Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manx a daily free press Winnipeg March the plague of lies fifth Sermon in the series on the City s plagues. For. 1 reaches a forcible djs dec mrs which will apply equally Well in country Liall not Sare by satan to 111 eve and he ipod. Jte17 York March Plagne of ties selected by or. Talk Ringo for the subject of Tho fifth of Liis discourses on Tho plagues of these three cities which he preached today. Both at Tho morning Terrico in Brooklyn and at this opening under Tho of the Christian Herald in new York the vast buildings not enough to hold More than one half Tho crowd who came to hear the Sermon. I i text was genesis be shall not surely that was ii Point Blank lie. Satan told it to eve to induce her to put her semicircle of White Beautiful Teeth into a forbid Den no riot or Plum or peach or apply. To her of eve just take a bile this and you will be omnipotent Aii l omniscient. You shall Boas in to opposite was the result. It was Lio that was Ever told in our world. J cud the Gate for All the false Hood have Ever alighted on this Plum a Piligno Bluit covers Allu. Plague of lies. Fur worse thai it. Plagues of Egypt for they wore on the Banks of the Nile but this on Tho Banks of the Hudson on Tho Banks of the East River Tho Banks of the Ohio and Thi Mississippi and the thames and Tho Rhine and Trio Tibor and on both sides of All Rivers. Tho Egypt inn plagues lasted Only a few weeks but for six thousand years Lii is raged this plague of lies. To Micro Aro a Hundred ways of telling a lie. A Man s entire life May to a false Hood while with his lips he May not once directly falsify. There Are those who Stata what is positively untrue but afterwards May to softly. These departures from the truth Are aided White but there is really no such thing As a Whito lie. A my. May be told in Many ways. Trio whitest Lio that was Over told was As Black is perdition. No inventory of pub Lic crimes will be sufficient that omits this Gigantic abomination. There Uro men High in Church nud Stato actually useful denying and Iio Nestin Many things who upon certain subjects1 in certain. Ink cts Are not at All to be depended upon Tor veracity. Indeed there Are Many men and women who Hare their notions of truthfulness so thoroughly perverted that they do not know when they Aro lying. With Many it a cultivated sin with it seems a natural infirmity t Hare known people who seemed to have been born liars. Tho falsehoods of to sir lives extended from Cradle to grave. Pretari cations misrepresentation and dishonesty of speech appeared in their first utter ances and Wero As natural to them As any of their infantile diseases find were a sort of moral crop or spiritual scar Latina. But Many Hugo been placed in Circum where this tendency has Day by Day ii by hour been called to Large r i Puent. They Havo gone from attainment and from class i Licy Havo become regularly Gra Iii. The to City is filled with false Hood Haug pendent from the do our finest residences they erodes of some of our merchant prick ill Tho sidewalk from curb .1 us Stone facing they Cluster around tin Mechanic s Hammer from tiie end of the merchant s Yard Alck and sit in the floors of churches. Some Call them some style them Yon might say that they Wero subterfuge disguised delusion Romance evasion pretence fable deception misrepresentation but As i am ignorant of anything to to gained by the hiding of god defying outrage under a lexicographer s Blanket i shall Call them what any father taught me to Call Vai Moths sorts of lies. I shall Divide them into agricultural mercantile mechanical ecclesiastical and social lies. First then i will speak of those that Are More particularly agricultural. Thera is something in the perpetual presence of natural objects to make a Man pure. The Trees never Issue false wheat Fields Giro always honest. Rye and Oats never move out in Tho night not paying for Tho place they have occupied. Corn never make false assignments. Mountain Brooks Aro always the Gold on Tho Grain is never counterfeit. The Sunrise never flaunts in false colors. Tho Dew sports Only genuine diamonds. Taking Farmers As a class i believe they Aro truthful and fair in dealing and kind hearted. But the regions surrounding our do los do not always Cund this sort of men to our markets. Day by Day Thero creak through our streets and about Tho Market Bouses farm wagons that Havo not an honest spoke in their wheels or a truthful rivet from Tongue to Sailboard. During Tia lost few years Thoro have been times when Domestic Economy has foundered on the Farmer s firkin. Neither High tuxes nor the High Prico of dry goods for Tho exorbitant by of labor could excuse much that Tho City has witnessed in the behaviour of the yeomanry. By tha quiet 11 resides in Westchester and Orange counties 1 Hope there May to seasons of deep reflection and repentance. A Nurul districts Aro Acca Tomed to roil at Groat cities As Given up to fraud and every form of unrighteousness but our cities do not absorb All tha abominations. Our Citi Zens have Learned the importance of not always trusting to Tho size and style of apples in Tho top of a Farmer s barrel As an indication of what May to found farther Down. Many of our Are accustomed to watch and see How correctly a Bushel beets is measured and there Are not Many honest milk cans. Deceptions do not All Cluster round City Halls. When our cities sit Down and weep Othir their sins All Tho surrounding Conn trite ought to come in my weep with them. Thei o is often hostility on to part of pro queers against traders us though Tho Man Iwho raises the Corn was necessarily More honorable Tymn the Grain dealer who pours it into his Mammoth bin. There ought to be no such hostility. Yet producers often think it no wrong to snatch away from the trader and they say to the bargain maker Yon get your Money do they get it easy let Thosa who in the quiet Field Mil barn get their living Exchange places with those who stand today amid the excitements of commercial life and Seo if they had it so vory easy. While the Farmer goes to sleep with the Assurance that his Corn and Barley will be growing All the night moment by moment adding to his Revenue the merchant tries to go to sleep conscious that that moment a is cargo May be broken on Tho rocks or damaged by the wave that a Reeps Clear the Hurricane deck or that reckless May that very hour be plotting adm monetary revolution or Tho to , fc.iij., u Uia us Babura uce tag Trio town or his landlord raising the rent or the fires kindling on the Block that contains All his estate. Etayl is it god the merchants it is hard to have the the hands blistered with outdoor but a Moro dreadful process when through mercantile anxieties the brain is consumed. Mercantile lies. In the next place to notice mercantile lies Thooe Buforo the counter and behind i will not attempt to specify forms of commercial use there Are merchants who excuse a for deviation from Ness because of what they Call commercial custom. In other words the multiplication and universality of a sin turns it into a virtue. There Ivo been Large fortunes gathered where there was not one drop of Urc Quistad toil in the wine not one spark of bad temper flashing from the Bronzo bracket not one drop of Needle woman s heart blood in the Crimson Plush Whilo there Aro other great establishments in which i there is not one door Knob not one Brick not one trinket not one Flint and of Laco but has upon it Tho Mark of Dishonour. What Wendur if some hand of toil that had been wrung and worn out and blistered until Tho skin care Oil should to placed against the elegant Wall paper leaving Mark of fingers and a that some Day walking Tho Halls there should to u voice no costing Tho occupant saying six cents for making a and flying the room another voice should say twelve cents for an army and the Man should try to sleep at night but Ever and anon be aroused until getting up on our Elbow he should shriek out who s one Sabbath night in Tho Vestibule of my Church after service a woman foil in convulsions. The doctor suite she needed Medicine not so much As something to eat. As she began to revive in. Her delirium Slio said Gaspin Gly eight cents eight can Tel eight cents i wish 1 could get it done i am so tired i wish i could get some sleep but i must get it Donel eight cents eight we found afterwards she was Mak ing garments for eight cents apiece and that she could make nit Tiret f them in a Day three tin Tiro Twenty four hear it men nud who have comfortable Homes some of the worst villains of the City Aro the employers of these women. They beat them Down to the lust Penny mid try to cheat them out of that. Tho woman must Deposit a Dollar or two before she gets the Vizenta to work on. When the work is done it is sharply inspected the most in significant flaws picked out and Tho wages refused and sometimes Tho Dollar deposited not Given Back. The women s protective Union reports a Case where one of these poor souls finding a place where she could get More wages resolved to change employers and went to get her for work done. The employer says i lieu you Are going to leave she said and i am come to get what you own he Indan no answer. She said Are you not oing to to said i will and to kicked her Down the stairs. There arc thousands of fortunes made in commercial spheres that tire throughout righteous. God will his favor rest upon every scroll every pictured Wall every Trace ried window Ami the Joy that flashes from the lights and showers from Tho music and dances in the children s Quick feet pattering through the Hall Mil utter the congratulation of men and the approval of god. There is so need of falsehood. A merchant can to Tho last item be thoroughly honest. There is never any need of falsehood. Yet How Many will Day by Day hour by hour utter what they know to to wrong. You say that you Aro Selling at less than Cost. If so then it is right to say it. But did that Cost you less than what you ask for it if not then you Havo falsified. You say that that article Cost you Twenty five dollars. Did it if so then nil right. If it did not then Yon Havo falsified. Suppose you Are a purchaser. You Are beating Down the goods. You say that that article for which five dollars is charged is not Worth move than four. Is it Worth no Moro than four dollars then All right. If it be Worth More and for the sakha of getting it for less than value Yon Wil fully depreciate it you have falsified. You May Call it a Sharp Trade. Tha recording Angel writes it Down on Tho ponderous tomes of eternity or. So and so Mer chant on water Street or in eighth Street or in Stato Street or mrs. So and so keep ing House on Beacon Street or on Madison Avenue or Rittenhouse Juare or Brook Lyn Heights or Brooklyn told one Yon May consider it insignificant because relating to an insignificant Purchase. Yon would despise the Man who would falsify in regard to some great matter in which the City or the whole country was concerned bub this is Only a Box of buttons or a Rover of pins or a Case of Needles. Be not deceived. Tho a Riclo purchased May to so Small you can put it in your Vest pocket but the sin was bigger than Tho pyramids and the Echo of the Dishonour will reverberate through All the mountains of eternity. You throw on your counter some specimens of handkerchiefs. Your customer asks is that nil silk no Cotton in you answer it is All was it All silk if so All right. But. Was it partly Cotton then Yon have falsified. More Over you lost by the fun Hoort. The Custo Mer though he May live at Lynn or Doyles town or Pough Kopsic will find you live defrauded Hirn Anil next Spring when he Ngam comes shopping he will look at your sign and Hay i will not try there that is Tho where i got that so that by that one Dis honest bargain you picked your own pocket Nad insulted Tho almighty. Would you dare to make an estimate of How Many falsehoods in Trade wore yester Day told by hardware men and clothiers and fruit dealers Aud dry goods establish ments and importers Aud Jjwel ers and lumbermen and Coal merchants and stationers and tobacconists lies about saddles about buckles about ribbons about carpets about gloves about Coats about shoes about hate watches about carriages about everything. In Tho name of the lord almighty 7. Arraign commercial falsehoods As one of the greatest plagues a City Aud town. Mechanical pics. In to hts next place i notice mechanical lies. There is no class of men who admin ister Moro to Tho welfare of Tho City Thau artisans. To inc or hand to must took Foi the building that shelters us for tha Gar ments that clothe us for the car that car Ries us. They Wield widespread influence. There is much c Leri Siou of what is called muscular but in the latter Day of the world s Prosperity i think that the Christian will a muscular. To have a right to expect of those Stalwart men of toil the highest possible integrity. Many of them answer All our expectations ind stand at the front of religious and philanthropic enterprises. But this class like the others that i Hare named has in it those who Lack in the element of veracity. They cannot All be trusted. In times when the demand for labor is great in impossible to meet the demands of the Public or do work with that promptness and perfection that would at other times be possible. But there Are mechanics Whoso word cannot be trusted at any time. No Man has a right to Promise More work than he can do. There arc mechanics who say that they will come on monday but they do not Como Nutil wednesday. You put work in their hands that they Tell you shall be completed in ten Days but it is thirty there Havo been houses built of which it might to said that every Nail driven every foot of plastering put on every Yard of pipe Laid every suit Izlo hammered every Brick mortared could Tell of falsehood connected therewith. There Aro men attempt ing to do ten or fifteen pieces of work who have not the time or strength i do More than five or Nix pieces but by promises never fulfilled keep nil the undertakings within their own grasp. This a they Call nursing Tho Job. How much wrong to Hia Sony and insult to god a Mechanic would save if he prom ised Only so much is to expected to be to do. Society has to right to risk of you impossibilities. You cannot lil ways calculate correctly and Yon Fibril because Yon cannot got the help that Yon antics but now i am speaking of the Wil Fol making of promises that you know you cannot keep. Did you say that that shoe should be mended that coat repaired those bricks Laid that harness sewed that door grained that spout fixed or that window glazed by saturday knowing that you would neither be Able to do it yourself nor get any one else to do it then before god and Man you Are a liar. You May say that it makes no particular difference and that if you had told the truth you would have lost the Job and that people expect to be Duap pointed but that excuse will not answer. There is a voice of Thunder rolling among the drills and planes and shoe lasts and shears which says All liars shall have their part in the Lake that born eth with lire and ecclesiastical lies. I next notice ecclesiastical a falsehoods told for the purpose of advancing churches and sects or for Tho purpose of depleting them. There a to use in asking Many a calvinist what an Arnii Nian believes for to will to Apt to Tell you that the armenian believes that a Man can con Vert himself or to ask the Armi Ian what Tho calvinist believes for he will Tell you that Tho Ca minist believes that god made some men just to Damn them. There Ianc need in asking a pc do Baptist what a Bap list believes for he will to Apt to say that the Baptist believes immersion to be positively necessary to salvation. It is almost for one denomination of christians without prejudice or misrepresentation to Stato the sentiment of an opposing sect. If a Man hates presbyterians and Yon ask him what presbyterians Beli ovo he will Tell you that they believe that there Are infants in hell a Span Long it is also individual churches will sometimes make to misstate Nientsu about other individual churches it is especially so in regard to falsehoods told with reference to prosperous enterprises. As Long As a Church is feeble and Tho sing ing is discordant and Tho minister through the poverty of the Church must go with a threadbare coat and hero and Thero a Wor Shiper aits in the end of a Pew having All the scat to himself religions sympathizers of other churches will say what a but let a rent Day of Prosperit Como and even ministers of the gospel who ought to to rejoiced at Tho largeness and extent of thu work denounce and misrepresent and falsify starting Tho suspicion in regal Al to themselves thut Tho reason they do not like the Corn is because it is not ground in their own Mill. Ii Oil Long before to shall learn to be fair in our religions criticisms Tho keenest jealousies on Earth Aro Church jealousies. The Field of Christian work is so Large that there is no need that on Hoe handles hit. Social lies. Next i of social lies. This evil makes much of society insincere. You know not what to Bali Etc. When people ask you to come Yon do not know whether or not they want you to come. When they Send their regards you do not know whether it is in expression of their heart or an external civility. We have Learned to take almost everything at a discount. Word is sent not at when they Are Only too Lazy to dress themselves. They say the for acc has just gone when in truth they have lad no fire in it All Winter. They apologize for Tho unusual barrenness of their table when they never live any better. They decry their most luxurious entertainments to win a Shower of approval. They apologize for their appearance As though it Wera unusual when always at Home they look just so. They would make Yon believe that some Nice sketch on the Wall was Tho work of a master Painter. It wag an heirloom and once Hung on the Walls of a Castle and a Duko gave it to their when the fact is that painting was made by u Man Down and baked sons to make it look old. And sold with others for ten dollars a dozen. People who will lie about nothing else will Lio about a pict ure. On a income we most make Tho world believe that we Are affluent and our life becomes a cheat a counterfeit and a Sham. Few persons Uro really natural. When i aay this i do not mean to slur cultured manners. It is right that we should have More admiration for the sculptured Marble than for the unknown Block of the Quarry. From Many circles in life insincerity has driven out vivacity and enthusiasm. A Frozen dignity instead floats about the room and iceberg grinds against iceberg you must not laugh outright it is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash rapidly across the room you must Glide. There1 is a round of bows and grins and Flat teries and ohs and Fahsl and simpering and world of which is not Worth one Good round honest peal of laughter. From such a hollow round the tortured guest retires at the close of the evening and assures his Host that he has enjoyed himself i what a round of insincerity is Many poo Plo run in order to win Tho favor of the world their life Isa Sham and their death an unspeakable sadness. Alas for the poor butterflies when the Frost strikes them a comparison of lives. Compare the life and death of such a Oua with that of some Christian aunt who was once a Blessing to your household. I do not know that she was aver offered the Tad in marriage. She lived single that tra Meled she might to everybody s Blessing. Whenever Tho sick Wero to he visited or Tho poor to be provided with bread she went with a Blessing. She could Pray or sing Rook of Ages for any sick pauper who asked her. As Sho got older Thero Wero Days when Sho was a Little Sharp but for tha most part Annilo was a the one for Christmas Ere. Sho knew bettor than any one old. How to fix things. Her every prayer on god Beard it. Was full of everybody had trouble. The brightest tilings in nil the House dropped from her fingers. She had Peculiar notions but to grandest no Tion she Ever had was to make you Happy. She pressed always dressed Well but her highest adornment was that of a Meek and quiet spirit which a the sight of god is of great Price. Won she died you All gathered lovingly about her and As you carried her out to rest the Sun Day school class almost covered the coffin with Japonica and Tho poor people stood at the end of the Alley with their aprons to their eyes sobbing bitterly and the Man of thu world said with Solomon her Price was above and a cons is unto the Maiden in Judea commanded i say unto thee Arisclo but Mimi through insincerity this life is a masquerade Bull. As at such entertainments gentlemen and ladies appear in Tho dress of Kings or Queens Mountain bandits or clowns and us the close of the dance throw off their disguises so in this dissipated life All unclean passions move in mob. Across the floor they trip Mer Rily. The lights along the Wall or drop from the cohort of Flurel the music charms. The diamonds glitter. The feet bound. Gen Ituen hands stretched oat clasp hemmed hands. Dancing feet respond to dancing feet. Gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with the Dancil flush and Rustle and laughter and immeasurable merry making but the languor of death comes Over the limbs cod blurs the sight. Lilita lower i floor hollow with sepulchral Echo. Music saddens into a Wail. Lights lower the maskers can hardly now be seen. Flowers Exchange their Fra Grance for a sickening odor snob As comes from garlands that Hugo lain in vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower mists fill the room Gladsea rattle As though shaken by Sulin tit under. Becin caught among the curtains. Scarf from the shoulder of lights lower o7er the Slippery boards in dance of death jealousies disappointments inst do takes. The leading furniture House i 270 main St., Winnipeg. Span. Torn leaves Ami withered garlands Only half hide Ihu ulc ered feet. The stench of smoking lamp Wicks almost quenched. Choking Damps. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands folded. Kye shut. Voices hushed. Lights turning in i coins turn. A cemetery Sirius a queer Pluto in which to set up a gambling hell but those who woo Fortune itt Squirrel Iliili pa., evidently care Little for their surroundings. At any rate Robert Walters Sexton of the German evangelical lutheran cemetery is in jail for Tho Oft ens of maintaining a gambling Louse in the graveyard. Walters lives in the dwelling , Trio cemetery Gate. For months Post to 1ms been using House As a i Mii a permitting such Uai. As Faro poker and a strictly German time St decl Ite a percent age of the Money a lulled and in addition it is alleged disposed of Strong liquid refreshments to in debts. Often there were u score of More of in the House. The existence of Tho game wus discovered in a Peculiar manner. One sunday there was a dispute and some of Walters customers bought their own Supply of Beer and taking up a place on Tho cemetery property proceeded to have a Good time. Walters called the police who arrested the men. Upon being arraigned they were fined overheard to remark that if Walter s did t their fines they would Tell something co his disadvantage. The Otu cers kept quiet until Walters came for Ward and settled. Lie was arrested and in default stood committed. An Kyo Jor mid Oll Urx As it a Well known to All tobacco i colera that Tho vice Ltd is Ron Odeol to Lio the quest on Tsieia Liml of Cuba and no other tobacco a in Quality or commands is a Price on the Market we wih to inform Tho connoisseurs o imported Havana Cizars that pc Van tight Hsc Tho imported Rigers brought into this country Aro not of Vuc Luv Abajo tobacco in order to to Vitioe Trie Public Liat we Aro inc Rel ii what to elate to to Tho Henri Tohle of this City the sum of 31000 it our urn tement con be Lla Prvul. To will also forfeit for trios Imo pure Mac n Lilie mini if our la Cali a Brand of cd car in not manufactured co Lively of l Uelton Abajo tobacco. S. Lav if hour Montreal. Ladies and gents boots made to Ordek Upas Irisho done. Toboggans skates dumb Bells Indian Clabe single Sticks boxing moves guns and ammunition Send for Price mat. The i Huston Smith arms 403 Street. Blun Flieg. Winnipeg brass works 32 and 34 Albert St. F. O. Box 648. Andrew Schmidt immense red figure Umes no let up to the gains we Are giving. This will last 03st 3l.-5t a few weeks longer. Blairs co. 480 main Street. A. Oord Lor Carload of Good Call on s and he will Tell you where to get it Telephone no. 581. Ged h. Brown r.n.1 dealer la Laffita Laft shingles Saab. And Wood goal Wesley Street i Oppa Elte St. Mary Street Iwer n. P. It u. Habit cloths and ul8terings . Craig co y have received this Day by express a Large lot of the above in Fawn new Blue Light Grey drab slate Light f Awn new checks most Choice and stylish goods for ladies costumes 54in. Wide reversible. Ladies Call and see these goods they Are without doubt the finest goods Ever brought to the City of Winnipeg. Will be sold at moderate prices As we Don t intend to carry one costume Over the Price we have marked them at will sell them very fast. Call and get your Choice As we have a Large selection. We Are also receiving daily Large shipments in every department dress goods Staples fancy me Veilleux men s and boys clothing and our Large car pet room is being filled with new goods. Call at Craigs Mammoth store. Bicycles Junann ived. B great in a non b Call foe Nur 1 fore elsewhere. Two or Ron nil h in a wifi Elk for cheap m Good to i Iota. Sch la i 4 Shock Geo ertl office main str it . Clam Fison mt5rchant tailors Toiro Sitto samples at Boom 6, shirts to p o. 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