New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-24
PULPIT AND PLATFORM.
A sEPMoN ON POLITICS.
The Ken. r. DsWm F0IrpoSs at BrO0klVa 253l'7''ael.

The Ken. T. DAWN TatTpags at brooklyn 29DeTI'aeae
Among the announcements which the Kew
T. Dewitt Talmage made yesterday marnipg III the
Brooklyn Taberuace was one IN future be would
immorse such persons desired IT, "hy past Plan
said Mr. FaImagp "has been TO send such as Wisncd
that STYLE OF baptism 10 Of my Baptist friends win
a note, please immerse and 50, and oDhge pus
have been thinking hat immersion Is elther FlRht OIL
wrong. lit - wrong DONE want TO have anything 10
do with It, AID # 1t is right may as well employ II my
self So we have had baptstery built under this plat
FORM and such a. may be baptized by immersion
next Sunday" After the collection Mr.. Talmage ad-
vanced to the front OF the platform and said Encour
aged by the example OF the ministry in all ages ny our
duty as good and the authority Of the word OF
God address you to-day National affairs. and pray
you what say may he received in silence III Say What
1, wrong It will fall Of ITSELF II say what Is right t VIII
need none Of your approval" The text then Announces
was from Acts xiii %: al was free born"
3d. LOO years before Jefferson made his Declaration
Of Independence, SAID the preacher, Paul wrote MS
Some brag had told him how he had purchased his I'D
erty, and Paul practically replied: My freedom daeS
further back than yours I am rot liberated slavei
there we're no shackes the rockers OF my cradle my
mother was not seri; was free born" That de-
seres the couGion OF all born in this country WITHIN
the last seventeen years and " all white men yet born
init speak to you this morning OF the despOllsh O
American politics and how are 10 break IT, we are
on the eve PRESIDENTIAL election and already troops
gathering Tor chicago anu NlhCiuHhds w "ap 90"
being whipped into line far possible aud VIZ are
told that we must look through OF three or four
pairs OF speetacles suffer. Every city las It's DOSE
every State ts boss and the bosses OF all the states are
10 meet aud choose n great NatoAa ooSs
Against this great despotism I utter pro
test and l demand that men shaIl VoIe as
they think bestGod their only Judge IL we would re-
sst tins despot1sm American politics we must first
of all refuse to believe that in every four years
everything at stake. II 1t IL fact then would be
better for the state to 90 10 pieces IN order shat we
shoud have Government with some stability IN 1t. l
remember ton Presidential elections, and every time INC
pcople have been told tha country the very
verge OF ruin. Ifw3 within quarter or an inch D!
ruin, why do men come NowYork TO buy goods WY
do uen trust anybody II To have bloody Cesar
on the throne who Will have vutures ana buzznrs "a
parlor pets and Will turn the Capitol INTO coos
scum with its brutal shOws Or on the other hand, II
We IRE havo on old pa atty Tor President VINO VIII
tension the Confederate Generals rein3tatc American
we ara told that LuCp's second CioCtiOa was necessary
to The safety Of the country Lincoln de anu J1hhSo
reversed administration, yet We stlil IiVe' we arc
told on every mat there IL crisis Let Us quit
this crisis nslncs and believe that God built this cOu
nave made np my mind that this country does not
entirely depend on the Chrng0 and Cincinnati C"hycu-
lions n evor there time when we cOud ahOrd 10
have calm election u u now IhCre ID no Crisis anu
tho result Will make adherencc ot one nall cent
in YOUR taxation Tho Ouly difference u that n the
Democrats come into power yea epnoeans WIZ nave
TO set 0S and r ha S T 10 say o Ta Ba;
II there ia change. in many cases
theIe wen be much dGcteacr, because pO lcians sec
way the w.uh Is rOmi3& from. ana c1hNci@r;i-
ously their sails. The lion or the hati0ps
strength covered VITA greeLb0tle hca sncang out
its febiuod AID November tit re- may te new set
Of b0tte-fes. Tterr Is difference between men, but
betw parties there Is just tae ference o. hIy ana
half huuGred Both parties need ftiOtnatlnh bu, by
the time til have been reformed they will have been
reformed out OF exist nv
The question nO'y is, Who IS 70 BE- Precedent lie
mn a man Of established moral character. and It ~
matter Of eOnSratulLvn that the candidates as rue
are moral men. it matter ~ history that lbertneS
gamblers and duukarS have held high po8itiDns IN orr
country. Vice President was sworn In WINE he was
"a Of : ne hd7 been carried from
MIA Office drunk Tho pt Opc Uani no suc1 men care
nor how much talent nan may haYc II MS morals are
10000 0UO Our cUming PRESTON must 10 te-PCctrrt
tho Christian reIi-1on would Apply no religious tests
but Gns country was 1ken possession oil ~ w nun" O
God and IL must have over IL resp ttcr or religion
20 further nn hc mast nave heart nix enbnKh 10
take IN al states. Sec;.Onilm muL MOI 10 nhchcu
by convention ballOtbOX Whom WashnEtn look
Now there are thirtyeighi. aud some OF tlrni aIe
very sktih. Thrceqnirrls ~ this ccbtuy have been
aKen with SECTIONAL sirs uOw for the next twenty
let have aiHtY. Don't let Lie deopotlan oi
hClcVc that nuiY three or iOur men
can save Nation. 1t SDved The od shP0f sat"
H. our In cain water. Tho flowers OF SrrluC nave COW
urgy Goa that there bo more rs" Tor musEftS
excpt for hOid4y look for tn tulr when our navy
yards will De uuseun- anu Whcn the c%r on our COINS
viii MAKE for thn dow. give you. az phnatot
and preventive for all pOiiil3al iL tho CarSttu rE-
IN l. pr4cflcai Christians take possession 81 on" Prl-
nlaries aud ami thcy VIII ave ~ pure rOhc'
Au:fr,a prCpC tAYC declared II a WcdAncHS o.
his. decldr. thai HpUugy Ia be Nubhmey ChF7iItn.
r. men can differences by apology and treaty, wN
not uatnus Most HIEn God OF Pj III uth Rock, Bu3i'r
Hli Valley Forge nj AppumattnXt Out !a"u,r rotert
fns Macon. ! nUb WAU - FrtridcIt, u GUu lb
King. lImmGise dpplAuse.l