The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-01
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PREVARicATORS, FALSIFlsRS, AND
PLAIN LIARS.

Shop; from Drawing Room to Kitchen; +;
and Yet Nobody Deceived Tor Any
Length of Time.
NEW YORK, March 22.-''The Plague
ofLies" was selected by DR.. Talmage
for the subject OF the fifth OF his dis
courses on THE Plaques Of These Three
Cities,n which he preached to-day.
Both at the morning service IN Brooklyn
and at the evening service under the
auspices of the Christian Herald in New
York, the vast buildings were not large
enough to hold more than onc-half the
crowd who came to hear the sermon.
His text was Genesis iii, +: ''Ye shall
not surely de-
That was point blank lie. Satan
told it to Eve to induce her to puS her
semi-circle of white, beautiful teeth.
into forbidden sprico5, or plum, or
peach, or apple. He practically sald to
her, .'Oh, Eve! Just take bite OF this
and you will be omnipoteIt and omnls-
cent. You shall be as gods" Just tie
first lie thai was ever told in our world.
It opened the gate. for all the falsehoods
that have ever alighted on this planet.
It introduced a, plague that covers
all nations-that Plague OF Lies. Ear
worse than the plaques OF Egypt, Tor
they wee on the banks of the Nile; but
this is on the banks of the. Hudson, on
the banks of the East river, on the banks
of the Ohio, aud the Mississippi. and the
Thames, and the Rhine, and the Tlber,
and on both sides o. all rivers. The
Egyptian Plaques lasted only lew
weeks, but for six thousand years has
ragged this Plague of Lies.
There are a hundred ways Of telling a
lie. A mans entire life may be a false
hood, while with his lips he may not once
directly falsify. There are those who
5 ATE what is positiYey Untrue. but alter
MA. Is say may be-" softly. These
de,.a. lures from TIE truth are called
white i;es;" but there is,really no such
thing as white lie. The wnitest lie
that was ever told was as black as per-
dition. No inventory Of public crimes
will be sufficient taa; omits this gigantic
abomination. There are men, high IN
church and state, actually useful, self
DENYING and honest in many things.
who, upon cer,ain subjects, and IN
certain spheres, are not at all to be
depended upon for veracitY. Indeed,
there are many men and women who
have their notions of truthtulness so
thoroughly perverted, that they 90
not know WREN they are lying. With
many it is a cultivated SIN; with some 1t
seems natural infirmity. have known
people who seem to hsve been born liars.
The falsehoods of their lives extended
from cardle to grave. PrevarcatioIS,
MISREPRESENTATION, and dishonesty OF
speech appeared in their fir, = utterances,
and were as natural to them as any OF
their infanti,e dis eases and were a sort
of moral coup or spiritual scarlatlna,
But many have been placed IN clrcuu-
stances were this tendency has day oy
day, and hour by hour, been called to
larger development. They have gone
from ettainI ent to attainment. and from
class to class, until they have. become
regularly graduated liars.
The air of he city is flied with false
hoods. They hang pendant from the
chandeliers Of our finest residences; they
crowd the silell es OF some OF our mer-
cEant princes. they fllthe sidewalk from
curbstone' to bro yn-stone facing. They
cluster around the mechanics hamLle:,
and blossom from the end OF the Iler-
chants yard-stick, and sit in the doors
of churches. Some call them ''hctlon."
Some style them Fabrication" You
might say that they were subtertuge,
disguise. delusion, romance, evasion,
pretense, fab,e, deception, misrepresen-
tation, but, as am ignorant OF anything
to be gained by the bidine ii a God
desSing outrage under a photographers
blanket, Z shall chiefly call them what
nv father taught me to call them-lie,. ;.
T shall divide them into agricultural
mercantile, mechanical, ecclesiastical
and social lies.
First, then, I will speak Of those that
are more particularly agricultural;
There is something in the perpetual
presence OF natural objects to make a
man pure. The trees never issue
,sfalse stock" Wheat fields are always
honest. Rye and oats never move ous
in the night, not pazing for the place
they have occupied Corn shocks
never make night, not paying or the pace
they have occupied. Corn shocks nevei
make false assignments. Mountain
brooks are always s'carrent." The Sold
on the grain is ne er counterfeit. The
sunrise never far, S in false colo:s.
The dew sports only genuine dlanords.
Taking farmers as class, believe the,
are truthful and fair in dealing, and
kind-hearted. But the regions sur
rounding our cities do not always send
this sort of men to our markets. Day
by day there crexk through our streets,
and about the marlet, houses, farm
9ago.s that have not an honest spoke
in their wheels or truthful rivet from
tongue to tail-beard. Daring the last
few years there have been times when
domes.ic econJ",y has found red on the
farmers frk n. Neither high taxes nor
the high price Of dry-goeds nor the
eSorbltancy OF Labor, couiS excuse much
thai The city has witnes Led IN the be
havlor Of the yeomanry. BY the quiet
fresides in Westchester and Orange
counties, hope there may be seasons OF
deep reflection and hearty rel enhance.
Rural disirl:ts are accustomed to rail at
great cities as given rp TO fraud and
eye.y form of unriohteousness but our
cities do not absorb all the abomina ions.
Our citizens have ;ear1ed the i'm por;ance
of not always trusting to the sire and
stvle of apples on the top of a farmers
barrels as an indication OF what may
lie found farther down. Many Of our
people are accustomed to watch and
see sow correctly a bushel OF beets
is measured; and there are not manv
honest milk-caus.
Deceptions Go not all cluster round
city halls. When our cities sit down