Year: 1879

fact that 1t was known that Wall Street would be
the theme. The opening hymn was:


"Rise, my SOUL and stretch thy wings,


Thy better portion trace;


Rise from Lrsnsitory things


To heaven, thy native place."


The following is verbatim report Of the SER
mon:


Titles" Recent DOlBgs In Wall Street."


TExT-Proverbs, xiii, 8: "Ricbes certainly
make themselves wings; they fly away as an
eagle toward heaven"


Money is a golden breasted bird with silver
beak. 1t alights In counting.room and on parlor
center,table, and men and women stand admir-
ing 1t. But they do not notice 1t has wings as
a ravens, as large as aamingo's, as large as an
eagle. At the first wave Of misfortune II spreads
Its plumage and is gone. That verlfcation of the
flying capacity of riches we have had recently in
Wall Street. Taking advantage of the revival of
trade, and far enough Off from the Wall Street
disasters of other years to have them forget them
the speCulators have run up the stocks with We.
locity that made outsiders believe that they
would always continue to ascend. Thank God
the crash came so soon, and before any more
people were involved In the financial craze, We
pgAhPuthiAO WAtA luO lObGIbt anu duVRb LHIUl 10
stay out of Wall street. Let countrymen put out
their money in first mortgages or in United
States bonds, and keep clear of the vortex where
80 many were last week swamped and swallow.
ed. What healthful sign, that the recent sglta-
tions Of Wall street fail to excite the markets
throughout the country, Wall streets power to
blast the nation has gone forever


Across the Island of New York in 1765 wall Of
stone and earth. cannon. mounted was erected to
keep off the savage. A street was laid along by
that wall, and as the street took the line Of the
wall 1t was appropriately called Wall street. 1t
is short narrow, uDarchitectural, but unique in
history; and excepting Lombard street. in Lon
don the mfgbtiest street In the world. There the
Government of the United States was born there
Washington held his levees there Mrs Adams
and Caldwell and Knox and other brilliant wo.
men Of the Revolution displayed their charms;
there Witherspoon and Jonathan Edwards
and George Whitfield sometimes preached there
John Mason chided Alexander Hamilton be-
cause the Constitution Of the United States was
written without any God In it; there negroes
were sold In the slave mart; there criminals were
harnessed to wheelbarrows and made 10 draw
like beasts Of burden, or were lashed through the
streets behind carts to which they were fastened;
and there fortunes have come to coronation or to
burial, from the day when INSCRIPTIONS fnan.
ciers in powdered hair and silver shoe buckles
lodged Dugan, the Governor. General OF His
Majesty, until clear on down to last week, when
a good many fortunes smashed up, The fact is
the history Of Wall street would be the larger
part Of the financial, agricultural, manufacture
Ing and religious history Of this country. People
a Of a OV1vy hntnu -
reaches from the Canadas TO the Gulf of Mexico;
from San Francisco to Bangor. 1t stands for the
most emphatic opposites-unswervin integrity
and tip'top scoundrelism; heaven born charity
and bloodless Shylocksm. The best men and
and the worst men are found there. would
like to-day to put pillow in the curb stone of Old
Trinity and drive it clear down to Wall street
ferry; and so 1t shall go If the horses are strong
enough to draw the plow.


In the first place, Wall Street stands for tried
integrity on the one hand, and the most out.
rageous Villainy on the other. Among farmers
who have only a few hundred dollars worth of
produce every year to put upon the market you
cannot find out the character of men because
they are not tried but plunge man into the
seven times heated excitements of Wall street
and he will either come out shadrack, with
hair unsinged, or he will be turned into a black,
moral cinder. If l wanted to find integrity
bomb'proof, would seek 1t among the Wall
street bankers and merchants. Such nefarious
| things have some times been done there, that
strangers have all idea that from one end to the
other II Is scene Of financial debauChery, and
there are people who hardly dare pass through
the street unless they have buttoned up their
last pocket and had their life insured and al.
most religiously crossed themselves Yet If you
start at either end Of 1t and look at the names on
the signs, you will find more upright men In the
same space on that street than on any other busi-
ness doing street of all our cities. Fraud and
lying and subterfuge and Internal recklessness
do not hold unlimited sway Added to all this is
the fact that when the Sanitary and Christian
Commissions wanted to send medicines and
bandages to the wounded, and when this country
wanted to send breadstuff5 to famishing Ireland
and when colleges were to be endowed and
churches supported, and Missionary Societies
were to send the people to all the earth and de.
mand was made upon all cities, Wall street was
the first to respond,


But have to say, also, that In that street there
are the worst financial desperadoes this country
has ever seen. Some Of them got out Of the Pen.
itentiaryi others are on their way 10 Sing. Sing
These are the spiders that are waiting for limos
cent flies, These are the crocodiles that crawl UP
| through the slime to cranch the calf. These are
the anacondas with loop ready to catch the un-
wary, These are the maelStroms that suck down
| the freghted ship. These were the wretches who
stood on the beach praying for Caribbean whirl.
| winds to swamp our American commerce.
Blessed be God, the infamy was defeated. God
only knows what our mefchants have suffered
and our working people, too; and am glad tC
believe that their day OF deliveranee is coming
| Now, In passing, l want to make this subject
practical, and l say to all you men whose prin
ciples are not thoroughly settled in business
keep out Of Wall street. That Is no place for
man Who when he 10 oVerpaid IS by mistake
does not know whether he had better send 4
back or not, or for man who has put trust
funds In speculation; or for man who does no
know whether by the laws Of the State usury Il
right or wrong. That Is no place for man who's
principles CULVER In the blast OF temptation. Re
member poor Ketchum-how quick the hoofs O
his iron greys clattered him down on the road Il
destruction. Remember poor Gay, by thirty
years OF age astonishing the whole land with hi
fortunes, and also astonishing them W ith his for
geries. Remember James Fisk whose splendit
steamboats, and opera house could not atone TO
his adulterous rides through Central Park in tn,
face OF decent New York, and who from Wal
street by his example blasted tens OF thousand
OF the young men Of this generation, hold III
this polluted memory as warning TO all mel
whose principles are not thoroughly settled, I,
Keep out Of Wall street, Yea, my word also is I,
the men who in that street are engaged IN lepiti
mate business stand firm in Christian principle
De courageous In that commercial battle field
Remember there are heroes OF the bank ana he
roeiot the Stock Exchange That French EN-
press who stood on balcony in Paris and ad
dressed great mob until she silenced then
does not excite my admiration so much as tina
old bank President in Wall street, in 1869, WHIT
stood on the steps OF his moneyed Institution
quieting the excitement Of the depostors-
ding peace to the angry waves Of commercial ex
element God is going to take care Of you dowr
amid the marts OF business, The lions did no