The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11
GAMBLING.
Beginning of Series Of Sermons
by the Brooklyn Preacher.


by the Brooklyn Preacher.
Gamblers of Various Kinds and Their
Methods Handled without Gloves.
DR.. Talmage's text last Sunday was
taken from Elk. tx, 10, 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
ttish brickmakers, the sockets of the
merciless eyes with which he looked
upon the overburdened people of God,
the hair that fioated in the breeze of the
Red Sea, the very lips with which he
commanded them to make bricks with
out straw. Thousands of years after,
when the wrappings of the mummy was
unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted up his arm
as if in imploration, but his skinny
bones can not again clutch his shattered
ecepter. 1t was to compel that tyrant
to let the oppressed go free that the
memorable ten plaques we've sent.
Sailing the Nile and walking amid the
ruins Of Egyptian cities, I saw no re-
mains of those plaques that smote the
water or the air. None of the frogs
croaked in the one, none of the locust
sounded their rattle in the other, and
the cattle bore no signs of the murrain,
and through the starry nights lowering
above 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.
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 60
by, become more and more emphatical-
1y true. The average condition of pub
lie morals in this cluster of cities is as
good if not better than 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 prowess. Caesar boosted of his ma
tive Rome, Lycurgus of Sparta, Virgil
of Andes, Demosthenes of Athens,
Archimedes Of Syracuse, and Paul of
Tarsus. should suspect 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 it's arts or arms or behavior; who
looked with no exultation upon its evil
dences of prosperity, its artistic embel-
lishments and its scientific attainments
have noticed that men never like a
place where they have not behaved
well. Men who have free rides in pris-
on vans never like the city that fur
nishes the vehicle. When see in his
tory Argos, Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios,
Colophon and several other cities claim
ing Homer, conclude that Homer be-
haved we'll Let us not war against
the pride of city, nor expect to build up
ourselves by pulling others down. Let
Boston have it's commons, it's Faneuil
hall and its magnificent scientific and
educational institutions. Let Philadel-
phia talk about it's mint, and Independ-
ence hall, and Girard college, and it's
old families, as virtuous as venerable.
When find man living in one of those
places who has nothing to say in favor
of them I feel like asking him, "What
mean thing did you do that you do not
like your native city," New York is a
goodly city, and when say that mean
the region between Spuyten Duyvil
creek and Jamaica in one direction and
Newark flats in the other direction.
That which tends to elevate part ele-
Yates all. That which blasts part blasts
all. Sin is giant, and 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.
In infancy the great metropolis was
laid down by the banks of the Hudson.
It's infancy was as feeble as that Of
Moses sleeping in the bullrushes 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
it. She took it in her arms, and the
child grew and waxed strong, and the
ships of foreign lands brought gold and
spices to its feet, and stretching itself
up into the proportions of metropolis,
it has looked up to the mountains and
off upon the seattle mightiest of the
energies of American civilization. The
character of the founder of city will
be seen for many years in its inhabit.
ants. Romulus impressed his life upon
Rome. The Pilgrims relaxed not their
hold upon the cities of New England.
William Penn has left Philadelphia an
inheritance of integrity and fair deal
ing, 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 Hollanders
still WELD an influence over New York.
Grand old New York! What south
ern thoroughfare was ever smitten by
pestilence, when our physicians did moi
throw themselves upon the sacrifice
What distant land has cried out in the
agony of famine, and our ships have
not put out with breadstuffs! What
street in Damascus or Beyrout or Mad
ras that has not heard the step of oul
missionaries! What struggle for ma