The Penn's Grove record., 1889-04-27
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Slaughter.


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manner OF the butcher to indicate [,
the OK that there is death ahead. TIL,
OK thinks he is going on 10 a rich past
ure-field of clover where all day lon.
he will revel in the herbaceous luxuri
ance; but after a while the men an(
the boys close in upon him with stick.
and stones and shouting. and drive hin
through bars and into a doorway, whert
he Is fastened. and with a well-aimeC
stroke the K fells him; and so the
anticipation of the redolent pasture.
field is completely disappointed. 81
many a young man has been driven OF
by temptation TO what lie thought
would be temptation to what hi
thought would be paradisiacal enjoy.
ment; but after a while, influence.
with darker hue and swarthier arm
close in upon him, and he finds thai
instead of making an excursion into q
garden, he has gone 'as an OK to the
slaughter"
SLAUGHTERED BY SOCIETY.
/. We are apt to blame young mel
for being destroyed, when we ought tc
blame the influence that destroyed
them. Society slaughters a great macy
men by the behest. "You must keel
up appearances; whatever be your sal
AIRY, you must dress as we'll as others;
you must wine and brandy as many
friends, you must smoke as costly CT
eaIs, you must give as expensive en-
tertainments. and you must live In as
fashionable q clearinghouse. If you
haven't the money, borrow. Ii you
can't borrow, make a false entry, or
subtract here and there a bill from a
bundle of bank bills; you will only
nave to make the deception a little
while; in a few months, OF in IA year or
:wO. you can make all right. Nobody
will be hurt by it; nobody will he the
wiser. You yourself will not be dam
aged" BY that awful process a hun
bred thousand men have been slaugll-
tered for time and slaughtered for
eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is
nothing wrong about borrowing money.
There Is hardly a man In the house but
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast
estates have been built on u borrowed
dollar. But there are two kinds OF
BORROWED MONEY.
Money borrowed for the purpose of
starting or keeping up legitimate enter
prise and expense, and money borrowed
to get that which you do without.
Tie first Is right, the other is wrong.
Ii you have money enough of your own
to buy a coat, however plan, and then
you borrow money for a dandy's outfit,
you have taken the first revolution or
the wheel down grade. Borrow for
the necess ties: that may be well.
Borrow for the Injuries; that tips
your prospects over in the wrong di
IectiOn.
The Bible distinctly says the bor-
ROVER is servant of the lender. 1t is IA
bad state of things when you have TO
20 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 more of them
would keep out of it. What did deb.
do for Lord Bacon, with IA mind tower
ing above the centuries? 1t induced
him to take brides, and convict him.
self as a criminal before all ages. What
did debt do for Walter Scott? Broken.
hearted at Abbottsford. 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 chiseleG owe the IRE
place at Abbottsford, Waste not,
want not"
The trouble is, my friends, the people
DO not understand the ethics Of going
ia debt, and that If you purchase goods
with no expectation of paying for them.
r going into debts which you cannot
meet, you steal just 81 much money.
Ii l 20 into a grocer's store, and l buy
sugars and c0ffees and meats, with no
capacity to pay for them, and no inten-
ton Of paying for them, l am more
dishonest than If l go into the store,
and when the grOcer's face is turned
the other way | fill my pockets with
the articles of merchandise and carry
of q ham. In the n case I take the
time, and | take the time Of
his messenger to transfer the goods to
my house, while in the other case |
lake none of the time OF the merchant,
and l wait upon myself, and | transfer
the goods without any trouble to him.
In other words, Il sneak thief is not 81
bad as II man who contracts for debts
lie never intends to pay.
PERIPATETIC DEBTORS.
Yet in all our cities there are fami-
lies that move every May-day to get
INTO proximity to other groeers, and
meat shops, and apothecariss. They
" everybody within a half mile OF
where they now live, and next May,
they will move into a distanG part VI
the city, finding a 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 disap-
pointed bakers, and butchers, and dry
goods dealers, and newspaper carriers,
and you are asked where your prede-
is. You do not know 1t was
arranged you should not know. Mean
while your predecessor has gone to
some distant part OF the city, and the
people who have anything to sell have
sent their wagons and stopped there to
solicit the "yaluable" custom of the
new neighbor, and he, the new neigh
Dor, with great complacency and with
air OF afiuence orders the finest
and the highest priced sugars.
and the best of the canned fruits. and.
perhaps. all the newspapers. And the
debts will keep on accommodating until
he gets his goods on the Both of next
April In the furniture cart.
Now. let me say, II there are any
such persons IN the house, If you have
any regard for your own convenience.
you had better remove to some greatly
distant part of the city. 1t is too bad
that, having had all the trouble OF
consuming the goods, yOn should also
have the trouble of being dunnedl Aud
lot me say that If you find that this
pictures your own photograph. instead
Of being in church
YOU OUGHT TO BE IN THE PESlTES-
TIARYl
No wonder that SO many of u mer-
chants fail In business. They are
,windled Into bankruptcy by these
wandering Arabs. these nomads OF
,ity life. They cheat the grocer out
Of the green apples which make them
,ick, the physician who attends their
distress, and the undertaken who fits
ham ont for denartura from the neigh