Tom Merritt
speaker
315 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Their breath is the Siracco of the desert.
Their bones have in them the decay of the pit.
They have the eye of the basilisk.
They have been soaked in filth.
and steeped in uncleanliness, and consumed in sin, and they are all adrip with a loathsomeness of eternal death.
I take hold of the robe of one of these elegant gentlemen.
and pull it aside and say, Behold a leper.
First, if you desire to shun this evil you will have nothing to do with bad books and impure newspapers.
With such an affluent literature as is coming forth from our swift revolving printing presses, there is no excuse for dragging oneself through sewers of unchastee.
Why walk in the ditch?
When right beside the ditch is the solid flagging.
It seems that in the literature of the day the ten plagues of Egypt have returned.
And the frogs and lice have hopped and skipped over our parlor tables.
Waiting impatiently in the house of some parishioner for the completion of a very protracted toilette.
I have picked up a book from the parlor table, and found that every leaf was a scale of leprosy.
Parents are delighted to have their children read.
But they should be sure as to what they read.
You do not have to walk a day or two in an infected district to get the cholera.
or typhoid fever.
And one wave of moral unhealth was
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