The evening times., 1895-11-28
.PREsIDEnI. IT CHURCH
He and Mrs. Cleveland Heard
Or. TaimaBe'ss Sermon.
CROWDS ON THE STREET
The Multitude Surged Around the
White House Carriage When 1t
Reached the EdificeeThe Minis
eter's Discourse Was Full of Patri-
Otic Forceand Wasa Splendid Effort.

tended services at the First Presbyterian
Church this morning. DIR. TaImage
preached.
The brilliant scene about the old house
of worship has been unsurpassed in its
century of existence. The public knew
that the President would be there, and II
came to see him and Mrs, Cleveland. Long
before the doors were opened the crowd
gathered III the street. As the doors
swung back they surged in, and the seats
and pcws were filled as If by magic.
The audience was largely a feminine
one, and the scene OF brillianey made by
the Thanksgiving costumes was most pleas
ing. A handsome array of plants and
| flowers DECORATED the ,rostrum where
DR.. Sunderland sat while DR.. Talmage
| preached.
The Presidents carr Iage drove up
at l1.I5 O'Clock and MIR. and Mrs. Cleve-
land alightcd. They hurried to the Chief
| Magistrates pew, well up the LETT center
| aisle OF Ihe church.
Lieut.. Kelly, a sergeant and twelve stall
1 wart policemen stood at the entrance way
and kept the crowd back that had waited in
I front OF the edifice. When the services had
1 begun the crowd outside dispersed, but the
| officers remained inside the church. The
President drove out TO Woodley after the
| services.
I THE AMERICAN SHEAF.
! DR.. Talmage's sermon was on the subject
The American Sheaf,'' based upon the
text FROM Geaesis 1xxvii:7-"We were
binding sheaves in the field, and, 10. my
sheaf arose and also stood upright, and,
behold, Your sheaves stood round about
and made obeisance In my sheaf."
AT seventeen years OF age said he,
when life is most ruseate, Joseph in a
vision saw. great harvest field. him
self and his brethren at work In it, and
after awhile 4 sheaf that he was binding
rose up with an imperial air, and the
sheavcs of the other harvesters fell flat
on their faces Here is the great American
sheaf, shcaf of wheat, sheaf uf rice, sheaf
OF cvrn, sheaf OF literary and moral pros
perities, all bound together in one great
sheaf. II is kingly, and on its brow is the
golden crronal OF all the years sunshine,
and in It's presence all the sheaves of
European and Asiatic harvests bend and
fall down. feeling their littleness. Oh, the
shear, the golden sheaf, the nvertopping
sheaf OF American prusperityi
The hest place OH earth To live In Is
here. / have s50,O00 new reasons for
saying So $50, 900 people In one year came
FROM the other side of the Atlantic TO live
IN America. Why did they come? II is
because this is the best place to live ill.,"
With a glowing comparison OF climates
in favor OF America, DIR. Talmage dashed
into the subjects Of wealth and comfortable
living. -, ..s.,- -.,,,a
Furthermore there is not land on earth
where wages and salaries are SO large for
the great masses of the people. In India,
wages cents u day and find yourself; in
Ireland. wages. 3 cents day; In England.
a dollar a day good wages; in other lands
so cents n day and 2o cents a day, clear on
down to starvation and sQualor. The
editor of a prosperous newspaper in Eng
land told me his salary was 800 q year,
and he looked happy.
.'See tho great populations coming out of
the factories or other lands. and accompany
them to their homes and see what priva-
tions the hard working classes on the other
side of the sea suffer. The laboring classes
here are 10 per cent better off than in any
other country under the sun-20 per cent.
40 per cent. 80 per cent. 10 per cent.
The toiiers with hand and foot have better
homes and better furnished.
Il do not talk in abstraction. / know
what have seen. The stone ma sons. the
and plumbers a nd mechanics nd
artisans OF all st yles in America II h We finer
residences than the ma jority Of professional
men in other lands. You enter the Ia
borer's house on this side the sea and you |
find upholstery and pictures andln struments |
of music. His children are educated at the |
best schools. His life is insured. so that |
in ease of his sudden demise the family |
sh all not DC homeless.
There is protest here against tower |
ing fort tunes. These vast fortunes for |
some imply piDchedness and want for |
others. a great protuberance on a mans
head implies the illness of the whole body. |
These estates of fdisproportionate size weak
en- all the body polite.
But the evil is nothing here compared
with monopolistic oppression abroad. Ca
heirals, with statues and braided arch and
walls covered with masterpieces of Rubens |
and Raphael and Michael Angelo, against
all the sides of which dash seas of pow
erty. and crime, and filth, and abomina-
tion. Ireland one vast monopolistic deyas-
tation. Thirty-five million people in Eng
land, and yet all the soil owned by 40,-
600. Marquis of Breadalbane goes on a
journey of one hundred miles in straight |
line. and all on his own property.
bad as We have 1t here, 1t is thou
sand times worse there. The ma jority OF
the people of the United States are on their
way 10 competency, il they remain in
iustrious and sober. They will either be
rich themselves OF their children will be
rich. trr1'f-f-
IF anything stirs my admiration it is
10 see a man without any education him.
self sending his sons to college, and with
put any opportunity for luxury himself.
Itsolh SI thte thouSh ehhh hhNS ~ |
hard all the days of his life, his children
shall have a good start, and I tell you
hat though some of you may have great
or mechanical struggle. there
IS going to be n great opening for your
sons and daughters as they come on to
axe their places in the world.
STANDING ARMIES OF EUROPE.
again, this nation is more fully at peace
han any other. At least 40 600, 900 be-
ong to the standing armies OF Europe.
Since our war on this side the sea, on the
'ther have occurred the Russo-Turkish war,
he Franco-P Prussian war. the Zulu war,
he Afghan war, the Egyptian war, the
,hina- Japanese war;
''They have no certainty about the future. |
Ill the governments of Europe are watch
ng each other, lest one of them get too
much advantage. Diplomacy all the time
ervously at work. Four nations watch |
he Suez Canal as carefully as four cats
watch one rat.
"Here is peace all over the continent and |
othing to fight about. Side by side, you
Who wore the blue and the gray; you who
,indled fires on opposite sides of the Po-
omac In the winter OF 1868, you who fol-
owed Stonewall Jackson oward the North,
nd you who followed Gen. Sherman to ward
he South. why aren't you breaking each |
TIERS heads?
1.-The fact is, you have irreparably mixed
N vnur pplificS the Mort narn MAI tv | a