The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-19
TIE TALMaGE SERMON.
The Noted Divine Pcaaches on Stock
Gambling


Proverbs xxi, 5, ''R;cbes certainly make
themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle
toward heaven"
Money is golden breasted bird with
silver besk. 1t alights on the Office desk or
on the rsrlor center table. Men and women
stand and aGnire it. They do not notice
thst it has wings larger than ravens, lar
ger than famingo's. larger than an eagles
One wave Of the hand of misfortune and j;
spreads its beautiful plumsge and is gone
stas an eagle toward heaven" my text says,
though sometimes think it goes in the
other direction.
What veri6cation we have had Of the
flying capacity Of riches in Wall street. Aad
Wall street is one of the longest streets in
the world. It does not begin at the foot Of
Trinity church, New York, and end ct the
East I9ver, as many suppose. 1t reaches
through sll our American cities and across
the ses. Encouraged by the revival of trade
and by the fact that Wall street disasters Of
other years were so far back as to be forgot.
ten, spectators run up the stocks from point
to point until innocent people on the outside
suppose that the stocks would always con-
tinue to ascend. They gather in from all
parts Of the country. Large sums Of money
are taken into Wall street and small sums Of
money. The crash comes, thank God, in
time to warn Of: great many who were on
their way thither, for the sadness Of the
thing is that s, great many of the young men
Of our cities who save little money for the
purpose OF starting themselves in busine:s.
and who have $500 or $1,000 or $4,000 or
$4,000 60 into Wall street and lose all.
And ifthere ever was time for the pull
pit to speak out in regard to certain kinds Of
nefsrious enterprises now is the time.
Stocks rose and fell, and now they begin
torise again, and they will fill again until
thousands Of young men will be ruined un-
less the printing press and the pulpit give
emphatic utterance. Ny counsel is to coun-
trymen, 50 far as they may hear OF this dis
course, If they have surplus to invest it In
first mortgages and in moneyed institutions
which though paying comparatively small
interest, are sound and safe beyond dispute,
and to stand clear Of the Wall street vortex,
where so many have been swamped and
swallowed. What compliment it is to
the healthy condition Of our country that
these recent disasters have in noWise de
pressed trade! l thank God that Wall streets
capacity to blast this country has gone for
ever.
Across the Island of New York in 1856
wall made Of stone and earth and cannon
mounted was built to keep of the savages.
Along by that wall street was laid out, and
IS the street followed the line Of the wall 1t
was appropriately called Wall street. 1t is
marrow. is unarchitectural, and yet its bis
tory is .ue. Excepting Lombard street,
London, it is the mightiest street on this
planet There the government Of the United
States was born, There Washington hell
Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and other brilliant
women Of the Revolution disple. ed their
charms. There Witherspoon and Jonathan
Edwards and George White6eld sometimes
preached. There DR.. Mason chided Alezan-
der Hamilton for writing the constitution Of
the United States without any God In it
There negroes were sold in the slave mart.
There criminals were harnessed to wheel
bsrrows and, like beasts of burden, com
PEELED to draw or were lashed through the
street behind carts to which they were fss-
tened. There fortunes have come to cor3na-
ton or burial since the dsy when reckless
spectators in powdered hair and silver shoe
buckles lodged Dusar, the o5ernor general
Of his msjesty, clear down to yesterday at 3
o'clock. The history of Wall street IS TO
certain extent the financial, commercial,
agricultural, mining, literary, artistic,
moral and religious history Of this country.
They are the best men in this country and
there are the worst. Everything from un
sverving integrity 10 tiptop scoundrelism-
everything from heaven born charity to bic od-
less Shylockism. want to put the plow in
at the curbstone of Trinity and drive it clear
through to Wall street ferry. And soit shall
go if the horses are strong enough to draw
the plow.
First Of all, Wall street stands as type in
this country for tried integrity and the most
outrageous villainy. Farmers who have
only few hundred dollars worth Of pro-
duce TO put on the market have but little to
test their character, but put man into the
seYen times heated furnace Of Wall street
excitement and he either comes out Shad-
rsch, with hair unsinged, or he is burned
into black moral cinder. No half way
work about it. If wanted to find integrity
bonbproof, would 60 among the bankers
and merchants Of Wall street, yet because
there have been such 7illainies enacted there
at different times some men have supposed
that it is great financial debanchery, and
they hardly dare 20 near the street or walk
up or down it unless they have buttooed up
their last pocket and had their lives insured
or reiigiously crossed themselves. Yet if
you start at either end Of the street and read
the business signs you will fud the names
Of more men Of integrity and Christian be-
nevoleRce than you can find in the same
space in any street Of any Of our cities.
When the Christian commission and the
sanitary commission wanted money to send
medicine and bandages to the wounded,
when breadstuffs were wanted for famish
ing Ireland, when colleges were to be en-
dowed and churches were to be supported
and missionary societies were to be equipped
for their work Of sending the gospel sll
around the world, the first street to respond
has been Wall street, snd the largest re
sponses in sN the land have come from Wall
street.
But while that street is q type Of tried
integrity on one hand j! is also type Of un-
bounded swindle on the other. There are
the spiders that wait for innocent flies.
There are the crocodiles that crawl up
through the slime to cranch the calf. There
are the snacondas, with lifted loop, ready to
crush the unwary. There are financial wreck
ers, who stand on the beach praying for
Caribbean whirlwind to sweep over our COM
mercial interests.
Let me say it is no place for man to 60
into business unless his moral principle is
thoroughly settled. That is no place for a
man to 30 into business who does not know
when he is overpaid SIS By mistake whether
ne .sd better take it back again or not,
That is no place for man to go who has
large funds in trust and who is all the time
tempted to speculate with them. That is no
plsce for man to 90 who does not quite
know whether the laws of the state forbid
usury or patronize it, Oh. how. many men
have risked themselves in the vortex and
gone Gown for the simple reason their integri-
ryhad not been thoroughly established. Re-
member Door Ketcham How soon the hy-