. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . room, and he shows them thereality. I am here this morning to report a plague, and to tell you how sin cor-rupts the body and befouls the mind and ruins the soul. HIS POLICE ESCORT Oh, say you, are you not afraid that in consequence of your explora-tion of the iniquities of the city other persons may make exploration and dothemselves damage? I reply: If, in company with the Commissioner of Po-lice, and the Inspector of Police, and the Captain of Police, and the companyof two Christian gentlemen, and not with the spirit of curiosi
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . room, and he shows them thereality. I am here this morning to report a plague, and to tell you how sin cor-rupts the body and befouls the mind and ruins the soul. HIS POLICE ESCORT Oh, say you, are you not afraid that in consequence of your explora-tion of the iniquities of the city other persons may make exploration and dothemselves damage? I reply: If, in company with the Commissioner of Po-lice, and the Inspector of Police, and the Captain of Police, and the companyof two Christian gentlemen, and not with the spirit of curiosity, but that youmay sin in order the better to combat it, then, in the name of the eternal ! But, if not, then stay away. Wellington, during the battle of Water-loo when the bullets were buzzing around his head, saw a civilian on the said to him : Sir, what are you doing here? Be off! Why, replied thecivilian, there is no more clanger here for me than there is for you. ThenWellington flushed up and said: God and my country demand that I be here,. A TYPICAL MUSIC HALL AND BEER GARDEN THE MIDNIGHT EXPLORATION 75 but you have no errand here. Now, 1, as an officer in the army of JesusChrist, went on this exploration, and on to this battlefield. If you bear a likecommission, go ; if not, stay away. But you say, Do you not think that somehow your description of theseplaees will induce people to go and see for themselves? 1 answer: Yes; justas much as the description of the yellow fever at Granada would induce peopleto go down there and get the pestilence. It was told us there were hardlyenough people alive to bury the dead, and 1 am going to tell you a story inthese Sabbath morning sermons of places where they are all dead or I shall not gild iniquities. 1 shah play a dirge and not an anthem; andwhile I shall not put faintest blush on fairesl cheek, I will kindle the cheeks ofmany a man into a conflagration, and 1 will make his ears tingle. THE START But you
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