The Progress., 1897-07-31
GOOD TINES COMING.
REV. DR.. TALMAeE breaches UPON
RETURNING PROSPERITY.

He Gives Three Prescriptions r"T "
Cure Of Business Depression arsi Flo
ouently Urges Their Claims to Conf
deDce-The Voyage of Life.
IAsHIxGToN, July s5.-This discourse
NJ Dr Tal,nace shows how all may help in !
the restoration OF good times and Is most
aprYoprinte Text, Lamentations III 80,
~Wberefore doth a living man compliant!
A cheerful interrogatory in the most
melancholy book OF the Bible. Jeremiah
wrote SO many sad things that we have
word named after him, and when any
thing Is suroharged with grief and com
plant we call 1t a jereniad. Bot In my
text Jeremiah, as by a sudden JOLT, wax
ems us to n thankful spirit.
Our blessings are 80 much more numef-
ms than our deserts that he Is surprised
that anybody should ever find fault.
Having life, and with It q thousand piess-
inQs, 1t ought to hush Into perpetual 81
hence everything like criticism OF the deal
ines of God. Wherefore doth a living
man complaint
While everything in our national finances
Is brig htening, for the last few years the
land has been set to the tune OF n ss1iii.
There has been here and there cheer1ul
eoloist, but the grand chorus has been one
of lamentAtion accompanied ~ Urges
over Frustrated commerce., silent manu-
S0GbOHi6D. ssAs>e ~>s
those disorders described by the two short
words, lizard times" The fact Is that
We have been paying tor the bloody luxury
Of war more than 80 years ago. There
were great national differences, and we
had not enough Christian character to set
tie them by arbitration and treaty, and %
we went into battle, expanding life and
treasure and well nigh swampinG the ma
tional finances, and north and south. east
and west, have ever since been paying Tor
those four years. Indulgence ia barbarism
But the time has come when this depres-
sion ought TO end-yea, when 1t Will END
II the people are willing to do two or
three things by way OF financial medical
ment, for the people a. well rs congress
must join in the work OF recuperation:
The best political economists tell us that
there is no good reason for continued pros
tration. Plenty of money awaiting In
yestlnent The national health with never
% strong an arm or SO clear brain. Yet
we go on groaning, grooming, grooming, az
though God had put this nation upon
Cruel and allowed us but one decent break
fast In six months. The fact Is the ha biz
of complaining has become chronic In this
country and after all these years Of whim
per and wailing and objurgation we are
under such q momentum of SWIVEL that we
cannot stop
Three Prescriptions.
There arc three prescriptions by which
believe that our individual and national
finances may be cured Of their present de-
preston. The first IL cheerful conversation
and behavior. I have noticed that the PEG
pie who are most vociferous against thu
day Ia which we live are those who are II
comfortable circumstances. have made
inquiry of those persons who are violent
In their jeremiads against these times ant
I have asked them. "Now, after all, ar
you not making a livings" After SOM
hesitation and coughing and clearing thei
throat three or four times they say STAN
neringiy. Yes" So that with q grea
multitude Of people 1t Is not a question o
getting livelihood, but they are dissatis
fed because they cannot make rs mucl
money as they would like to make The.
have only S. 900 In the bank, where the.
would like l., have 81, 900. They can clea
In year only $1,000, when they woul'
like to clear 1000, or things come on
just even. Or in their trade they get 50
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