Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-23
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
PLAGUE or LIES.

DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON The
PLAGUE or LIES.
This l. His Fifth Discourse in the Series
on the Plaques of the Cities-satan's
+ Statement. .'Ye Shall Not Surely DE-"
the Text
New YORK, March 22.-''The Plague
of Lies was selected by DR.. Talmage
for the subject of the fifth of his dis
courses on The Plaques of These
Three Cities, - which he preached today.
Both at the morning service in Brook
Ign and at the evening service under
tho auspices of The Christian Herald in
New York the vast buildings were not
large enough to hold more than one
kalf tl!a crowd who came to hear the
sernoa Ills text was Genesis iii, 4.
'Ye s.. -st surely die.
THAT vas a po;.5 blank lie. Satan
told it to Eve to induce her to put her
seinicirclc or whi,,'. beautiful teeth
into a forbidden apricot or plum or
peach or apple he practically said
to her. oh. Eve. Just take Il bite Of
this and you will be onnipOtent and
onniscient You shall be rs gods. .
Just opposite was the result. 1t was
the first lie chat was ever told IN our
world 1t opened the gate for all the
falsehoods that have ever alighted OH
this planet 1t introduced a plagj.e
that covers all nations, the plague of
lies Far We. than the plaques of
Egypt. for they va 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 rivers. The Egyptian
plaques lasted only few weeks, but
for six thousand years has ragged this
plague Of lies.
There are hundred ways of telling
a lie mans entire life may be
falsehood. while with his lips he may
not once directly faIsify. There are
those who state what is positively I'M
true. but afterward say may be" soft
Iy. These departures from the truth
are called white lies" but there is
really no such thing rs q white lie
soMn LIVES ARE ALL FALsBHoOD.
The whitest lie that was ever told
was as black as perdition. No inven-
tory of public crimes will be sufficient
shat omits this gigantic abOmination.
There are men high IN church and
state. actually useiu! ~ denying and
honest in many things, who, upon GER
tain subjects and in certain spheres,
are not 1T all to be depended upon for
veracity Indeed, there are many men
and women who have their notions of
truthfulness so thoroughly perverted
that they do not know when they are
lying. With many it is a cultivated
sin with some il Gems q natural in
trinity. | have known people who
seemed to have been born liars. The
falsehoods of their lives extended from
cradle to grave. Prevarications, misrep-
reservations and dishonesty Of speech
appeared in their first utterances, and
were as natural to them as any Of their
infantile diseases and were Il sort of
moral Group or spiritual scariatina. But
many have been placed in circumstances
where this tendency has day by day,
and hour by hour, been called to larger
development. They have gone from
attainment to attainment and from
class to class until they have become
regularly graduated liars.
The air of the city is filled with false
hoods. They hang pendent 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 yarllstick, and
sit in the doors of churches. Some
call them fiction" Some style them
fabrication You might say that
they are subterfuge, disguise, delusiOn,
romance, evasion, pretense, fable, de
ception, misrepresentation, but, as l
am ignorant of anything to be gained
by the hiding of a God defying outrage
under photographers blanket, |
shall chiefly call them what my father
taught me to call them-lies