The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-13
STRANGERS IN TOWN.
DT. Talmage Dircourses on the
Dangers That Beset Them.
'ssosE sunday Is Spent In the Great Metrop-
elisa Man Cannot Afford to Break
the Sabbath-Enects OF
Summing.

In late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage preached upon the
subject of the dangers that attend the
strangers that visit the great cities
either for business or pleasure. His
text was from Matthew XIV. IS: 81 was
n stranger and We took me in" The
noted preacher said:
It is a moral disaster that jocosity
has despoiled so many passages of
Scripture and my text is one that has
suffered from irreverent and misap-
piled quotation. 1t shows great poverty
of wit and humor when people
take the sword of divine truth
for a game at fencing, or chip
Of from the Kohinoor diamond
of inspiration a sparkle to decorate
a FOOLS cap. My text is the salutation
in the last judgment to be given to
those who have shown hospitality
and kindness, and Christian hopeful
ness to strangers. BY railroad and
steamboat the population of the earth
arc all the time in motion, and from
one years end to another our cities are
crowded with visitors Every morning
on the tracks of the Hudson River, the
Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Long Island
railroads there come passenger trains
En0Ce than | can number, so that
all the depotS and the wharves
arc a-rumble and a-clang with the
coming in ola great immigration of
strangers. Some of them come for
purposes of barter, some for mechan-
g. A. q
some for sightseeing. A great many
Of them go out on the evening trains,
and consequently the city makes but
little impression upon them; but there
are multitndes who, in the hotels and
boarding houses make temporary res
tdeRce. They larry here for three or
fozr days, or as many weeks They
spend the days in the stores and the
evenings in sightseeing Their tenn
sorary stay will make or break them,
not only financially, but morally, for
this world and the world that is to
come Multitudes of them come into
cur morning and evening services l
an conscious that stand in the pres
cree of many this moment | desire
more especially to speak to them.
There have glided into this house
those unknown to others, whose his
tory, if told, would be more thrilling
than the deepest tragedy, more excit-
ing than PATHS song, more bright
than a spring morning, more awful
than a wintry midnight If they could
stand up here and tell the story of
their escapes, and their temptations,
and their bereavements. and their dis
asters, and their victories. and their
defeats, there would be in this house
such commingling of groans and ac-
CARNATIONS as would make the place
uncomfortable.
There is a man, who, in infancy, lay
In a cradle satin-lined Out yonder is
n man who was picked up a founding,
On Boston common. Here is man
who is coolly observing this religious
service, expecting no advantage and
caring for no advantage for himself
while yonder is man who has been
Sor ten years in an awful conflagration
of evil habits, and he is mere cinder
of a destroyed nature, and he is won
dering if there shall be in this service
any escape or help for his immortal
soul Meeting you only once, perhaps,
face TO face, / strike hands with you in
an earnest talk about your present
condition, and your eternal well being.
St Paurs ship at Melita went to pieces
where two seas met; but we stand to-
day at point where a thousand seas
converge, and eternity alone can tell |
the issue of the hour.
The hotels of this country, for beauty |
and elegance, are not surpassed by the |
hotels in any other land; but those that |
are most celebrated for brilliancy of |
tapestry and mirror cannot give to the |
guest any costly apartment, unless he |
can afford a parlor in addition to his |
lodging. The stranger. therefore, will |
generally find assigned to him room |
without any pictures, and perhaps any |
rocking chair! He will find box of !
matches on a bureau, and an old news |
paper left by a previous occupant, |
and that will be about all |
the ornamentation- At Z o'clock |
in the evening, after having |
taken his repast, he will look over, his
memorandum book of the days work; |
ne will write letter to his home, and |
chen a desperation will seize upon him
10 get out You hear the great city
laundering under your windows, and
you say: Il must join that procession"
and in ten minutes you have Joined it
Where are you going? Oh" you say,
I'll haven't made up my mind yet"
Better make up your mind before you
start Perhaps the very way you go
now you will always go. Twenty years
came down the Aston house steps, and
started ont in a wrong direction where
they have been going ever since.
well, where are you goiug?" says
one man" Il am going to the Acad-
Emy to hear some music" Good.
would like to join you at the door. At
the tap of the orchestral baton all the
gates of harmony and beauty will open
before your soul / congratulate you.
Where are you going? WELL" you
say, 81 am going up to see some adver-
tised pictures" Good l should like
10 so along with you and look over the
same catalogue and study with you
Kcnsett and Bierstadt and Church and
Moran Nothing more elevating than
good pictures. Where are you going?
well" you say, Il am going
mp to the Young Mems Christian
association rooms" Good You will
Grd there gymnastics to strengthen the
muscles and books to improve the mind
and Christian influence to save the soul
L wish every city in the United States
hid as fine palace for its Young Mems
Christian association as New York has
Where are you going? Welt" you say,