. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ORATION CONTINUED 97 they went to the bottom. In disgrace they go down. -Oh! how many, by forceof circumstances, and at the start with no very bad intention, get off the trackand perish. A gentleman one morning told me of an incident which occurred ina large commercial establishment, I believe the fourth in size in the wholecountry. The employer said to a young lady in the establishment, You mustdress better. She said, I cannot dress better; I get six dollars a week, and Ipay four dollars for my board, and I have two dollars for
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ORATION CONTINUED 97 they went to the bottom. In disgrace they go down. -Oh! how many, by forceof circumstances, and at the start with no very bad intention, get off the trackand perish. A gentleman one morning told me of an incident which occurred ina large commercial establishment, I believe the fourth in size in the wholecountry. The employer said to a young lady in the establishment, You mustdress better. She said, I cannot dress better; I get six dollars a week, and Ipay four dollars for my board, and I have two dollars for dress and for mycar fare; I cannot dress better. Then he said, You must get it in some otherway. Well, I suppose she could steal, but that was not what was meant. Ido not know how that incident affects you; but when it was told to me itmade every drop of my blood, from scalp to heel, tingle with fact is that there are thousands of men and women dropping into immoralityand crime by force of circumstances, and by their destitution. Under the same. THE CITY VAN OR BLACK MARIA kind of pressure you and I would have perished. It is despicable to stand onshore laughing at the shipwrecked struggling in the breakers when we oughtto be getting out the rockets and the lifeboat and the ropes from the wreck-ing establishment. How much have you ever done to get this class ashore? CITIES TO BE REDEEMED I speak a word of good cheer to all the wandering and the lost, and Ibelieve these cities are going to be redeemed. You know there is going to beanother deluge. Why, you say, I thought the rainbow at the end of the greatdeluge, and the rainbow after every shower, was a sign that there should neverbe a deluge again! But there will be another deluge. It will rain more thanforty days and forty nights. The ark that will float that deluge will be immeas-7 98 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK urably larger than Noahs ark, for it will hold a quadrillion of passengers. Itwill be th
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