The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-27
#AISEHOODS DENOUNCED
DR. TaImage Charaoterizes Lying
as the Fifth Plague.
The First lie Originated with satan-A
Plague That Has Invaded Society and
the CIluEehes-TvFO Ways OF Liy-
ing Compared.

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Ign on the Plague of Lies His text
was Genesis, iii, 4: ''Ye shall not
surely die De Witt Talmage sale:
That was a point blank lie. Satan
told it to Eve to induce her to put her
semi~circle of white, beautiful teeth in
to forbidden apricot, or plum, or
peach, or apple. He practically said to
her: 30, Eve! Just take a bite OF this
and you viii be Omnipotent and omnis-
--cient- You shall be as gods just Op-
posite was the result 1t was the first
lie that was ever told in our world. 1t
opened the gate for all the falshOOds
that have ever alighted on this planet.
1t introduced a 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 the rivers. The
Egyptian plaques lasted only a few
weeks, but for 5000 years has ragged
this plague of lies
There are a hundred ways of telling
a lie A mans entire life may be a
falsehOOd, while with his lips he may
not once directly falsify. There are
those who state what is positively IN
true, but afterward say may be- soft
". These departures from the truth
are called white les" but there is
really no such thing as a white lie. The
vvhitest lie that was ever told was as
black as perditiOn. No inventory Of
public crimes will be sufficient that
Omits this gigantic abomination- There
are men, high in church and state, actu-
ally useful, self-denying and honest in
many things, who, upon certain subjects
and in certain spheres, are not at all to
be depended upon for veracity. Indeed,
"a flr,
have their notions Z truthfulness so
thoroughly perverted that they do not
know when they are lying. With many
it is a cultivated sin; with some it seems
natural infirmity.
I have known people who seemed to
have been born liars. The falsehOOds
of their lives extended from cradle to
grave PrevaricatiOns, Inisrepresenta-
ton and dishonesty of speech appeared
in their first utterances, and We're as
natural to them as any of their infantiie
diseases, and were sort OF moral
Group or spiritual scarlatina.
The air of the city is filed with false
hoods. They hang pendant 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 the churches Some call
them fiction Some style them fab
rication.' You might say they We're
;.subterfuge, disguise, delusion- 1 shall
chiefly call them what my father taught
me to call them-lies-
] shall divide them into agricultural
mercantile, mechanical, ecclesiastica
and social lies
First, then, will speak of those tina
: are more particularly agricultural
Il 49,
presence of natural objects to make {
man pure The trees never issue false
stock" Wheat fields are always hon
est. Rye and oats never move out IL
the night, not paying for the place they
have occupied. Corn shocks never
make false assignments Mountain
brooks are always current" The
gold on the grain is never counterfeit
The sunrise never fiaunts in false col
.-Ors- The dew sports only genuine dia
rmOnds.
Taking farmers as . class, believt
they are truthful and fair in dealing
and kind hearted But the regions sur
rounding our cities do not always sens
this sort of men to our markets Da7
by day there crealS through our street
and about the market houses farm
wagons that have not an honest spOlz
in their wheels or truthful rivet from
-togue to tailboard During the last fey
years there have been times when dc
mestic economy has foundered on tn
farmers 6rlzin- Neither high taxes
nor the high price of dry good nor tn
-exorbitance of labor could excuse mucl
that the city has witnessed in the be
havior Of the yeOmanry. Rural dis
-txicts are accustomed to rail at gres
cities as given up TO fraud and ever.
form OF unrighteOusness; but our cite
do not absorb all the abOrninatEoEs
Our citizens have learned the inpol
and style of apples IN the top OF
farmers barrel as an Indication O
what may be found further down
Many of our people are accustomed {
watch and see how correctly bushe
Of beets is measured; and there are nc
many honest milk cans
Deceptious do mot all cluster roun
city halls. When our cities sit dow