The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-23
SATAN FATHER OF LIARS.
THE FIRST FAL EaooD EVER Ut
TERED TOLD TO EVE.

Over the Whole World-Ialnaze
Tells All About 1t.
NEW YORK. March 22.-"The Pin2ue O.
Lies" was selected by DR.. Talmage for th.
subject Of the fifth OF his discourses on 9Th
Plaques Of These Three Cities'' which hs
preached to-day. Both at the morning serv
ice In Brooklyn and at the evening servics
under the auspices of the Christian Herah
in New York the vast buildings we're no
large enough to hold more than one-half ths
crowd who came to bear the sermon. nm
text was Genesis ILL.,. 4: aye shall noi
surely die"
That was a point blank lie Satan told il
TO Eve to induce her to put her semi-circle
OF white, beautiful teeth into forbidden
apricot, or plum, or peach, or apple. He
practically said TO her: 80, Evel Just take
a bite Of this and you viii be omnipoleni
and omniscient. You shall be as gods'
just opposite was the result. It was th.
first lie that was ever told Ia our world i
opened the gate for all the falsehoods tina
have ever alighted on this planet. It intro
duoed plague that covers all nations, tbs
Plague Of Lies. Far worse than the plague,
OF Egypt. for they were on the banks of tbs
Nile, but this on the banks Of the Hudson.
ON the banks of the East river, on the bank
Thames, aud the Rhine, aud the Tiber. ano
| on both sides Of all rivers. The Egyptian
| plaques lasted only a few weeks, but Tor sin
thousand years has ragged this Plague Of
| Lies.
There are hundred ways OF telling a lie.
A mans entire life may be falsehood,
| while with his lips he may not once directly
| falsify. There are those who state what is
positively untrue, but after ward say "may
be-" softly. These departures from the
truth are called "white lies" but there il
| really no such thing as a white lie Ths
whitest lie that was ever told was as black
| az perditlon, No inventory OF public crimm
| win be sufficient that omits this gigantis
abomination. There are men, high IL
church and state, actually useful, self
| denying and honest in many things, who
| upon certain subjects, and ia Ger.
tain spheres, are not at all TO bs
depended upon for yeracity. Indeed
there are many men and women wins
have their notions of truthfulness 81
thoroughly perverted. that they do NOT
know when they are lying. With many 10
is cultivated sin; with some it seems q
natural intirmtty. l have known people
who seemed to have been born liars. The
falsehoods OF their lives extended from
cradle to grave. Prevarications. misrepre-
sentation, aud dishonesty Of speech, ap.
peared In their first utterances, and were as
| natural to them as any Of their infantile
diseases, and were sort Of moral Group o.
| spil itual scarlatina. But many have beer
| placed in circumstances where this tendency
has day by day, and hour by hour. beer
called to larger development. They hays
gone from attainment to attainment, anc
from Gloss TO class until they have becom
regularly graduated liars.
The air OF the cityis filled with falsehoods
They hang pendant from the chandeliers OF
u
OF some OF our merchant princes; they fil
the sidewalk from curbsJone TO brown
stone facing. They cluster around the me
chanic's hammer, and blossom from the enc
Of the merchants yard-stick, and sit in the
doors Of churches. Some call them "lic
ton" Some style them fabrication" Yoy
might say that they were subtsrfuge, dis.
guise, deluson, romance, evasion, pretehsa
fable, deception, Misrepresentation: but, al
am ignorant Of anything TO be gained BY
the hiding OF God-defying outrage under
a photographers blanket | shall chiefly cal
them what my father taught me to cal
them-lies
shall divide them into agricultural, mer
camille, mechanical, ecclesiastical and socia
lies.
First. then, will speak OF those that ar
more particularly agricultural. There 4
something in the perpetual presence Of
natural objects to make man pure. Thu
trees never issue false stock" Whea
fields are always honest Rye and oati
never move out in the night. not payins
for the place they have occupied. Corr
shocks never make false assignments
Mountain brooks are always current
The gold on the grain Is never counterfeit
TIE sunrise never faunts in false colors
The dew sports only genuine diamonds
Taking farmers as q class, / believe they
are truthful and fair in dealing, and kind
hearted. But the regions surrounding ou
cities do not always send this sor
Of men TO our markets. Day by day
there creak through our streets, and abou
the markt houses, farm wagons that have
not an honest spoke in their wheels, or
truthful rivet from tongue TO tailboard
During the last few years there have beer
times when domestic economy has foundered
on the farmers firkin. Neither high taxes
nor the hig price Of drygoods, nor the ex
orbitancy of labor, could excuse much thai
the city has witnessed in the behavior Of
the yeomnnry. By the quiet firesides IN
Westchester and Orange counties, hops
there may be seasons of deep reflection and
hearty repentance. Rural districts are ac
customed to rail at great cities as given NJ
TO fraud and every form Of unrighteousuess
but our cities do not absorb all the abomt
nations. Our citizsns have learned the i'm
portance Of not always trusting to the siz
barrel as an Indication Of what may bs
found farther down. Many Of our people
are accustomed to watch and see how cor.
rectly bushel OF beets Is measured; and
there are not many honest milk cans.
Deceptions do not all cluster round cItJ
halls. When our cities sit down and weer
over their sins, all the surrounding coun.
tries ought to come In and weep with them
There Is often hostility ON the part OF pro
ducers against traders, as though the mar
who raises the corn was necessarily more
honorable than the grain dealer, VINO pouri
it into his mammoth bin. There ought tc
be no such hostility. Yet producers otter
think it no wrong to snatch away from ths
trader; and they say to the bargai shaker,
"You get your money easy" DO they
get it easy? Let those who in the quiet
field and barn get their living exchangs j,
places with those who stand to-day amic
the excitements of commercirl life, and ses
il they find it so very easy. While tbs
farmer goes TO sleep with the assurances
that his corn and barley win be growing
all the night, moment by moment adding
to hi; revenue. the merchant tries 20 go te
sleep, conscious that that moment his cargo
may be broken on the rocks, or damaged
by the wave that sweeps clear across ths
hurricane deck or that reckless specuatou
may, that very hour, be plotting some mon
etary revolution. or the burglars pryinf
open his safe, or his debtors fleeing thf
town, or his landlord raising the rent, oI
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