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*R EV. DR. T A LM AG E
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
-Subject: The Mission of Cities—Morally
They Are No Worse Titan the Country
—Vice is More Apparent, But Not More
Prevalent—A Plea For Honest Divnig.
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Y\ ashington, J). C. —Front St. Peters
n rg, the .Russian capital, where lie was
cordially received by the Emperor and
Empress and ti:si Empress Dowager, Dr.
ialmage sends this discourse, ;jn which he
shows the mighty good that inlay be done
by toe cities and also the va/jt evil they
may do by their allurements ..'it he unsus
pecting and the unguarded. t,' \e text is
Zechariah i, 17: “My cities tiwigh pros
perity shall yet bo spread abi’) f F
The city is no worse than' pe country,
due vices of the metropolis ? h more evi
oent tlian the vices of the ri fil districts,
because there are more peop’ Ito be had,
if they wish to be. The ni-' -hant is as
good as the farmer. There 3 no more
in town than out A town —no
worse cheating; it is only |i a larger
scale, The countryman sonn- Ines preva
ricates about the age of the horse that lie
sells, about the size of the bushel with
which he measures the grain, about the
peaches at the bottom of the basket as
being as large as those at the top, about
the quarter of beef as being tender when
it is tough, and to as bad an extent as the
citizen, the merchant, prevaricates about
calicoes or silks or hardware.
And as ti villages, 1 think that in some
respects they are worse than the pities,
because they copy the vices of the cities
in the meanest sliape, and as to gossip, its
heaven is a country village! Everybody
knows everybody’s business better than
he knows it himself. The grocery store
or the blacksmith shop by day and night
is the grand depot for masculine tittle tat
tle, and there are always in the village a
half dozen women who have their sun
bonnets hanging near, so that at the first
item of derogatory news they can fly out
and cackia it all over the town. Country
men must not be too hard in their criti
cism of the citizen, nor must the plow run
too sharply against the yardstick.
Cain was the founder of the first city,
and I suppose it took after him in morals.
It takes a city a long while to escape from
the character of the founder. Where the
founders of a city are criminal exiles, the
tilth, the vi'Se, the prisons, are the shadow
of those founders. It will take centuries
for New York to get over the good influ
ence of the pious founders of that city—
the founders whose prayers went up in
the streets where now banks discount,
and brokers bargain, and companies de
clare dividends, and smugglers swear cus
tom house lies, and above the roar of the
wheels and the crack of the auctioneer’s
mallet ascends the ascription, “We wor
ship thee, O thou almighty dollar!"
Cities are not evil necessarily, as some
have argued. They have been the birth
place of civilization. In them popular lib
erty has lifted its voice. Witness Genoa
and Pisa and Venice. After tile death of
Alexander the Great among his papers
were found extensive plans of cities, some
to he built in Europe, some to he built in
Asia. The cities in Europe were to he
occupied by..-Asiatics: the cities in Asia
were to he occupied, according to his
plans, by Europeans, and so there should
be a commingling and a fraternity and a
kindness and a good will between the con
tinents and between the cities. 80 there
always ought to be. The strangest thing
in my comprehension is that there should
be bickerings and rivalries among our
American cities. New York must stop
caricaturing Philadelphia, and Philadel
phia must stop picking at New York, and
certainly the continent is large enough
for St. Paul and Minneapolis. What is
?ood for one city is good for all the cities,
lere is the great highway of our national
prosperity. On that highway of national
prosperity walk the cities.
A city with large forehead and great
brain —that is Boston; a city with delib
erate step and calm manner—that is Phil
adelphia; a city with its pocket full of
change—that is New York; two cities
going with a rush that astounds the con
tinent —they are St. Louis and Chicago; a
city that takes its wife and children along
with it—that is Brooklyn. Cincinnati,
Louisville, Pittsburg, all the cities of the
north, and all the cities of the south,
some distinguished for one thing, some
for another, one for profesCional ability,
another for affluence, another for fashion,
but not one to be spared. What advan
tages one advantages all. What damages
Boston Common damages Washington
square. Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn,
Greenwood, weep - over the same grief.
The statue of Benjamin Eranklin in New
York greeting the bronze statue of Ed
ward Everett in Boston. All the cities a
confraternity. I cannot understand how
there should go on bickerings and rival
ries. I plead for a higher style of brother
hood or sisterhood among the cities.
Again, in all cities I am impressed with
the fact that all classes and conditions of
society must commingle. We sometimes
cultivate a wicked exclusiveness. Intel
lect despises ignorance. Refinement will
have nothing to do with boorishness.
Gloves hate the sunburned hand, and the
high forehead despises the flat head, and
the trim hedgerow will have nothing to
do with the wild copsewood, and Athens
hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be.
I like thi3 democratic principle of the gos
pel of J esus Christ which recognizes the
fact that we stand before God on one
and the same platform. I>o not take on
any airs. Whatever position you have
gained in society, you are nothing hut a
man, horn of the same Parent, regener
ated hy the same Spirit, cleansed in the
same blood, to lie down in the same dust,
to get up in the same resurrection. It is
high time that we all acknowledged not
only the Fatherhood of God, but the
brotherhood of man.
Again, in all cities I am impressed with
the fact that it is a very hard thing for a
man to keep - his heart right and to get to
heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon
us from places of public concourse. Amid
so much affluence, how much temptation
to covetousness and to be discontented
with our humble lot! Amid so many op
portunities for overreaching, what temp
tation to vanity! Amid so many saloons
of strong drink, what allurements to dis
sipation! In the maelstroms and hell
gates of the street, liow many make quick
and eternal shipwreck! If a man-of-war
comes back from, a battle, and is towed
into the navy yard, we go down to look
av the splintered" spars and count the bul
let boles, and lock with patriotic admira
tion on the flag that floated in victory
from the masthead. ’B.ut that man is
more of a curiosity who has gone through
thirty years of the sharpshooting of busi
ness life, and yet sails on, victor over the
temptations of the street. Oh! how many
have gone down under the pressure, leav
ing not so much as a patch of canvas to
teil where they .perished. Their dishones
ties kept tolling in their cars.
Again, in all these cities' I am impressed
with the fact that life is full of pretension
and sham. What subterfuge, what/ dou
ble uealing, what two facedness! Do all
the people who shake hands love each
other? Are all those anxious about your
health who inquire concerning it? Do all
want to see you who ask you to call? Does
all the world know half as much as it
pretends to know? Is there not many a
wretched slock of goods with a brilliant
store window? Passing up and down the
streets to your business and your work,
are you not impressed with the fact that
society is hollow, and that there are sub
terfuges and pretensions? Oh, "how many
there are who swagger and strut, and
how few people who are natural and walk!
While fops simper and fools snicker and
simpletons giggle, how few people are nat
ural and laugh! I say these things not to
create in you incredulity or misanthropy,
nor do I forget there are thousands of
people a great deal better than they
seem, but I do not think any man is pre
pared for the conflict of this life until he
knows this particular peed.
Again, in all cities 1 am impressed with
the fact that there is a great field for
Christian charity. There are hunger and
suffering and want aftd wretchedness in
the country, but these evils chiefly con
gregate in our great cities. On every streeS
crime prowls and drunkenness staggers,
and shame winks, and pauperism thrusts
out its hand asking for alms. Here want
is most squalid, and hunger is most lean.
A Christian man going along a street in
New York saw a poor lad, ami he stopped
and said: “My hoy, do you know how to
read and write?” The hoy made no an
swor. The man asked the question twice
and thrice. “Can you read and write?”
and then the boy answered, with a tear
plashing on the hack of his hand. He
said in defiance: “No, sir; I can’t read
nor write neither. God, sir. don’t want
me to read and write. Didn’t He take
away my father so long ago I never re
member to have seen him? And haven’t
I had to go along the streets to get some
thing to fetch home to eat for the folks?
And didn’t I, as soon as I could carry a
basket, have to go out and pick up cin
ders, and never have no schooling, sir?
God don’t want mo to read, sir. I can’t
read nor write neither.”
In all cities, east, west, north, south, I
notice great temptations to commercj*
fraud. Here is a man who starts in busi
ness. He says, “I’m going to be honest,”
but on the same street, on the same
block, in the same business are Shylocks.
Those men, to get the patronage of any
one, will break all understandings with
other merchants and will sell at ruinous
cost, putting their neighbors at great dis
advantage, expecting to make up the de
ficit in something else. If an honest prin
ciple could creep into that man’s soul it
would die of sheer loneliness! The man
twists about, trying to escape the penalty
of the law, and despises God, while he is
just a little anxious about the sheriff.
The honest man looks about him and
says: “Well, this rivalry is awful. Per
haps I am more scrupulous than I need he.
This little bargain I am about to enter is
a little doubtful, hut then I shall only do
as the rest.” And so I had a friend who
started in commercial life, and as a book
merchant, with a high resolve, • He said,
“In my store there shall be no’books that
I would not have my family read.” Time
passed on, and one day I went into liis
store and found some iniquitous books on
the shelf, and I said to him, “How is it
possible that you can consent to sell such
hooks as these?” “Oh,” he replied, “I
have got over those Puritanical notioms!
A man cannot do business in this day
unless he does it in the way other people
do it.” To make a long story short, he
lost his hope of heaven, and in a little
while he lost his morality, and then he
went into a madhouse. In other words,
when a man casts off God, God easts him
off.
Hundreds of men going down in our
cities every year through the pressure of
politics.
That man in the fear and love of God
goes into politics with that idea and with
the resolution that he will come out un
contaminated and as good as when he
went in, but generally the case is, when a
man steps into polities, many of the news
papers kry to blacken his character and to
distort all his past history, and after a
little while lias gone hy, instead of con
sidering himself an honorable citizen, he
is lo3t in contemplation and in admiration
of the fact that lie has so long been kept
out of jail!
If a man should go into politics to re
form politics, and with the right spirit,
he can come out with the right spirit and
unhurt. Tnat was Theodore# Frelinghuy
seu, of New Jersey. That was George
Briggs, of Massachusetts. That was
Judge McLean, of Ohio.
Then look around and see the allure
ments to dissipated life. Bad books, un
knotvh to father and mother, vile as the
reptiles of Egypt, crawling into some of
the best of families of the community,
who may read them while the teacher is
looking the other way or at recess or on
the corner of the street when the groups
are gathered. These hooks are read late
at night! Satan finds them a smooth
plank on which he can slide down into
periditipn some of your sons and daugh
ters.
Reading had books, one never gets over
it. The books may be burned, but there
is no| enough power in all the apothe
earyVorepaTationS to wash out the stain
from tne soul. Fathers’ hands, mothers’
hands, sisters’ hands will not wash it out.
None but the hand of the Lord can wash
it out.
And what is more perilous in regard to
some of these temptations we may not
mention them. While God in His Bible
from chapter to chapter thundered His
denunciations against these crimes, people
expect the pulpit and the printing press
to be silent on the subject,’ and just in
proportion as people are impure are they
fastidious on this theme. They are so
full of decay and death they do not want
their sepulchers opened. God will turn
into destruction all the unclean, and no
splendors of surrounding can make de
cent that which He ha3 smitten. Goa
will not excuse sin merely because it has
costly array and beautiful tapestry and
palatial residence any snore than He will
excuse that which crawls, a blotch of
through the lowest cellar. Ever
and anon, through some lawsuit, there
flashes upon the people of our great cities
what is transpiring in seemingly respecta
ble circles. You call it “high life, you
call it “fast jiving,” you call it “people’s
eccentricity," <?.na while we kick off the
sidewalk the poor wretch who has not the
means to garnish his iniquity, these lords
and ladies, wrapped in purple and in
linen, go unwhipried of public justice. Ah,
the most dreadful part of. the whole Oiling
is, that there are persons abroad whose
whole business it is to .despoil the .young.
What an eternity such a- man will have!
AH the door opens to receive him thou
sands of voices will cry yut, "See here
what you have done,” an\d the wretch
will Wrap himself with fiercer flame and
leap into deeper darkness, and the multi
tude he has destroyed .will pursue 11111, and
hurl at him the long, bitter, relentless’,
everlasting curse of their, own ■anguish. If
there be one cup of eternal ’ darkness more
bitter than another, they will have to
drink it to the dregs, f! in all the ocean
of the lost world that comes billowing up
there be one wave more fierce than an
other, it will dash over them. But there
is hope for all who will turn.
I stood one day at Niagara Falls, and I
saw what you may have seen there —six
rainbows bending over that tremendous
plunge. I never saw anything like it be
fore or since. Six beautiful rainbows
arching that great cataract! And so_ oyer l
the rapids and angry precipices of sin,
where so many have been dashed down,
God’s beautiful admonitions hover, a
warning arching each peril—six of them,
fifty of them, a thousand of them. Be
ware, beware, beware!
Young men, while you have time to re
flect upon these things and before the
duties of the office and the store and the
shop come upon you again, look over this
whole subject, and after the day has
passed and you hear in the nightfall the
voices and footsteps of the city dying
from your ear, and it gets so silent that
you can hear distinctly your watch under
your pillow going "tick, tick,” then oqpnl
your eyes and look out upon the darkness i
and see two pillars of light, one horizontal, j
the other perpendicular, but. changing ;
their direction until they come together, 1
and your enraptured vision beholds it— 1
the cross. ,
Ten
"3 am a soheo3 teacher?
3avs suffered agony
monthly for teat years,
* 6 My nervous system
was a wreck, 3 suffered
with pain Sn my sMo am!
had almost ov&ry Hi
known, 3had takes* treat
ment from a number of
physicians whs gave tne
no relief,
“ On® specialist said no
medicine could help me,
I must submit to an
operation,
“3 wrote to Mrs, Pink
ham, stating my case, am!
received a protnpt reply,
3 took Lydia E, Psnkhaurs
Vegetable Compound and
followed the advice given
sno am3 now 8 suffer no
more. If any cno cares
to know more about my
case, I will cheerfully
answor all Setters,"—
Mass mm ellss, mg
ginsport,
Doesn’t Know It All Now.
“Higgins, I’ve come to you for ad
vice. What ought a man of my capa
bilities and opportunities to do in or
der to achieve the greatest success in
life?”
“Gurney, I wish you had come to
me with that question about five years
sgo. I could have told you all about
then. I was just out of college.”
A Prominent Physician,
Dr. C. I. S. Cawthon, of Andalussin,
Ala., writes; “I find Tetterine to be
superior to any remedy known to me
for the cure of Eczema and other stub
born forms of skin diseases.” If there
were only many others ns honest as Dr.
C. how muah mankind would be
blessed by this truly wonderful anti
dote for all itching eruptions. 50c. a
box at druggists or by mail from J. 11.I 1 .
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Pstajcola Ostriches.
In Patagonia ostriches are not bred,
as at the Capa of Good Hope, but run
xvUd and are being gradually extermi
nated. The Indians chase them on
horseback and catch them with bolas—
two heavy balls upon the end of a rope
woven of leather strings, which they
throw In such a manner that the birds
are ensnared.
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Shake into your shoos Allen’s Foot-Ea3e,
a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New
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Nails, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Sore
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A Cure. .
Maud—‘‘Why did you break off your engage
lunut with poor Tom Hotchkiss?”
E llth—“Hush, don't tell any one, but he was
growing so horribly fat. Wiieu grief has pulled
ltltn down a bit I shall take him on again/'—
New York World.
Fctsam Fadeless Dyes are fast to
sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by
all druggists.
Another Failure.
Northrup—“Mycongratulatlons on yourmar
rlage with the wealthy widow, oid chap. Of
course, you are In clover now, ob?“
Hardup (sadly)—"No; she Is not the loan
widow I took her to be.”
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Fenner—“What has become of Sourgall, the
critic?” Author—“He wrote a book and was
found out”—Life.
Plso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
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And She Took the Cake.
Little Girl—“l want a cake of soap.”
Drug Clerk—“ Have it scented?"
Lttilo Girl—"No, I won t have It sented, I'U
tnkelt wi’ me. -We only live around do cor
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NOTICE—WANTED—Two traveling salesmen
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No fewer than 112 families of Injurious In
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When the eye is in trouble
use a reliable remedy.
Mitchells Eye Salve
is a
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One? bottle usually ef
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Price iXS cents. All druggists.
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Honeymtoti Stamps.
The new Japanese stamps Issued In
commemoration of the recent marriage
qf the Prince Imperial are now reach
ing this country. In the oval frame
of the stamp Is a picture of the Jap
anese marriage table, which takes the
place of the Christian altar on such
occasions. The table is decorated with
bamboo stalks and plum twigs and
blossoms, and at each corner rises a
spray of pine. The pine and the bam
boo being evergreens, represent that in
which there is neither variability nor
shadow of turning; the plum, on the
other hand, stands for that which
buds, blossoms and fruits for the good
of man. The decorations of the paper
table cover are the crane and the tor
toise; of these the bird is symbolic of
one thousand years and the turtle of
ten thousand years. Here sit the bride
and bridegroom and pass each other
cups of saki to the number of nine,
and so they are married, for the nine
drinks together symbolize the perfect
Japanese marrrlage.
The legend In Japanese sets forth
the names of the imperial bridegroom
and his bride and the date of the wed
ding.—Collier’s Weekly.
An Advantage In Being Short.
Colonel Burn-Murdock, who is now In
South Africa in command of the "Kais
er’s Own,” owes liis life to his short
stature. When the square was broken
at Abu Klea, Colonel Burn-Murdoch
was standing by the side of two other
officers, both taller than he. The on
rusliing dervishes fired a volley, and,
unhappily, both of liis tall neighbors
fell shot through the head, while Col
onel Burn-Murdoeli was hit in the hel
met. That helmet is now in the an
cestral hall.
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“Pa. What is an optimist?”
“A man who sometimes hears of people doing
things Just as ho would have done them it ho
had boon th re.”
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started with bad bowels, and they willm
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how it is—you neglect—get
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mouth mornings, and general "all gone" "-
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High-Priced Eggs.
Two specimens of the egg of the
Great Auk were recently sold In a Lon
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The more important of the two eggs is
nn unrecorded one from a French col
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specimen known of a special type of
marking. The price just obtained for
it establishes a record, $1,600 having
been, until this sale, the highest
amount ever received. About seventy
five eggs of the Great Auk are known
be In existence.
The Gare Fowl, or Great Auk, was a
bird about the size of the domestic
goose, hut with abnormally small
wings, formerly abundant In New
foundland, and is a visitor to Iceland
and to some of the Scottish Isles. It Is
now extinct, the last specimen proba
bly having been hunted down for muse
ums about sixty years ago.
ummi NCH £ m
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