The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-11

ST. LOUIS, April 7.-The Rev T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached here this evening to vast
audience. His subject was THE
Slaughter" and his text, Proverbs,
vii, 81: ''As an OK to the slaughter"
The eloquent preacher said:
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 pas
ture field Of clover, where all day
long he will revel in the herbaceous
luXuriance; 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 a
doorway, where he is fastened, and
with well aimed stroke the ak fells
him; and SO the anticipation OF the
redolent pasture field is completely
disappointed. So many a young man
has been driven on by temptation to
what he thought would be paradisiacal
enjoyment; but after while iniiu-
cnces with darker hue and swarthier
arm close in upon him, and he finds
that instead of making an excursion
into n garden he has been driven ''as
an OK TO the slaughter"
/. We are apt to blame young men
for being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy
ahem. Society slaughters a 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 aud brandy
US many friends you must smoke rs
costly cigars, you must give as oXpen-
sive entertainments. and you must
live in as fashionable boarding
house. II you haven't the money,
borrow. If you can't borrow make "a
false entry, or subtract here Gud there
"a bill from q bundle Of bank bills; you
will only have to make the deception
little while; in few months, or in
year or two, you can make all right.
Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody
will be the wiser. You yourself viii
not be damaged BY that awful pro-
cess hundred thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaugh-
tered for eternity.
THE MIsERIES OF GETTING IN DEBT.
Suppose you borrow There is moth
y.
There is hardly man in the house but
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast
estates have been built on a borrowed
dollar. But there are two kinds of
borrowed money. Money borrowed
for the purpose of starting or keeping
up legitimate enterprise and expense,
and money borrowed to get that
which you can do without The first
rs right, the other is wrong. If you
have money enough of your own to
bay a coat, however plain, and then
you borrow money for a dandy's out
fit, you have taken the first revolu-
ton of the wheel down grade. Bor
row for the necessities; that may be
well, Borrow for the luxuries; that
tips your prospects over in the wrong
direction.
The Bible distinctly says the bor-
rover is servant of tho lender. 1t is a
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-
ism of being in debt moro of them
would keep out of it. What did debt
,lo for Lord Bacon, with mind tow
sning above the centuries2 1t induced
ltgN TO take bribes and convict himself
rs "A criminal before all ages. What
did debt do for Walter Scotia Broken
hearted at Abbotsford. Kept him writ
ing until his hand gave out III paraly-
sis to keep the sheriff away from his
pictures and statuary. Better for him
IF he had minded the maxim which he
Mad chiselcd over the fireplace at Alb
boiSford, Waste not, want not.
The trouble is, my friends, the peo-
pie do not understand the ethics of
going in debt, and that if you pur-
chase goods with no expectation of
paying for them, or go into debts
which you cannot meet, you steal just
$50 much money. If / go into n grocers
yltore, and | buy sugars and coffees and
ntcats, with no capacity to pay for
them and no intention of paying for
them, ! ana moro dishonest than if /
20 into tise store, and when the grocer's
face is turned the other way fill my
pockets with the articles of merchan-
disc and carry off ham. In the one
ease | take the merchants time, and /
take tho time of his messenger to
transfer tho goods to my house, while
in the other case / tako none of 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 q
man who contracts for debts he never
expects TO pay.
Yet in all our cities there are fam
6lies that move every May day to get
into proximity to other grocers and
meat shops and apothecaries. They
cove everybody within half mile OF
where they now live, and next May
thew will move into distant part OF
the city, finding n new lot of victims.
Meanwhile you, the honest family in
the new house, are bothered day by
day by the knocking at the door oi
d .5appointed bakers, and butchers, and
dry goods dealers, and newspaper car
ricrs, and you arc asked where youl
predecessor is. You do not know. i
was arranged you should not know
Meanwhile your predecessor has gone
10 some distant part of the city, and
the people who have anything TO sell
have sent their wagons and stopped
there 10 solicit the valuable" custon
of the new ncighbor, and he the new
neighbor, with great complacency
and with an air of aiiluepce, orders th1
finest steaks and the highest pricet
sugars, and tho best of the canned
fruits. and, perhaps, all tho newspa
pers. And Che debts viii keep on ac
cumulating until he gets his goods oil
the 30th of next April in the furnitur
cart.
Now, let me say, if there ara ON!
such persons in the house, il yo'
have amy regard for your owl
convenience. you had better re
move TO some greaily distant part O
ahe city II is too bad ;bai, having
had all the trouble of CONSUMING
tbe goods. YOU should also have ia
trouble of being dunnedl And let m
say that il gov Gnd that tins picture
your own photograph, instead OF benz
In church you ought &c 30 IN the pen
itentiaryl No wonder shat 20 man
of our merchants fail IN business
They ace swindled into bankrupto
by these wandering Arabs, these nd
MAIDS of city life. They cheat TN
grocer out Of the green apples whic
make them sick, the physician VIII
attends their distress, and tho under
taller who fits them out for deparigr
from the neighborhood where the
owe everybody when they pay tn
debt of nature, the only debt the
eyer do pay
NEITHER a BORROWER NOR 4 LIE,
DER BE
Now our young men are coming II
in this depraved stale of commerce.
ethics. and ] ana soliejtous abot
1hem ] want 10 warn them Ggain'
being slaughtered on the sharp edge