The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-06
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn DivsDe's sun
day Sermon.
Subject .Ths Gambling Evil"

49,
Last winter, in the museum at Cairo.
Egypt, ! saw the mummy or ~emhalnec
body Of Pharaoh, the oppressor OF the an.
cient Israelites. Visible are the very teeth
that he CRASHED against the Israelitish
b~ricknakers, the sockets of the merciles;
eyes with which he looked upon the overbur.
dened people of God. the hair that floated in
the breeze of the Red Sea, the very Cps with
which he commanded them to make bricks
without straw. Thousands Of years
after, when the wrappings OF the
mummy were u-rolled, old Pharaoh lifted
up his arm as u in imploration, but his
skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat
tered scepter. 1t was to compel that tyrant
to let the oppressed 90 free that the memoirs.
bic ten plaques were sent. Sailing the Nile
and walking amid the ruins OF Egyptian
cities ! saw no remains of those plaques
that smote the water or the air. None OF
the frogs croaked in the one, roue of the 10
Gusts sounded their rattle In the other, and
the cattle bore no sign Of the nurrain, and
through the starry nights lowering about
the pyramids no destroying angel swept his
wing. But there are ten plaques still sting
ing and befouling and cursing our cities. and
like angels Of wrath shifting not only the
first born but the last born.
Brooklyn. New York n Jersey City,
though called three, are practically one.
The bridge already fastening " OF them
together will be followed by other bridges
and by tunnels from both New Jersey and
Long Island shores, until what Il 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 II not better than in any other part OF
the world. Pride of city is natural TO men
in all times, II they live or have lived in a
metropolis noted for dignity or proves.
Cesar boosted Of his native Rome, Lycurgus
Of Sparta, Virgil Of Andes, Demostnenes OF
--I.-- Grra0r,co aud PAUL
of Tarsus. 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 pros
perity, its artistic embellishments and scien'
tific attachments.
have noticed that men never like a place
where they have not behaved well. Men
who lave free rides in prison vans never
likes the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When I see in history Argos, Rhodes, smyr-
ma, Chios, Colophon and several other cities
claiming Homer, I conclude that Homer be
haved well. Let us not war against this
pride Of city, nor expect to build up ourselves
by pulling others down.. Let Boston have
its commons, its Faneuil Hall and its magni-
fcent scientific and educational institutions.
Let Philadelphia talk about its mint, and In
dependence fall, and Girard College, and its
/ Old laInlle5, Us NlTtuOuS as sehCi dbAOs
] find a man living in one of those places who
has nothing to say in favor Of them, l feel
like asking him, "What mean thing did you
do that you do not like your native cityr'
New York is q goodly city, and when l say
that l mean the region between Spuyten
Duyvil Creek and Jamaica in one direction
and Newark fats in the other direction.
That which tends to elevate a part ~elevates
all. That which blasts part blasts all. Sin
Is a giant and no comes TO the Hudson or
Connecticut River and passes it as easily as
we step across a 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.
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; and, like
Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched
It The royal spirit Of American commerce
came down to the water to battle, and there
she found ~. She took it in her arms, and
the child grew and waxed strong, and the
sbips of foreign lands brought gold and
spices to its feet, n stretching itself up
into the proportions OF a metropolis. it has
looked up to the mountains and of upon the
seattle mightiest Of the energies Of Ameri-
can 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 Pilgrims relaxed not
their hold upon the cities of New England.
William Penn has left Philadelphia an in
heritance Of integrity and fair dealing, and
on any day in that city you may see in the
manners, customs and principles Of its people
his tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife's bonnet
and his plain meeting house. The holland-
ers still WELD an influence over New York.
Grand old New York; What southern
tboroughfare was ever smitten by pestilence,
when our physicians did not throw them
-oarirnat What distant land
has cried out in the agony Of famine, and
mn. ships have not put out with br~eadstuffsl
What street of Damascus or Beyrout or
Madras that has not heard the step of our
missionariesl What struggle for national
Ife in which our citizeno have not poured
their blood into the trenchesl what gallery
N exquisite art in which our painters nave
NOT hung their picturesl What department
If literature or science to which our scholars
have NOT contributed ! need not speak OF
our public schools, where the children or the
,ordyainer and milkman and glaSDfower
stand by the side of the hattsred sons or
merchant princes; or of the insane asylums
an ali these islands whers they who went
cutting themselves, among the tombs, now
I'll clothed and in their right minds; or or
TIC Naedalen asyiums, where the lost one
N the street comes to battle the Saviour1s
feet with her tears, and wipe them with the
hairs of her h~ead-confiding In the paroonoI
! HIM VINO SAID. &C. I'LL
cast the flrst stone at her." l need not
snesk OF the institutions for the blind, the
sme the deaf and the dumb, for the incur
sbles. the widow, the orphan, and tne OUT
cast. or OF the thousand armed machinery
that sends streaming down from the reser-
voirs the clear, bright, sparklng, 1ou k,oen
water that rushes through our aqusducts,
and dashes out Of the hydrsnts, and losses
nm in our fountains, and Kisses in our steam
spgines and showers out the contagration,
and sprinkles from the baptismal font OF our
CHURCHES: and with silver note, and golden
sparkle, and crystalline chime says 70 nun
dreds OF thousands Of our population, In me
authentic words Oh nim "no sAe' W"
be thou cleanF'
A this / promise In opening this course OF
sarynon, on the ten plaques of these three
cities, lest some stupid man might say l AN
deorecating the place OF my residence. !
speak to you to-day concerning tne p,asH ~
mis- house ought TO bs interested N THIS
theme.
Some years ago, when an ASSOCIATION tor
the suppression Of gambling was organized,
an agent of the association came to a prom
inent citizen and asked him TO patronl2e tne
society. He said, mo, l can nave no inter
est in such an organization. lam in no WISE
his son. who was his partner in business, wa
one of the heaviest players in hearne's Ia
NOUS gambling establishment. Another re
fused his patronage on the same ground, no
knowing that his first ~bookkeeper, though re
ceiying a salary of only a thousand dollars
was losing from fifty to one hundred dollar
per night. The presi3snt of q railroad com
pany refused TO patronize the INSTITUTION
saying, ''That society is good for the defens'
Of merchants. but the railroad people are no
injured by this evii;'' not knowing that a
that very time, two of his conductors wer
spending three nights of each weeS at TAR
taaoIes in New York. Directly or indirectly
this evil strikes at the whole world.
Gambling Is the risking OF something NOR
or less valuable in the hope OF winning NOR
than you hazard. The instrument Of gamin
NAV differ but the principle is the same. tn
ishufiing and dealing cards, however fuli Q
Temptation, 10 not gambling, unless stake
are put up; while on the other hand, gam
bling may be carried on without cards Q
dice. or billiards or Q ten pin alley. IN
man who bets on horses, on elections on pat
tles-ths nan who deals In fancy" stocks
or conducts Q business which hazards extr
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