The Globe-republican., 1893-04-14
THE DARK SIDE.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on Social
Life in Our Cities.
The Wickedne>, of the Midnight Hour in
TOwn-The Sorrows Of the Vicious
Poor The Thieves. Drunk
ards and Gamblers.

Dew lit lalmage took for his subject
the dark side of social life in our great
cities. The text chosen was from
Genesis j. ): and the darkness he
called night DR.. Talmage said:
Two grand divisions of time. The
one of sunlight. the other of shadow:
the one for work: the other for rest: the
one type of everything glad and beau
tiful. the other used in all languages as
type OF sadness and affection and sin,
Those two divisions We're made by the
Lord himself Other divisions of time
NAV have nomenclature of human in
vention. but the darkness held up its
dusky brow TO the Lord and he bap-
TIED it. the dew dropping. from his
fingers as he gave it Z name-"anG the
darkness he called night" My subject
is midnight in town. The thunder
OF the city rolled out of the air. The
slightest sounds cut the night with
such distinctne>S as to attract your
attention. The tipkling of the
bell of the street car in the
distance and the baying of the
dog. The stamp of horse in the
next street. The slamming of a saloon
door The hiccough of the drunEard.
| The shrieks of the steam whistle five
miles away. Oh. how suggestive. my
friends: midnight in town
There are honest men passing up and
/ down the street. Here is a city mis-
! sionary who has been carrying scut-
! tie of coal to that poor family in that
/ dark place. Here is an underta ller go
/ ing up the steps of a building from
which there comes a bitter cry which
/ indicates that the destroying angel has
/ sruitten the first born. Here is min
| ister OF religion who has been giving
! the sacrament TO dying Christian.
Here is a physician passing along in
| great haste. the messenger few steps
I ahead hurrving on To the household.
/ Nearly all the lights have gone out in
the dwellings That light in the win
dow is the light OF the watcher. Oh.
! the midnight in town, What stupen-
dous thought-a whole city ut rest.
Let the city sleep. But. my friends.
be not deceived. There will be thou
sands tonight who will not sleep at all.
60 up that dark alley. and be cautious
where YOU tread. lest you fall over the
PROSTATE form of drunkard lying on
his own doorstep. Look a bout you. lest
YOU feel the garroters hug. Look
through the broken windowpan and
see what you can see. You say. Moth
ing" Then listen. What is it? God
help us?" No footlights. but tragedy
ghastlier and mightier than Ristori or
I l. %.l No Iprh
no fire. no bread. no hope. Shirering
in the cold they have had no food for
twenty-four hours. You say. Why
don't they beg?" They do. but they
get nothing You say. Why don't they
deliver themselves over to the aims
house," All, YOU would not ask that II
you ever heard the bitter cry of man
or a child when told he must go to the
almshOuse.
oh" you say. they are the vicious
poor. and therefore they do not demand
our sympathy" Are they vicious? Sc
much more need they your pity The
Christian poor. God helps them
Through their night there wrinkles the
round. merry star of hope. and through
the broken window-pane they see the
CRYSTALS of heaven: but the vicious
poor they are more to be pitied- Their
last light has gone out. You excuse
yourself from helping them saying they
are so bad they brought this trouble or
themselves. reply. where | give ter
PRAYERS for the innocent who are sui
fering | will give twenty prayers fol
the guilty who are suffering.
Pass on through the alley. Open the
door. Oh you say. lit is locked
No. it is not locked: it has never beer
locked. No burglar would be tempted
to 90 there to steal anything The
door is never locked. Only broker
chair stands against the door. Shove i
. back Go in. Strike match. Now
look. Beastliness and rags. See those
rlarirp eveballs. Be careful now what
!, YOU saw. Do not utter any insult: do moi
utter any suspicion if you value youl
. life. What is that red mark on the
. wall? II is the mark of Il murderer
hand Look at. those two eyes rising
: ND ont OF the darkness and out from
, the straw in the cnrner. coming towar,
YOU. and As they come toward you yo'.1
\
, All. this is babe: not like the beautl
/. full children of your household. or TIT
1 beautiful children smiling around thes'
f affairs on baptisnal day This LITTLE
, one never smiled: it never will smile
l Oh. Heavenly Shepherd. fold that httl'
one in thy arms
, Strike another match. All. Is
possible that that young woman
Scared and bruised face was eve
, looked into by maternal tenderness
Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh word
No ray of hope has dawned on tina
brow for many year. No ray OF hop
!. will ever dawn on that brow.
! Do you know it is in the midnlgh
! that criminals do their worst work?
; At $50 o'clock you will find them Il
, the drinking saloon but toward
\ o'clock they go to their garrets- the.
get out their tools. then they start o.
the street. Watching on either side 70
the police. they go to their work @
: darkness. This is a burglar, and tn
+ false KEY will touch the store lock
r This is an incendiary, and before morn
e ;rr &hara will he a light in the Shy. an