Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-11
WATERING STOCK s.
Police Stations for Small Sins,
Palaces for Wholesale Robbery.
TALMAeE ON MANS INCONSISTENCY
How the Little Offenders are Punished
and the Big Thieves Go Marching
On in the Palaces
of Wealth.

New YORx, June 10-The Rev. T. De
Witt Tslmage preached the following SER
mon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning:
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage announc-
ed that he would next Sabbath baptize by
immersion persons who prefer that mode.
He commented on the oppositeness of
Christ's teaching as set forth in Matthew,
where casting pearls before swine is for
hidden.
Opening hymn
my soul be on thy guard.
Ten thousand foes arise,
And hosts OF sin are pressing hard
TodIaw thee from the skies"
Subject Of the sermon: "Gnats an d Cam
els"
Text-Matthew xiii. 24: "Ye blind
guides which strain at a guat and swallow
camel"
\ proyerb is compact wisdom-truth in
Chunks-a library in one sentence-the
electricity OF many clouds discharged in
one bolt-a river put through mill race.
Christ quotes this proyerb of the text to set
forth the ludicrous behavior of those who
make a great bluSter about small sins and
are indifferent about large ones. small
insect and huge quadruped are brought
into cOmpariSon-a gnat and a camel. In
the menageries if not in the desert you
have seen the latter, a great, awkward,
Sprswling thing, back two stories high and
stomach containing collection of reser-
voirS 20 supply water for desert travel. for
bidded as food TO the lsraelites, and called
the
Ship of the Desert.
The gnat is here referred to in its grub
form. IL IS born IN pools or ponds, and
after few weeks turns into Chrysalid,
and then after few days into the gnat, as
We recognize it. II is to the gnat in its
simplest shape that the text refers, and
while Il yet inhabits the water for the text
is misprint and ought to read which
strain outs gnat.' So my text shows you
the price OF all Inconsistencies. A man
by some minute observation has formed the
suspicion that there is in cup of water he
is ABOUT TO drinka grub or the grandparent
OF gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or strain
er. He puts the water under inquest into
this sieve and takes 1t into full light. He
says ! would not for anything drink this
water until have extirpated
this larvae. The water rushes
through this fine sieve and the
Experiment in Successful,
and against the fine wire of the sieve he
discovers the gnat and removes il, and then
drinks the water in peace. Yet this same
man goes out and is hungry, and devours
ship of the desert, and a camel, which the
Jew was by divine command forbidden to
eat. The astronomer has no compunc-
tions; he suffers from no indigestion. He
gets his lower jaw under the paw of the
CameIs forefoot and the upper jaw over
the lump on the camers back and gives
! one swallow, and the dromadary disap-
pcared forever. He strained out a gnat
| and swallowed a camel. While Christ's
auditors were yet smiling under his quota
| tjOn-iOr they did then and they smile in
| church unless
They Were Stupid
and could not understand the
hyperbOle. Christ said That is YOU :
punCtiliOuS about things OF no Importance
| but careless about things immense Never
| did su bjeCt under SsgaCiOus knife writhe
| more bitterly than did the PhariSees uu to
| Christ's sCalpel OF truth. His lessons took
I the human body to pieces and examined it
/ with microscopes. So Christ finds his way
| To the heart of the dead PhariSee and cut
| ting it out holds ii up so that from the
! glass of inspiration all generations may
| behold il. Perhaps they expected Christ
| 20 feather them; but how must they have
| writhed under His redhOt words, when He
! exclaimed; "Ie fools,
HypscriteS,
! We whited sepUlChres, We blind guides
| which strain ct a gnat and swallow a
! camel"
Again those persons are photographed
| by the text who are abhorent to small dis
| hOnEstles but sCruple not at magnificent
| theitS. There are business men who could
| not be persuaded to take yard of cloth
| or a spool of cotton from the count
| er without paying for them, and ii the
| bank cashier had made mistake aud sent
/ i'm the roll OF bills s. too much, the mes
| SerCer would he fastened back to return
| the surplus, and yet such q man will in a
| stock company will get control of tne stock
| and through watering it make his Sl00,O00
represent S2OO,OC0. The most Of the
| MIIIionaires Of the United states
| got their money in that way. II they
| found a wharf rat some evening stealing
I the Brooklyn Eagle out of their basement
| doorway they would grab him.by the col
| lar and twist the collar so tightly the boy
| could not explain how it was merely thirS.
for knowledge thattsmptej him to take the
| paper snd saying I've got YOU now you
| Lite wretch. and shouting till you could
! hear the old stock gambler three blocks
| away. "PoliCe, police" Puucti.ioU5 about
| that which cost three or five cents. But
| that sane night after having by
watering the Stock
| end stolen = hundred thousand dollars,
| knceliuc in family prayers thanking the
| Lord for the great prosperity OF the day
| and kissirg the children good night with
al air that seems TO say i hope you will
/ al grow up to be as good as your father
| Police stations for sins insectile in size out
| rs'aCes for crimes drOmedarian. Men OF
| large estate UNANIMOUSLY gotten are aslittle
t R'vt
| cod Will pat underneath some OF these
American Fortunes
| gotten in unrighteousness, something
. more destrUstiye than dynamite, even
tie earthquake OF Omnipo.ent indig-
nation. Il is high time that we learn in
! this country that sin is not eXcusa6le in
proportion 10 the largeneSs OF the dividend
| 1t declares and the number of outriderS in
/ It's sqUipagc. Many a man is riding to
| perUition postillion ahead and lackey be-
mind. To steal one copy OF newspaper
is gnat. TO steal q railroad is camel.
! Many 4 man could not be induced to puT-
/ loin basket OF peaches but every summer
since I can remember the fruit dealers
/ have said that the
Peach Crop In Maryland
was failure and that depression ia the
| fruit market has made difference OF mill
| lions Of dollars when the crop came in.
The grain merchants are now systematic
ally depreciating the wheat crop. Go into
the reading rooms and find the reports
made systematically, methodically and
/ viIainously about the grain crop-the
same wholesale lying as for the last fifteen
years. Later on will come the corner in
grain. tor petty theft OF pint of fax
seed these men would haye perfect con-
tempt but for the burglary OF nation S
! wheat bin and the larceny OF the Amerl-
| can corn crib, no CompunctiOn
In this Hot weather
| in churches and reformatovy institutions
some of these men will sit planning for
the reform OF small rascslS and removing
gnats while in their elevators and store
| houses and counting rooms, and granaries,
they are fatteuing Camels which they eX-
peCt TO swallow. Great impatience for
snima.cule misdemeanor and great lein-
ercy for mastodon iniquity! IL you find
hoy Sly!y taking choke pear from the
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