The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-06
CURSE OF GAMBLING.
Dr. Talmage Begins q Series of Ser.
mons on Great Evils.
Gambling In Every Form Denounced as 9
Curse to the People Result
sure to Be Moral. Mental and
Financial Ruin.


commenced a series of at
Brooklyn and New York City on 1.-The
Ten Plaques of these Three Cities
His text was taken from Exodus, IN. IL.
"a: Let my people go that they NAV
serve me: for | will at this time send
all my plaques" He said:
Last winter in the museum at Cairo.
Egypt ] saw the mummy or embalmed
body OF Pharaoh, the oppressor Of the
ancient Israelitcs. Visible are the very
teeth that he gnashed against the
IsraeIitish brickmakers, the sockets of
the mcrcileSs eyes with which he looked
upon the overburdened people Of God,
the hair that floated in the breeze of
the Red sea, the very lips with which
he commanded them to make brick
without straw. II was to compel this
tyrant 70 let The oppressed 20 free that
the memorable ten plaques were sent.
Sailing the Nile and walking amid the
ruins Of Egyptian cities. ] saw no re-
mains of those plagues that smote the
water or the air. Eut there are ten
plaques still singing and befouling and
cursing our cities and like angels of
wrath shifting not only the frs, born
but the last born.
Brooklyn, New York and Jersey CITY,
though called three. are practically one.
The average condition Of public morals
In TINS cluster OF cities is a. good, If
not better, than in any other part Of
the world. Pride Of city is natural 10
men In all times, If they live or have
lived in a metropolis noted for dignity
or prowcss. Caesar boosted OF his ma
tive Rome; ~Lyeurgus Of Sparta; Virgil
Of Andes; Demosthones 81 Athens;
Archimides of Syracuse: and Paul of
Iarsus- ] should suspect "a man of
observation-disclosures y no carried about with
him no feeling of coInplaccncy in re-
gard 10 the place Of his residence.
] have noticed that men never like a
place where they have not behaved
well Men who have free rides in
prison vans never like the city that fur
ishcs the vehicle. When ] see in his
-"ry Argos, Rhodes, Smyrna. Chios,
Colophon and ~scvcral other cities claim
ing Homer. ] conclude that Homer be
haved well Let us not wal against
tins pride Of city, nor expect u build
up ourselves 10y pulling others down.
Let Boston have its commons, it's Fan
euil hall and its magnificent scientific
and educational institutions Let Phil
adelphia talk about its mint and indie
~pcndcnce hall. and Girard college and
its old families, as virtuous as venera-
bile. When 1 find n man living in one
II those places who has nothing 10 say
in favor OF them / feel like asking him,
What mean thing did You do that you
do not like your native city," New
York Is a goodly city, and when ! say
that ! mean the region between Spuy-
ten Duyvil creek and Jamaica creek
In one direction and Newark flats in
the other direction. That which tends
Ia elevate a part elcvatcs all. That
which blasts part blasts all. Sin is a
giant. and he comes Ia the Hudson or
the Connecticut river aud possesses it as
easily a. We step across "A figure in the
carpet The blessing Of God is an angel,
and .Iyhcn IL stretches ont its two wings
one of them hoycrs over that and the
other over this.
In infancy the great metropolis was
laid down 10y the banks Of the Hudson.
It, infancy was As feeble AS that of
Moses, sleeping in the bullrushcs by the
Nile; and. like Miriam, there our fathers
stood and watched IL The royal spirit
Of American came down To
the water Ia battle. and there she found
IL She took IL in her arms, and the
child grew and waNcd strong; and the
ships Of foreign lands brought gold and
spices Ia its feet: and stretching itself
mp into the proportions Of a metropolis
Il has looked mp Ia the mountains and
off upon the seattle mightiest of the
energies of American civilization. The
character of the founder of "A city VIII
lee seen for many years in its nhabit
ants Romulus impressed his life upou
Rome. The Pilgrims relaxed not their
hold upon the cities of New England.
William Penn has left Philadelphia an
inheritance II integrity and fair deal
ing. and ON any day in hat city you
NAV see in the manners customs and
principles Of its people, his tastes. his
coat his hat. his wifc's bonnet and his
plain meeting house. The ~liollandcrs
ktill WELD an influence over New York.
Grand old New York. VIVA; southern
~thoroughfarc was ever Smittcn by pes
thence. when our physicians did not
throw themselves upon the sacrifice?
What distant land has cried out in the
agony of famine, and our ships have not
put ont with brcadstufs? What street
of Damascus. or Iey ruut ar Madras that
has no; heard the step of our mission
aries" What struggle for national life.
I'm which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenches? What
gallery of exquisite art IN which our
painters have not hung their pictures?
What department of literature or science
Ia which our scholars have not CON
tributed9
need not speak Of the institutions
for the blind. the lame. the deaf and the
dumb. for the incurable>. the widow,
the orphan and the outcaSt; or Of the
Thousand armed machinery that sends
streaming down from the reservoirs the
clear. the bright the sparkling. God
given water that rushes through our
aqueducts and dasheS M Of the
hydrants. All this l premise in open
ing this course ~ ON the ten
plaques Of these three cities lest some
stupid man might say ] am deprecsting
the place Of my residence. speak II
YOU to-day concerning the plague Of
gambling. Every man and : in
this house ought 20 Dc interested in this
theme.
Some "A ago, when an association
for the suppression of gambling was or
ganiscd. an agent of the association came
a. a prominent citizen and asked him Ia
p~atronize Is, >,ciety. He saiG;"No lean
have no interest in such an organiZa-
ton. am in no wise affected, by tina,
evil" At that very time his son. who
was his partner in business, was one Of
the heaviest players in Hearne's famous
gaming establishment Another ne
fused his patronage on the same
ground. not knowing that his frs; book
keeper. though receiving n salary Of
only S.. 600, Vas losing from $50 a. 500
per night The presiden; 90 = railroad
company refused 10 p~atronize the inst-
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