Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-14
THE %LAUGHTE
DIR TAlMAee's DISCOURSE IN ST.
LOUIS.

Loss That Cannot BE Replaced-rhe
Equipment Of a Man-Dangers to Young
Men In Great Cities.
ST. LOUIS, April 1.-THE Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., OF Brooklyn,
preached here this evening to a 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 a 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 a well aimed stroke the AK fells
him; and 10 the anticipation Of the
redolent pasture field is completely
disappointed. So many a young man
has been driven on by temptation TO
hat he thought would be paradisiacal
enjoyment; but after a while intlu-
euceS with darker hue and swarthier
arm close in upon him, and he finds
that instead of making an excursion
into a garden he has been driven las
Al Ok to the slaughter"
|. We are apt TO blame young men
for being destroyed when we ought 10
blame the influences that destroy
them. Society slaughters a great
many young men by the bchest "You
aust keep up appearances; whatever
oe your salary, you must dress as well
as others, you must wine and brandy
as many friends, you must smoke as
costly cigars, you must give as expen-
Siv entertainments, and you must
live in as fashionable a boarding
house. Ii you haven't the money,
borrow. II you can't borrow make a
false entry, or subtract here and there
a bill from sbundle CT bank bills; you
will only have TO m Ike the deception
a little while; in a Few months, or in
a hNai VI wv, lOu 'tsu lldhc All IlElll.
Nobody will be hart by it; nobody
will be the wiser. You yourself will
not be damaged" By that awful pro-
cess a hundred thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaugh-
tered for eternity.
THE MsERIES OF GETTING II DEBT.
Suppose you borrow. There isnOth-
ing wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly a 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,
ana money borrowed 10 get that
which you can do without. The first
is right, the other is wrong. If you
have money enough of your own to
buy a coat, however plain, and then
you borrow money for a dandy's ont
III. 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 tie wrong
direction.
The Bible distinctly says the Dor
rover is servant of the lender. 1t is a
had state OF things when you have TO
20 down some other street 10 escape
meeting some one whom you owe. If
young men knew what Is the dcspot-
ism of being in debt more of them
would keep out Of il. What did debt
,o for Lord Bacon, with a mind tow
erIng above the centuriesl Ii induced
lIim TO take brides and convict himself
ss a criminal before all ages. What
did debt do for Walter Scotti Broken
hearted at Abbotsford. Kept him writ
ing until his hand gave out in paraly-
lis 10 keep the sheriff away from his
pictures and statuary. Better for him
il he had minded the maxim which he
Ind chiseled 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
winch you cannot meet. you steal Just
- much money. Ii | go into grocer's
store, and | buy sugars and colfeeS and
meats, with no capacity TO pay for
them and no intention of paying for
them, | am more dishonest than if |
20 intothes store, and when the rroccr's
flce is turned the other way | fill my
pockets with the articles Of merchan-
disc and carry off a ham. In the one
case | take the merchants time. and !
take the time Of his messenger TO
transfer the goods 10 my house. while
IN the other ase / take mono Of the
time Of the merchant, and | wait upon
rlyself, and | transfer the goods with
out any trouble 20 him. In other
words. a sneak thief is not 50 bad as a
MA who contracts for debts lac never
expects 10 pay.
Yet mall our cities there are fam.
lies hat move every May day 10 get
into proximity 10 other grocers and
meat shops and apothecauus. They
oye everybody within half a mile Of
where they now live. and next May
they viii move into a distant part Of
tie city, finding a new lot Of victims.
Meanwhile you, the honest family in
the new house, are bothered day by
day by the knocking Mt the door Of
disappointed bakers, and butchers, and
dry goods dealers, and newspaper car
ricrs, and you ~e asked where your
predecessor is. You do not know. IL
was arranged you should not know.
Meanwhile your predecessor has gone
~ sofae diataot mast IF tho oity and