The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
s:FAILMAdEs 3 SERMON.
DR. Talmago Arraiga'ss People Who
u Live Beyond Their Means.

Ia this discourse Or. Talmago shows
tho causes Of the groat financial dis.
@turbances which take place eyory few
r years and, arrsigns tho people who live
d beyond their means; text, Jeromiah
Il xvii, II, "As the partridge sittoth on
eggs and hatchoth them not, so he that
( gottoth riches, and not by right, shall
y leayo them in tho midst Of his days
and at his ond shall bo fool"
Allusion is hore mado to we'll known
fact in natural history. If a partridge
y or q quail or robin brood tho eggs Of
another species, tho young will not
stay with tho one that happened to
brood them, but at tho first opportuni.
ty will assort with thoir own speoios.
Those Of us who havo been brought up
in the country have seen tho dismay
Of the farmyard hon, having brooded
< aquatic fowls, whom after awhile they
\ tumble into their natural olomont, the
water. So my aext suggests that a
man may gather under his wings the
property Of others, but it will after
awhile escape. 1t will leave tho man
\ feel very silly.
What has caused all tho black days
Of financial disasters Of tho last 60
( years? Somo say it is tho credit sys.
tenn. Something back Of that. Some
say it is the spirit Of gambling over and
anon becoming epidemic. Something
back OF that. Some say it is tho sudden
y Bhrinkage in the value of securities,
/ which oven the most honost and intel
ljgont mon could not hsyo foresoon.
Something back Of that. l will give
you tho primal CAUSE Of all those dis
turbances 1t is tho extravaganza Of
modern society which impols man to
spend more money than he can hon
estly mako, and ho goes into wild
speculation in order to got tho means
for inordinato display, and sometimes
the man is to blamo and sometimes his
wife and oftenor both. Five Thousand
dollars income, $10,00O,. 500, 900 in.
como, is not enough for man to keop
up the stylo Of living ho proposes, and
therefore ho steors his bark toward tho
maolatrom. Other monshavo suddenly
snatohed up $50, 900 or 500, 900. Why
not ho? Tho present income of tho
man not being largo enough, ho must
move earth and holl to catoh up with
his neighbors. Others have y country
scat; 50 must he. Others have an OK
travagant caterer; 80 must he. Othors
have palatial residence; so must ho,
Dxtravaganoe is tho CAUSE Of all tho
dGfaloations Of tho last 60 years, and, if
y. you will go through tho history Of all
the great psnios and tho great financial
disturbances, no sooner have you found
tho story than right back of it you will
!. find tho story of how many horses tho
man had, how many carriages tho man
had, how many residences in the coun.
try tho man had, how many banquots
the man gave always, and not one OK
oeption for the last so years, oithor
directly or Indirectly extravaganza the
0au6e.
Now for tho ologances and the roGne-
ments and tho decorations Of lifo.
1 cast my vote, While am considering
4 this subject basket Of flowers is hand
ol in-- Aowors paradisiaoal in their
" beauty. White Gala with green
Il background Of begonia. A cluster Of
heliotrOpes neBtling in some geranium.
5 S8pal and perianth, bearing on thom
sRit tho marks of Gods finger. ts5 w hen I
SEQ that basket \ Of flowers, they por-
S:ss II me tthat God logss9 teauty and
ssAd dornmen and, decoration G Cd might
have made tho: o:earth SO as to supply tho
b. gross doaands of sense, but loft it with
out adornment Or attraction. Instead
IL Of the n Svariegated oolorB Of tho sea-
sons tho earth might have worn an un-
u changing dull brown. The tree migLt
B have put forth its fruit without tho
(. prophecy Of leaf or blossom. Niagara
might hayo come down in gradual dea-
cent without thunder and winged spray
Look out Of your window any morn.
ing after there has been dow aud 500
whether God loveg jewels Put olys-
tai Of snow under microscope and see
what God thinks of architecture. God
commanded the priest Of olden time to
have his robe adorned with a wreath
Of gold and the hem of his garment to
be embroidered in pomogranates. Tho
earth sleeps, and God blankets it with
the brilliants of the night sky. Tho
world wakes, and God washos it from
the FURNISHED laver Of tho sunrise. So
l have not much pationoo with man
who talks as though decoration and
adornmont and the olcgancos Of lifo
are sin whom they arc diyinoly recon-
mendod. But thore is limo to bo
drawn betwoon adornmont and dooora.
tions that ne can afford and those wo
cannot afford, and whom man orossos
that line he becomes oulpable. can.
not tell you what 10 extrayagant for
you. You cannot toll me what is OK
travagant for me. What is right for a
.quoon may be squandoring for duchess.
What may be economical for you,
man with larger income, will he wicked
waste for mo, with smaller inoomo.
There is no iron rulo on this subject.
Every man before God and and on his
knees must judge what is extravaganza,
and when a man goes into expenditures
beyond his means he is cxtravagant.
When man buys anything no cannot
pay for, he is extravagant.
Thore are families in all our cities
who can hardly pay thoir ront and who
owe all tho merchant in tho noighhor-
hood and yet havo an apparel unfit for
their circumstances and arc all the timo
calling go near shore that businoss mia
fortune or an attack of sicknoss pro-
psros them for pauporism. You know
very we'll there arc thousands of fami
lies in our great oitiee who stay in
neighborhoodg until they havo exhaust
ed all their capacity to got trusted,
They. stay in tho noighborhoods until
the druggists will lot them havo no
moro medicines, and tho butchers will
aall than M rpcra ,,ooot ond ~ hoL