The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-06-15
THE GAMBLING EVIL.
Dr.. Talmage Arraigns the Spirit OF
Wild Speculation.
He Gives some Account of the Ftnan-
cinI Ruin of other Days-MOney
a oIde breasted
bird.
rCopyrlght, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. ~
Washington,

Washington,
In this discourse DR.. Talmage ar
raigns the spirit Of wild speculation
and gives some account of the Imam
cial ruin of other days; Proverbs $50;
"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
Office desk or on the parlor center
table. Men and women stand and
admire it. They do not notice that
it has wings larger than a ravens
larger than a fiamingo's, larger than
an eagles. One wave of the hand
of misfortune and it spreads its
beautiful plumage and is gone-"as
an eagle toward heaven" my text
says, though sometimes / think 1t
goes in the other direction.
What a v~erification we have had
of the flying capacity of riches in
Wall street! And Wall street is n
of the longest streets in the world.
1t does not begin at the foot or
Trinity church, New York, and N
at the East river, as many suppose.
1t reaches through all u Ameri-
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 to 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 and small
sums of money. The crash comes,
thank God, in time to warn off a
great many who were on their way
thither, for the sadness of the thing
is that a great many of the young
men of our cities who save a little
money for the purpose of starting
themselves in business, and who
have $500 or $1,000 or $4,000 or S10,-
600 20 into Wall street and lose all,
And if there ever was a 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. Ny counsel is t.
countrymen, so far as they may
hear of this discourse, if they hav,
surplus to invest it in first mort
cages and in m%oneyed institution.
which, though paying comparative
ly small interest, are sound and SAT,
beyond dispute, and to stand cleai
Of the Wall street vortex, where s,
many have been swamped and swal
lowed. What q compliment it is t,
the healthy condition of our countr,
that these recent disasters have il
nowise depressed trade! I thanl
God that Wall streets capacity t.
blast this country has gone forever
First of all, Wall street stands as
type in this country for tried integrit.
and the most outrageous villainl
Farmers who have only a few hundre
dollars worth of produce to put on til
market have but little to test thei
character, but put a man into til
seven times heated furnace of Wa
street excitement aud he either come
, out a Shadrach, with hair unsinged, O
he is burned into a black moral cindel
No halfway work about it. If wan
ed to find integrity bombproof,
would go among the bankers and mel
; chants of Wall street; yet becaus
there have been such villainies enacte
there at different times some me
have supposed that it is a great final
S cial debauchery, and they hardly daI
r go near the street or walk up or dow
t it unless they have buttoned up the
last pocket and had their lives insure
or religiously crossed themselves. Y,
e if you start at either end of the sire,
@ and read the business signs you wi
, find the names of more men of i
: tegrity and Christian ~benevolence tha
- you can find in the same space in al
: street of any of our cities. When Il
Christian commission and the sanital
: commission wanted money to sci
medicine and bandages to the woun
ed. when breadstuffs were wanted f,
furnishing Ireland, when colleges we
is 10 be endowed and churches were to
supported and missionary societi
d were to be equipped for their work
sending the Gospel all around II
IS world. the first street to respond HI
been Wall street, and the largest r
# sponses in all the land have come fro
Wall street.
ii But while that street is a type
20 tried integrity on one hand it is also
h. type of unbounded swindle on 4
NJ other. There are the spiders that We
In for innocent flies. There are the croc
w dies that crawl up through the sir
=, TO cranch the calf. There are I
anacondas, with lifted loop, ready
crush the unwary. There are financ.
wreckers, who stand on the bca
praying for a Caribbean whirlwind
a sweep over u commercial Interest,"
n. Let me say it is no place for a m
IL. 10 go into business unless his mol
principle is thoroughly settled. III
i no place for q man to go into bu