REV, DR. TALMAGE. They Are No Worse Than the Country w=Vice is» More Apparent, Bat Not More Prevalent—A Plea For Honest Living. (Copyright Iw} * Wasmxarox, D. C.—~From St. Peters. burg, the Russian capital, where he was orally received by the Emperor and Empress and the Empress Dowager, Dr. Talmage sends this discourse, in which he shows the mighty good that may be done by the cities and also the vast evil they may do by their asllurements to the unsus- cting and the unguarded, The text is hariah i, 17: “My cities through pros- perity shall yet be spread abroad.” The city is no worse than the country. The vices of the metropolis are more evi- dent than the vices of the rural districts, because there ave more people to be bad, if they wish to be. The merchant is as good as the farmer. There is no more cheating in town than out of town—no worse cheating; it is only on a larger scale. The countryman sometimes preva- ricates about the age of the horse that he sells, about the size of the bushel with which he measures the grain, about the feaches at the bottom of the basket as eing 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 t) villages, 1 think that in same respects they are worse than the cities, because they copy the vices of the cities in the meanest shape, and as to gossip, its heaven is a country village! Be oly 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 balf dozen women who have their sun- bonnets hanging near, so that at the first item of derogatory news they can fly out and cackle it all over the town. Country: men must not be too hard in their eriti- 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 filth, the vice, 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 who prayers went up in the streets when, 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 auctionecer’s mallet ascends the aseription, “We wor- hip thee, O thou almighty dollar!” “ities 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 the death of were found exte to be built in E Asia. The a occupied by asiatics; the cities in were to be occupied, according to plaps, by Europeans, and so there sl a commingling and a frater kindness and a good will tinents and between always ought to be. » to be built in urope the cities. The strangest thing 0 ural and laugh! create in vou meredulity or misanthropy nor do 1 forget there are thousands of people a great deal better than they geem, but 1 do not think any man is pre- pared for the conflict of this life until he knows this particular peril 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 and wretchedness in the country. but these evils chiefly con- gregate in our great ¢ ities. On every street 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, and he stopped and said: “My boy, do you know how to read and write?’ The boy made no an- swer., The man asked the question twice and thrice. “Can you read and write?” and then the boy answered, with a tear plashing on the back 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 age 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 1, as soon as I could carry a basket, have to go out and pick up cin- ders, and never have no hn , sir? God don't want me to read, sir. can't read nor write neither.” In all cities, east, west, north, south, I notice great temptations to commercial fraud. Here is 8 man who starts in busi- ness. He says, “I'm going to be honest,” but on the same stxeet, on the same block, in the same business are Shylocks, Those men, to get the patronage of any one, will break all a ings with cost, putting their neighbors at great dis- advantage, expecting to make up the de- ficit in something else. HM 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, fhe honest man looks about him and says: “Well, this rivalry is awful. Per- hape I am more scrupulous them 1 need be. {his little bargain I am about to enter is a little doubtful, but 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 pagsed on, and one day I went into his store and nd*some iniquitous books on the shelf, and I said to him, “How is it possible that you can consent to seil such these?’ “Oh,” he replied, "I over those Puritenical notions! cannot do business in this day in the way other people do it.” ‘to make a long story short, he lost hie hope of heaven, and in a httle while he his ra¢ and th went into a madhouse n other when & man casts off God, God casts hum - i" 0is. books as have got A man unless he does it lout TH 108% raiIiyY, Hundreds of men ge cities every year thro jown In he pressure olitics That man in the be bickerings and American cities. New York mn caricaturing rhiladelphia, and Ph puma must stop picking at New Yor) certainly the continent ] for St. Paul and food for one city i rivalries among prospenty. prosperity walk A city with brain—that is Be erate step and LOuisvi north gfome for an anothe squar Greenwood, The statue York greeting ward Everett in Bost« confraternity. Ln there should go on bicker ries, 1 pie ad for a h igher style ! hood or sisterhood among the cities the fact that all classes and conditions society must co ingle. We sometimes cultivate a wicked exclusive nt Ject despises ignorance. {efinbment w have nothing to do with Noss booriahness high forehead despises the flat head, and hates Nazareth. 1 like this democratic principle of the gos act that we stand before God on and the same platform. Do not take on any aire. Whatever position you have gamed in society, you are nothing but a man, born of the same Parent, regener ated by 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 Agnin, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that it is a very Toe thing for a man to keep his heart night and te get to beaven. Infinite temptations spring upon us from places of public concourse, Amid go 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, how many make quick and eternal shipwreck! If a manof-war comes back from a battle, and is towed into the navy yard, we go down to look as the splintered spars and count the bul Jet holes, and Jook with patriotic admira- tion on the flag that floated in victory from the masthead. But tlat man is more of a curiosity who has gone through thirty vears of the sharpshooting of busi ness A , and yet saile on, victor over the temptations or the street. Oh! how many have gone down under the pressure, ing not so much as a patch of canvas to tell where they perished. Their dishones- tien kept tolling in their ears. Again, in all these cities 1 am impressed with the fact that life is full of pretension sham. What subterfuge, what dou- ble uealing, what two facedness! Do all the people who sheke hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who inquire concerning it? Do all want to see you who ask to call? Does SRR la Radi lod / w? Is » pot many a wretched stock of goods with a Prilliant store window? Passing up and down the streets to out business ind Your work are not impressed wi t i hollow, and that there are sub. uges an pretentions? Oh, how many i leav. d are who swagger and strut, gw few people who are natural and walk a lous in regard to temptalons we may ° While God in His Bibl chapter thundered lis pgainst these erimes, people pulpit and the printing press on the and just in tion as people are impure are they on this They are so f decay and death they do not want sepulchers opened. God will turn all the unclean, and no $ surrounding can make de cent that which He has smitten. God will not excuse sin merely because it has array and beautiful tapestry | résidence any more than He will that which ' crawls, a blotch of sores, through the lowest cellar. Ever and arom, through some lawsuit, thera flashes upon the people of our great cities what is transpiring in seemingly respecta- ble circles, Po call it “high hfe,” yom call it “fast living,” you call it “people's eccentricity,” ang while we kick off the sidewalk the poor wretch who has not the means to garnish his iniquity, these lords and ladies, wrapped im purple and in linen, go unwhipped of public justice. Ah, the most dreadful part of the whole thing is, that there are persons abroad whose whole business it is to despoil the young. What an eternity such a man will have! As the door opens to reeeive him thou sands of voices will ery out, "See here what you have done,” and the wretch will wrap himself with fiercer flame and leap into deeper darkness, and the multi. tude he has destroved will pursue him 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 drega. If 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 T saw what you may have seen there—six # demunciations the silent expect subject, + hora seme. their to destruction and excuse plunge. I never saw anything like it be fore or mince. Bix beautiful rainbows arching that great cataract! And so over the rapide and angry precipices of sin, where so many have hed down, God's beautiful admonitions hover, a warning arching each peril-six of them, fifty o ware, beware, beware! Young men, while you have time to re flect upon these things and before tha dution of the office ane the ore and the shop come upon you ' over this whole subject, aa after the day has passed and you in the nightfall the voices and f of the city dyin from your ear, it gets so wilent fo you can n your watch under your pillow going “tick, tick, Shin open the other perpendicul their direction until they enraptured 5 ng come and your or Mg in be the cross. ¥ CHASED BY FORTUNE Luck of 8 Cranky Geologist Who Was After Specimens Oaly, “One of the valuable mineral lepoxsits in the Black Hills district was originally discovered by a cranky geo logist who had to be forced into profit ing by his find,” said an old mining man, spinning yarns the other night. “He was an weazened-up little chap named Fullenwood, and, if I remem ber rightly, he came from Buffalo, N. Y. Anyhow, he was professor of geology fn some small college up the and came out west on a8 vaca Being an enthusiast, he couldn't and the air and scenery most tion, rest enjoy formation. He prowled hammer for several months and finally turned up in Denver with an enormous box, full of pleces of rock. One day a prac- geological men that showed free gold to the nak- ed eve, ‘Great Scott! he exclaimed, ‘what mine does this come from? ‘No mine at all; replied the professor; ‘I found it in sueh and such a stratum.’ And he launched into a learned disser- of the locality, ‘Well, did you stake inquired the other. ‘Cer- professor; ‘1 am out & claim?’ tainly not,’ sald the not a prospector, sir, I'm a scientist! “The mining man was astonished and insisted on having the sample as gaved at once, but the professor would not hear to it. He declared indignant. ly that he could not spare the speci from To make a stors visitor slipped up to the when he happened to be out, secured the chunk men his collection long short, his next day, roan off, the the Hills. He found spot from the professor's descrip Jittle and later on sold out y i £30,000 cash. He gi poste haste, to tion, located a claim, did a de velopment work, ive the profes had the hardest kind ting the little man to Fullenwood was red hot yf hig spect L000 and 100 Alto of for men, + flUeerest nse i down is that 1 No Empire Natives, ry thas $y $45 ¥ tis mMmouniail troueers they white cotton draw 1 by i ers, which al gee to be clean Wats and well laundered thes Upon their heads wear close fitting caps or hoods woolen the ears and the neck like the hoods chil cold New Upon this they wear aats of while protected by the inevitable their coat by sv night, omfortable garment Geographic Magazine, dark down of knitted work or some loth that fits closely aver i wear in weather in England, straw or felt, their bodies are Pong ho, and their a comprehensive as The Na which is bianket well ns any tional Britain's Former Chinese Wars it ls a somewhat curious eeinel dence that our first Chinese war-—-just gixty years ago-had an almost ex. actly similar origin as had the present upset, for the then Emperor issued a mandate to his subjects ordering the extermination of the British, offering rewards for the herds, not only of the commanders, but even for those of the private soldiers, That was, however, a comparatively small affair, for, be sides the Royal Navy and Royal Arti] lery, only some half dozen British regiments were needed to bring the Two of these regiments—the Berkshire) and the Fifty fifth (now the Second Border)-wear the Chinese Dragon as badges in commemoration some four years, and in this the French joined us. On this occasion more regiments were engaged, the King's Dragoon Guards being the only cavalry corps, and several native Iw dian regiments played a gallant pal. In Spain the Infant's face Is swept A Prominent Physician, Dr. O. I. 8. Cawthon, of Andalussia, “I find Tetteriue to be If there were only many others as honest as Dr. (. how much mankind would be blessed by this truly wonderful anti. dote for all itehing eruptions. 50e. a box at druggists or by mail from J.T. 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