Show A FEE CHARGED TO HEAR TALMAGE THE rev kev T de witt talmage has added to his notoriety by his performance jast sunday in washington private enterprise had made elaborate preparations for a sort of beligio military entertainment or exhibition to take place on that day under the name interstate inter state drill grounds had been selected eted and arranged for the affair a grand stand had been erected etc the managers secured troops for the drill by offering prizes and other inducements to companies of militia in various states to come to washington and participate in it and depended for their profits on the sate gate receipts and the sale of privileges to sell bell ice cream peanuts etc etc on the grounds three sheet posters were placed on the dead walls of the city advertising the affair and announcing flouncing an among amoas other attractions to draw the pop populace popular ulac to the exhibition a display of fireworks and a sermon by talmage all ail for twenty five cents if stan standing duag room Only were taken or fifty cents if a seat on the grand stand were reserved it was exactly on a par with advertising a sermon by the ecclesiastics stica acrobat of brooklyn as a part of a circus performance on the babbs sabbath tal the washington correspondent 0 ol 01 is a chicago paper writes as follo follows we of the affair mr talmage was paid to leave his i pulpit in brooklyn and preach the grand military ser sermon nion in the drill grounds today to day he was hired dei bei because I 1 cause it was thought he would draw the biggest crowd and the soldiers ol of the encampment b have to pay for hearing preaching today to day mr talmage was hired and advertised as an attraction just as the man who runs the fireworks at the ground sat night was hired he begets gets his share of the receipts as the fireworks man does the privilege of preaching was sold like toe the privilege of selling beer and peanuts and for the purpose of making as much money as possible the pulpit was placed so that every one who wanted to hear it was compelled to pay an additional fee for a seat in the grand stand or lose the benefit of his bis admission money it was what sporting men call a fake from beginning to end and talmage was the star attraction A this sordid hypocrite for filthy lu in prostitutes cre his calling as an alleged minister of righteousness and holiness to the debased level of Is a circus clown I 1 consents for pay to appear as a leading attraction of a hippodrome in connection with a display of fireworks and athletic exercise sin desecration of the sabbath Sabbat fa and in violation of law is willing for money to be gazed at and listened to by a fee paying multitude even as is the irishman who as the role of the fiji islander in a dime museum and yet he is un shocked at the mann mannelin enin the lawr latter day balata god and favors their extinction by the most summary methods known to the warfare of savages it is such as he be who are destroying the bold religion might bave upon the minds of thinking and intelligent people and who are doing more than are the Inger to bring brine the doctrine of revelation precepts of christianity into disrepute ilia his example does snort more harm barm than do the teachings of the greatest ot of anarchists for they aim only to destroy the property 0 ot men while his course tends to destroy their souls bouls it is etting that he should be the toe loe and not the friend of the latter day saints |