Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-02-27

Ism and Jersey CitD, but They VIII
lit in Nanv other Places.
new YORK. Feb ga decided sen,a-
ito" was produced in thls city and in
brooklyn today hy DR.. Talmage's an
nounccment Of a sori"s Of sermons which
he proposes to preach on "The Ten Plaques
Of These Three Cities" IN this sermon
which i the first of the series he pays his
attention 10 the prevalent curse of gam
hliug lie preached it in the Academy of
Music in Brooklyn in the morning, and
again this evening at The Christian Herald
service in this cirt. His text was takcu
from FIX iN II, II: &c. my people 20
that they may serve me- Cor will a; this
time send all my plagues."
Last winter, in Vie museum at Cairo
Egypt, | saw the mummy or cmba!mcd
body Of Pharaoh, the opprcssor of the
ancient Israclitus. Visible are the very
ueeth hat he guashcd against the Israel
itiSh brcl5inakers, the sockets of the merci-
less eyes with which he looked upon the
ovcrburdrncd people of God the hair that
hopte-l in the breeze off the Red Sea. the
very bps with which he commanded them
to make bricks without straw Thousands
Of years after, when the wraprinys of the
mummy>Aere unrolicd, old Pharaoh lifted
mp his -. ~ as il in importation, but his
skinny bones caunot again clutch his shat
tered scepter. 1t WAS to compel that tyraut
10 let the oppressed 20 free that the mem
cradle ten plaques were sent. Sailing he
Nile aud 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,
mud ma Cat+l la bprp no q on Of the t,,,r-nit
and through the starry nights lowering
about the pyramids no destroying angel
swept his wing. But there are ten plaques
still singing and bcfouliug and cursing
our cities, and like angels Of wrath smiling
not only the first born but the last born.
THREE CITIES N 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 10y tunnels from both New Jersey and
Long Island shores, until what Is true now
will A. the wears 20 by become more en-
pha4ically 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 metropolis noted for dignity or PROV
esS Caesar boosted of his native Rome,
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,nosnbenns of Athens Arrhin,o1as ~ 60
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