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Show A TERRIBLE PICTURE OF NEW YORK CITY LIFE. The Rev. Dr. Ewer, of Christ church, New York, has recently been preaching a scries of discourses which give a terrible picture of the vices and corruptions of life in that city. Wc quote one passage by way of specimen: spec-imen: "Go on, careless, tight-hearted Auier-caus. Auier-caus. Play a little longer, like so many youths, the game oi' "citizen at the polls with his ballot." Your attitude there was once sublime; it is now ridiculous. ri-diculous. Bribe your legislators and buy your law officers; compromise, through the police, with the thieves of your stocks and money, and so help your robbers to pay for their champagne cham-pagne suppersfpile up your fortunes, in apathy about what is around you. Go on, ye mothers of America, with your flirtations and sale of your daughters. daugh-ters. Go on, ye young men, crowding crowd-ing the keno rooms, and stealing by back stairways to the faro bnnk. Go on, ye churohes and charitablo societies, socie-ties, with your gambling fairs. Go on, yo creatures of fast habit, careful to keep the "Sabbath" very sacred by closed pianos, the laid aside novel, and denying Christ ad libitum. Go on, ye citizens, thoughtful only of piivntc and careless of public honesty; all seems well and fair now; America moves smoothly. Goon, ye rich men, that never think of the twenty-five thousand thous-and of your brothers that are living to-day in the putrid cellars below ground, and that never think of bettering bet-tering the condition of the hundreds of thousands of others that swarm like ants in and out of our tenement bouses, those mothers of pestilence and feeders of prisons. Go on, ye employers, em-ployers, rolling in millions for your private pockets, and paying j-our 1 clerksjust enough either to starve or to steal. Go on, yo newspapers, pub-, lisbing the sickening details of rapes, adulteries, divorce suits, hangirjgs and prize fights, bearing loving messages in your advertising columns from depraved de-praved manhood to dethroned womanhood." woman-hood." The New York Journal of Commerce Com-merce admits that Dr. Ewer's piety and veracity are unchallenged, and says that he is a "learned, eloquent, and most effective pastor," but docs not like his plain speaking, which it re-cards re-cards "more befitting a Diogenes or a Swift than a sound Christian minister." minis-ter." As if it were unbecoming a "sound Christian minister" to tell the truth fearlessly ! Albany Evening Ti mes. |