Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-26
PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF SPECIAL SER
MONS BY DR.. TALMAGE.

Iyn and Jersey city, but They Will
Fit in Many other Places.
NEW YORK, Feb. GA decided sensa-
tion was produced in this city and in
BROOKLYN today by Dr. Talmage's an
nouncement of a series Of sermons which
he proposes to preach on THE Ten Plaques
of These Three Cities" In this sermon,
which is the first of the series, he pays his
attention to the prevalent curse OF gam
bling. He preached it in the Academy of
Music in Brooklyn in the morning, and
again this evening at The Christian Herald
service in this city His text was taken
from Elk tx, -, IA: let my people go
that they may serve me; for ! will at this
time send all my plaques.
Last winter, in the museum at Cairo,
Egypt, | saw the mummy or embalmed
body of Pharaoh, the oppressor of the
ANCIENT Israelites Visible are the very
teeth that he CRASHED against the Israel
fish brickmakers, the sockets of the merci-
less ewes with which he looked upon the
oyerburdened people Of God, the hair that
floated in the breeze off the Red Sea, the
very lips with which he commanded them
to make bricks without straw. Thousands
of years after, when the wrappings of the
mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted
up his arm as il in imploration, but his
skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat
tered scepter 1t was TO compel that tyrant
TO let the oppressed go free that the mem
orable ten plaques were sent. Sailing the
Nile and walking amid the ruins of Egyp-
tian cities, / saw no remains of those plaques
that smote the water or the air None Of
the frogs croaked in the one, none of the
Iocusts sounded their rattle in the other,
and the cattle bore no sign Of the murrain,
and through the starry nights lowering
about the pyramids no destroying angel
swept his wing. But there are ten plaques
still singing and befouling and cursing
our cities, and like angels of wrath shifting
not only the first born but the last born.
THREE CITIES IN ONE.
BROOKLYN, New York and Jersey City,
though called three, are practically one
The bridge already fastening two of them
together will be followed by other bridges
and by tunnels from both New Jersey and
Long Island shores, until what is true now
will as the years go by, become more EN-
phatically true. The average condition of
public morals in this cluster Of cities is as
good If not better than in any other part
of the world Pride Of city is natural 70
men in all times, if they live or have lived
in a metropolis noted for dignity or PROV
ess. Caesar boosted Of his native Rome,
hycurgus Of SPARTA Virgil of Andes, De
mosthenes Of Athens, Archimedes of SYRIA
euse, and Paul of Tarsus. | should suspect
q man of base heartedness who carried
about with him no feeling Of complacency
in regard TO the place of his residence; who
gloried not in its arts or arms or behavior
who looked with no exultation upon its
evidences OF prosperity, its artistic embel-
hshments and its scientific attainments.
| 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 furnishes the
vehicle When | see in history Argos,
Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon and sew.
eral othercities claiming Homer conclude
that Homer behaved we'll. Let Us not war
against this pride of city, nor expect TO
build up ourselves by pulling others down.
Let Boston have It's commons, its FaneHil
hall and It's magnificent scientific and edu-
cational institutions let Philadelphia
talk about its mint, and Independence hall,
and Girard college. and its old families, as
virtuous As venerable When find man
living in one of those places who has moth
ing to say in favor of them feel like ask
ing him. "What mean thing did you do
that YOU do not like your native city?"
New York is goodly city, and when | say
shat mean the region between Spuyten
Duyvil creek and Jamaica in one direction
and Newark flats in the other direction.
That which tends TO elevate a part elevates
all That which blasts part blasts all Sin
is a giant. aud he comes to the Hudson or
Connecticut river and passes it as easily as
we step across figure in the carpet. The
blessing Of God is an angel, and when it
stretches out its two wings one Of them
hovers over that and the other over this.
THE GREAT CITY or NEW YORK.
In infancy the great metropolis was laid
down by the banks of the Hudson. Its in
fancy was as feeble as that Of Moses sleep
ing in the bulrushes by the Nile; aud, like
Miriam, there our fathers stood and watch
ed il. The royal spirit of American com
merce came down to the water to battle,
and there she found it, She took il in her
arms. and the child grew aud waxed strong,
and the ships OF foreign lands brought gold
AND spices to its feet. and stretching itself
up into the proportions of a metropolis, IL
has looked up % the mountains and off
upon the seattle mighties5of the energies
OF American civilization. The character
Of the founder Of "a city Will be seen for
many years in its inhabitants. Romulus
impressed his life upon Rome. The Pill
grims relaxed not their hold upon the
cities Of New England. William Penn has
left Philadelphia an inheritance Of integ-
rity aud fair dealing. and on any day in
that city you may see in the manners, Gus
toms and principles Of its people his tastes,
his coat. his hat. his wife's bonnet and his
plain meeting house The Hollanders still
WELD an influence over New York
Grand old New York; What southern
thoroughfare was ever smitten by pesti-
Ieucc. when our physicians did not throw
themselves upon the saerilioei What dis
tant land has cried out in the agony OF
famine. and our ships have not put out
with breadstufTsi What street Of Damas-
Gus or Beyrout or Madras thai has not
heard the step Of our missionaries What
struggle for national life in which our citi-
zens have not poured their blood into the
trenchesi What gallery of exquisite art
IN which our painters have not hung their
picturesi What department Of literature
or science to which our scholars have not
contributedl I need not speak Of our pub