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WASHINGTON. June 9.-In this dis
course DIR. Talmage arraigns the spirit
of wild speculation and gives some ac-
count OF the financial ruin of other
days; Proverbs xiii, 8, Riches GER
tainly make themselves wings; they fly
away as an eagle toward heaven"
Money is gold breasted bird with
silver beak. 1t alights on the office
desk or in the counting room 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 n flamingos. larger
than an eagles. One wave of the hand
of misfortune, and it spreads its beautl-
full plumage and is gone. cas- an eagle
toward heaven" my textbook says,
though sometimes think 1t goes In the
other direction.
What a verification we have had OF
the flying capacity of riches in Wall
street! And Wall street is one of the
longest streets in all the world. 1t
does not begin Mt the foot of Trinity
church, New York, and end ut the East
river, as many suppose. 1t reaches
through all our American cities and
across the seas. Encouraged by the
revival of trade and by the fact that
Wall street disasters of other years
Were so far back as 10 be forgotten,
spectators 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 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
little money for the purpose of starting
themselves I'm business and who have
$500 or $1,000 or $1,000 or $4,000 go
into Wall street and lose all. And If
there ever was time for the pulpit to
speak out in regard to certain 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 printing press
and the pulpit give emphatic utterance.
My counsel Is 10 countrymen, so far as
they may hear OF this discourse, IL they
have surplus, TO invest il in first mort
cages and in moneyed institutions
which, though paying comparatively
small interest, are sound and safe be-
yond dispute, and to stand clear of the
Wall street vortex, where so many
have been swamped and swallowed.
What compliment II is To the healthy
condition OF our country that these re-
cent disasters have in no wise depress-
ed tradel l thank God that Wall
has gone forever.
Wall Street.
Across the island of New York IN
1855 wall made of stone and earth
and cannon mounted was built to keep
on the savages. Along by that wall n
street was laid out, and as the street
followed the line of the wall it was
appropriately called Wall street. 1t Is
narrow, IL Is unnrchitectural, and yet
Its history Is unique. Excepting LON
bard street. London, 1t is the mightiest
street on this planet. There the gov
eminent OF the United States was born.
There Washington held his levees.
There Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Caldwell
ana Mrs. Knox and other brilliant wo-
men or the Revolution displayed their
charms. There Witherspoon and JON
ATTAIN Edwards and George Whitefield
sometimes preached. There DIR. Ma
son chided Alexander Hamilton for
writing the constitution of the United
States without any God in it There
negroes were sold In the slave mart
There criminals were haruessed TO
waeelbarrows and, like beasts of bur
Den, compelled TO draw or were dashed
through the street behind carts TO
which they were fastened. There for
tunes have come TO coronation or burr
al since the day when reckless specu-
lators In powdered hair and silver shoe
buckles lodged Dugan, the governor
general OF his majesty, clear down to
yesterday at O'Clock. The history OF
wall street is TO n certain extent the
financial commercial, agricultural.
mining, literary, artistic, moral and re-
hgious history of this country. There
are the best men IN this country. and
there are the worst. Everything from
answering Integrity to tiptop scoun-
drelism-everything frcm heaven born
charity to bloodlcss Shylockism.
want TO put the pillow in at the curb-
stone or Trinity and drive IL clear
through to Wall street ferry. and SO
IL shall so If the horses are strong
enough to draw the plow.
tlrSt Of nil Wall .t.~oA
type IN this country for tried integrity
ana the most outrageous villainy.
FARMERS who have only few hundred
collars WORTH of produce to put Oh the
market have but little to test their
character. but put man into the sew.
en- times heated furnace OF Wall street
excitement and he either comes our a
Shadrach. with hair unsinged, or he "a
burned into black moral cinder. No
mar way work about ii. II I wanted
10 ma integrity bombproof, would
20 among the bankers and merchants
OF wall street. yet because there have
been such villainies enacted there at
dinerent times some men have suppos-
ed that it is n great financial debanrh-
cry and they hardly dare go near the
sereet or walk up and down 1t unless
they have buttoned up their last pocket
ana had their lives insured or religious
~ crossed themselves. Yet II you start
Mt either end of the street and read the
business signs you will find the names
or more men or integrity and Christian
Denevoience than you can find in the
same space in any street of any of our
cities. When the Christian commits
sion and tae sanitary commission want.
ed money to send medicine and band
ages to the wounded, when bread
stuifs were wanted for furnishing Ire
land. when colleges were to be endow-
ed and churches were to be 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 responses In all the