Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-23
THE TEN PLAQUES.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE PREAOHES ON THE MOST
6RlEV0US ONE.
The Great Octopus Of Gambling is Wrsckiug the
Lives Of Young Men and Devastating HOmts.
Policy, Cards and Speculation Touched
Up by the Brooklyn Preacher.
Spseiql Tslsar,pn q ne Rsois,er.


Special Tslssrtns 70 he Rooster.
New YORK, February ga decided
sensation was produced in this city and
in Brooklyn to-day, by DR.. Talmage's
announcement Of series Of sermons
which he proposes TO preach Oh 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 gambling. He
preached IL in the Academy of Music in
| Brooklyn. i'm the morning, and again
this evening at the Christian Herald
service in this city. Ills text was taken
| from Exodus g:l3, IA: Let my people
90 that they may serve me; for Will at
this time send all my plaques
Last winter in the Museum AT Cairo,
I Egypt, / saw the mummy or cmbalmed
I body of Pharaoh, the oppressor OF the
ancient lsraeliteS. Visible are the very
teeth that he gnashed against the Is
raelitiSh brick-makers, the sockets OF
the mercilesS eyes with which he looked
upon the overburdened people ot God,
the hair that flOated in the breeze of
the Red Sea, the very lips with which
he commanded them 10 make bricks
without straw. Thousands Of years
afterward, when the wrappingS of the
mummy We're unrolled, old Pharaoh
lifted up his arm as If in imploration,
but his skinny bones cannot again
clutch his shattered Scepter. 1t
was TO compel that tyrant TO
let the oppressed people go free
that the memorable Ten Plaques were
sent. Sailing the Nile and walking
amid the ruins of Egyptian cities, l 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 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 90
by. become more emphatically true.
The average condition Of public morals
I'm this clusters OF cities IS As good II
not better than in any 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. Cesar bOasted of his native
Rome: Lycurgus of Sparta; Virgil OF
Andes: Demosthencs of Athens; Archi-
medes OF Syracuse and Paul OF TarsuS,
| should suspect a man of baSe-hearted-
ness who carried about with him no
feeling OF complacency in regard TO the
place Of his residence; who glorled not
i'm its arts, or arms, or behavior; VINO
looked with no exultatiOn upon It's evl-
denceS Of prosperity. its artistic emOei-
ishments. aud It's scientific attainmentS.
Grand old New York. What South
ern thoroughfare was ever smltten by
pestilencc, when our physicians dld not
throw themselves upon the sacrifice.
What distant land has cried ont IA the
agony of famine. and our ships have not
put ont with breadStutfS, What street
Of Damascus. or Beyrout, or Madras
that has not heard the step OF our mis-
Sionaries. What struggle for national
life. iu which our citizens have not
poured their blood into the trenches.
What gallery of exquisite art, in which
our painterS have not hung their pie
lures, What department OF literature
or science 10 which our scholars have
not contributed, need not
speak OF our public schools, where the
children of the cordwainer, and milk
man. and glaSS-blOwer stand by the SIDE
of the battered sons Of the merchant
princes: or Of the insane aSylums on ali
these Islands, where they who went
cutting themselves, among the tomOS,
now sit. clothed in their right minds;
or of the Magdalen aSylumS. where tue
lost one of the street comes TO bathe
the Savior's feet with her tears, and
wine them with the hairs OF her head
-confdiug in the pardon OF nun
who said: Let him who Is
without sin cast the hrSt stone
at her. need not speak Of the inStl-
tutions for the blind, the lame, the deAt
and the dumb, for the incurableS, the
widow, the orphan and the outcaSt; or
of the thousand armed machinery that
sends streaming down from the reser-
voirs the clear, bright, sparkling, Cod
given water that rushes through our
aqueduct and daSheS ont Of the hydrantS
and tosses up in our fountains and
hiSSes i'm our steam engines aud showers
out the connagration, ana SprihkleS
from the baptismal font OF our churches;
and with silver note, and golden sparkle
land crystalling chime. says to hundreds
of thousands Of our population ia the
authentic words of Him who said: -
will: be- thou clean,
rnt TIN rIN"Ur~.
All This + premise ia opening this
.....,,. If sermons uu the Ten Plaques