The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-16
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.

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 Washington, June s.-In this dis
 course pr. Talmage araigns the spirit of wild speculation and gives some ac-
 count of the financial ruin of other
 days; Proverbs xxiii, 5. Riches cer-
 tainiy make themselves wings; they
 ny away as an eagle toward heaven"
 Money Is golden breasted bird with
 silver beak, 1t alignts 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
 xlamingo's, larger than an eagles. One
 wave of the hand of misfortune and it
 spreads it's beautiful plumage and is
 gone--..as an eagle toward heaven"
 my text says, though sometimes I
 think 1t goes in the other direction.
 What verification we have had of
 the flying capacity of riches in Wall
 Street. And Wall Street is one of the
 longest streets in the world. It does
 not begin at the foot of Trinity
 Church. New York, and end at the East
 River. as many suppose. It reaches
 through all our American cities and
 across the sea. Encouraged by the |! revival of trade and by the fact that
 Wall Street disasters of other years
 were So far back as to be forgotten, speculators run up the stocks from point to point until innocent people on the outside suppose that the stocks would always continue to ascend. They gather in from all parts of the country. Large sums of money are taken into Wall Street and small sums of money. The crash comes, thank God, in time to warn of great many who were on their way thither, for the sadness of ac hof ma Of he young menof our cities who save little money for the purpose of starting themselves in business, and who have $500 or $1 900 or 5000 or $10,000 go into Wall Street and lose all. And if there ever was a time for the pulpit to speak out in regard to certain kinds of nefa- rious enterprises now is the time,
 Stocks rose and fell and now they be- gin to rise again, and they will fall again until thousands of young men will be ruined unless the printing press and the pulpit give emphatic utterance. My counsel is to countrymen. so far as they may hear of this discourse, If they have surplus to invest 1t in first mort gages and in money institutions which. though paying comparatively small in- terest. are sound and safe beyond dis pute and to stand clear of the Wall Street vortex, where so many have been swamped and swallowed. What a compliment 1t is to the healthy con- dition of our country that these recent disasters have in no wise depressed trade! thank God that Wall Streets capacity to blast this country has gone forever.
 A Street With History.
 Across the island of New York in 1885 a wall made of stone and earth | and cannon mounted was built to keep | off the savages. Along by that wall l a street was laid out, and as the street | followed the line of the wall it was | appropriately called Wall Street. It | is narrow, 1t is unarchitectural, and | yet its history is unique. Excepting | Lombard Street, London, 1t is the | mightiest street on this planet. There | the government of the United States was born. There Washington held | his ieyees. There Mrs. Adams and | Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and | other brilliant women of the RevoIu- ton displayed their charms. There Wftherspoon and Jonathan Edwards | and George Whitefield sometimes | preached. There pr. Mason chided | Alexander Hamilton for writing the | constitution of the United States with | out any God in it. There negroes | wei sold in the slave mart. There | HCIG HdLHGGScU LO WuGGtDdE- rows and. like beasts of burden. con- | peIled to draw or were dashed through | the street behind carts to which they were fastened Their fortunes have come to coronation or burial since the day when resckless speculators in pow dered hair and silver shoe buckles dodged Dugan, the governor general of his majesty, clear down to yesterday at o'clock. The history of Wall Street is to a certain extent the finan- cial. commercial agricultural, mining, literary artistic, moral and religious history of this country. They are the best men in this country and there are the worst. Everything from un- swerving integrity to tiptop scoundrei ism everything from heaven born charity to bloodless Shylockism. I want to put the plow in at the curb stone of Trinity and drive 1t clear