The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-03-25
+ THE PLAGUE OF LIES" "
The Whole World is Permeated
With Falsehood.
Agricultural, Mercantile, Mechanical, Ec-
ciesiastical and Social Lies and Their
Effects--Rcv. Or. Talmage Makes
Strong Plea for Honesty In
the Dealings of Men Ono
with Another.

lact;no nc bis suhiect "rbe plague of
H. . HE text ,yaa Cenas;s III A. "Ho
sAall not surely die.n Mr.. Talmape
smoke os follows:
That was a point blank lie. Satan
told It to Eve to induce her to put her
semi-circle of white, beautiful teeth in
to forbidden apricot, or plum. or
pesch. or epple. He practically said TO
her: so. Eyel Just take bite of this
and you will be omnipotent and omnis-
Gent. You shall be as gods" Just op-
pOsite was the result. It was the first
ke that was ever told In our world. IL
opened the gate for all the falsehoods
that have ever aliphted on this planet.
Itintroduced plague that covers all
nations, the Plague of Lies. Far worse
than the Plaqres of Egypt, for they
were on the banks .s-,rie Nile, but this
is on the banks of the Hudson, on the
banks of the East river. on the banks
of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and
the Thames, and the Rhine, and the Tt
Der. and on both sides of all rivers.
The egyptian Plaques lasted only few
weeks, but for six thousand years has
ragged this Plague of Lies.
There are n hundred wavs OF telling a
lie. A mans entire life NAV be false
hood. while with his lips he NAV not
once directlv falsifv. There are those
who state what Is positively untrue, but
afterwards saw "mav be "softly. These
DEPARTURES from the truth are called
"white lies.n hut there il really no such
thing as a white lie. The whitest lie
that was ever told was as black as per-
dition. No inventory OF public crimes
will be sufficient that omits this gipan-
tic abomination. There are men, high
In church and state. actually useful,
self.denying and honest in MANY things,
who. upon certain subjects, and in GER
tain spheres. are not at all to be de-
handed upon for yeracitv. Indeed,
there are mapv men and women who
have their notions of truthfulness SO
thorouobIv nervoried that thew do not
ltnow when thew are living. With many
Il Is a Guilty. ted ain: with some L
seems n natural infirmitv. have
known people who seemed TO have been
horn liars The falseboods Of their
lives extended from cradle TO grave
Prevarications instrumentation. and
dishonesty Of speecb. anpeared in their
frst utterances. and were as natural 10
them as anv Of their infantile diseases,
and were n sort Of moral croup or spir-
final scarlntina. But many have been
nlaced in circumstances where this tend
ency has day by day, and hour by
hour. been called to larger development.
They have gone from attainment to at
tainment, and from class TO class, until
they have become regularly graduated
liars.
The air OF the city is filed with false.
hoods. They hang pendant from the
chandeliers of our finest residences
thev crowd the shelves of some of our
merchant princes; they fill the sidewalk
from curbstone to brown stone facing.
They cluster around the mechanics
hammer, and blossom from the end Of
the merchants yardstick, and sit in the
doors of churches. Some call them
fiction" Some style them "fabrica.
ton" You might saw that they were
subterfure, disguise. delusion, romance
evasion, pretence, fable, deception
INSTRUMENTATION: but as I am ignor
ant OF ANYTHING 10 be gained by the
hiding of a God.defying outrage unde,
a lexiocoprapher's blanket. / shall
chiefly cali them what nv father taugh;
me 10 call them-lies
shall divide them into agricultural
m.rcartiIe mecb,nical ecc,cs;ostical
and social lies
First then. will sneak of those TIM,
are more narticularlv Agricultural
There ;s so,nething IN the nernctua
nr...nce ~ n.trroi obiocts 20 ,nalfe ,
man nnre The trees never ;ssue "fals,
etocl,n wheat Acids are ALWAYS honest
Rve and oa,s never move out In N,
rigbt NOT having for the nlace the,
NE occun,e5 Corn shocLs never mat,
t.,ss ass,gnr.nts Monn,a;n hroolrs a =,
.,-a,s ..crrrsn,. The cold on th,
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