never thought SO, and
any one who SO misrepresents That SER
mon is either villain or fool, per-
haps both.
But to open this mornings subject
have to say God in the text advises the
people to look back upon their past
history. 1t will do us all good to re-
hearse the scenes between this Nav
morning and our cradle, whether it was
rocked in country or town. few days
ago, with my sister and brother, visited
the place OF my boyhood. 1t WAS one of
the most emotional and absorbing days
of my life. There stands the old house,
and as went through the rooms l said.
Il could find my way here with my eyes
shut, although l have not been he-e in
twenty years" There was the sitting
room where a large family group avery
evening gathered. the most of then now
in a better world. There was til. old
barn where we hunted for Easter eggs,
There is where the orchard was. only
three or four trees now left of al the
grove TINT once bore apples, and such
apples, too. There is the brook down
which We rode to the Watering If the
horses bare back and with n rope latter.
We also visited the cemetery where many
of on: kindred are waiting for theresur.
rection, the old people side b, side,
after journey together of sixty years,
only about three years between the time
of their going. There also sle.p the
dear old neighbors who used to tie their
horses under the shed of the c,untry
meeting house and sit at the end If the
pew, singing Duke Street." and Bal
erma," aud Antioch Oh they we're a
glorious race of men and women who
did their work we'll, raised splendid
lot of boys and girls, and are now as to
their bodies in silent neighborh,od on
earth. but as to their souls in jrbilant
neighborhood before the throne Of God.
feel that my journey and visit last
week did me good and it would co you
all good, if not in person then in thought,
to revisit the scenes of boyhood O. girl
hood. Thou shalt remember all the
way which the Lord thy God led ;hee. {"
Youth is apt too much to spend Ill its
time in looking forward. Old ageis apt
too much to spend all its time in ,ook-
ing backward. People in mid-life and
on the apex look both ways. 1t would
be we'll for us, I think, however, to spend
more time in Renaissance. by thei:on-
stitution of our nature we spend most
the time looking forward, and the vast
majority of this audience live not SO
much in the present as in the future. l
find that you mean to make reputation
| advantages that you expect to achieve
absorb great deal of your time. But !
see no harm in this if it does not make
you discontinued with the present d.
disqualify you for existing duties.
1t is useful thing sometimes to look
back, and to see the dangers we hag lie
escaped, and to see the sorrows we have
suffered, and the trials and wanderinss
of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum
up our enioyments. l mean this morn
ing, SO far as God may help me, to stir
up your memory of the past, so.that in
the review you may be encouraged, and
humbled, and urged to pray.
There is chapel in Florence with a
| fresco by Guido. 1t was covered up
with two inches Of stucco until our
American and European artists went
there, and after long toll removed the
covering and retraced the fresco. And
am aware that the memory of the past,
with many of you, is all covered up with
ten thousand obliterations, and propose
this morning, SO far as the Lord may
help me, to take away the covering, that
the old picture may shine out again.
| want to bind in one sheaf all your
past advantages, and want to bind in
another sheaf all your past adversities.
1t is a precious harvest, and must be
cautious how swing the scythe.
Among the greatest advantages of
your past life was an early home and its
surroundings. The bad men of the day,
for the most part. dip their heated
passions out of the boiling spring of an
uAudppy uOMc. we are not surprised
to find that Byrons heart was a concen-
tration of sin, when we hear his mother
was abandoned, and that she made sport
of his infrmity, and often called him,
the lame brat" He who has vicious
parents has to fight every inch of his
way if he would maintain his integrity,
and at last reach the home of the good
in Heaven.
Perhaps your early home was in the
city. It may have been in the days
when Canal street, New York, was ia,
up town and the site of this present
church was an excursion into the coun-
try. That old house in the city may
have been demolished or changed into
stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to
you, for there was more meaning in that
plain house, in that small house, than
there is in granite mansion or tur-
reted cathedral. Looking back this
morning you see it as though it were
yesterday-the sitting room, where the
loved ones sat by the plain lamplight,
the mother at the evening stand, the
brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago
gathered into the skies, then PLOTTING
mischief on the floor or under tile table,
your father with firm voice commando
ing silence that lasted half minute.
Oh, those were good days If you had
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