The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-07-18
TAmAGE's SERMON.
FINANCIAL PANIcS THE SUE
JECT LAST SUNDAY.
FROM the Seventeenth Chapter of Jsre-
nntaAAs Verse 1.-The Esshnenents of
Aafe and Unnecessary Expenses OF the
Home and EanniIy-LIye Economically.


course DR. Talmage shows the causes
OF great financial disturbances which
take place every few years and
ralgns the people who live beyond
their means; text. Jeremiah xvii, II,
As the partridge stitch on eggs and
hatcheth them not, he that getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave
them in the midst of his days and at
his end shall be fool
Atius1on is here made to well
Known 9act in natural history If a.
partridge or quail robin brood
the eggs of another Species the young
VIII act stay with the one that happen
ed To brood them, but at the first op-
poftunfty will assert with their own
species. Those of us who have been
brought up in the country have seen
the disnfay of the farmyard hen, hay-
ing 5rooded aquatic fowls, when at
ter awhile they tumble into their nat
Ttral clement, the water. So my text
suggests that q man may gather under
mis- wings the property of others, but
1t viii after awhile escape. 1t will leave
the man IN a sorry predicament and
make htn feel very silly.
ExtravaSance Causes Ruin.
What has caused all the black days
of financial disasters for the last SO
years2 Some say it is the credit sys-
tenn. Something back of that. Some say
1t is the spirit of gambling ever and
anon becoming epidemic Something
oacl1 of that Some say it Is the sudden
shrinkage in the value of securities,
which even the most honest and intel
iIgent men could not have foreseen.
Something back of that [ will give you
the primal cause of all these disturb
ances- It is the extravaganza of modern
society which impelS a man to spend
more money than he can honestly
make, and he goes into wild specula
rion IN order to get the means for in
ordinate display, and sometimes the
is TO blame and sometime his wife
and cfteneF both. Five thousand dol
lars income, $40 900. $50, 900 income, is
not enough for a man to keep up the
style d living he proposes, and there.
fore he steers his bark toward the
maelstrOEa. Other men have suddenly
ssnatched up $50, 900 or 500. 900. Why.
not hep The present income of the man
not being large enough, he must move.
earth and he'll to catch up with his
neigh boIzs. Others have a country seat;
must he. Others have an extraya-
giant caterer; so must he others nave
a pafatia1 residence; so must he.
Extr4va gance is the cause OF all the
6efaIcations of the last so years, and, if
you VIII go through the history of all
the great panics and the great financial
disturbances no sooner have you:
found the story than right back of 1T
YOU VIII find the story of how many;
horses the man had, how many car
riages the man had, how many resi-
how many banquets the man gave-al-
ways, and not one exception for the
last go years, either directly or indi-
rectIy extravaganza the cause
The Rehnornents of Life.
Now for the elegances and the re-
dnements and the decorations of life.
! cast my vote. While / am consider
ing this subject a basket of flowers is
handed in-howerS paradisiacat in
their beauty. White Gala with green
acIxgrou11d Of begonia- A cluster of
FeIiutropes Nesting in some gerapiun-
sepal and perianth bearing on them
the marks of Gods finger When see
that basket of flowers, they persuade
me that God loves beauty and adOrn-
1uefat and decoration God might have
made the earth so as to supply the
gross demands of sense, but LETT 1t
without adornment or attraction In
stead OF the variegated colors of the
seasons the earth might have worn an
sanchang inxy dull brown J.. The tree
might have put forth its fruit with out
43,e prophecy of leaf or blossom. Mia
ssag-;t might have come down in gradual
descent without thunder and winged
spray.
Look out of your window any morn
Ing after there has been dew and see
whether Cod loves jewels Put a crystal
of snow under q microscope and see
what God thinks of architecture. God
commanded the priest of olden time to
Of gold and the hem of his garment to
De embroidered in pomegranates- The
earth sleeps. and God blankets il with
the bFilliants of the night sky. The
world wakes, and God washes it from
tfae FURNISHED Iaver OF the sunrise. So
/ have not much patience with man
who talks though decoration and
aadornxaent and the elegances of life are
Z sin when they are divinely recon-
rnended But there is a line to BE-
sErawz1 between adCrnment and decora-
lions that we can afford and those we
cannot afford, and when a man crosses
the line he becomes culpable. I cannoi
tell you what is extrayagant for you
You cannot tell what is
extravagant for me What is
right for queen may be
sauandering for duchess. What may
be economical for you. n man with
larger income, Will be wicked waste
for me, with smaller income There Is
no iron rule on this subject. Every