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SHE 'DAILY HERALD, IIArrSMOurH, JS' I'JJJRAIv A, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 18S8. DJi. TALMAGlvS SERMON. SECOND OF THE "SERIES TO WO MEN" AT THE TABERNACLE. "Marriugu for Worldly Kim-wmii Without lC;url l Moral ltai-acter" thai Sul Jrtt Mon YVIif I'rt'lfiitl to Ilejilsi; Ke liglon Arc ICiiuk Hj pucrlti H. BnoOKI.YN, Jan. 15. III the Ihooklyn Tabernacle this morning the Kev. T. De "Witt Talmago, I). 1)., preached the second of the series of w -l'li ions to the women of Anioiioa, with important hints to men. Tin? subject of the wmion wa--, ".Mar riage for worldly suceess without regard to moral t han.ch r," and tho ioxt w:is from 1 Jiaiiuii-l xxv, ',!: '-.And there was 11 man in '-laoji, who:.- jios.-r-sMtiiis v 10 in ('arnifl. (he man was wry great, Mill In- li:ifl thivo thousand sheep xmd a thoii.-aii'l g -at.-;.- Dr. Tahnagc said: My text introduces ns to n drurda-ii bloat of laiv.o property. ISefore tin day of iiaTety depo-ils and government lionds and national hanks p-ople 1 : 1 their in vestments ii; flocks and her-i., and this 111.1:1, I;:h:l, of the; text," had much of his -o.-jv.-!-iuiis in live slock. Ife caino also f a distinguished family and had cloriou-; Vleh for an ancestor. Ur.t thi.s descendant was a r.neak. a churl, a tot and a fool. One instance to illiL-lrate: It was a wool raising country, and at tho time r shearing a great fe;t was pre pared for the f. hearers; and David and his warriors, who had in other days saved from destruction th threshing floors of Nabal, sent to him asking, in tliis time of plenty, for some broad for their starv ing men. And Nah.il cried out: '"Who is Dai !':" As though an Englishman 1 1 n I said, "Who is Wellington?" or a (iernian should say, "Who is Von Jh-.hko?" or an American should say, "Who is V.'a-h'mgtoii'r" Nothing did Nahal give t the slaring men, and that night lie: scoundrel lay dead ilnmk at holi and the Uil.le gives us a full length picture of him sprawling and maudlin and helpless. Now that was the man whom Abigail, the lovely and g:-u ions and good woman married a tu'oerose - planted lies'ide a thistle, a palm hranch twiiml into a wreath of deadly nightshade. Surely that wit) not one of tin- matches made in lira ven. We throw uj our hands in hor ror at that welding. I low did she ever consent to liii!-- her destiuhics with such a creature! Well, .she .. d..uht thought that it would he it 11 honor to lx associ ated with an ari.-tocratio boiii!, and no one can d. -pise a gsc-at name. ISesides this, wealth would come anTl with it chains of g"ld and mansions lighted by swinging lamps of aromatic oil, and re sounding with the cheer of banepieten seated at tables laden with wines from the richest iiieyards, and fruits from lijx'st orchard-;, and nuts th rushed from foreign woods, and meats smoking in platters of gold, set on by slaves in bright uniforms. Hefora she plighted her troth with this dissipated man she liometiine-; said to her.-;elf: "I low can I endure him! To 1? associated for life with such a debauch.? I cannot and will not!" Hut then again she said to her self: "It is time 1 was marriitl, and this is a cold world to depend on, and H-rhajsI might do wor.-e, and may.be I wiil make a sober m m cut of him, and marriage is a lottery anyhow." And when one day this 1 representative of a preat hou .e pi eeii'.ed himself in a paren thesis of sobriety, and with an assumed geniality and gallantry of manner, and with promi-es of fidelity and kindness and self abnegation, a June morning smiled on a March squall, and the great souhtl women surrendered her happiness to the kee:.-i:ig of this infamous son of fortune whose possessions were in Car mel: and the man wa; very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thous.m 1 goals. Ik!'iId here a domcr-lSc tragedy re peated every hour of every day all over Ch'.'i. ter.dom marriage for worldly suc cess without regard to character. So Marie Jeanne rhlipon, the daughter of the humble engraver of Paris, Iwcanie the famous Mine. Upland of history, the vivacious and brilliant girl united with the cold, formal, monotonous man be cause hi came of an abluent family of Amiens and had lordly blood in his veins. The d iy when, through political revolu tion, this patriotic woman was led to the scaffold, around which lay piles of human heads that had fallen from the ax, and she ?aid to an aged man whom she had confronted as they ascended the scaffold: "th first that you may not witness my death," and then undaunted took her turn to die that day was to her only the last act of a tragedy of which Ut uncongenial marriage day was the first. Good and genial character in a man, the very first requisite for a woman's happy marriage. Mistake me not as depreciative of worldly prosjierities. There is a religious cant that would seem to represent iverty as a virtue and wealth as a crime. I can take you through a thousand mansions where CJod as much worshiped as he ever was in a cabin. The tio?pel ineulcatw the virtues which tend toward wealth. In the millennium we will all dwell in palaces and ride in chariots and sit tit sumptuous banquets and sleep under rich embroideries imd live iOO or oOO years, for, if aeet rding to the Biblo in thos-3 times, a child shall die 101 years old, tho average of human life will lie si least live centuries. The whole tendency of sin is toward poverty and the whole tendency of right; 'ousuess is u.w:ird wealth. Godli ness is profitable fur the life that now is as well as for that which is to come. No inventory can le mad- of the picture -galleries to!i.-ecrab'd to God, and of sculpturr and ! libraries find pillared lliagni!ii.e:i'V and "f park's and fountains and gardens in tlu; ownersiiip of gor4 inen and women. Ti.c tvro mot lordly rcsidcniTo i" which I was ever a guest jiad morning and evening prayers, fill ihrj tiiiloy.-s pi-esor.t, and all day long theie "was an air of cheerful pktv in the coiverss.tion and lehavior. Lord IJadsfor k carried the (hisjicl to the Russian nobility, Iinl C'fivan and Jxrd Cairns spent their vacation in evangclistio services. Lord Cong let on ltcame mis sionary to D;:glad. And the Christ who was born in an eastern caravansary has again and again lived in a palace. It is a grand thing to have plenty cf of monev, and horses that don't couiiel jou to take the dust cf every lumbering and lazy rehlcle; and books of history that give you a glimpse of all the past; and shelves of oetry to which you may go and ask Milton or Tennyson or Sjen cer or Tom Moore or Robert Burns to stop now and spend an evening with you. and other shelves' to wh ten you may go -while you feci disgusted with tho shame of the woild, and ask Thackeray to express your chagrin, or Charles Dickens to express the Pecksniflianisiu, or Thomas Carlj le to thunder jour in dignation; or the other shelves where the old gospel writers stand ready to warn and cheer us while they open doors into that city which is so bright tho noonday sun is abolished. There is no virtue in owning a horse that takes four minutes to go a mile, if 5011 can own one that can go in a little over two minutes and a half; no virtue in running into the teeth of a northeast wind with thin apparel, if you can .afford furs; no virtue in being poor when you can honestly Ix? rich. There arc names of men and women that I have only to mention, and they suggest not only wealth, but religion and generosity and philanthropy, such as Amos Iawrence, James Lennox, Pete.r Cooiert William E. Dodge, Shaftesbury, Miss Wolfe and Mrs. Astor. A recent writer says that of fifty leading business men in one of our Eastern cities, and of the fifty leading business men of one of our Western cities, three fourths of them arc Christians. The fact is, that about all the brain and the business genius is on the side of religion. Infidelity is incipient insanity. All infidels are cranks. Many of them talk brightly, but you soon find that in their mental machinery there is a screw loose. When they are not lecturing against Christianity they are sitting in barrooms squirting tobacco juice, and when they get mad swear till the place is sulphurous. They only talk to keep their courage up, and at best will feel like the infidel who begged to be buried with his Christian wife and daughter, and when asked why he wanted such burial replied: "If there be a resurrec tion of the good, as some folks say there will lo, my Christian wife and daughter will somehow get me up and take me along with them." Man may pretend to despise religion, but they are rank hyprccritcs. The sea captain was right when ho came up to the village on the sea coast and insisted on paying $10 to tho church, although ho did not attend himself. When asked his reason, ho said that he had been in the habit cf carrying cargoes of oysters and clams from that place, and he found since that church wa3 built the people were more honest than they used to be, for lief ore the church was built he often found the load, when he came to count it, a thousand clams short. Yes. God liness is profitable for lxth worlds. Most of the great, honest, permanent worldly successes are by those who reverence God and the Bible. But what I do say is, that if a man have nothing but social jtnsition and financial resources, a woman who puts her happiness by marriage in his hand re-enacts the folly of Abigail w hen she accepted disagreeable Nabal, "whose jiossessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats." If there be good moral character ac companied by affluent circumstances I cangratulate you. If not, let the morn ing lark fly clear of the Rocky mountain eagle. The sacrifice of woman on the altar of social and financial expectation is cruel and stupendous. I sketch you a scene you have more than once wit nessed. A comfortable homo with noth ing more than ordinary surroundings, but an attractive daughter carefully and Christianly reared. From the outside world comes in a man with nothing but money, unless you count profanity and selfishness and fondness for champagne and general recklessness as a part of his possession. He lias his coat collar turned up when there is no chill in the air, but because it gives him an air of abandon, and eyeglass, not becauso lie is near sighted, but because it gives a classical ap pearance, and with an attire somewhat loud, a cane thick enough to be the club of Hercules and clutched at the middle, his conversation interlarded with French phrases inaccurately pro nounced, and a sweep of manner indicat ing that he was not bom like most folks, but terrestrially landed. By arts learned of the devil he insinuates himself into the affections of the daughter of a Christian home. All the kindred con gratulates her on the almost supernat ural prospects. Reports come in that the j-oung man is fast in his habits, that he has broken several young hearts and that he i3 mean and selfish and cruel. But all this is covered up with the fact that he has several houses in his own name, and has large deposits at the bank, and, more than all, has a father worth many hundred thousand dollars and very feeble in health and may any day drop off, and thi.'s the oidy son, and a round dollar held close to one's eye is large enough to shut out a great desert, and how much more will several bushels of dollars shut out. The marriage day comes and gora. The wedding ring was; costly enough and the orange blossoms fragrant enough and the lienediction solemn enough and the wedding march stirring enough. And the audience shed tears of sympathetic gladness, supposing tliat the craft con? taining the tva has sailed off on a placid lake, although God knows that they are launched on a Dead sea, its waters brackish with tears and ghastly with ghastly faces of despair floating to the surface and then going down. There they are, the newly married pair in their new home, lie turns out to be a tyrant. Her will is nothing, his will everything. Lavish of money for hi3 own pleasure, he begrudges her the pennies lie pinches put into her trembling pahii." Instead of the kind" "w"or4l she left behind in her former home, now there are complaints and fault findings and curses. Jle js the. master and she' the slave. The vvorsj villain on earth is the man who, having captured a woman from her father's house ap4 after tho Qith of the marriage altar has. been pro nounced, saya, by his luanner if nof. u words: 'J have ypu, nqw U my iwer. What can you dof My arm is stronger than yours. My voice is louder than yours. My fortune is greater than yours. My name is mightier than yours. Now crouch tefore uie like a dog. Now crawl away from me like a reptile. You ra nnt-li'nor rait a. xvoman Jin vhow Q , - . Down, yon miserable wretch I" Can halla of mosaic, can long lines of Etrus can bronze, or statuary by Palmers and Powers and Crawford and Chantry and Canova, can adleries rich from the it;ncil of Kier.stndt and (.'Lurch and Kenset and Cole and Cropsi-y. could flutes played en by an Ole Bull, or pianos fingered by a" Gyttschalk, or solos warbled by a Konntag, could wardrobes like that of a Marie An toinette, could jewels like thfse of a Eugenie make a wife in such a com panionship happy? Imprisoned in a castle! Her gold bracelets are the chains of a lifelong servitude. There is a sword over her every feast, not like that of Damocles, staying suspended, but dropping through her lacerated heart. Her wardrolie is full of shrouds for deaths which she dies daily, and she is buried alive though buried under gorgeous upholstery. There is one word that sounds under the arches and rolls along the corridors and weeps in the falling fountains and echoes in the shutting of every door ami groans in every note of stringed ami wind instru ment: "Woe! Woe!"' Tho oxen and sheep in olden times brought to the temple of Jupiter to l,e sacrificed used to lie covered with rib'00113 and flowers ribbons on tho horn3 and flowers on the neck. But the floral and ribboned deco rations did not make tho stab of the butcher's knife less deathful, and all the chandeliers you hang over such a woman, and all the robes with which you enwrap her, and all the ribbons with which you adorn her, and all the bewitching charms with which you embank her footsteps are the ribbons and flowers of a horrible butchery. As if to show how wretched a good woman may be in splendid surroundings we hava two recent illustrations, two ducal palaces in Great Britain. They are the focus of the l est things t hat "are possible in art, in literature, in architec ture, the accumulation of other estates until their wealth is beyond calculation and their grandeur beyond description. One of the castles has a cabinet set with gems that cost $2, 500.000, and tho walls of it bloom with Renibrandts and Claudea and Poussins and Guidos and Raphael--, and there are Southdown flocks in sum mer grazing on its laws and Arab t-tecds prancing at the doorways on the "first; open day at tho kennels." From tho one castle the duchess has removed with her children because she can no longer endure the orgies of her husband, the duke, and in the oil-or castle the duchess remains confronted by insult-; and abom inations in the prr senee of w hich I donoL think God or decent ccijty require- a good woman to remain. Alas for those ducal country seats! They on a l;:.rgo scale illustrate w hat on a smaller scale may lie seen in many places that wit li on t moral character in a husband all the accessories of wealth are to a. wife's sou! tantalization and mockery. "When Abi gail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly drunk, as sho comes home from inter ceding for his fortune and life, it was tin alleviation that the old brute had posses sions in Carmel, and "was very great, and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats," and lie the worst goat among them. The animal in his nature seized the soul in its mouth and ran, oil with it. Before tilings are right in this world genteel villians are to be expurgated. Instead of being welcoilied into rospecM ble society, because of the amount of stai's and garters and medals and estates they represent, they ought to be fumi gated two or three years lieb-.ro they mv allowed, without peril o themselves, to put their hands on the door knob of a. moral house. The time must come when a masculine estray will be as repugnant to good society as a feminine estray, and no coat of arms or family emblazonry or epaulet can pass a Lothario unchallenged among the sanctities of home life. Hy what law of God or common sense is an Absalom belter than a Delilah, a Don Juan better than a Messalina? The b: u. h that paints the one black must paint the ether black. But what a epectacJe it was when last summer much 'of "water ing place" society went wild with en thusiasm over an unclean foreign digni tary, whose name in both hemispheres is a synonym for profligacy, and princesses of American society from all parts of the land had him ride in their carriages r.r.d sit at their tables, though they knew him to be a portable lazaretto, a chai ned house of moral putrefaction, his breath a ty phoid, his foot that of a Satyr and his touch death. Here is an evil that men cannot stop, but women may. Keep all such out of your parlors, have no recog nition for them in the street, and no more think cf allying your life and des tiny with theirs than "gales from Araby" would consent to pass the honeymoon with an Egyptian plague. All that money or social position a bad man brings to a woman in marriage is a splendid despair, a gilded horror, a brilliant agony, a prolonged death, and the longer the marital union lasts, the mote evident will bo tlie fact that she might better never have been born. Yet you and I have been at brilliant weddings where, before the feast wa3 over, the bride groom's tongue was thick and his eye glassy and his step a stagger as he clicked glasses with jolly comrades, all going with lightning limited express train to the fatal crash oyer the t-mbankment of a ruined life and a lost eternity. Woman, join not your light hand with 6uch a right hand. Accept from such an one no jewel for finger or ear, lest that sparkle of precious t-tone turn out to lie the eye of a basiiisk, and let not the ring come on the finger of -your right hand lest that ring turn out to lie one link of a chain that shall bbi -.1 you in never ending captivity. in the name of God .d Leaven and home, in the name of all time and all eternity I for bid the lttrins ! Consent not to join one of the many regiments of women wh have married for worldly success with out regard to. moral character. If you are ambitious, oh woman, for noble affiancing, why not marry a king? And to that honor you are invited by ihe. monarch of heaven and earth, and this day a voice from the skies sounds forth: ".As the bridegroom rejoiceth over tho bride so sliall thy God rejoico over th.ee." Let lum put upon thee the ring of thi royal marriage. Here is an honor worth n-aching after. By repentance and faith ypu may come into a marriage with the emperor of universal dominion, and you may be an empress unto God forever, una reign with him in palaces that, the renturiea cannot crumble or Cannonades demolish. High worldly marriage is not neces sary for woman or marriage of any kind in order to your hapjkiness. (Ylihacy has l eu honored by the lot.t lieing I bat ever lived ami bis greatest apostle, Chti-r. and Paul. W hat higher honor could sinule life o;i earth have? But what you need, oh woman, is to be affianced l';--c vr and forever, and the banns of tha: iiiarriagf I am tliis moment here and now ready to publish. lx-t the angels f heaven lend from their galleries of Lgi.t to witness while I pronounce you one a loving God and a for given soul. One of tho most stirring passages in history with which I am ac quainted, tells us how Cleopatra, the ex iled queen of Egypt, won tho sympathi' .; of Julius Ctesar, the co;jueror, until he br-came the bridegroom and she tho bride. Driven frr.:: her throne, she mailed away on the Medi terranean in a storm, and when 1 i 1 .- large ship anchored she put out with on.: womanly friend in a small boat until j.he arrived at Alexandria, where wt- Ciesar. the great general. Knowing that she would not be ermitted to land or pass the guards 011 the way to Cu'sar's palace, she laid upon the bottom of the boat some shawls and scarfs and richly dyed upholstery, and then lay down upon them, and her friend wrapped her in them and she was admitted ashore in this wrapping of goods, which was an nounced as a present for Ciesar. This bundle was permitted to pass the guards cf the gate3 of the palace, and was put down at the feet of the Roman general. When the bundle w-as unrolLd there rose l:cfo:. (.' age and beauty and brilliancy are the as tonishment of the ages. This exiled queen of Egypt told the slory of her sor rows, and ho promised her that she should get back her throne in Egypt and take the throne cf wifely doniinii -i ia his own heart. Afterward they made a triumphal tour in a barge that the pictures of many art galleries have called 4 -Cleopatra's Barge," and that barge was covered with silken awning, and its tl- was soft with luxuriant carpets, and tbe oars were silver lipped, and the prow wan geld mounted, and the air was redo lent with the spieery of tropical garden.-; and resonant with tho music that made tlia night glad U3 the day. You 1. rejoice, oh woman, that you are not a Cleopatra, and that the one to whom, you may be affianced bad none of ti e si.fs of Ciesar, th-i conqueror. I;;t ii s::gt.;:'i is to nso how you, a :oul ei!. ! f. v. u happine.-s and peace, may lind your . to t!i.- 1'.. -. t f the coiiqilcior of ei.vth and sky. Tl of sj.ii itual out h.lo the sail. a::o v. h and d. .li'.-l a will be i'..;m u;;ii it may be :; dark night g:i:ilio:i in w hich you piu h:llborof pence Von l::v : ail the wrappings of ', ar i 1 ! i y.ly.' he removed v..u the of him who put vo 0:1 a t! li-OUe, i:) I;.! neknowl.N!. dy when all the : ii y'iy shall proclaim: " gn 0:11 cotnclh," and von sail with him as his in ti.--trump-i L.; of thi hold the hridi i-ai'ro of IL.h! river who.-.e source is the foot of t'; -throne and whoso month is at the su. of glass mingled with lire. SOUND BUSINESS MAXIMS. .Action is really the life of businc. s. . Us" every means to hold on to jour home trade. Aiwavs keep y from the Icnowie.- - (! '- i; ;;s and bu- of others. Great b.trgairs can only be secure-i ia any nvtrkci by bein;;o:i the st-ot. It i on v to sell goods if they are v, : suited to your trade and Ixiught right. Avoid iitigalion as r.-.ueh as po.-: ; for lawyers and costs eat up the pi h; ij a.!. Have the courage to discharge a d w hile you have tho money in ourp'x lo t The- man who Lor rows mor.ev then bi riows trouble is in sheo! tutr ( neugh. T.-r, ler mum prr.jits and cert -Tin ! turns to ire profits and uncertain sen- t.mci.ts. BuiicnLit s. like thieve-, often di.-an-pear at a fiance : therefore abvavs face a difficulty.' Pime'.unlity in money matters leads to prosiiCrUy and confidence and the I ;.-;.; of credit. In bming, study carefully the wants of your trade and buy with that end al ways in view. The man who minds his own bit-mess and constantly attends to it has a'.l Ids time employed. Come to this market as often as pos sible, so as to secure special bargains : s they are offered. Adhere strictly to your b-u-i uss. Thrro may be difficulties to overcome, but you v.iil surmount them. Thousands of mcrchmus fail not fr.rru the shrinkage of values, but from credit ing unwisely and too much. Be polite, prompt, deceive, civil i;: ;l obliging to all your customers, and see that your clerks do likewise. Have tho courage to accept smr;!! profits and be content; large ones invoice more risk and less certainty of continu ing. There are two sorts of people that gain little by trade, such as buy w hat they do not want a ad such as sell only in neces sit'y. Success secures the appro? ai km t' tho world, for, as tho wise man says, "Men will j .raiso ihvc when thou dvcat well for Study the history of current events; make careful comparisons of the Ihictiia tiojis in price, in demand and in supply, in order to gtiide your own operation:-; !v the lessons these facts impart, 'lis representation o? t.ny thing never pays, and whc-i yoti tell your customer:; that your good3 are superior to tlc.ve of your competitors, when you know thj same to be false, you are dimply putting in the wedge that will ultimately utivo your trade away. Kememlter that the golden rule of com mercial life is probity. Act. therefore, honestly, uprightly and conscientiously in all matters of trade. Never n-.L-rep;c. sent, falsify or deceive; have op.e yu! - oi moral life and never St'.yerye front it. w-hatever may bo the acts or opinions of other men. Dry Goods Chronicle. IPS! I UKi.-.-r iifil.c fc'S (Joining ami therefore-v-ill ivln:-.j and leather o.l.? per ei.mt. b low lobular jinYv.-; b.r e.t-h oi.ly. Cozidrj Ivl'arlsGd in Plain 2Tisures. Lridies Fjvik h KM 5 00 :lo per cent, discount i? 1 00 I-'oliv'sd I'ri't.-cii Kill I -r " " " o ;")() Lmlielliii-Jst I)o-w(,.i -1 (hi - .. ; o Ln.lii'" ihi-ht Doiiola .. . do " 2 40 J.at-ios' Ki.i :. tr " - " 1 SO Dadie.,' IVb. (Jo.it. H oO " - " 00 J.u.n. i,i!i. (;,,.tt :::, - i so Mcii'ri Hurt Shoes s 0- - " " 40 Alen'.s Shoos 4 " " " .'J "'0 Men's Shoes ... :; 7" :'. )o ALeiis Shoes ... 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