Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-12
THE GAMBLING EVIL.
d.. Talmage Arraigns the Spirit of
Wild Speculation.
- Gives some Account OF the Ftnan-
sial Ruin OF Other Day.-Moaey
Golden Breasted
Bfrd-
scspsrIsht. 1901. by Louis Kiopsen. N. VI


and gives some account of the finan-
eiai ruin of other days; Proverbs 23-5:
Riches certainly make themselves
wings; they fly away as an eagle
toward heaven"
Money is a golden-breasted bird
with silver beak. 1t alights on the
once desk or on the parlor center
table. Men and women stand aud
admire il. They do not notice that
IL has wings larger than ravens.
larger than n fiamingo's, larger than
an eagles. One wave of the hand
OF misfortune and il spreads it's
beautiful Plumage and is gone--"us
an eagle toward heaven. my text
says, though sometimes ! think ii
goes IN the other direction.
What n yerification we have had
OF the flying capacity of riches in
wall street, And Wall street is one
OF the longest streets in the world.
II does not begin at the foot OF
Trinity church, New York. and end
AT the East river, as many suppose.
1t reaches through all our Amcri-
can cities and across the sea. En-
couraged by the revival of trade and
by the fact that Wall street disas.
tiers OF other years were so far back
as TO be forgotten, spectators run
up the stocks from point tn point
until innocent people on the outside
suppose that the stocks would al
ways continue to ascend They
gather In from all parts OF the coun-
try Large sums of money are
taken into Wall street aud small
sums OF money. The crash comes
thank God, in time to warn off a
great many who were on their way
thlther, for the sadness of the thing
is that great many of the Young
men OF our cities who save little
money for the purpose of starting
themselves in business, and who
have $500 or $1,000 or $1,000 or SIO.-
200 go into Wall street and lose all
And If there ever was II time for the
pulpit TO speak out in regard to Ger
tain kinds OF nefarious enterprises
now is the time.
Stocks rose and fell, and now they
begin to rise again. and they will
fall again until thousands of Young
men will be ruined unless the print
Ing press and the pulpit give en-
phatic utterance. My counsel is to
y
hear of this discourse, if they have
surplus TO invest it in first mort
cages and in moneyed institutions
which, though paying comparative
~ small interest, are sound and safe
beyond dispute, and to stand clear
OF the wall street vortex, where so
many have been swamped and swat
lowed. What compliment il is to
the healthy condition of our country
that these recent disasters have i'm
nowise depressed trade! thank
God that Wall streets capacity to
blast this country has gone forever.
First of all. Wall street stands as n
type in this country for tried integrity
and the most outrageous vilIainv
Farmers who have only few hundred
dollars worth Of produce to put ON the
market have but little to test their
character, but put n man into the
seven times heated furnace of Wall
street excitement and he either comes
out Shadrach. with hair unsinred. or
he is burned into "A black moral cinder
No halfway work about it. If want
ed TO find integrity bombproof. /
would go among the bankers and mer-
chants of Wall street; vet because
there have been such villainies enacted
there at different times some men
have supposed that it is a great fnan-
cial debauChery, and they hardly dare
60 near the street or walk up or down
it unless they have buttoned up their
last pocket and had their lives insured
or religiOusly crossed themselves. Yet
il you start at either end Of the street
and read The business signs YOU will
find the names of more men Of in
tegrity and Christian benevoleuce than
you can find in the same space i'm any
street OF any Of Our cities. When tho
Christian commission and the sanitary
commission wanted money to send
medicine and bandages to the wound
ed, when breadstuffs were wanted for
furnishing Ireland. when colleges were
TO be endowed aud churches were to he
supported and missionary societies
were TO be equipped for their work OF
sending the Gospel all around the
world. the first street TO respond has
been Wall street. and the largest re-
sponses in all the lnud have come from
Wall street.
But while that street is TYNE or
tried integrity ON one hand 10 also
type OF unbouuded swindlc ON the
other. There are the spiders that Wal;
for innocent flies. There are The crocu-
dies that crawl uP through the Slime
10 crapch The calf There are The
Rnacondas. with lifted loop. ready TO
crush The uuwary. There are financial
wrcckers. who stand on the beach
praying FOR q Caribbean whirIwfnd 90
sweep over our commercial interests.
Let me say it Is no place for a man
TO 90 into business unless his mora.
principle is thoroughly settled That
is no pace for a man 60 go into BUSH
ness who does not know when he is