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Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses a Timely Subject—The Atrocious Evils at Race Track Gambling—A Common Sense View of an

Agitating Question.

New York, —In his sermon prepared for today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent in the west preaching and lecturing, has chosen as his theme, "Dissipations of the Race Course,'' the timeliness of which all will recognize. His text was Job xxxix, 19, 21, 25: "Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth; he goeth on to meet the armed men; he saith among the trumpets, ha, ha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting."

At this season of the year, when there come long columns of intelligence from the race course, and multitudes are flocking to the watering places to witness equine competition, and there is lively discussion in all households about the right and wrong of such exhibitions of mettle and speed, and when there is a heresy abroad that the cultivation of a horse's fleetness is an iniquity instead of a commendable virtue—at such a time a sermon is demanded of every minister who would like to defend public morals on the one hand and who is not willing to see an unrighteous abridgment of innocent amusement on the other. In this discussion I shall follow no eermonic precedent, but will give independently what I consider the Christian and common sense view of this potent, all absorbing and agitating question of the turf.

The Horse In Scripture.

There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king at beasts. I knock off its coronet and put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit, or sagacity or intelligence or affection ar usefulness. He is semihuman and knows how to reason on a small scale. The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast. Job in my text sets forth his strength, his "beauty, his majesty, the panting of his nostril, the jawing of his hoof and his enthusiasm ior the battle. What Rosa Bonheur did for the cattle and what Landseer did for the dog Job with mightier pencil does for the horse. Eighty-eight times does the Bible speak of him. He comes into every kingly procession, and into every great oocasion, and into every trinmph. It is very evident that Job and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and John were fond of the horse. Be comes into much of their imagery. A red horse—that meant war. A black horse—-that meant famine. A pale horse —that meant death. A white horse— Tthat meant victory. Good Mordecai amounts him while Haman holds the bit. The church's advance in the Bible is compared to a company of horses of Pharoah's chariot. Jeremiah cries out, How canst thou contend with horses?" Isaiah says, "The horse's hoofs shall be counted as flint." Miriam chips her cymbals and sing. "The horse and the rider hath he thrown into the sea.

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St. John, describing Christ as coming iorth from conquest to conqiust. represents him as sealed cm a white horse. Uii the parade of henvrui the Bible makes ua hear the clicking of hoofs on the golden pavement as it says, "The armies which were in teaven followed Jain on white horses." I should net •wonder if the horse, so banged and Ihrn&ed and beaten and outraged on £arth, should have some other place •where his wrongs .sliull bo righted. I do 3sat assert it, but I say I should not be jsnrpriscd if, after all, St. John's descriptions of the horses in heaven turned ea% not altogether to be figurative, but cnuiewhat literal.

Natures Praise Him.

.As the Bible makes a favorite cf the jborse, the patriarch and the prophet jood the evangelist, and the apostle ^f^jStToklng his sleek hide, and patting his xounded neck, and tenderly lifting his «qnisitely formed hoof, and listening & with a thrill to the champ of his bit, so iaH great natures in all ages have spoken him in encomiastic terms. Virgil in

Georgice almost seems to plagiarize gram this description in the text, so *croch wc the descriptions alike—the doi* »cription of Virgil and the descripti' of Job. The Duke of Wellington would wot allow ally ono irreverently to touch 'Jhis old warhorso Copenhagen, on whem

Jko had ridden fifteen hours without disvjeKmnting at Waterloo, and when old &•tCopenhageu died his master ordered a miliary salute fired over his grave.

A&n Howard showed that he did not exhaust all his sympathies in pitying tie human race, for when sick he writes tome, "Has my old chaise horse become sack or spoiled?" There is hardly any ... jpaasugB of French literature more iMzfbGtzc than the lamentation over the if.'jSntb -of the was charger Marchegay, ^"'Walter Scott has so much admiration B-Jfer this divinely honored creature of sf Cfad that in "St. Ronan's Well" he or-

He girth slackened and the blanket

E^fleewii over the smoking flanks. JCdttnUHl Burke, walking in the park Beacunsfleld, musing over the past, -Sfcrow* his aims around- the wornout bis dead son Richard and weeps th* horse's neck, the horse seeinto sympathize in the memories.

Hi 11. the great English preachearioutured because in his fanihe supplicated for the recovhorse, but when the horse

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«f this teuutifnl and wonderful oftiod? |l Thomas Chalmers.

in his day felt called upon to preach a sermon against cruelty to animals, how much more in this day is there a need of reprehensive discourse! All-honor to the memory of Professor Bergh, th6 chief apostle for the brute creation, for the merey he demanded and achieved for this king of beasts. A man who owned 4,000 horses,and some say 40,000, wrote in the Bible, "A righteous man regardeth Ijhe life of his beast.'' Sir Henry Lawrence's care of the horse was beautifully Christian. He says: "I expect we shall lose Conrad, though I have taken60 much care of him that he may come in cool. I always walk him the last, four or five miles, and as I walk myself the first hour it is only in the middle of the journey we get over the ground." The Ettrick Shepherd in his matchless "Ambrosial Nights" speaks of the maltreatment of the horse as a practical blasphemy.

I do not believe in the transmigration of souls, but I cannot very severely donounce the idea, for when I see men who cut and bruise and whack and welt and strike and maul and outrage and insult the horse, that beautiful servant of the human race, who carries our burdens, and pulls our plows, and turns our thrashers and our mills, and runs for our doctors—when I see men thus beating and abusing and outraging that creature, it seems to me that it would be only fail that the doctrine of transmigration of souls should prove true, and that for their punishment they should pass over into some poor miserable brute and be beaten and whacked and cruelly treated and frozen and heated and overdriven—into an everlasting stage horse, an eternal traveler on a towpath, or tied to an eternal post, in an eternal winter, smitten with eternal epizootics! Oh, is it not a shame that the brute creation, which had the first possession of our world, should be so maltreated by the race that came in last—the fowl and the fish created on the fifth day, the horse and the cattle created on the morning of the sixth day, and the human race not created until the evening of the sixth day? It ought to be that if any man overdrives a horse, or feeds him when he is hot, or recklessly drives a nail into the quick of his hoof, or rowels him to see him prance, or so shoes him that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts a collar on a raw neck, or unnecessarily clutches his tongue with a twisted bit, or cuts off his hair until he has no defense against the cold, or unmercifully abbreviates the natural defense against insect annoyance—that such a man as that himself ought to be made to pull and let his horse ride!

The Question of Speetl.

But not only do our humanity and mr Christian principle and the dictates Df God demand that we kindly treat the brute creation, and especially the horse, but I go farther and say that whatever jan be done for the development of his aeetness and his strength and his majesty ought to be done. We need to study his anatomy and his adaptations. I am glad that large books have been written to show how he can be best managed, and how his ailments can be cured, and what his usefulness is, and what his capacities ate. It would be a shame if in this age of the world, when the florist has turned the thin flower of the wood into a gorgeous rose, and the pomologist has charged the acrid and gnarled fruit of the ancients into the very poetry of pear and peach and plum and grape and apple, and the snarling cur of the orient has beevnne the great mastiff, and the miserable creature of the olden times barnyard has become the Devonshire, and the Aklcrney, and the Shorthorn, that the horse, grander than them all, should get no advantage from our science, or our civilization, or our Christianity. Groomed to the last point of soft brilliance, his flowing mane a billow of beauty, his arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve, let him be haruessed in graceful trappings, and then driven to the farthest goal of excellence, and then fed at luxuriant oatbins and blanketed in comfortable stall. The long tried and faithful servant cf the human race deserves all kindness, all care, all reward, all succulent forage and soft litter and paradisaical pasture field. Those farms in Kentucky and in different parts of the north, where the horse is trained to perfection in fleetness, and in beauty, and in majesty, are well set apart. There is no more virtue in driving slow than in driving fast, any more than a freight tram going ten miles the hour is better than an express train going 50. There is a delusion abroad in the world that a thing must be necessarily good and Christian if it is slow and dull and plodding.

There are very few good people who seem to imagine it is humbly pious to drive a spavined, galled, glandered, spring halted, blind staggered jade. There is not so much virtue in a Rocinante as in a Bucephalus. We want swifter horses and swifter men and swifter enterprises, and the church of God needs to get off its jog trot. Quick tempests, quick lightnings, quick streams why not qYiick horses? In the time of war the cavalry service does the most execution, and as the battles of the world are probably not all past, our Christian patriotism demands that we be interested in equinal velocity. We might as well have poorer guns in our arsenals and clumsier ships in cur navy yards than other nations as to have under our cavalry saddles and before our parks of arJllery slower horses. From the battle of Granicus, where the Persian horses drove the Macedonian iufantry into the river, clear down to the horses on which Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into the fray this arm ox the military service has been recognized. Hamilcar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adoh'hus, Marshal Ney were cavalrymen. In this arm of the service Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian cavalry, with the loss of only 700 men, overthrew the Roman army with the loss of 70,000. In the same way the Spanish chivalry drove back the Moorish hordes. The best way to keep |»eac0 in this oounhy and in all conn*

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tritvi is to be prepared fo^ war, and there is no success in such a contest unless there be plenty of lightfooted chargers. Our Christian patriotism and our instruction from the word of God demand that first of all we' kiijdly treat the horse, and then after that that we develop his fleetness and his grandeur and bis majesty and lis strength.

An Atrocious Evil.

But what shall I say of the effort being made in this day on a large scale to make this splendid creature of God, this divinely honored being, an instrument of atrocious evil? I make no indiscriminate assault against the turf. I believe in the turf if it can be conducted on right principles and with no betting. There is no more harm in offering a prize for the swiftest racer than there is harm at an agricultural fair in offering a prize to the farmer who has the best wheat, or to the fruit grower who has the largest pear, or to the machinist who presents the best corn thrasher, or in a school offering a prize of a copy of Shakespeare to the best reader, or in a household giving a lump of sugar to the best behaved youngster. Prizes by Ml means, rewards by all means. That is the way God develops the race. P.ewards for all kinds of well doing. Heaven itself is called a prize, "the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." So uat is right in one direction is right in another direction. And without the prizes the horse's fleetness and beauty and strength will never be fully developed. If it cost $1,000 or $5,000 or

and the result be achieved,

it is cheap. But the sin begins where the betting begins, for that is gambling, or thf effort to get that for which you give no equivalent, and gambling, whether on a large scale or a small scale, ought to bo denounced of men as it will be accursed of God. If you have won 50 cents or $5,000 as a wager, you had better get rid of it. Get rid of it right away. Give it to some one who lost in a bet, or give it to some great reformatory institution, or if you do not like tliPt go down to the river and pitch it off the docks. You cannot afford to keep it. It will burn a hole in your estate, and you will lose all that, perhaps ten thousand times more—perhaps you will lose all. Gambling blasts a man, or it blasts his children, generally both and alL

What a spectacle when at Saratoga, or at Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach, or a. Sheepshead Bay, the horses start, and in a flash $50,000 or $100,000 change hands! Multitudes- ruined' by losing the bet, others worse ruiiied by gaining the bet, for if a hi an lose in a bet at a horse race he may be discouraged, and.quit, but if he win the bet he is very apt to go straight on to hell!

A Race to Perdition.

An intimate friend, a journalist, who is the line oi his profession investigated this evil, tells me that there are three different kinds of betting at horse races, and.they are about equally leprous—by "auction pools," by "French mutuals," by what is called "bookmaking"—all gambling, all bad, all rotten with iniquity. There is one word that needs to be written on the brow of every pool seller as he sits deducting his 3 or 5 per cent, and slyly "ringing up" more tickets than were sold on the winning horse —a word to be written also on the brow of every bookkeeper who at extra inducement scratches a horse off of the race, and on the brow of every jockey who slackens pace that, according to agreement, another may win, and written over every judges' stand, and written on every board of the surrounding fences. That word is "swindle!" Yet thousands bet. Lawyers bet/ Judges of courts bet. Members of the legislature bet. Members of congress bet. Professors of l-oligiou l-et. Teachers and superintendents of Sunday schools, I am told, bet. Ladies bet, not directly, but through egents. Yesterday and every day they bet, they gain, they lose, and this summer, while the parasols swing, and the hands clap, and the huzzas deafen, there will be a multitude of people cajoled and deceived and cheated, who will at the races go neck and neck, neck and neck to perdition.

Cultivate the horse, by all means, drive him as fast as you desire, provided you do not injure him or endanger yourself or others, but be careful and" do not harness the horso to the chariot of sin. Do not throw your jewels of morality under the flying hoof. Do not under the pretext of improving the horso destroy a man. Do not have your name put down in the ever increasing catalogue of those who are ruined icr both worlds by the dissipations of the American race cfiurse. They say that an honest race course is a "straight" track and that a dishonest race course is a "crooked" track—that 'is the parlance abroad but I tell you that every race track surrounded by betting men and betting women and betting customs is a straight track—I mean straight down! Christ asked in one of his gospols, "Is not a man better than a sheep?" I say, yes, and he is better than all the steeds that with lathered flanks ever shot around the ring at a race course. That is a very poor job by which a man in order to get a horse to come out a full length ahead of some other racer, so lames his own morals that he comes out a whole length behind in the race set before him.

The Curse of America.

Do you not realize that there is a mighty effort on all sides today to get money without earning it? That is the curse of all the cities it is the curse of America—the effort to get money without earning it, and as other forms of stealing are not respectable, they go into these gambling practices. I preach this sermon on square old fashioned honesty. I have said nothing against the horse, I have said nothing against the tnrf. I have said everything ^gainst their prostitution.

Young men, you go iQto straightforward industries and you will have better livelihood and you will have larger permanent success than you can ever get by a wager but you get in with lome of the whisky, rum blotched crew which 1 see going down on. the bonle*

vards, and though I iiever bet I will risk this wager, $5,000,000 to nothing, you will be debauched and damned. Cultivate the horse, own him if you can afford to own him test all the speed he has, if he have any speed in him, but be careful whicli way you drive. Te« cannot always tell what direction a man is driving- in by the way his horses head. In my boyhood we rode three miles every Sabbath morning to the country church. We were drawn by two fine horses. My father drove. He knew them and they knew him. They were friends. Sometimes they loved to go rapidly, and he did not interfere with their happiness. He had all of us in the wagon with him. He drove to the coun'try chui$h. The fact Jt, that for 62 years he drove in the same direction. The roan span that I speak of was long ago unhitched and the driver put up his whip in the wagonhouse never again to take it down but in those good old times I learned something that I never forgot, that a man may admire a horse and love a horse and be proud of a horse and not always be willing to take the dust of the preceding vehicle and yet be a Christian, an earnest Christian, a humble Christian, a consecrated Christian, useful until the last, so that at his death the church of God cries-out, as Elisha exclaimed when Elijah went up with galloping horses of fire, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!"

lie Doesn't Like Rloomers.

A farmer in Delaware county has put his conservative sentiments on record by affixing to a tree on his premises a notice that "any idiot of the new woman species found riding or walking on these premises will be arrested. Interviewed as to his pi-ecise meaning, Agricola declares that by "any idiot of the new woman species" he means "one of these fools in bloomer costume on a wheel." Three things, then, are necessary to expose a woman .to his menace: (1) She must be a fool, (2) in bloomers, (3) on a wheel. It will be open to any woman against whom the rustic undertakes to operate his terrors to plead that she was not intended by the injunction, because she was not on a wheel, was not in bloomers or was not a fool, and the burden of proof will then rest upon the farmer. It seems that his specific grievance against the new woman is that she scares his horse, but it would not be. practicable to produce the horse before the justice of the peace and note the effect on him of the culprit. Meanwhile the best course of a woman who doubts whether she is an idiot of the new woman species is to keep off the old man's iand.—New York Titaes.^ '.'

King of Dahomey In Exile.

That interesting king in exile, Behanzin'of Dahomey, seems to accommodate h'mself fairly well, by all accounts, to circumstances in his enforced residence at Fort de France in the French possession of Martinique. A traveler who visited him only the other day describes him as having been surrounded by his wives and daughters, according to the etiquette of his country. He stood in the highroad and was about to return to his quarters. In answer to a salutation from his visitor the black monarch made a profound bow. Up to the present time, it seems, he has Ican'od very little of the language of his cantors. He only knows a dozen words or el' Trench. However, he contrived to convey the information that he considered the surrounding country very pretty, and that he and his suit were in god health and spirits, He is extremely fond of European masic and never neglects an opportunity of listening to the playing cf tbo band of French marines. The road to his resideuce is a steep one and covered with loose stones. It is about 20 minutes' walk from the harbor, where a French man of war, he Duquesne, is stationed. —London News.

Cheating In Kridfe Ruilcling. A surprising discovery has resulted from the investigation made of the piers cf th^ aqueduct bridge over the Potomac ri^er, which is crossed daily by people fvoin all parts of t-lio United States on their way to the National cemetery at Arlington. While making excavatione down to solid rock, with a view to improving the defective pier, it was found the old masonry had not started from solid rock, but upon riprap stone, apparently thrown in without removing the debris upon this rock. Above this insecure foundation the masonry was of the poorest quality imaginable, and the wonder is that the bv'dge did not collapse years ago. Stones were apparently put in as they came from the quarry, without the slightest reference to being set on end, and few traces cf mortar or cementing material were fonr.d. A. project for removing all defective parts of the pier will be prepared, with an estimate of cost, which will be st.Vniitted to the Fifty-fourth congress.—Wi.: hington Letter in Chicago Tribune.

.A Bicycle Tragedy. park-- was last

Eattersea park-- was last week the sceno of a bicycle tmgedy unsurpassed in its cycling annals. A lady, famous for the smartness cf her appearance, rode into the :rk behind an L. C. C. water cart, and, finding the road inconveniently crowded, continued to pedal slowly along behind that vehicle, which, it is needless to say, was not in active operation. Suddenly the driver applied his foot to the lever, and out spouted the water. The lady tried to turn quickly, but her bicycle slipped on the wet road, and down sho came in such a position as to obtain the full benefit of the cold* water douche. A pedestrian, horrified nt the accident, shouted to the driver, who at once brought the cart to a standstill. This only made matters worse, Cor, being absolutely unconscious of what had happened, he continued to keep the Water pouring on his victim, and several seoonds elapatid before th« Vrmity of his tffuxa^«0fi^d be plained to hvu.—LoQ^ott World.

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Something Beailen Lnw llat«* Offered by Pennsylvania Lliiet. Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be carried in the luxurious ea-e to beexpectedon "The Standard Railway of America"—the standard in construction, equipment and operation. This merited distinction means that every requirement for comfortable and delightful traveling is provided on thes-5 lines. The Parlor, Sleeping and dining cars and coaches are up io date in desigu and finish. The Pennsylvania is an up to-date railway system, the foremost in adopting practicable ideas for the convenience and pleasure of patrons.

Stop-over privileges will enable excurrursionists to visit places o*"' summer sojourn along the Atlautic Ocean. Long Branch, Cape May, Asbury ParV, Atlantic City, Ocfcjin Grove, and resorts on the New Jersey coa*t are on the Pennsylvania Lines, and May be reached at slight expense from Philadelphia and New York by daily excursions thither during the season. Historic scenes in Piiili'd'-lnhia, including Independence Hall wit:-. O il Li'»-rty Bell and numerous itir.Mvsting re!ics, the Un.ted States M'ut, M-«s.ini--!Yniile, Fairmount Park, the site the Centennial, may be visited within the stop-over limit.

Returning excursionists may make the trip over differeut routes to be s-lectecl at the time tickets to Boston are obtained. Hy tl i-i arrangement the return liiruey may be niada via the Hudson River, Niagara Falls, and other attractive places. If excursionists wish to lvach home in the most expeditious manner, they should obtain tickets with return portion rfading over the Pennsylvania Lines. When big crowds break up and the rush

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home commences, it should

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