Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-16
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAcE.. DID,.
Pastor OF Jefferson Park Prssny-
terrain Church, Chicago

prevalent vice OF running into debt as
a result OF social and domestic extrav-
agance aud n false standard of living
and arraigns willful debt as the cause
Of manifold miseries. The text Is Ro-
mans Kill. s. ''Owe no man anything"
One day a famous scholastic clergy
man was talking to a noted practical
preacher. How Is IT," said he, that
you can collect such great audiences TO
hear you preachl I have one OF the
best private libraries In tie world |
spend at least ten hours O day In my
study with my books, and yet the peo-
pie prefer TO hear you preach instead
OF me. They want to hear your ser.
mons. although you do not work a
third as hard upon them as do. Half
OF your days are spent In calling and
In wandering about the streets and in
the stores ''Ah.r answered the prac-
teal minister TO his scholastic friend,
"the difference between us Is that you
read hooks. while study the stuff out
Of whicL books are made You breathe
the atmosphere OF musty tones; |, by
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the men and women with whom come
in contact. You translate epitaphs of
dead men; ! aualyze the troubles and
temptations and sins OF living men;
sit with them Mt the table;fI 20 with
them Into their stores; then. when !
begin To discuss their trials and temp
tations they naturally want to come
aud hear me preach" .tNt -
Paul was y practical minister and
not one famed for mere intellectual at
tainments. His rostrum was more of
ten the Topemaker's bench than the
syn0gogue's pulpit. AS practical Cos
pei physician lie In my text today dag
noses Que OF the most distressing NOR
al Diseases Of the human race. He saw
That the men, and women of his time
were living beyond their means and
Just as many people are doing in the
twentieth century; therefore he gave
In his Roman epistle the same advice
that Horace Greeley once wrote: "Nev-
CT run into debt. Hunger. cold. rags,
hard work. suspicion. unjust reproach.
are dist grecu lie. but debt is Infinitely
worse than them ALL Avoid peculiarly
oblirUtious as you would pestilerce
or GUn.lne. II you have not more than
30 ceuts und can get no more for
week. buy peck OF corn, parch 1t and
live On II rather than owe any man a
dollar" owe 10 man anything"
That means In John Randolph's inter
probation of the philosophers stone,
pay as you CO." That means that if
you have no money with which to sat
isfy your personal desires then let
them he uuSutisted. Allow no creditor
as jaller to rivct heavy iron ball of
financial obligation 20 your limbs. Do
not buy featbered singer unless at
the same time you have money to pur-
chase n cage Ia which to let your song
Eter abide. .r|
Debt the Offspring Of Pride.
Debt Is generally the offspring Of
pride. The bare nPcCssarics of life are
very small. Nearly every man can
make enough money TO provide for
these neceSslrics II he will only work
hard. do his best AID not waste his in
come on useless eXtravaganceS. Henry
Ward BeecLer once made the declara-
ton that mIu could feed himself and
wife aud II family OF =. owing children
upon $50 per week. For making this
statement Nts. -Beeciier was slIarply-ar-
ralgned by thousands of critics. Many
newspaper editorials affirmed that the
Plymouth pastor was advocating the
reduction of the laborers' salaries to
o. 10 aftnurnfin
any such thing. What Mr.. BcccheI
tried to prove was this: The bare nee
essaries OF life are very small; there
fore most people can provide for theii
actual needs IL they will only be ener
Retic ana at the same time he frugal
But this fruSaIity. in many cases
pride will not permit them TO practice
Pride, with tie smiling, superci.!ou>
face and bediamOnded finger, usually
comes to the young mans home will
such inslnuatiHg words US these: M!
friend. you have 10 right 20 rear lyoru
family as you are doing. You should
not allow your wife to stand behind /;
counter o. To live i'm the back room o.
the store With her two babies, as YOU
mother once did. This is a differen
age from that in which your fatEe
started out. II you do not let you
children grow UP ia Il respectable
nelghbNrhood and 20 to refined and OK
pensive pirate schools. then thei
youthful associates will be bad. AM
refined people will have nothing to d
with them" So the young man. VIII
was making humble, inConre and wa
on the hi.shroad to ultimate financial
SUCCESS. hires a private Rome on Stb
boulevard. He moves his family ava.
from the neighbOrhOod of his store
He hires clerk to do the work foI
merry done by his wife. while be lin
self Is visiting the wholesale depart
ments. The income, small before. Zee
comes less and IcSs:- The EXPENSES 10
the family sastenaIsc- are doubled an
qu9drupled: haunted. worried. anN