The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-27
KLONDIKE FEVER,
A LAND OF GOLD
Topic Of Rev. DR.. Giifin's Discourse 10
Elm Park Church.
1T Is TIME TO QUARANTINE
With All the Threatened Yellow Fee
yer More Is to re Feared from the
Ravages of IT, yellow Fever of
KIondikc Which Has Inspired Many
to Desperate Effort and will Lure
MANY More to mt, Dis
aster and Death.

"The Klondike Fever-A Land of
Gold" was the peculiarly-trite and
timely topic of last nights sermon by
Rev. DIR. C. NJ. Gifiin at Elm Park
church. His text was THE land of
Haviah, where there is gold" Genesis,
2:11.
Dr. Gifin remarked that a land of
gold is generally included when men
choose their paradise and he humor-
ously observed that someone will yet
locate Eden in Alaska. That would be
less strange than about the North Pole,
which has seriously been declared by
one authority to have been the orig
inal birthplace of the race. If that Is
true, the climate must have changed
considerably as the chilly atmosphere
is now making it difficult for man to
reach his lost estate.
Reference was made by DR.. Giffin to
the prospective extent of the Klondike
fever. He quoted from newspaper ac-
counts and in explanation Of his choice
of topic referred to the fact of having
received a letter last week from
ministerial friend, proposing that he
and the speaker go to the Klondike.
When the contagion infects the clergy
it was time to quarantine against it
and compose ourselves so as not to
join the stampede. With all of threat
ened yellow fever more was to be
feared from the ravages of the yellow
fever of Klondike, which has inspired
many to desperate effort and will lure
| many more to disappointment, disas-
ter and death.
WHY HE DID NOT START.
If Adam had desire for bags of coin
he would not have invited an expul-
| sion from Paradise, but would have
been early on another and right road
| to fortune. One reason why he did not
| start for Havilah was that in Eden
he was the sole earthly monarch and
| had no rivals. Many nowadays are
angry because possessed of less than
their neighbors, because they have
nothing and want something in order
| to be somebody.
Two propositions were made by DIR.
Giffin: First, land of gold is not al
ways out of land of good; second
all desire to be in a land of gold, as
that represents afiuence and purchas-
ing power. He explained that the lat
ter was not always good, as in the case
|
America blindly allows it she will be
| worse than Lazarus after his four days
in the tomb. Gold is needed to settle
the great financial question as to the
forced relations between the white and
yellow metals; it is wanted to relieve
the congested conditions in society as
| long as one-fourth of one per cent. OF
the population own one-half of all the
country's wealth. While that condi
tion prevails there must be irritation
everywhere and strife.
BEST TO STAY HERE.
His final remarks concerned land o.
more than gold, a land of home, o.
love, of church. He asked if it wer,
not better to stay where there is les'
of substance and more of self. II
Scranton there is plenty of gold, plent!
for all who will dig for a living. II,
recommended to young men that kinC
of mining as honorable and healthful