The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-03-31
AS OTHERS SEE us.
FaEvARlcAToRs, FALelFIERs, AND
PLAIN LIARS.

iy-Lyins from Counting Room 70
shop, from Drawiag Room 70 kitchen,
and yet Nobody Deceived Tor Any
Length Of Time.
NEW YoRR. March 2 .-"The Plague
ofLicsu was seiected by DIR. Talmagc
for the subject of the fifth Of his dis
courses on 1.-THE Plaques of These Three
Cities,o which he preached to-day.
Both az tue nornlng service in Brooklyn
and at the evening service under the
enspices Of the Christian Herald In New
York, the vast buildings were not large
enough TO hold nor than one-half the
crowd who came to hear the sermon.
His text was Genesis iii, a; I've shall
not surely die.n
That was a point blank lie. Satan
tod 1t 30 Eve to induce'ber to put her
semt-circle of white, beautiful teeth.
mo q forbidden apricos, or plum, or
peach, or apple. He practically SAID to
her, .sOh, Eve! just fake a bite of this
ard you viii be omnipotent and omnis-
cent. Yous shall be as gods" Just the
first lie that 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. Far
worse than the Plaques of Egypt, for
they were on the banks Of the Nile; but
this is on the banks of the Hudson, on
the banks ofthe Eastriver, or tho banks
of the. Ohio, and theeMississippi, and the
Thames, and the Rhine, and the Tiber,
and on both sides of all rivers. The
Egyptian Plaques lasted only a few
weeks, but for six thousand years has
ragged this Plague of Lies.
There are aShundred ways of telling a
lie. A mans entire hiesmay be a false
hood, while with his lips he nay not once
directly falsify. There are those who
state what is positively Untrue. but alter
wards say may be-" softly. These
departures from the truth are called
white lies;o but there is really no such
thing as q white lie. The whitest lie
that vas eyer tod was as black as per-
dillon. No inventory of public crimes
will be sufficient tina; omits this gigantic
a~bomination. There are men, high in
church and state, actually useful, self
denying and honest in many things.
who, upon certain subjects, and in
certain spheres, arc not at all to be
depended upon for yeracity. Indeed,
there are many men and ONE who
have their notions of truthfulness so
thoroughly perverted, that they do
, moi. know when they arc lying. With
many tits a cultivated sin; with some it
seems anatural infirmity. have known
people who seem to have been born liars.
Tie falsehoods of their lives extended
hom cardle TO grave. Prevarications,
Misrepresentation, and dishonesty of
peech appearedsin their first utterances,
and were as natural to them as any OF
their infartile dis cases and were q sort
OF moral Group or spiritual scarlatipa,
But many have been placed in circum-
sSances were this tendency has day by
day, and hour by hour, been called to
larger development. They have gone
from attainment to attainment, and from
class to 6fasssuniiI they have bee one
regularly graduated liars.
The air of he city is filed with false-
hoods. They hang pendant from the
chandeliers ofour finest residences; they
crowd the shelves of some of our mer-
chant princes! they fill the sidewalk from
curbstone to brown-stone facing. They
cluster around the mechanics hammer,
and blossom from the end OF the mer-
chants yard-stick, and sit in the doors
of churches. Some call them ''iction.U
Some style them ''f%abrication." You
might say that they were subterfuge,
disguise. d%elusion. romance, evasion,
pretense, fable, deception, raisrepresen-
tatlon, but, as / am ignoiant ofanything
to be gained by the biding vfa God
defying outrage under o photographers
blanket, I shall chiefly call them what
my father taught me to call them-lies.
shall divide them into agricultural,
MORGAN. ile, mechanical, ecclesiastical
and social lies.
First, then, I will speak Of those that
Mee,more particularly agricultural.
The4s&2sasomething in the perpetual
presence of nat6faf sects to make a
man pure. The trees a~xer~issue
.tfalse stock" Wheat fields are always
honest. Rye and oats never move out
in the night, not paying for the place
they have occupied Corn shocks
never make night, notpaying orthe place
they have occupied. Corn shocks never
make false assignments. Mountain
brooks are always t'current." The gold
on the grain is neye r counterfeit. The
sunrise never flaunts in false colors.
The dew sports only genuine diamonds.
Taking farmers as a class, i believe they
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 creak through our streets,
and about the market, houses, farm
wagons that have not an honest spoke
In their wheels or truthful rivet from
tongue to tail-board. During the last
few years thera have been times when
domestic ccon1n,y has found red on the
farmers firk IN. Neither high taxes nor
the high price Of dry.goods nor the
ezoFhitancy oflabor, could excuse much
that the city has witnes led In the be
hayior OF the yeomanry. by the quiet
firesides in Wcstchester and Orange
counties, Ihope there may be seasons of
deep reflection and hearty repentance.
Rural distrl :ts are accustomed to rail at
great cities as given up to fraud and
every form of un~rlghteousness; but our
cities do notabsorb all the aboL.linations.
Our citizens have earned the importance
of not always trusting to the size and
STYLE of apples on the top of q farmers
barrels as an indication of what may
be found farther down. Many of our
people ara accustomed to watch and
see how correctly a bushel OF bcets
is measured; and there are not many
honest milk-caus.
Deceptions do not all cluster round
city halls. When our cities sit down
Ind weep over their sins, all the sur
rounding country ought to come in and
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