Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-23
PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF SPECIAL SER
MONS BY DR.. TALMAGE.

| nOunccment OF series OF sermons which
he proposes to preach on "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 gam
bling. He preached it in the Academy of
| Music in Brooklyn i'll the morning, and
again this evening at The Christian Herald
service in this city His text was taken
from Elk. tx, 10, a. 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
itish brickmakers, the sockets of the merci-
less eyes with which he looked upon the
overburdened people OF God, the hair that
| aoated 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 scepter. 1t was to compel that tyrant
to let the oppressed go free that the mem
orable ten plaques were sent. Sailing the
Nile and walking amid the ruins of Egyp-
tian cities saw no remains ofthose plaques
that smote the water or the air. None of
the frogs croaked in the one, none of the
locusts 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.
THREE CITIES IN ONE.
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 go by, become more en-
phatically true The average condition of
public morals in this cluster of cities is as
good if not better than in any other part
Of the world. Pride of city is natural to
men in all times, if they live or have lived
in a metropolis noted for dignity or Prov
ess. Caesar boosted of his native Rome,
Lycurgus of Sparta, Virgil of Andes, De
mosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of SYRIA
cuse, and Paul of Tarsus. | should suspect
a 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 its arts or arms or behavior
who looked with no exultation upon it's
evidences of prosperity, its artistic embel-
lishments and it's scientific attainments.
| have noticed that men never like a
place where they have not behaved we'll
Men who have free rides in prison vans
never like the city that furnishes the
vehicle. When l see in history Argos,
Rhodes Smyrna, Chios, Colophon and sew
eral other cities claiming Homer, conclude
that Homer behaved well. Let us not war
against this pride of city, nor expect to
build up ourselves by pulling others down.
Let Boston have its commons, it's Faneuil
hall and its magnificent scientific and edu-
catiOnal Institutions Let Philadelphia
talk about its mint, and independence hall,
and Girard college, and its old families, as
virtuous as venerable When find aman
living in one of those places who has moth
ing to say in favor of them feel like ask
ing him, what mean thing did you do
that you do not like your native city?'
New York is a goodly city, and when l 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 elevates
all That which blasts part blasts ALL Sin
is a 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
hoveFs over that and the other over this.
THE GREAT CITY OF NEW YORK.
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 in the bulrushes by the Nile; and like
Miriam, there our fathers stood and watch
ed it, The royal spirit of American com
merce 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 n 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 inhabitants. Romulus |
impressed his life upon Rome. The Pill |
grims relaxed not their hold upon the |
cities of New England. William Penn has |
left Philadelphia an Inheritance of integ- |
rity and fair dealing, and on any day in |
that city you may see in the manners, Gus
toms and principles of its people his tastes,
his coat, his hat, his wie's bonnet and his |
plain meeting house. The Holanders still
WELD an influence over New York.
Grand old New York. What southern
was ever smitten by pest
lence, when our physicians did not throw
themselves upon the sacrificed What dis
tant land has cried out in the agony of
famine and our ships have not put out
with breadstufsl What street of Damas
Gus or Beyrout or Madras that has not
heard the step of our missionaries What
for national life in which our citi
zens have not poured their blood into the
trenchesl What gallery of exquisite art
in which our painters have not hung their
picturesl What department of literature
or science 20 which our scholars have not
need not speak of our pub
lie schools, where the children of the cord
wainer and milkman and glassblower
stand by the side of the flattered sons of |
merchant princes; or of the insane asylums
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 asylums, where the lost one
of the street comes to battle the Saviour's
feet with her tears, and wipe them with
the hairs of her head-confiding in the
pardon of him who said: 'Iet 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 incurables, the widow, the orphan,
and the outcast; or of the thousand armed
that sends streaming down
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