Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 November 1878 — Page 2

THE GATES OF HELL.

Ttlmage's Third Sermon on the Night Side of Life in New y$t York.

Stine of the Safes Which £ver Stand Ajar to Entrap the Unwary.

New York, Oct.

27.—The

third of the

aeries of sermons by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., on "The Night Side of City Life," as explored by him in company with high officials, was delivered this morning at the Brooklyn tabcrnacle. The immense building was crowded to its utmost capacity, and the street in front .was blockaded with a mass of people un"able to gain admittance. The services -were opened by the vast audience, of $j7,ooo people singing, "Hold the Fort," 'Jed by Arbuckled cornet, and the effect «was electric. The delivery of the sermon *was received with much emotion, and tithe audience was dismissed in tears. Brooklyn and probably no other city, ever before witnessed *uch a scene. The •following is the full text of the sermoi: fMatthew xvl. 18: The gatti* of hell skill not prevail against it.

Of the gates of heaven we have all Jheard. There are 12 of them—three fto each point of the compass, and each ot Isolid pearl. But the gates of hell—who *jshall discribe them? They are burnished .jtUI they glow and sparkle in the city '^gaslight. They are mighty, and set in ,-pockets of deep and dreadful masonry.

They are high, so that those inside may ^not climb over. They are wide and |heavy, but swing in very easily for those Jjwho would enter. But it is always saie •to go where God commands you. He '{commanded me to go and look and re* port, and with three officers of the la* v*and two Christian friends I went. I -dsaw both sides of the gates of hell, and my ^sermon this morning will give you a •Jsketch of them. During the Franco-

IGtrman war I stood one day in Paris examining the gates of the Tulleries, jwith thtfr exquisite sculpture. Alter

f"standing

a long time looking at the

masonry and the bronze, I looked down, and lo! the officers of the law were watching, supposing that I might be a German ?and scrutinizing the gates for adverse purposes. But I do n^t stand to-day ek-

pamining

merely the outsides of the gates

of hell. I have examined both 6ides, and shall tell you exactly what they are made of. 1 shall ring a hammer on all the panels and flash a lantern on all the ^binges. -"FJ THE FIRST GATE.

The first gate of hell to be mentioned is infamous literature. Anthony Comstock seised 20 tons of bad literature and plates and letter pres?, and our professor, 4 Cochran, of the Polytechnic, poured the acids jn the plates until they sraoktd in the righteous annihilation. But still there :is much that the law cannot reach,and it scattered on your parlor tables and in your fiamily libraries, and, your children spread it after they retire at night, the gas jgjkurner swinging as neftr the pillow as "possible. Much of the literature is under the title of scientific information. One "book agent took one of these infernal books glossed with scientific nomenclature and gold more than 100 copies in ^one hotel in one day, and sold them all to women. It is appalling that men and women who might get fiom family phvsicians all the healthful information needed, and without any contamination, should wade chin deep through accursed ''literature for what is called useful knowledge, and that publishing houses that hope to be called decern should lend their fipresses to such infamy. Father and mother, be not deceived With the words medical work. Nine-tenths of such books are from the caverns ot the pit,

though they seem from the New York and Philadelphia publishing houses. Then there are the novelettes flung over the city by the million. No one systemetically reads the average novelette of the day and preserves integrity or virtue. Such things are written by broken down literary men for small co/npensalion, on the principle when a man can't -Jt succeed in literature elevated and pure he almost invariably attempts the tainted 1 and nasty. Oh, this is a wide gate of hell I Every panel is a bad book, every hinge is made out of the melted type of a polluted printing office. The bolls and locks of it are fashioned from the plates of unclean pictorials. In other words, I there are a million men and women in the United States to day reading them^selvesinto hell. When, from your own city a family fell into ruin through the vice of one of its members, the amazed mother said, "1 had no in imation that there was anything wrongHut bethink mg herselt she said, "Oh, now I re member. I found on her bureau after -$ she was gone a book that roust have been .s her destruction." These leprous book *. publishers have obtained the catalogues I of all the temale seminaries of the country —catalogues containing names and rest

I dences of the students, and circulara of death are sent to ail ot them without any exception. Can you imagine anything 4 more nefarious and alarming and death4»l There is not a child or grown up person, male or female, who has noi had bad books or pictures in some way •4offered. Look out for the bad book. pamphlet, circular or periodical. &cour your house to-day to see if one of these 4 adders may not be coiled 0.1 your parlor table or on the bed room toilet. 1 adjure you before the sun sets, explore with inexorable scrutiny your libraries. One bad book may do the work for eternity.

I want to rouse all your suspicions about novelettes. I want you to watch the surreptitious correspondence through the post office. I want you to understand that one of the highest and most deceptive gates of hell is iniquitous literature. Another gate downward is

THE DE90LCTE DAXCK.

You shall not divert me here to a general description of the subject of dancing. Whatever you may think of drawing room dancing and the methodical motion to the sound of music in family ond social circles, 1 want you to see the awful peril of what I call the dessolute dance.

You know what I mean. Itia not only to be seen in the lew haunts of death, but ita steps is sometimes witnessed in fashionable mansions. This the first step to consummate ruin for many of both aexee. You know what posture* and attitudes and figure* are suggested of the

devil. Thev whojoin in the desolute dance ate gliding on an inclined plane, and they whirl fatter and faster till, with the velocity of lightning, they JJO over the edge of a decent life and into the vortex ol a fiery future. Tnis gate of hell is so wide that it sometimes swings across the Ax ninster of the refined parlor and the ball room of the summer watering place. You have no right to take to the sound ot music any posture that would be unbecoming ih tne absencc of mjisic. Neither the Cnickeiing grand of a city parlor nor the fiddle^of a tnoun tain picnic can consecrate '^that which God hath not consecrated.

THE DRUNKARDS 6'ATE.

Another gate ot "hell is indiscreet apparel. The attire of women tor. the last two years has been more graceful and beautiful than any time within my mem ory. But there are always thoje who carry that which is right into the extraoidinary and indiscreet. understand that there is a style of temale dress about to comc upon us from Paris shocking to all righteousness. I warn all Christian woman against the adoption of any style of apparel or any adjustment of dress that may be administrative ot evil. As perhaps no one else will dare to tell you, warn you of the fact that multitudes of men owe their eternal damnation to the boldness of womanly attire.

Another gate of hell, and the chief gate, as wide as all tne other gate* put together, is the K*te of alcoholic beverage. On the night of our exploration 1 found that everything was done under the enchantment et- the wine cup. That was what the waitresses carried On the platter that was what glowed on the tafolec that was one of the chief attractions of the illuminated gardens that flushed the cheek of the patrons who came in that staggered the steps of the patrons as they went out. The wine cup is the instignator of all impuritv and the patron ot all uncleanJiness. So far as God may help me I shall be its unending foe. It was the testimony of the officials,on the night of our exploration,that nearly all of those who frequent the houses of death go in intoxicated. The mental and spiritual abolished, the brute ascendant. Tell me a young man drinks, and I know all the rest. Let him become the captive of the wine cup, and he is the cap ive of all other vices. No man ever runs drunkness alone. Thit is one of the carrion crows that go in a flock If that beak is ahead you may know the other beaks follow. In other wdrds strong drink unbalances, and de throns, and makes him the prey of all the appetites that choose to alight upon his soul. There ia not a place of sin on this continent but finds its chief abettor in the places of inebriety. There is a drinking bar before it, or a bar behind it, or a bar over it, or a bar under it. The officer said to me that night: "You see how they escape legal penalty they are licensed to sell liquor." Then I thought within myself, the court which licenses the sale of intoxicating liquors licenses gaming houses, licenses libertinism, licenses diseases, *1'censes death, licenses all crimes alt .ttierings, all disasters all woes. It is the legislatures and couits who swing wide open this grind ing, roaring, stupendous gate of the lost. But you say you have shown us how these gates swing in to allow entrance for the doomed. Please tell us how the gntes swing out tor the escape of the penitent. Let me answer: It is the exception when any come out. I think nine hundred And ninety-nine out of the thou 6and perish. Let the poor souljpenuent for her wandering, knock at your door will you let her come in? Will you invite her to ait at your table? Will you let her be the governess of your children? Will you intro duce her to your acquaintances? W'll you take the responsibility of pulling on the outside ot the gate of hell while she pushes on the inside that she may come forth? No,you will not You weep over her fate and write poetry over her doom, but help her you never Will. Perhaps there are three or four ways of escape for her. One is the sewing girl's garret, dingy, dark, cold, hungry blasted. Another way of etcape may be out toward the East river at midnight, the end of the city wharf, the moon on the river looking to smooth she wonders if it .is deep enough. It is. No boatman near by to hear the plunge, or watchman to pick her out before she can sink the third time. Another way of escape may be by way of the curve of the railroad, where the conductor of the express trairt" can't see for more than a hundred yards an obstacle lying across the track. He may blow the whistle down brakes, but it tuo late to disappoint the poor child of sorrow. You say, ''Are there no other waya of escape? Will God forgive?" Yes but man will not. The church says will, but will not. My object in this sermon is preventation, not cure. Standing on these cliffs of death, it is not so much that I may induce the one that has fallen a thousand feet down to crawl up over the rocks, as to warn those who dance too near the edge. Listen to the voice that comes up from the far depths:

"Once I was pure as the show, but 1 fell, Fell like a snowflake from heaves to hell .JK -t Fell to be trampled a« the filth of the street, Fill to be scoffed at, be spiton and beat Pleading, cursing, desiring to die Selling my soul 10 whoever would buy Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread Hating the living and fearing the dead."

DOWS WITH THE GATES.

But what is the use of these sermons? The iniquities are stalwart they cannot be wrestled down. Stupid man, what does my text say ?—"The galea of hell shall not pfcvail against the church," Prostrated they will be as certainly as that God and the Bible are true. But it will not be done until Christian men and women, oquitting all. prudery and 6queamishnes« in thia matter, shall assault with the force of the combined energy of the church these might/ evUer The Bible is full of denunciation leveled in this direction, yet the piety of the day

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tower. Against this sin the patriarchs and prophets and evangelists and apostles, and Christ himself thundered more than against any other. But now allusion to the theme must be sentimental and apologetic. I put my foot on all the conventional rhetoric on this subject and tell you plainly that unless you give up your sin your complete ruin ia settled, and you wilt be chased without end with I the anathemas of an incensed God.! In the good cheer of my text 11 rally you to the besigementj of the gates of hell. We want no soil tentimentalists in the host, but only those who can take hard knocks. The gates ©f Gaza were carried off, the gates of Thebes tell, the gates of Babylon were prostrated and the gates of hell shall be unfiinged. A Christianized printing press shall be rolled up as the most powerful battering ram a long line of awakened pulpits shall become assaulting fortresses the red hot truth of God shall become the flying amunition of the contest, and the sappen» and the miners shall lay their train under these foundatiuns of sin and at just the right time the Lord ot host, who leads the fray, shall give the command "do .vn with the gates," and7 the explosion beneath will be answered by all the trumpets of God on high, celebrating the universal victory.

CHRXST8 COMING

Last Dty'i Sonion of the Prophetic Comference at Hew York. -A

-'-V 1

.. /THE SECOND ADVENT*,. New York, Nov. i.—The prophetic conference held its last session to-day, Mr. Reynolds, of Peoria, presiding. Rev. E. R. Craven read a paper on "The Relation of the Premillenial Advent of Christ to the Catholic Doctrihe of the Holy Spirit.'' Professor Cooper, of the Presbyterian seminar? at Alleghany, Pa followed with a paper on "The Judgment." Rev. IV. Nest, Dm of Cincinnati!, addressed to the conference on "The History of Doctrine." RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE PRO

PHETIC CONFERENCE.

The committee on resolutions of tne Prophetic conference presented the following:

Before closing this conference, composed of brethern from so many different branches of one redeemed church of our Lord, we desire disclaiming whatever doctrines have been, or may be, held in connection with the beliet in the premillennial coming of our Lurd., which conflict with the faith once delivered to the saints, and received by the ehurch

%uni-

versal along the ages and to bear our united testimony to that which we believe to be the truth of the gospel in the particulars which follow, viz: t. We affirm our belief in the supreme and absolute authority of the written word of God, on all questions of doctrine and duty. 2. The prophetic words of the Old Testament, concerning the firet coming of our Lord Tesus Christ, were literally fulfilled in His birth, life, death, Resurrection and ascension* and so the prophetic words of both the Old and New Testaments concerning His second coming will be literally fulfilled in His visible, bodily return to this earth, in like manner as he went up into heaven and this glorious epipban of the Great God, our Savior, Jesus Christ, is the blessed hope of believers and of the church dur^ ing this entire dispensation. 3. This second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ i6 everywhere represented in the scriptures as imminent, and may occur at any moment yet the precise day and hour thereof is unknown to man, and known only to God. 4.

The scripture now here teach that the whole world will be converted to god. or that there will be'a reign of universal righteousness and peace Before the return of our blessed Lord, but that only at and by his coming in power and glory prophecies concerning the progress of evil and the developmentof the Anti Christ, the times of the gentiles and the ingathering of Israel, the resurrection of the dead Chiist and the transfiguration of hie living saints, receive their fulfillment, and the period of millcnial' blessedness its inauguration. 5. The duty of the church during the absence of the Bridegroom is to watch,to work «nd wait to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and thus hasten the coming of God and to his latest promise, "Surely I come quickly," to respond, in joyous hope, "fiven'so, come Lord Jesus."

The

report was unanimously adopted,

the whole conference rising to vote. The following offered by Rev. Dr. Brooks, was also adopted: "Resolved, that the doctrine of our Lord's pre-millenial advent, instead of paralyzing evangelistic and missionary efforts, is one of mightiest incentives to earnestness in preaching the Gospel to every creature, till He cometh.'' tW

Addresses'were then made bv Mavor D. W. Whittle, of Chicago Rev. Dr. Brooks, of St. Louis and Rev. Stephen H. Tyng,jr. Tney all commented on the glorious work and success of the conference.

COST OF CANING A CONGRESS MAN. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 1.—J. J. Shearer of Gree.ivil!e, this atate, who committed an aggravated assault on Congressman Ellsworth, last spring, to-day was sentenced to pay a fine of $300, and be imprisoned in the Detroit house of correction lor six months, bf fudge Lovell, at Stanton.

A BAD BANK.

Troy, N. Y.t Nov. It appears from the reporu of the bank superintendent and bank examiner that the Merchants and Mechanics' bank is hopelessly insolvent, and ita officers have been guilty of gross irregularities, and conceal

ha*, become such a namby-pamby thing guilty of gross irreguiant^anaconceai that it dare not quote the Scripture on true condition of the bank by false this subject. So long as thia holy imbe- •tatements. subject. So ong as uus noiy cility reigns, sin will laugh ua to scorn. It may be that befote the church awakes to its duty, matters will get far worse, and a lamb will have to be sacrificed from each of the most carefully guarded folds, and the wave of uncleannes* rises to the spire of the vil lage cbnrch and the top of the cathedra!

ORDER FOR SALE OF A RAILROAD. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 1.—Judge Baitor, rendered a decree ordering the sale of the Tennessee division of the St. Louis ft Southeastern raflroap, for the benefit of the creditors.

WASHINGTON.

President Hayes' Proclamation Appointing Thk iksgiving I

Day..

Examination of |tke Ki«l Glove Cases in the »New York Custom House.

THANKSGIVING DAY.

Wellington, Oct.

31.—The

president

has issued the following pr6clam.ition, setting apart Thursday, .November 3S, as a day of thanksgiving BY TIIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

STATES—A PROCLAMATION. The currenc? of that season at which it is the habit of our people to make a devout and public confession of their con stant dependence upon divine favor for all the good gifts of life, of happiness and of pUbliopeace and prosperity, exhibits in the record of the yea* abundant reasons for our gratitude and thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, productive mines, ample, crops of staples of trade and manufactures have enriched the country. The resources thus furnished to our reviving industry and expanding commerce, and hastening the day when discords and distresses through the length and breadth of the land will, under the continued favor of Providence, have given way to confidence and energy and assured prosperity. Peace with all nations has remained unbroken. Domestic tranquility has prevailed, and the institution of liberty and justice which the wisdom and virtue of our fathers established remain the glory and defence of their children. The general prevalence of the blessings of health through our wide land has made more conspicuous the sufferings and sorrows which the dark shadow of the pestilence has cast upon a portion of our people This heavy affliction, even, the Divine Ruler.' has tempered to the buffering communities, .'in the universal sympathy and sucebr which have flowed to their relief, and the whole nation may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our people by whicn they chfer fully share one another's burdens. Now, therefore, I, Rutherfori B. Hayes, president of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 38th day of November nest, as a day of nationat thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet

together on that

day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to devoutly beseech their continuance.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight* hundred and seventveight. and the independence of tftfe United. States the one hundred and third. (Signed) R. B. HAYS, President.

By WJK. EVARTS, Secretary of State. There was a preliminary hearing of New York parties interested in the kid glove assessment this morning at the treasury department. Mr. Clarke, rep* resenting Iselin & Co, agreed that the facts were sufficient to justify the secretary of the treasury in remitting the en* tire matter to the appraisers, on the ground that there had been no valid appraisement. There had certainly been irregularity in the proceed* ings. Judge French did not understand the secretary of the treasury as advising any course affecting the valuation but merely to examine the law points involved. General Appraiser Ketchum asked how the appraisement could be reopened, as the gloves had gone into consumption, *uid Mr. Clarke replied: "The custom officers have samples," Judge French said he would notify the parties interested when he would come to a decision on the legal questions involved, an 3 the conference came to a close, r- ...

HORRIBLE.

A YM|Lady

PERILS OF THE DEEP.

WRECKERS SAVED.

Baltimore, Nov. 3.—Capt. Munroe, of the British bark,Beaconsfield, reports that on October

16th

JOHN SHERMAN.

Hi Wntes a Letter to a Michigaaaer on Finances.

How tne Governmentis Prepared for Resumption of Specie 1. Payments.

A Comparison of the Volume of Paper Currency In Thia Country With European .. Nations.

Washington, October 31.—Secretary Sherman his written the following letter in regard to the condition of the treasury for specie resumption, etc..

As to the circulation bf European countries, the department has not infor-. mation, except what can be obtained from pubiicatiohs open to all. The London Economist, of September 14th, the latest at hand, states the amount ot paper circulation of the banks in the United Kingdom, less the amount retained by the banking department of the Bank of England, to be

France (J Ktn«!*m tiernl«oy. U. Stites..

Oatra|td by Trawpa aad her Taaisaoataat

New Votk, Nov. t.—According to a despatch from. Port Jervis, the people around Thompson, Penn., are earnestly searching &>r two traqsps who entered the village school house after the children had been dismissed, |nd seised the teacher, Alice Kennett, arid grossly assaulted her. Then to prevent her from telling the story, cut out her tongue. The young woman managed to reach the black board, and wrote the circumstances of the terrible aftair and the description of the scoundrels, and then died.

he took off the crew and

pasengen of the Portuguese schooner, Julia and Victoria. SUFFERINGS

OP WRECKERS

Captain Julius Vaxura, from New Bedford, for Cape Peverde, with a cargo of provisions and merchandise, capsized in a hurricane, on October 13th. Five passengers, three men, a woman and child were lost. The crew and other passesgers, fourteen person*, were rescued after being three day» and two nights on the wreck without lood.

BY HIS OWN HAND.

ABRAHAM tXDRIDGE IS HWOWK MURDRKER. Friday afternoon the body of Abraham Eldridge was discovered hanging in his father's barn. The deed was done deliberately, the deceased having carefully doubled a rope and tied one end to abeam and the other to his neck and then jumped from the loft. He was thirty-five years of age, and leaves a

family of

three children beside his wife.

He was considered insane for some time, and was watched most ol

the time.

£43,966,971,

estimated pue'iatioa

MISCELLANEOUS

IT, ARY, '•3*.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Washington, C. Oct To J. Leroy Hv Dodd, Buchanan, Mich.

SIR: I am in receipt of your letter of the 29th inst., making certain inquiries as to the condition of the treasury for resumption, and the amount of paper circulation per capita in thi* country and the principal countries of Europe. Ia reply, 1 have to inform you that on the tst inst., the coin balance of the treasury was $232,659,646 This entire amount, however, was not available for resumption purposes, but subject to liabilities as follows: I tiler eat due and unpaid $9.^5298 debt on which interest has ceased $13,534.69) initerest thereon, $373,580 coin certificates, gold, $32,826,600 coin certifiates, silver, $ ,848,070 unclaimed interest, $9.547 unmatured bond*, called for redemption, $41,500,000 total, $98437,781 leaving for resumption purposes,

ster

ling. The circulation of the Bank of France, which alone in France has authority to issue notes, is Stated at, September 5th, .€94.710,000, sterling, and that of the Imperial Bank of Germany, oh September 7th, £30,415,030, sterling. It is understood that some country banks of Germany have authority, under certain restrictions, to issue notes, but as the amount issued is not stated in financial publications, it is believed to be inconsiderable. Reducing these amounts to, currency, the per capita of circulation appears to he as follows:

Latest

COCXTBT. Oiroulation

Per

capita

460,1107,000 J,9S5,0T0 llS.Old,OU0 8*8,697,370

8J^0S,788 SS,474 0Su 4 ,7.7,900 47,000,LOU

18.48 0.89 8.40 14.0S

It will be seen that the aggregate, as well as the per capita amount of paper circulation, is larger in this country than in any of the other countries named, and largely in excess of any, except that of France. In this country, however, the circulation has been reduced to the amount above stated since November, 1873, from, $602,000,000, a reduction ol $141,093,000 while, in the same period, the metallic reserve of the bank has increased froqn $146.000^000 to $435,000,000. ,. tif /fcjg A"*. •j Very respectfully,

O N S E A I

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Friendship Lodge*No. 66, A. O. U. W., recently organized in this city by our German citizens, held its installation session at its lodge room on Wednesday evening last, and the following officers were installed

P. M. Schewmaker—P. M. \V. Fred. W. Leverena—M, W.

Otto \Vittenburg--G. F. Joe. Braun—O. Charles Schneiderg.

Iouis

Drusikc—Recorder.

Joseph Berny—Financial Secretary */, John Hauer—Treasurer. Aaron Strouse—Inner Watchman. Henry Rehling—Outer Watchmani

George Nurnberger, 1 Fred Muchlenhartz, J- Trustees, fake Sachr, The Grand Master granted a special privilege permitting them to accept new members at charter rates for thirty days, dating from last Wednesday.

THE proprietors ot the National House saloon have added a decided improvement to their place of business, in the shape of a private apartment in the rear of their establishment, which they intend for the use of their patrons, as a reading room. The room is nicely finished, and will add greatly to the pleasures of their /nanv customers.

A LETTER has been received from Mrs. J. S. Pressler, at Brownsville^ Tenn.,intended for Ft. Harrison lodge I. O. O, F., in this city. She states that Mr. Pressler, once well known here, as a cooper, has died of yellow fever. As his widow she ask* assistance from the lodge of which he was a member.

FOLEY BROTHERS are accouatomed to make brief but pointed allusions to goods which they carry and which are especially desirable tor the bottom line of the GAZETTE. The attention o$ the reader would be called to thtsn, but for the tact that the line is as plain as the rose on man's face.

THKRK is talk of anew engine in the Fifth wani. It will be placed in close proximity to the valuable railroad property rut there..

THE ball of the Hibernian Benevolent society next Tuesday evening will be pleasant affair. Buy a ticket, and go and gdjOy yourself.