Year: 1878

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New York. November notwithstanding the
day was stormy, the Brooklyn Tabernacle was
crowded to the doors yesterday morning. The
interest In this thrilling series Of sermons is still
unabated but appears to be rather on the in
crease and they will be continued. The follow
ing is the sixth Of the SERIES delivered yesterday
morning.


sUBJEcT SATANIC EXCITEMENT.


Revelations Kill 70. The devil is come down
unto you having great wrath because he knoWeth
that he hath but short time


In some way the enemy Of all good has found
out the hour Of his dismissal from our world. he
cried out to Christ "Art thou come to torment
us before the timer tits healthful symptom
that in our day Satan is unusually active In our
cities II seems that he is winding up business
He is stirring In a way that Is as much as to ssy
"What do against these cities mustdo quickly
my time is almost up. Give me 10000 souls, and
give them to me Immediately or will never get
them at all" That Satan Is In paroxlsm Of ex'
element is proved to me every day. The fact is
thatne all his establishments are bankrupt,
If plain man stands In church and speaks
plain word against them they all Autter. few
nights ago riding through Broadway asked the
driver 10 stop near a street lamp, that might ex-
anime my memorandums II happened to be
near a place of amusement, and man rushed
out with anxious and alarmed manner, saying to
the driver: rs that Talmage you have inside
there7" Men In large commercial handwriting
send me letters protesting, evidently disturbed
lest In some of their midnight carOusals they
meet some Christian explorer. l started with the
idea Of some four or five sermons on the night
side of city life but find the powers Of darkness
80 worried that plant anew the batteries for still
further assault This satanic excitement is de-
scribed in the text. The devil is come down un'
to you, having great wrath because he knoweih
that he hath but a short time,


MIDNIGHT PANORAMA.


New York last Tuesday night approached from
the Brooklyn side by South Ferry, was scene Of
pictuIesqueneSs and beauty. There were enough
stars sprinkled over the heavens 10 suggest the
street lamp Of the CITY, which hath no need of the
sun. The masts Of the shipping against the sky
gave me a cosmopolitan feeling, as I said, "All
the world is here" and the spires Of st. Paul and
st. George aud Trinity pointed upward to the on:
ly complete source Of help for the dying thous'
ands Of our metropolis Long rows Of lamps
skirted the city with FIRE. The eleven thousand
gas lights of the streets united with those kndled
LOH6Ib anu bu6 tOp btOllEb VI SbtdplAoLAAOhbo
that keep great industries in perpetual motion,
threw on the sky froW horizon to horizon the ra'
dance of vast illumination Entering New
York by South Ferry, we were confronted with
the worst nuisance and the greater relief that
New York has experienced for the last 80 years
the Elevated Railroad, structure which having
much to do with the commercial, has more to do
with the moral prosperity Of the city. Ruin and
. tuh 1 10 fha
means Of moral salvation to the packed and
mothered tenement houses which are killing
thelf thousands every year. Was there ever such
an overmastering disagreement and sacrificing
Of carpentry and engineering productive OF such
blIssful FesultsP The shape Of New York has
been Its mightlest obstacle to good morals more
than nine miles long, In many places II is In
some places only mile and half wide. The
immense water frontage Of more than 20 miles is
grand for commerce, but the small width makes
crowded residence for the population, unless
rapid mode of transit can whirl them to distant
homes at night, and whirl them back again in
the morning. They must be near their work.
They don't like ferrlage they are afraid Of water.
The looks of some of their hands and faces show
they are afraid Of water Hence, huddled are
they together in tenement houses, which are de- |
structive of health, modesty and high state Of
morals. New York for the last thirty years has
been crowded to death When, therefore, on the
Night Of my exploration saw the lights Of the |
rushing rail train flying through the air saw the
first practical alleviatlOn Of the tenement house
system, The men and women Of small means |
will get out to fresh air. the larger accommoda- |
tions and the better homes Of the country But |
let no such improvement be made at the eX' |
pense Of those whose property Is being destroyed |
under the Clatter and bang and wheeze OF mid |
air locomoHOn. Let cities like individuals, pay |
for the damages wrought; also for the horses |
frightened out Of their harness and the carriages
smashed against the curb stones New York and |
Brooklyn want what London has-undergrouG
railroad communication, without danger ana
without nuisance and without hindrance, the
people set down every morning and night where
they want to be-,


Coming on up in the solltariness Of the night
we passed on our left the Castle Garden, place
comparatively squalid now. But as we pass by,
the scene Tushes to my memory when ell the
plaees leading thereto were blocked with splen.
did euuipages Of New York and Brooklyn, and
Castle Garden was filled to suffo( alton with peo
ple who had paid SlA for seat to hear Jenny
Lind sing, l suppose God could have afforded
many artists in our century just like her, but He
does not give more than one. Having heard her
sing, one would have no right TO complain II he
never heard any more music till he heard the
doxology OF the hundred and forty and four
thousand. The fact was the music OF two
worlds was in her voice. Amid the circle Of ad.
mirers that almost deifed her, she wrote In pri-
yate album verse that 1t might not be wrong to
quote:


"In vain seek for rest,


In all created good;


It leaves me still unblest


And makes me cry for God,


And sure at rest l can not be,


Until my heart finds rest in Thee"


Neither by night nor day do l see Castle Garden
hut my boyhoOd memory brings back that trl-
umph Of the Swedish cGntdrice and the majestic
and yociferstng asSemblage, the majority OF
whom have passed on TO the larger assemblage Of
the next world.


While this is on the left, on the right we pass
the once fashionable Bowling Green, where before
our day the mightiest wealth Of the city flourish
ed; the once gay drawing rooms now occupied by
companies, where passengers book
themselves for Glasgow or Liverpool-the elegant
inhabitants OF those homes In Olden time long
ago booked for longer voyages


WALL STREET AND THE PRINTING HOUSES.
IN and on As the solitary clstter Of our
horses hocf rang out on The night air, we passed
wall street, and, looking down, two rows of
lights had revealed TO us that not foot was stir
ring. But we could imagine that there came mp 5
m the night air the cachinnatlon Of men on /
whose hands the stocks had gone up, and the sigh
~ the iobbers on whose hands the stock had gone
down. Only half mile long that sleet, yet the s
venue of fabulous accumulation and appalling p
and wild swinde, and suicide and I,
and death. On the sough Of the S
Vind that swept from that street toward old Trim
ty there seemed to whisper the questions, Where rC
! swarthout2 Where is Ketcham ? Where is
Law? Where is Fisk 2 Where is Commodore
Vanderbilt the bull, and Daniel Drew, the bearP
Where Is Black Friday? Then the clock ct the q


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