The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-14
PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
FIRST Or 4 SERIES OF SPECIAL SIR
MONS BY DR.. TALMAGE.

EAey Are Directed Especially at the
Three Cities in One (New York, Brook
Iyn and Jersey City, but They Will
Fit In Many Other Places.
NEW YORK, Feb. ga decided sensa-
ton 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 i'll the morning, and
again this evening at The Christian Herald
service in this city. His text was taken
from Ex. tx, 1s. IA: "Let my people go
that they may serve me; for L will at this
time send all my plaques"
Last winter, in the museum at Cairo,
Egypt, saw the mummy or embalmed
hOdy of Pharaoh, the oppressor of the
ancient Israelites. Visible are the very
teeth that he gnashed against the Israel
itish brickmakers, the sockets of the merci
less eyes with which he looked upon the
cyerburdened people of God, the hair that
aoated in the breeze off the Red Sea, the
very lips with which he commanded them
70 make bricks without straw. Thousands
of years after, when the wrappings of the
mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted
mp his arm rs 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-
fian 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 stinging and befouling and cursing
sur 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
win, 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 a metropolis noted for dignity or PROV
ess. Caesar boasted of his native Rome,
Lycurgus of Sparta. Virgil of Andes, De-
mosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of SYRIA
cnse, 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
Yloried not in it's arts or arms or behavior;
who looked with no exultation upon its
evidences of prosperity, its artistic embel-
lishments and itsscientific 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 1 see in history Argos,
Rhodes. Smyrna, Chios, Colophon and sew
eral other cities claiming Homer, conclude
that Homer behaved 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 magnificent scientific and edu-
cational institutions. Let PHILADELPHIA
talk about its mint, and Independence hall,
and Girard college, and it's old families, as
virtuous as venerable. When find a 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 Il goodly city, and when say
that mean the region between Spuyten
Duyvil creek and Jamaica in one direction
That which tends to elevate part elevates
all. That which blasts part blasts all Sin
Is a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or
SConnecticut river and passes it easily as
we step across figure in the carpet. The
blessing of God is an angel, and when il
stretches ont its two wings one of them
hovers over that and the other over this.
THE GREAT CITY OF NEW YORK.
In infancy the great metropolis was laid
down bv the hanks Of the Hn6S0n IT'S i'm.
fancy was feeble rs that of Moses sleep
ing in the bulrushes by the Nile; and like
Miriam, there our fathers stood and watch
ed it. The royal spirit of American com
merce came down to the water to bathe
and there she found it. She took it in hel
arms, and the child grew and waxed strong
and the ships of foreign lands brought gold
and spices to its feet. and stretching itseIl
up into the proportions of n metropolis, i,
has looked up 80 the mountains and of
upon the seattle mightiest of the energies
of American civilization. The character
of the founder of Il city will be seen fol
many years in its inhabitants. Romulu:
Impressed his life upon Rome. The Pill
grims relaxed not their hold upon the
cities of New England. William Penn hai
left Philadelphia an Inheritance of integ
rity and fair dealing. and on any day il
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 hi
plain meeting house. The Hollanders still
WELD an influence over New York.
Grand old New York! What southern
thoroughfare was ever smitten by pesti
hence, when our physicians did not throw
themselves upon the sacrificed What dis
tant land has cried out in the agony o
famine, and our ships have not put ou
with breadstuffsi What street of Damas
Gus or Beyrout Madras that has no
heard the step of our missionaries Wha
struggle for national life in which our citi
zens have not poured their blood into tn
trenchesl What gallery of exquisite ar
in which our painters have not hung thei