The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-02
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
Or. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
PLAGUE OF LIES.


Statement, Eye Shall Not Surely DE-"
the Text.
NEW YORK, March 22.-''The Plague
Of Lies" was selected by DIR. Talmage
for the subject of the fifth of his dis
courses on 1.-THE Plaques of These
Three Cities, which he preached today.
Both at the morning service in Brook
Ign and at the evening service under
the auspices of The Christian Herald in
New York the vast buildings were not
large enough to hold more than one
half the crowd who came to hear the
sermon, His text was Genesis ill, 4,
"Ye shall not surely die"
That was point blank lie, Satan
told it to Eve to induce her to put her
semicircle of white, beautiful teeth
into forbidden apricot or plum or
peach or apple. He practically said
to her. "Oh, Eve, just take bite of
this and you will be omnipotent and
omniscient, You shall be as gods"
Just opposite was the result. 1t was
the first lie that was ever told in our
world. 1t opened the gate for all the
falsehoods that have ever alighted on
this planet 1t introduced plague
that covers all nations, the plague of
lies. Far worse than the plaques of
Egypt, for they were on the banks of
the Nile, but this 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 Tiber, 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 a hundred ways of telling
a lie A mans entire life may be
falsehood, while with his lips he may
not once directly falsify. There are
those who state what is positively I'M
true, but afterward say may be" soft
ly. These departures from the truth
are called white lies" but there is
really no such thing as white lie.
| SOME LIVES ARE ALL FALsEHooD.
The whitest lie that was ever told
was as black as perdition. No inven-
tory of public crimes will be sufficient
that omits this gigantic abomination.
There are men high in church and
state, actually useful, self denying and
honest in many things who, upon GER
tain subjects and in certain spheres,
are not at all to be depended upon for
| veracity Indeed, there are many men
| and women who have their notions of
truthfulness SO thoroughly perverted
that they do not know when they are
lying. With many it is cultivated
| sin. with some 1t seems a natural in
firuity. / have known people who
seemed to have been born liars. The
| falsehoods of their lives extended from
cradle to grave Frevarications, misrep-
| reservations and dishonesty of speech
appeared in their first utterances and
were as natural to them as any of their
| infantile diseases, and were sort of
moral Group or spiritual scarlatina, But
| many have been placed in circumstances
where this tendency has day by day,
and hour by hour, been called to larger
development. They have gone from
attainment to attainment and from
class to class until they have become
regularly graduated liars.
The air Of the city is filled with false
hoods. They hang pendent from the
| chandeliers of our finest residences
they crowd the shelves of some of our
merchant princes; they fill the side
walk from curbstone to brownstone
facing They cluster around the me
chanic's hammer, and blossom from the
end of the merchants yardstick, and
sit in the doors of churches. Some
call them fiction Some style them
fabrication. You might say that
they are subterfuge, disguise, delusion,
romance. evasion, pretense, fable, de-
ception, Misrepresentation, but, as l
am ignorant of anything to be gained
by the hiding of a God defying outrage
under photographers blanket, l
shall chiefly call them what my father
taught me to call thein-lies.
| CLASSIFICATION OF LIES.
shall divide them into agricultural,
mercantile, mechanical, ecclesiastical
and social lies