Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-09-21
STREETS OF THE CITY.
HOW THEY IMPRESS THE REV. DIR.
TALMAGE.
They are Scenes OF Great Activity and
the Gathering Places OF Ill Glasses
and Conditions-It 10 Dificult to
Keep the Heart Right and
to Get 70 Heaven.

to Get TO Heaven.
BKoOELyS, n. u, Sept. Ij.-Thc Rev.
7. DE Witt Talmage, ID. D., preached Mt
the Tabernacle to-day to vast congrcga.
tion on THE City Streets" Ills text was:
"Wis,lom crieth without; she utteretl, her
voice IN the Streets" Proverbs l.. 90. lie
said:
We are oil ready To listen TO the VOICE
OF naturc--the voices Of the mountain, the
voices Of the sea, the voices Of the storm,
the voices Of the star. As IN some of the
caihcdrals in Europe there Is an organ al
either end of the building. and the one
instrument responds musically To the 9th.
or, so in the great cathedral of nature day
responds TO dav, aud night to night. and
Hover 10 flower. aud star to star, In the
great harmonics of the universe. The
springtime IL an evangelist IN blossoms
preaching Of Gods love Z; and the winter
Is prophet white bcar,led-dcn0uncing
woe against our sins. We are all ready
To listen TO the voices 0f nature; hut how
few Of us learn anything from the voices
"f the noisy and dusty street. You 20 to
your merchandise. and your mechanism.
aud 10 your work, and you come back
again--and often with an Indifferent
heart you pass through the streets Are
there M things for US TO learn fr0m these
pnycmcn,s over which we pass: Are
there no tufts of truth growing up be.
tween the c0bblcstones, beaten with the
feet ftoil, and pain. aud pleasure. the
slow tread Of old age. and the quick step
of chil,lhootl Aye. there are g,cat liar.
vests 10 he rcapcd: anI now | thrust In
the sickle because the harvest is ripe
Wisdom cricih without she niicrcih her
voice in the streets"
4 SCENE or Toll. AND sTHit.GI
In the first Nlacc. the street imprcsscs
me with the fn& that this life is u scene
OF toll and struggle Hy 10 o'clock every
day the city is iarring with wheels, and
shuilling with feet. and humming with
voices. and covered with the breath of
sm1kcs,acks. and a.rush with traiiickcrs.
Once in II while you find man going
with folded arms and with lcisurcly step,
rs though he had nothing To do; hut for
the most part, as you find men going
down these streets. ON The way To busi
ness, there is anxiety in their faces. as
though they had some crrand which must
he executed Mt the first possible moment.
You are ostled By those who have bar.
gains 10 make and notes to sell Up this
ladder with hod Of bricks. out Of this
bank with roll Of bills. on this dray with
load Of goods, digging cellar or shlng-
ling roof. or shoeing horse, or build.
ing u wall. or mcIding u watch. or bind
ing book. Industry, with her thousand
arms, and thousand eyes. and thousand
feet, goes ON singing her song of work
work work while the mills drum il, and
the steam whistles fife IT, All this is not
because men love toll. Some one remark.
ed: Every man is as lazy as he c"'
to be-" But II is because
stern brow and with uplf
over them ready whenever they rci....
toll to make their shoulders sting with the
lash. Can II be that, passing up and down
these streets on your way 90 work and
business. you do not learn anything Of
the worlds toll. and anxiety, and sirug.
gle: Oh how many drooping hearts, how
many eyes on the watch. how many miles
Travelled, how many burdens carried. how
many losses suffered, how many battles
fought, how many victories gained. how
many defeats suffered. how many cxas.
peratiOns endured what losses, what
hunger. what wrctchc,lncss. what pallor.
what disease, what agony, what despair
Sometimes have stopped at the corner
of the street as the multitude went hithcr
and you, and II has seemed To he great
pant omine, and as ! looked upon II my
heart hrokc. This great tide Of human
life thai goes down the street is rapid.
! tossed and turned aside. aud dashed ahead
and driven hack beautiful IN lis coniu.
sion AMI confused IN It's beauty. IN the
tarpctcl aislcs of the forest. in the wonds
from which the eternal shadow j. never
lifted. ON the shore of the SEA over whose
iron coast losses the tangled foam. sprink.
ling the cracked cliiis with baptism oi
whirlwin,l aud tempest, is the best place
10 study God hut in the rushing. swarm.
ins, mying street Is the hest place ,o study
man. ';oing down 10 Your place of husi.
ness and coming home again. charge
yon look about--scc these signs of pnycr-
~. or wrciche,lncss, uf hunger, of sin. of
bereavement and rs you 90 through 'he
streets and come back through the streets.
gather NJ in the arms Of your prayer all
the s0rrnw. NIL the losses. all tine suffering.
all the bercay emenis nf those whom YOU
pass, and present them IN prayer before
an ail.sympaiheiic God. Then in the
great day Of eternity there will hc thou.
sands Of persons with whom you in this
world never exchanged one word, who
will rise up and call you blessed and
there will hc u thousand fingers pointed
nj you in heaven saying; "'rha, is the
man, that Is the woman. who helped me
when was hungry, aud sick. and wand.
ering. and lost. and heart broken. That j.
the man. that Is the woman" aud the
blessing will come down upon you as
Christ shall say II WAS hungry aud We
fed me, was naked and yc clothed me,
wa> sick aud in prison AMI ye visited me
inasmuch as ye did I, TO these poor waits
or the streets, ye did II To me"
All. ci.AssEs coMMISGLE THERE.
Again, the street imPresses me with the
fact that all classes and conditions of so.
cieiy must comminglc. We sometimes
culture a wicked cxclusivcncss. Intellect
despises ignorance. Refinemen, has moth