The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
rbs Weekly DISCOURSE Of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
subject; 1.-THE Slaughter. :"
(Prenched nt ~. Louis, MOI


to rich pasture field of clover, where all day
long he viii revel In the herbaceous luxuri
ance; but after while the men and the boy,
close In upon him with sticks and stones and
shouting, and drive him through bars and
into doorway, where he is fastened and
with well aimed stroke the AK felh
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
paradisiacal enjoyment; but after while in
huences with darker hue and swarther arm
close in upon him, and he finds that instead
OF making an excursion into a garden hs has
been driven las an OK to the slaughter"
!. We are apt to blame young men 70,
being destroyed when we ought TO blame the
influences that destroy them. Society
slaughters n great many young men by the
behest: you must keep up appearances;
whatever be your salary, you must dress as
well as others, you must wine and brandy as
many friends, you must smoke os costly
cigars, you must give as expensive entertain
meuts and You must live in as fashionable
borrow. If you can't borrow make false
entry, or substract here and there bill from
q bundle Of bank bills; you will only have TO
make the deception little while; in few
months, or In a year or two, you can mako
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
time and slaughtered for eternity
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
wrong about borrowing money. There Is
hardly man in the house but has sometimes
borrowed money. Vast estates has been built
on a borrowed dollar. But there are two
kinds Of borrowed money. Money borrowed
for the purpose Of starting or keeping
nm la0itiD,ata antarprfca and aYpausa
and 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 a coat,
however plain, and then you borrow money
for q dandy's outfit, you have taken the first
revolution of the wheel down grade Borrow
for the necessities; that may be well. Borrow
for the Injuries; that tips your prospects over
Tn the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower is
servant of the lender Il is bad 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-
@ Of being in debt sne Of e them sah would
Lord Bacon, with mind towering
above the centuriesi 1t induced him
| to take brides and convict himself
as criminal before all ages. What did debt
do for Walter Scotta Broken hearted at
Abbotsford. Kept him writing until his
band gave out in paralysis to keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary. Better
for him II he had minded the maxim which
be had chiseled over the fireplace at Abbots-
ford: Waste not, want not.o
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 go into
debts which you cannot meet you steal just
20 much money. If go into grocer's store,
and l buy sugars and coffees and meats, with
lion Of paying for them, 1 am more
the store, and when the grocers
face is turned the other way fill my pockets
with the articles of merchandise and carry
off ham. In the one case take the mer-
chants time, and take the time Of his mes
senger to transfer the goods to my house,
time of the merchant, and l wait upon my
self, and transfer the goods without any
trouble to him. In other words, sneai
thief is not so bad as man who contracts
Tor debts he never expects to pay.
Yet in all our cities there are families thai
move every May day to get into proximity tx
other gocers and meat shops and aPotheca
Of where they now live and next May they
WIN move into distant part Of thu
city, finding a new lot of victims
Meanwhile you, the honest family il
the new house, are bothered day by
day by the knocking at the door o.
disappointed bakers, and butchers, and dry
goods dealers, and newspaper carriers anc
you are asked where your predecessor Is
You do not know. 1t was arranged yor
should not know. Meanwhile your predeces
sor has gone to some distant part Of the city
and the people who have anything to sci
have sent their wagons and stoppet
there to solicit the valuable" custom Of thu
new neighbor, and he, the new neighbor
with great complacency and with an air o.
afiuence, orders the finest steaks and tn
highest priced sugars, and the best OF tn
canned fruits, and perhaps, all the news
papers. And the debts will keep on accumu
lat1ng until he gets his goods on the SOth Of
next April in the furniture cart.
Now, let me say, If there are any such per
sons in the house, il you have any regard fol
your own conveniences, you hsH better re
move to some greatly distant pN-t o. the city
It is too bad that, having had al ...e trouble
Of consuming the goods You should also hav
tne trouble Of being dunned! And let me ST.
that If you find that this pictures your owl
photograph, instead Of being in church yo
ought to be in the penitentiary. No wonde
that so many Of our merchants fail in business
They are swindled into bankruptcy by thes
wandering Arabs, these nomads of city life
They cheat the grocer out OF the green az
pies which make them sick, the physical
who attends their Distress and the under
taker who fits them out for departure fror
the neighborhood where they owe everybod
when they pay the debt of nature, the onl
debt they ever do pay
|, Now our young men are coming I'D in tn
depraved state OF commercial ethics and
am solicitous about them. want to war
khav, hn.v, ia
edges of debt You want many things yo
have not, my young friends. You shall hav
them if you have patience and honesty an
industry. Certain lines of conduct Away
lead out to certain successes
There is law which controls even thos
things that seem haphazard l have bee
told by those who have observed that it
possible to calculate just how many letter
will be sent to the Dead Letter office ever
year through instruction; that it is pos
able to calculate just how many lei
tiers will be detained for lack of posi-
age stamps through the forgetfulness G
the senders, and that it is possible to tell jus
how many people will fall in the streets b
slipping on an orange peel. In other word,
there are no accidents. The most insignif
cant event you ever heard of is the link bt
tween two eternities-the eternity of the pas
and the eternity of the future. Head th
right way, young man, and you will com
out at the right goal.
Bring me a young man and tell me whs
his physical health is, and what his menta
caliber, and what his habits, and will te
you what will be his destiny for this worl,
and his destiny for the world to come, and
will not make five inaccurate prophecies o,
of the five hundred All this makes II
solicitious in regard to young men, and
want to make them nervous in regard to Il
contraction of unpayable debts. gi'
you q paragraph from my own experience.
My first settlement as pastor was in a VI
lage. My salary was $500 and parsonag
The amount seemed enormous to me. / sa
to myself: "What all this for one yearr'
was afraid of getting worldly under SO mu.
prosperity resolved to invite all the CO.
gregation to my house in groups of twent
i've each. We began, and as they were the be
congregation In all the world and v
felt nothing was too good for them, we pile
all the Injuries on the table, | never con
pleted the undertaking. At the end of S
months / was in financial despair. four
what every young man learns in time to say
himself, or too late, that you must measu
the size of mans body before you begin
cut the cloth for his coat.
When Young man willfully and of choic
having the comforts of life, goes into q
contraction of unpayable debts he knows n
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