The daily gazette., 1878-02-18
MIR. Mann ON wickedness.

THE GREAT POWER OF THE WICKED
FoRCIBLE VIEWS AND EXPRESSIONS.
At Union M. e Church, yesterday
morning, Rev. j. B. Mann preached a
plainly-spoken sermon on the great pow
or of the wicked, taking for his text the
37th Psalm, 35th and 36th verses:
"I have seen the wicked in great pow
or, and spreading himself like green
bay-tree.
"Yet he passed away, and 10, he was
not yea, | sought him, but he could not
be found" sH.
In his opening remarks Mr. Mann COM
mented upon the many mysterious ways
of God, the most puzzling Of which
seemed to be the sufferings of the right
eo;ls on the earth, and the apparent I'm,
munty of the wicked from all temporal
| ills or adversities. He could only explain
| it by the reasoning: That the righteous
received but little in this world, and
were rewarded by great and eternal hap
piness in the life to come while all that
fell to the lot of the wicked was few
years of fieeting earthly pleasures and
hereafter of never-ending wretchedness.
He then alluded to the real subject of his
sermon, "The Great Power of the Wick
ed" which he amplied under several
heads. FIRST, they are in
GREAT EXECUTIVE POWER. q
The great majority of our rulers are
wicked men, and though it is written
that "the Kingdoms of this world shall be
the Kingdoms of God," the church of
| God has yet great work before 1t to
make them so. 1t has been only few
years since the political parties of this
country dared to nominate Christian
man for President of the United States.
/, myself, have seen Presidents so drunk
| in the streets of Washington that they
could scarcely stand and have met them
at midnight, reeling along in a deep state
of intoxication. / also once knew man
who was defeated for a nomination sim
ply because he was good Christian
Hence it is that the wicked obtain great
lexecutive power. They are also in
GREAT LEGISLATIVE POWER.
The Senate of the United States is said
to comprise the dignity and honor OF the
country, but / have seen it filled with
honorable drunkards; and bills nave
been passed when the leaders of the
body were so drunk they We're scarcely y
able to sit in their seats. They had theii
gin mills in the capitol building, and II
Henry Wilson never did anything else h,
performed "a grand work when he drove
these dens of vice from the capitol.
have in my mind now man who, whil'
| a candidate for State Senator from New
Castle county, announced from TN
stump tnaU nlS only trOuDio was ho So"i'
q not give the people free whiskey. Fart.
lis the cause of all this trouble. Yo'
would vote for man because he is ol
your ticket, If you did not consider hin
: competent to settle the estate of an ltal
n Liam organ-grinder. The time has com
L for a reform, and if Christian men wi
cease voting for every bloat that is force
= upon their party, both parties would sool
9 put forward good, honest, sober mel
II The wicked are also in
GREAT LITERARY POWER.
}, Many of the newspapers of the da
are not fit to go into any decent tamil,
They contain numerous advertisement
that are lewd and obscene, and much c
reading matter in some of them Is VII
l. ten solely for the purpose OF sneering
q goodness and bringing it into ridicule.
l. have to make it point to look over th
daily paper before it goes into the hand
of my family, and ofttimes L have
- mitch it into the fire. And then it cause
almost as much trouble for me to eXplai
g my act, as though l had permitted I'll
= Objectionable paper to be read. =,
iNoTE.-Mr. Mann is not subscrlD Dt
e, to the GAZETTE.
" Many of the newspapers are gwen
n infidelity, and great portion OF the
g. contents such as reports of libel trials an
A. other like cases, render them indlctaD
% for blasphemy under the laws OF IN
,r State. And If the States Attorney u
,e but do his duty one-haf OF the memoe!
of the Liberal League would be IN IA,
and that's where they ought to be. III
Bible was here before they were ts &ou
Bible people gave to this country all Uni