Milford chronicle., 1891-02-27
PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF SPECIAL SER
MONS BY DR.. TALMAeE.

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They Are Directed Especially at Il
Three Cities in One (New York, Broo
Iyn and Jersey city, but They Wi
Fit In Many Other Places.
NEW YORK, Feb. ga decided sens
tion was produced in this city and
Brooklyn today by DR.. Talmage's al
nouncement Of a series Of sermons whic
he proposes to preach on 1.-THE Ten Plagu,
Of These Three Cities" In this sermon
which is the first Of the series, he pays h.
attention to the prevalent curse of gan
bling He preached it in the Academy {
Music in Brooklyn in the morning, an
again this evening at The Christian Heral
service in this city His text was take
from FIX. tx, 49, IA: "Let my people &
that they may serve me; for will at thi
time send all my plaques"
Last winter, in the museum at Cairo
Egypt, I saw the mummy or embalme,
body of Pharaoh, the oppressor of tn
ancient Israelites. Visible are the yerl
teeth that he gnashed against the Israel
itish brickmakers, the sockets of the meroi
less eyes with which he looked upon ths
overburdened people Of God, the hair that
doated in the breeze of 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 if 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 croalSed in the one. none Of the
lOcusts 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 to
men in all times, if they live or have lived
in metropolis noted for dignity or Prov
ess. Caesar boosted of his native Rome. 1
Lycurgus of Sparta, Virgil of Andes, De-
Of Athens, Archimedes Of Syra- |
cuse, and Paul Of Tarsus I should suspect /
a 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-
ishments and its scientific attainments.
l have noticed that men never like a
)lace where they have not behaved we'll.
den who have free rides in prison vans
lever like the city that furnishes the
ehicle. When I see in history Argos.
Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon and sew
raj other cities claiming Homer, I Iconclude
bat Homer behaved well. Let us not war
gainst this pride of city, nor expect to
uild up ourselves by pulling Others down.
ct Boston have its commons, its Faneuil
all and its magnificent scientific and edu-
ltional institutions. Let PhiladelDbia
w.
nd Girard college, and its old families. as
rtuous as venerable. When find man {
wing in one of those places who has moth
g to say in favor Of them feel like ask
g him, ''What mean thing did Won do Y
lat you do not like your native cityP" 9
ew York is a goodly city, and when saw 4
at I mean the region between Spuvten \
uyvil creek and Jamaica in one direction
I'd Newark fats in the other direction. y
nat which tends to elevate part elevates u
|. That which blasts part blasts all. Sin Al
a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or j.
river and passes it as easily as y
step across a figure in the carpet The y.
essing Of God is an angel, and when it I'd
etches out its two wings one of them
vers over that and the other over this. y
THE GREAT CITY OF NEW YORK. ~, ~
n infancy the great metropolis was laid
yn by the banks of the Hudson. It's in w
ICY was as feeble as that of Moses sleep 81
/, in the bulrushes by the Nile; and. like "
riam, there our fathers stood and watch oii !
it. The royal spirit Of American com u u
rec came down to the water to batbe. VI
there she found it. She took it in her au
rs, and the child grew and Waxed strong.
the ships of foreign lands brought gold ~
spices to its feet. and stretching itself ~
into the proportions Of q metropolis, it ~
looked up to the mountains and off -
N the seattle mightiestof the energies cal'
American civilization The character III
the founder of city will be seen for pa
ny years in its inhabitants Romulus eie
ressed his life upon Rome. The Pill N
rs relaxed not their hold upon the AOu
IS of New England. William Penn has
Philadelphia an Inheritance Of intee-
and fair dealing, and on any day in iaIl
city you may see in the manners, Gus ~, ~
3 and principles of its people bis tastes, t1I.i
coat, his hat, his wife's bonnet and his yos'
q meeting house The Hollanders still ma l.
d an influence over New York. eril il
and old New York; What southern VIZ
oughfare was ever smitten by pesti- W
2, when our physicians did not throw s'l
lselves upon the sacriicel What dis sicO
land has cried out in the agony of que
ne, and our ships have not put out wv
breadstufIsl What street of Damas- - ~
or Beyrout or Madras that has not lsss
4 the step Of our missiOnariesl What - -,
sgle for national life in which our citi- iieii
have not poured their blood into the % HeI
ihesl What gallery Of exquisite art my M
lich our painters have not hung their INC
resi- What department Of literature ,ls aroe
ence 10 which our scholars have not VII
ibutedl / need not speak of our pub .lli.i
hools, where the children Of the cord io'Al
sr and millman and glassblower ruste
by the side of the hattered sons of his p
lant princes; or of the insane asvIuns mons
these islands where they who went the s.
~ themselves, among the tombs. now woul
othed and In their right minds; or Of his "
agdalen asylums, where the lost one Ag
street comes to battle the Saviour's dustr
18th her tears, and wipe them with hund
airs Of her head-confding in the gami
n Of him who said: "Let him who is work
ut sin cast the first stone at herr / tryin
lot speak Of the institutions for the store
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