Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE Gambling EVIL"

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Last winter, in the museum at Cairo
Egypt, | saw the mummy or embaimed
BODY of Pharaoh, the oppressor of the an
Gent Israelites. Visible are the very teeth
that he CRASHED against the 1sraeiitish
brickmakers, the sockets of the Inerc1lesS
eyes with which he looked upon the overbur-
dened people of God, the hair that foated in
the breeze off the Red Sea, the very lips with
which he commanded them to make bricks
without straw Thousands of years
after, when the wrappings OF the
mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted
up his arm as if in imploration, but his
skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat.
tered sceDter. 1t was to compel that tyrant
to let the oppressed go free that the memora-
BILE ten plaques were sent. Sailing the Nile
and walking amid the ruins of Egyptian
cities, I saw no remains of those plaques
that smote the water or the air. None OF
the frogs crOaked in the one, none or the 10
Gusts sounded their rattle III the other, and
the cattle bore no sign of the murraln, 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 curslng our cities, ana
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 or 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 go by, become more en-
phaticaIly true. The average condition OF
public morals in this cluster of cities Is as
good if not better than in any other part or
the world. Pride Of city is natural to men
in all times, if they live or have lived in
metropolis noted for dignity or proves.
Caesar boosted of his native Rome, Lycurgus
of Sparta, Virgil OF Andes, Demosthenes OF
Athens Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul
of I ShOnId
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 Gc1en-
tific attainments.
l have noticed that men never like place
where they have not behaved we'll Men
who have free rides in prison vans never
likes the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When l see in history Argos, Rhodes, Smyr-
ma, Chios, ColOphOn and several other cities
claiming Homer, ] conclude that Homer be-
haved we'll. 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 Faneull Hall and its magnl-
ficent scientific and educational Institutions
Let Philadelphia talk about its mint, and In
dependence Hall, and Girard College, and its
old families, as vlrtuous as venerabSr When
[ find a man living in one Of those places who
like asking him, what mean thing did you
do that you 90 not like your native city,"
New York is a goodly city, and when [ say
that [ mean the region between Spuytan
Duyvil Greek and Jamaica in one direction
and Newark flats in the other direction.
That which tends to elevate a part elevates
all. That which blasts part blasts all. Sin
is q giant, and he comes to the Hudson
Connecticut River and passes it as easily as
we step across a figure in the carpet. The
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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 i'll the bulrJshes 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 a metropolis. it has
looked up to the mountains and off upon the
seattle mightiest OF fhe energies OF Amerl-
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
thOroughfare was ever s;nitten by pestilence,
when our physicians did not throw them
selves 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 of Damascus or Beyrout or
Madras that has not heard the step of our
missionaries! hat struggle for nationa!
life in which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenches! What gallery
of exquisite art in which our painters have
not hung their pictures! What department
OF literature or science to which our scholars
have not contributed! I need not speak of
our public schools where the children of the
cCrdwalner and miliman and glaSSblCwer
stand by the side of the fattered sons of
merchant princes: or of the insane asyiums
on all these islands where they who went
cutting themselves, among the tombs, now
sit, clothed and in their right minds; or of
the Magdalen asyiumS, where the lost
of the street comes to bathe the Saviour's
feet with her tears, and wipe them with the
hairs of h-r head-confiding in the pardon of
Him who said: Let him who is without sin
cast the first stone at her" | need not
speak Of the institutions for the blind, the
lame, the deaf and the dumb, for the incur
ab!es, the widow, the orphan, and the out
cast; or Of the thousand armed machinery
that sends streaming down from the reser-
voirs the clear, bright, sparkling, God given
water that rushes through our aqueducts.
and daSheS out of the hydrantS, and losses
up In our fountains, and Kisses i'll our steam
engines and showers out the conhagratiOn,
and sprinkles from the baptisnal font of our
churches; ana with silver note, and golden
sparkle, and crystalline chime, says to hun
dreds OF thousands OF our population, in the