Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-09

Young and Old Are Being Mentally
Morally and Physically Infected by
Pernicious Boo1s-The Wrong Must Be
Righted-How to Do Tt.
New YORK, March S.-The plague
of pernicious literature formed the sub
ject of Dr. Talmage's sermon today,
which was the third of the series he is
preaching on the Ten Plaques of the
Cities " The Brooklyn Academy of
Music was filled in the morning by
dense crowd eager to hear it, and at
night at The Christian Herald service,
in the New York Academy of Music,
the doors had to be closed long before
the hour of service, there being no
space avai:a5 lie within the building for
more hearers. So large is the number
of those every week disappointed Of
gaining al Mission that the project OF
hiring the 1la,i.son Square Garden has
again been revived One citizen has
offered to pay all the expenses if the
Garden c&a lie secured and III. Tai
mage can be induced to prcae.l in it.
The text of the preachers discourse
was taken from Elk viii, 6, Z: And
the frces came up and covered the
land OF Egypt And the magicians
did so with their entertainments, and
brought up frogs upon the land of
Egypt"
There is almost q universal aversion
to frogs, and yet with the Egyptian
they were honored, they were sacred,
and they were objects of worship while
alive, and after death they were en-
balmed, and today their remains may
be found among the sepulcllers of
Thebes. These creatures, So attractive
once to the Egyptians, at divine be-
hest became obnoxious and lOathsOme,
and they went crOaking and hopping
and Ieaping into the palace of the king,
and into the bread trays and the couches
of the people, and even the ovens,
which now are up!ifted above the earth
and on the side of the chimneys, but
then were small holes in the earth
with sunken pottery, were filled with
frogs when the hOusekeepers came to
look at them. If a man sat down to
eat, frog alghted on his plate If he
attempted to put ON a shoe it was pre-
occupied by a frog. IF he attempted
to put his head upon 4 pillow it had
been taken possession of by frog.
Frogs high and low and everywhere;
Ioathsome frogs, Shiny frogs, besieging
frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague
of frogs. What made the matter
worse the magicians said there was no
miracle in this, and they could by
sleight of hand produce the same thing,
and they seemed to succeed, for by
sleight of hand wonders may be
wrought. After Moses had thrown
down his staff and by miracle it be-
came a serpent, and then he took hold
of it and by miracle it again became q
staff, the serpent charmerS initiated
the same thing, and knowing that
there were serpents in Egypt which by
a peculiar pressure on the neck would
become as rigid as q stick of wood,
they seemed to change the serpent into
the staff, and then throwing it down
the staff became the serpent. So like
wise these magicians tried to initiate
the plague of frogs, and perhaps by
smell of food attracting Il great number
of them to q certain point, or by shaE-
ing them out from a hidden place, the
magicians sometimes seemed to ac-
complish the same miracle. While these
magicians made the plague worse, none
of them tried to make it better. Frogs
came up and covered the land of
Egypt, and the magiciars did SO with
their enchantnent, and brought up
frncrs mon the land of Eovnt :,