Connecticut western news., 1901-07-18

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 WASHINGTON, July 14.--In this dis course Dr. Talmage shows the causes of the gSeat financial disturbances which take place every few years and arraigns the people who live beyond their means: text, Jeremiah xvii, II, AS the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth 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 fool"
 Allusion Is here made to well known fact ill natural history. If partridge or quail or robin brood the eggs of another species, the young will not stay with the one that happen ed to brood them, but at the first op- portunity will assort with their own species. Those of us who have been brought up Ill the country have seen the dismay of the farmyard hen, hay 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 his wings the property of others, but 1t will after awhile escape; it will leave the man in sorry predicament 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- tenn. Something back of that. Some say 1t is the spirit of gambling ever and anon becoming epidemic. Some thing back of that. Some say 1t Is the sudden shrinkage in the value of secur- ities, which even the most honest and intelligent men could not have fore seen. Something back of that. I will give you the primal cause of all these disturbances. It Is the extravaganza of modern society which impels man fo spend more money than he can hon. estly make. and he goes Into wild spec ulation in order to get the means for inordinate display, and sometimes the man Is to blame and sometimes his wife and oftener both. Five thousand dollars income, $fO, ,000. $20,000 income, is not enough for a man to keep up the style of living he proposes, and therefore he steers his bark toward the
  snatched up $50,OOO or S100,000-why not he? The present income of the man not being large enough, he must move earth and hell to catch up with his neighbors. Others have country seat so must he; others have an extrava- gant caterer-so must he; others have a palatial residence-so must he.
 Extravagnnce.
 Extravaganza Is the cause of all the defalcations of the last 60 years, and 1T you will 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 will find the story of how many horses the man had, how many carriages the man had, how many residences in the coun- try the man had, how many banquets the man gave-always, and not one eX- ception for the last 60 years, either df' rectly or indirectly extravaganza the cause.
 Now, for the elegances and the re- finements and the decorations of life l cast my vote. While l am consider ering this subject basket of flowers Is handed in-fowers paradisaical in their beauty-white calla, with green background of begonia; a cluster of he liotropes nestling in some geraniunis; sepal and perianth bearing on them the marks of Gods finger. When 1 see that basket of flowers, they persuade me that God loves beauty and adorn- ment and decoration. God might have o,.Yl tn gross demands of sense, but left it without adornment or attraction. h. stead of the variegated colors of the seasons. the earth might have worn an unchanging dull brown. The tree might have put forth its fruit without the prophecy of leaf or blossom. Mag ara might have come down in gradual descent without thunder and winged spray.
 Look out of your window any morn ing after there has been a dew and see whether God loves jewels. Put a crys- 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 wreath of gold and the hem of his garment to be embroidered in pomegranates. The earth sleeps, and God blankets 1t with the brilliants of the night sky. The world wakes, and God washes 1t from the burnished layer of the sunrise. So l have not much patience with man who talks as though decoration and adornment and the elegances of life are sin when they are divinely rec 1n1 n,It f, o mo fn a drawn between lornment and decora- tions that we can afford and those we cannot afford and when a man crosses that line he becomes culpable. l can not tell you what Is eXtravagant for you. You cannot tell me what is ax- travagant for me. What Is right for queen may be squandering for duch- ess. What may be economical for you, a man with larger income, will be wick ed waste for me, with smaller income. There Is no Iron rule on this subject. Every man before God and on his knees must judge what Is extravaganza, and when man goes into expenditures be- yond his means he Is extravagant. When a man buys anything he cannot pay for, he is extravagant.
 Mean CIass of Thieves.
 There are families In all our cities who can hardly pay their rent and who owe all the merchants In the neighbor- hood and yet have an apparel unfit for their circumstances and are all the tine sailing so near shore that business misfortune or an attack of sickness prepares them for pauperism. You know very well there are thousands of families In our great cities who stay in neighborhoods until they have exhaust ed all their capacity to get trusted. They stay In the neighborhoods until the druggists will let them have no more medicines, and the butchers will sell them no more meat, and the bak- CTS will sell them no more bread, and the grocerymen will sell them no more sugar. Then they find the region un- healthy, and they hire carman, whom they never pay, to take them to some