Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-27
!, lJ.N.AGE's SERMON.
,cr rs THE STREETS OF
TIE CITY.
,,c Eminent Brooklyn Divine
,;ressons Which He Expounds
,,a Attentive Congregation in
,,,,yu tabernacle.

Lessons Which He Expounds
sod Attentive Congregation in
,u,,,,..,n tabernacle
~. r De Witt Talmage, D. d.,
NJ st the Tabernacle i'll Brooklyn
h' {'.,. Sept. Is, to a vast congre ga
j a,"rhe City Streets" His text
p ~ ]oia erieth without: she utter
,;.a in the streets.-Prov. i, 90.
l nro IL ready to listen to the voices
,a.-rs--yoices of the mountain, the
l"' a. the sea, the voices of the
.ba voices of the star. AS in
,f,ne cathedrals in Europe there
o =. at either end of the build
Zone instrument responds mu-
!. nv 10 the other, SO in the great ca
Of nature day responds to day,
iglt to night, and flower to flower,
-. 4 10 star, in the great harmonies
inverse. The spring time is an
oIist in blossoms preaching of
love: and the winter is prophet
bearded - denouncing woe
st o,r sins. We are all ready to
70 the voices of nature; but how
FMS learn anything from the voices
noisy and dusty streets. You 60
~ merchandise, and your mechan-
md to your work. and you come
oaaiu-and often with an indiffer-
ea,t YOU pass through the streets,
,tre no things for US to learn from
nayenents over which we pass?
,ere 70 tufts of truth growing up
ep these cobblestones, beaten with
,,t of toll. and pain, and pleasure,
ow tread of old age, and the quick
If childhood? Aye, there are great
Dis TO be reaped; and now I trust
sickle because the harvest isripe.
6om crieth without; she uttereth
ojce in the streets"
he rirst place the street impresses
Etb the fact that this life is scene
and struggle. By 10 o'clock every
,e city is Earring with wheels, and
ING with feet, and humming with
$, and covered with the breath Of
estacks. and a-rush with trafickers.
in while You find man going
with folded arms and with leis-
step. as though he had nothing to
ut for the most part, as you find
roine down these streets, on the
o business, there is anxiety in their
as though they had some GRAND
must be executed at the first pos
moment. You are jostled by those
have bargains to make and notes to
Up this ladder with hod of
5, out of this bank with a roll of
on this dray with load of goods,
Ing a cellar, or shingling roof, or
ng horse, or building a wall, or
ing watch, or binding o book.
Btry with her thousand arms, and
and eyes, and thousand feet, goes
pging her song of work! work!
while the mills drum it, and the
whistles fife it. All this is not be-
men love toll. Some one remarked:
y man is as lazy as he can afford to
But it is because necessity, with
brow and with uplifted whip,
over them ready whenever they
their toll to make their shoulders
with the lash. Can it be that, pass
p and down these streets on your
% work and business, you do not
anything of the worlds toll, and
ty, and struggle? Oh! how many
Ping hearts, how many eyes on the
how many miles travelled, how
burdens carried, how many losses
led, how many battles fought. how
victories gained, how many de-
suffered, how many exasperations
tel-what losses, what hunger,
wretch edness. what pallor, what
BE, what agony, what despair!
times have stopped Mt the corner
lie street as the multitude went
|r and yon, and it has seemed to be
bit pantolnine, and as 1 looked upon
heart broke. This great tide of
(n life that goes down the street is
id, tossed and turned aside, and
ed ahead and driven back-beauti-
its confusion and confused in its
y. In the carpeted aisles of the
i, in the woods from which the
bal shadow is never lifted, on the
: of the sea over whose iron coast
Is the tangled foam, sprinkling the
ked cliffs with q baptism of whirl-
and tempest, is the best place to
! God; but in the rushing, swarm
raving street is the best place to
man. Going down to your place
Rsiness and coming home again,
b. YOU look about-see these signs
pyerty, OF wretchedness, of hunger,
IN, of bereavement-and rs you GO
hsh the streets, and come back
hsh the streets, gather up in the
Of Your PRAYER all the sorrows, all
losses. all the suffering, all the be.
eMents Of those whomyou pass, and
lent them in prayer before an al.
pathetic God. Then in the great
OF eternity there will be thousands
ersons with whom you in this world
Fr exchanged one word who will rise
md call you blessed; and there viii
thousand fingers pointed at you IL
Ven. saying: THAT is the man, tina
be woman, who helped me when
hungry. and sick, and wandering
lost. and heart broken. That is thu
that is the woman" and the bless.
Will come down upon you as Chris,
say: Il was hungry and We fec
was naked and we clothed me,
saSA and in prison and ye visited
nasmuch as We did it to these poo
Is of the streets, ye did it to me-"
gam, the street impresses me will
TACT that all classes end condition.
0clety must commingle. We some
les culture a wicked exclusiveness
Effect despies ignorance. Refine
y will have nothing to do will
(lIshness. Gloves hate the sun
n nee; hand, and the high forehea'
plses the fiat head; and the trim
gerow will have nothing to do witt
Wild copsewood, and Athens hate
afeth. This ought not to be SO. IN
onomer must come down from hi
" revelry and help US in our navi
~ 101 =: The surgeon must come ava
u MS study of the human Organism
Set our broken bones. The chemls
~ come away from his laboratory