Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-24
PLAGUE OF GAMBLING.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF SPECIAL SER
MONS BY Or. TALmAGE.

Iyn and Jersey city, bat They vii
YIa IN Many other Places
NEW YORK, Feb. ga decided sensa
ton was produced in this city and II
Brooklyn today by DIR. Talmage's an
nouncement OF n series OF sermons which
he proposes TO preach on ''The Ten Plague'
Of These Three Cities" In this sermon
which IL the first Of the series, he pays hi
attention TO the prevalent curse Of gam
bling. He preached II in the Academy o
Music in Brooklyn ia the morning, anf
again this evening at The Christian Heral,
service in this city. His text WINS takei
from Tx. TX, 10, IA; "Let my people 70
that they may serve me; for ! will mt thii
time send all my plaques"
Last winter, In the museum ut Cairo
Egypt, | saw the mummy or embalmed
body OF Pharaoh, the oppressor Of The
ancient Israelites. Visible are the very
teeth that he gnashed against the Israel
itish brick makers, the sockets Of the merci
less eyes with which he looked upon the
overburdened people Of God, the hnir that
hoated in the breeze of the Red Sea, the
very lips with which he commanded them
70 make bricks without straw. Thousands
of years after, when the wrappings Of the
mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted
up his arm ms II in implorAtion, but his
skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat
tered scepter. II was TO compel that tyrant
10 let the oppressed 20 free that the mem.
orable ten plaques were sent. Sailing the
Nile and walking amid the ruins OF Egyp-
tian cities, saw no remains OF those plaques
that smote the water or the mir. None OF
the frogs croaked In the one, none Of the
locusts sounded their rattle I'm the other,
and the cattle bore no sign OF the murraln, i,
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.
TnREE CITIES IN oGR
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 IL true now
will. as the years 40 by, become more EN-
phatieally true. The average condition OF
public morals In this cluster OF cities is MS
good II not better than In any other part
OF the world. Pride OF city is natural TO
men In all times, II they live or have lived
In metropolis noted for dignity or PROV
ess. C1esar boasted OF his native Rome,
Lycurgus OF Sparta. Virgil OF Andes, De.
mosthenes u Athens. Archimedes OF Syra-
cuss, and Paul OF Tarsus. | should suspect
man OF b,use heartodneas who carried
about with him no feeling Of complacency
In regard 10 the place OF his residence; who
Rloried not In its arts or arms or behavior;
who looked with no exultatGon upon its
evidences OF prosperity, It's artistic embel-
hshments and It's scientific attainments.
have noticed that men never like
place where they have not behaved we'll
Men who have free rides Ia prison vans
never like the city that furnishes the
vehicle. When / see In history Argos,
Rhodes, Smyrna, Chlos, Colophon aud sev.
erhl other cities claiming Homer, lconcluds
that Homer behaved we'll. Let us not war
against this pride OF city. nor expect 90
buhd up ourselves by pulling Others down.
let Boston have its commons, its Faneuil
hall and its magnificent scientific aud edu
natiOnal Institutions Let Philadelphia !
Talk about its mint, and Independence hall, |
and Girard college. and It's old families, as |
Firtnous As venerable. When find a man |
living Ia one q those places who has moth. |
ny 10 say In favor OF them feel like ask |
ng him. what mean thing did YOU do |
hat you do not like your native city,"
New York is goodly city, and when SAY /
hat mean the region between Spuyten |
Duyvil creck and Jamaica In one direction |
ind Newark flats In the other direction. !
That which tends Ia elevate part eleyates |
III That which blasts part blasts all, Sin |
\ a giant, aud he comes To the Hudson or /
Connecticut river aud passes IL as easily as /
NJ step ACROSS figure in the carpet. The /
blessing OF God Is an angel, aud when Il
stretches out It's two wings one OF them
lovers over that and the other over this,
rnE GIlKAr CITY oF RKw YORK
In infancy tho great metropolis was laid
lowu by the banks VI the Hudson Its in
anoy WAS as feeble as that OF Moses sleep
ng in the bnlrashes by the Nile; aud, like
Miriam, ther our fathers stood and watch
4 H. The royal spirit OF American com
neroe came down 20 the water TO battle,
nd there she found il, She took IL Ia her
rms, and the child grew and waved strong,
nd the SHIPS OF foreign lands brought gold
nd spices To It's feet. aud stretching Itself
~ Into the proportions of metropolis, IL
as looked up TO the mountains and OF
Ip0n the sea tho mightiest OF the energies
]
I the founder II - city will be seen tar
nAny yeArs 10 It's inhabitants Romulus
his life upon Rome. The Phi
rims RELAXED not their hold upon the
itios OF New England. William Penn has
"a philadelphiA an inheritance Of integ.
10y aud fair dealing. aud on any day ia
hat city YOU may see in the manners, cus-
pms and principles OF ibs people his tastes,
Is coat. his hat, his wiie's bonnet and his
lain meeting hoase The llollanders still
lisld an innuenoe over New York
Grand old New iorki What southern
horoughfarv was ever Smitten by pesti,
'noe, when our physicians did not throw
Aoniselvoa upon the sAurihoel What dis
lnt land has cried out ia the agony of
anime, and our ships have not put out
ith hrcAdstuhsi What stncot of Damas
"A or beyrOut ar Madras thai has not
sArd the step of our miSsiOnariesi What
ruggie for national life In whinA our citi,
ms have not poured their blood into the
'eDchesi What gallery ~ exquisite art
(which our pAinters have not hung their
ctaresi What department. of Literature
sctence ~ which cur scholars have not
,ntfibutedi J neCd not spoak " our pab-
J schools. where the chlldren ~ the oord.
Amer and milkmAn aud glG1sblOwoF
and BY che uido II the hAtlsrsd soas of
eTrhAnt pgfnceSi o. " the lnsAne asylums
all these lAlends Nhep iheY Nho WFpl
fting thenlealrcs, among the tonits nov
!. clothed aud Ia rheir right minds, ~ ~
) MAgiAlpn AsyiunAs, whens lhe loss oas
tlaa Hfraf ooulas 50 bAthe Jkc 6aFiouFs
: with hsE teaFs, and wips them viii
, haia % her head--oonadinE Ia ths
rac.n ~ hkm Wha aaidi ei.et bim who u
liout uin oasi ths nrsl stone "a her"
q nof speAk ~ she institutions Tor lhe
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