Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-07-20

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WAsHlSGToN, July II. In this dis
course Or. Talmagc shows the causes
Of the great financial Disturbances
Which take place every few years and
arraigns the people who live beyond
:heir means; text, Jeremiah xvii, II.
''As the partridge stitch on eggs and
h6fcheth them not. so he that gettcth
riches and not by right shall leave
them IN the midst Of his days and at
bis end shall be a fool"
Allusion Is here made to n well
I known fact in natural history If
/ partridge or quail or Il robin brood
/ tire eggs Of another species, the young
+ VIII not stay with the one that happen
ed TO brood them but at the first op-
poFtunity will assert with their own
species. Those Of US who have been
brought up In the country have seen
the dismay Of the farmyard hen, hay-
ing brooded aquatic fowls, when after
awhile they tumble into their natural
element, the water. So my text sug-
gests that a man may gather under his
wings the property of others, but it will
after awhile escape; 1t will leave the
man In a sorry predicament and make
him feel very silly.
What has caused all the black days |
Of financial disasters for the last go
years? Some say 1t is the credit sys-
TEN. Something back Of that. Some
say 1t is the spirit Of gambling ever
and anon becoming epidemic. Some
thing back Of that. Some say II Is the
sudden shrinkage In the value Of secur-
tiles, which even the most honest and
intelligent men could not have fore
seen. Something back OF that. I will
give you the primal cause of ali these
disturbances. II Is the extravaganza
of modern society which impels a man
TO spend more money than he can hon.
estly make, and he goes into wild spec
ulation In order to get the means for
inordinate display, and sometimes tho
man is to blame and sometimes his
wife. and oftener both. Five thousand
dollars income. $4,000, $4,000 income.
is not enough for man to keep up
the style of living he proposes, aud
therefore he steers his bark toward the
maelstrom. Other men have suddenly
snatched up $4,000 or S100,000-why
not be? The present income Of the man
not being large enough, he must move
earth and hell to catch up With his
neighbors Others have q country seat
so must he; others have an extrava-
CANT caterer--so must he; others have
a palatlal resldence-so must he.
Extrsyagnnce. ,..4....l
ExtravagaDce is the cause OF all the
defalcations Of the last GO years, and IL
you Will go through the history of all
the great paDics and the great financial
disturbances no sooner have you found
the story than right back of il you will
find the story of how many horses the
man had, how many carriages the man
had, how many residences In the coun-
try the man had. how many banquets
the man gave-always, and not one ex-
ception for the last 90 years, either d.
rectly or indirectly extravaganza the
cause.
Now, for the elegances and the re-
fnements and the decorations Of life
| cast my vote. While ! am consider
ering this subject a basket Of flowers
Is handed ln-fowers paradisaical in
their beauty-white Gala, with a green
of begonla: cluster of he d
liotropes nesting IN some geraniums;
sepal and perianth bearing on them the !
marks Of Gods finger. When | see
that basket of flowers. they persuade
me that God loves beauty aud adorn- j
ment and decoration. God might have [
made the earth so as to supply the I
gross demands of sense, but left it
without adornment or attraction. In
stead Of the variegated colOrs of the 0
the earth might have worn an
unchanging dull brown. The tree !
might have put forth its fruit without q
Iba Dronbaov ~ ioof ar hloccon1 Mag
ira might have come down In gradual c
descent without thunder and winged 2
spray.
Look out of your window any morn :
ng after there has been dew and see 3
whether God loves jewels. Put a crys- p
al Of snow under a microscope and see e
what God thinks of architecture. God s
the priest Of olden time to G
rave his robe adorned with a wreath D
II gold and the hem Of bis garment to >
,e embroidered in pomegranates. The 1
arth sleeps, and God blankets it with e'
he brilliants Of the night sky. The d
world wakes, and God washes 1t from 4
he FURNISHED laver Of the sunrise. SO y
have not much patience with a man le
Il
yho talks as though decoration and ~
dornment and the elegances Of life q
re q sin when they are divinely rec o'
mmended. But there Is line to be c'
rawn between adornment and decora- u
Ions that we can afford and those we Id
annot afford, and when man crosses VI
hat line he becomes culpable. / can q
ot tell you what is extravagant for 'n
ou. You cannot tell me what is ex- al
ravagant for me. What Is right for sc
ueen may be squandering for duch-
IS. What may be economical for you,
man with larger income, will be wick eo
q waste for me, with smaller income. 10
here is no iron rule on this subject ou
very man before God and on his knees ay
lust Judge what Is extravaganza. and
hen a man goes into expenditures be- &c