The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-07-19
A SERMON ON MONEY.
Dr., Talmage Arraigns Those Who
Live Beyond Thei- Means.
Causes of Great Financial Disturb-
ances show - Extravagance the
Cause of Most DefaIcations-
Meeting ones obligations.

copyright. 1901. by Louis KIopseh, n. u
In this discourse DR.. Talmage shows
the causes of the great financial dis
turbances which take place every few
years and arraigns the people who live
beyond their means; text, Jeremiah
17:11: "As the partridge stitch on
eggs and hateheth them not, so he that
getteth riches, and not by right. shall
leave them in the midst of his days and
at his end shall be a fool"
Allusion is here made TO well-known
fact in natural history. If partridge
or a quail or a robin brood the eggs OF
another species. the young viii not
stay with the one that happened TO
brood them, but at the first oppor-
tunity will assert with their own spe-
cies. Those of us who have been
brought up in the country have seen
the dismay of the farmyard hen, hav-
ing brooded aquatic fowls, when after
awhile they tumble into their natural
element, the water. So my text sug-
gests that man may gather under ms
wings the property of others, but 1t
will after awhile escape. II will leave
The man in sorry predieament and
make him feel very silly.
What has caused all the black days
of financial disasters for the last 60
years? Some say it is the credit sys-
TEN. Something back of that. Some
say ii is the spirit of gambling ever and
anon becoming epidemic. Something
back of that. Some say it is the sud
| den shrinkage in the value of securi-
ties. which even the most honest and
intelligent men could not have fore
seen. Something back of that. Will
give you the primal cause of all these
disturbances. 1t is the extravaganza
of modern society which impels man
TO spend more money than he can hon
estly make. and he goes into wild spec
ulation in order 10 get the means for
inordinate display. and sometimes the
man is to blam me and sometimes his wife
and oftener both. Five thousand dol
lars income, $4,000. $50 GOO income, is
not enough for a man 10 keep up the
style of living he proposes. and there
fore he steers his bark toward the
maelstrom. Other men have suddenly
snatched up $50, 600 or 500, 600. Why
not he? The present income of the
man not being large enough. he must
move heaven and earth and he'll 10
catch up with his neighbors. Others
have a country seat; so must he. 9th
ers have palaitial residence; so must
he.
Extravaganza is the cause of all the
defalcations of the last 60 years, and If
you will go through the history OF all
the great panics and the great finan-
cial 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 car
riages. how many banquets the man
gave-always. and not one exception
for the last 60 years. either directly or
indirectly extravaganza the cause.
Now for the eiegances and the re-
fnements and the decorations life. !
cast my vote. While am considering
this subject a basket of flowers is
handed in-fiowers paradisiacal in
their beauty. White Gala with green
background of begonia. a cluster Of
heliotropes nesting in some geranium.
Sepal and perianth bearing on them
the marks of Gods finger. When 1
see that basket of flowers. they per-
suade me that God loves beauty and
adornment and decoration. God