Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-11
CORRUPT LITERATURE.
Or. TALMAGE BREACHES A RINGING
SERMON ON A CRYING EVIL.

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NEW YORK, March 9. The plague
OF pernicious literature formed the sub
ject Of DIR. Talmage's sermon today
which was the third OF the series he Il
preaching on the Ten Plaques OF th,
Cities" The Brooklyn Academy oI
Music was filed in the morning by q
dense crowd eager to bear it, and al
night atThe Christian Herald service,
In the New York Academy OF Music,
the doors had TO be closed long before
the hour OF service, there being nc
space available within the building for
more hearers. SO large Is the number
Of those every week disappointed OF
gaining admission that the project OF
hiring the Madison Square Garden has
again been revived. One citizen has
offered TO pay all the expenses II the
Garden can be secured and DR.. Tai
mage can be induced to preach in It,
The text of the preachers discourse
was taken from Ex. viii, 9, z: And
the frogs came up and covered tho
land Of Egypt. And the magicians
did 40 with their enchantments, and
brought up frogs upon the land OF
Egypt"
There IL almost 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 em-
balmed, and today their remains may
be found among the sepulchers OF
Thebes. These oseatures, NO attractive
once TO the Egyptians, at divine be-
hest became obnoxious and loathsone,
and they went cronking and hopping
and leaping into the palace Of tho king,
and into the bread trays and the couches
Of the people, and even the ovens,
which now are uplifted above the earth
and on the side of the chimneys, but
then were small holes In the earth
with sunken pottery, were filed with
frogs when the housekcepers came to
look at them. II man sat down to
eat, frog alighted on his plate. II he
attempted TO put on n shoe IL was pre-
occupied by frog. II he attempted
to put his head upon pillow II had
beon taken possession of by n frog.
Frogs high and low and everywhere;
loathsomo frogs, slimy frogs, besieging
frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague
of frogs. What made the matter
worse the magicians said there was no
miracle In this, aud they could by
sleight of hand produce the same thing,
and they seemed 10 succeed, for by
sleight OF hand wonders may be |
wrought. After Moses had thrown
down his staff and by miracle il be
came a serpent, and then he took hold
of II and by miracle II again became "A
itaf, the serpent oharmers initiated
he same thing and knowing that
here were serpents In Egypt which by
\ peculiar pressure on the neck would
as rigid as stick OF wood,
hey seemed 10 change the serpent into
he staff, and theR throwing II down
lac staff became the serpent So like
sise these magicians tried 10 initiate
he plague of frogs, and perhaps 10y
anell of food attracting agreat number
II them 10 n certain point, or by shalk.
ng them out from a hidden place, the
nagicians sometimes seemed to ac
the Same miracle. While these
naglcians made the plague worse none
4 them tried 10 make il better. Frogs
anne up and covered the land Of
sgypt, and tho mAgieians did so with
heir enohantInent, and brought Ap
rogs upon the land Of Egypt"
MoDRRN PLAaUR.
Now that plague of frogs has come
'ack upon the earth, II IL abroad To-
ay, II is smiting this nation. IL
ONES in the shape OF corrupt litera-
np. These frogs hop into the store,
he shop the Office, the banking house,
be factory, into tho home, into the
ellaT, into the garrot, on the drawing
pQm table, on the shelf Of the library.
9hile the lad is reading the bad book
he teachers face Is tprned the other
ay. One Of these frogs hops upon :
he pasc While the young woman Is
,ading the forbidden novelette, after
string at night, reading by gaslight,
ne of These frols leaps upon the page
ldced, they have hopped upon the
ews stands Of the country, and the n
iails at the postoiilco shake out ia the
tter trough hundreds of them. The
IAgue has taken at different times = =
ossession Of this country. Ii Is one Of :
~ most loathsome, ono OF the most
ightful, one Of the most ghastly of
,e Ten plaques of our modern cities.
There Is vast number Of books aud 7
,wspapers printed and Published 9 9
hich ought never 20 see the light,
hey aro filled with a pestilanoe that a
axes tho land swelter with moral y
lidemlo The grat,sst blessing that u
'er came Go this nation Is that of am u
svated literature aud the groAtsst =
ourge has been thai al uncloan lltcF. q
ura This last has Ia victims 10 Ali u
pnpatlons aEld departments. ID has g
iped 90 fill insane Asylnins and pend .
niiaFleS and Almshoases and deus % y
anie 1ho boilns of this Infection
lHi the Hospitals and la the graves o.
llle thelr aoals Ano being tosS,d over "a
10 a losl eterniiy, An avalanche of -
'uor and despair The iondon !
asue was nothing % H. That count !. ~
H. yieiims by thoalsangis. bnt this y
odem psqt hAa already slloyalsd in y