The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-30
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Wrong Uses Of Money.

Wrong Uses OF Money.
sThey that Will be rich tall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurt
full lusts. which drown men in destruction
and perdition.'I Tim. 8ia
THAT Is the Niagara Falls over
which rush a multitude of souls, name
ly the determination to have money
anyhow, right or wrong. Tell me how
a man gets his money and what he does
with it, and l will tell you his charac-
ter, and what will be his destiny in this
world and the next. / propose to speak
this morning about the ruinous modes
of getting money.
We recently passed through a na-
tional election, in which it has been es-
timated that thirty million dollars were
expended. l think about t,oenty mil
lion of Il Uere spent In out and out brib-
cry. Both parties raised all they could
for this purpose. But that was only
| on a large scale what has been done on
a smaller scale for fifty years and in all
departments.
Politics from being the science of
| good government has often been bed
raggled into the synonym for trucul-
ency and turpitude.
MONSTER SIN.
| plausible, potent, pestiferous, has gone
| forth 10 do its dreadful work in all
ages. Its two hands are rotten with
| leprosy. 1t keeps its right hand hid
| cleEciied, and with its i:horous knuc-
kle it taps at the door of the court
room. the legislative hall, the congress.
and the parliament. The dor swings
open and the monster enters, and glides
through the aisle OF the council cham
l e. as softly as a slipper,d page, and
then it takes its right hand from it,
deep pocket AMI offers it in saluiati0n
to Judge or legislator. II that hand be
taken, and the palm of the intruder
cross the palm Of tie official, the lep-
rosy CT, sses from palm to palm In a
round blotch, round as a gold eagle,
and the virus spreads. and the doom is
fixed, and the victim perishes. Let
bribery, aecursed Of God and man,
stand up for trial.
The Bible arraigns it again and again.
Samuel says of his two sous, who be-
came judges, "They took brides and
| perverted Judgment" David says of
some OF his pursuers, '.Their right hand
is full Of bribes." Amos says of some
men in his day, "They take a bride,
and turn aside the poor in the gate"
Eliphaz foretells the crushing blows Of
Gods Indignation, declaring, "Fire
shall consume the tabernacles of brib-
cry" 1t is no light temptation.
THE MuGHTIFsT HAVE FALLEN
under it. Sir Francis Bacon, Lord
Chancellor of England, founder Of our
modern philosophy, author of "Novum
Organum," and a whole library cooks,
the leading thinker of his century. so
p~recoclous that when a little child he
was asked by Queen Elizabeth, "How
old are your" he responded, II am two
years younger than your Majesty's hap
py reign; OF whose 0rat0ry Ben JonsOn
wrote, 1.-The fear of every man that
heard him was lest he should make an
end;" having an income which you
ewould suppose would have put him be.
You'd the temptation of bribery-thirty-
six thousand dollars a year, and Twick-
enham court a gift, and princely estates
In He~rtfordshire and Gorhambury-yet
under this temptation to bribery, fall
ing tiat into ruin, and on his confession
Of taking brides, giving as excuse that
all his predecessors took them; he was
fined two hundred Thousand dollars
or what corresponds with our two hun
dred thousand dollars-and imprisoned
in London Tower. So also Lord Chan
cellor Macclesfeld fell; SO also Lord
Waterbury persisted.
The black chapter In English, Irish,
French. American politics Is the chap
ter of bribery. Some Of you re-
member the Pacific Mail subsidies.
Most of you remember the awful
tragedy of the Credit Mobilier. Un-
der the temptation to bribery Bene-
dict Arnold sold the fort in the
Highlands for S31,575. For this sin
GOrgey betrayed Hungary, Ahithophel
forsook David, and Judas kissed Christ.
When 1 see SO many Of the illustrIous
going down under this temptation, it
makes me think of the red dragon
spoken of in Revelation, with seven
heads and ten horns and seven crowns,
drawing a third part of the stars OF
heaven down after him. The lobbies
Of the legislatures Of this country con-
troll the country.
THE LAND is DRUNK WITH BRIBERY
"Oh," says some one, there'sn no need
Of talking against bribery by promise
or by dollars, because every man has
his price," l do not believe 1t. Even
heathenism and the Dark Ages have
furnished specimens of incorruptibility.
A cadi Of Smyrna had a case brought
before him on trial. A man gave him
five hundred ducats in bribery. The
case came on. The briber had many
witnesses. The poor man on the other
side had no witnesses. at the close oil
tile case the cadi said: "This poor
man has no witnesses, he thinks; !
shall produce in his behalf five hun
dred witnesses against the other side.n
And then pulling out the bag OF ducats
from under the ottoman, he dashed IT
down at the feet Of the briber, saying,
II give my decision against you.''
Epaminondas, offered a bride, said: 81
will do this thing II it be right, and If
1t be wrong all your goods cannot per-
suade me-"
The president of the American Con
greSS during the American heYOlutiOns
General Reed, was offered ten thousand
guineas by foreign commissioners II he
would betray this country. He replied:
"Gentlemen, / am a very poor man.
but tell your king he is not rich enough
to buy me-" But why go SO far, when
you and ], il we move in honorable
society. know men and women who by
all the force of earth and hell
COULD NOT BE BRIBED.
They would no more be bribed than you
would think Of tempting an angel oil
light to exchange heaven for the pit.
TO offer a bride is ~villainy, but 1t is a
very poor compliment to the man tc
whom 1t Is offered.
! have not much faith In those PEG
pie who 20 about Dragging how much
they could get if they would only sell
out. Those women who complain thai
they are very often insulted, need e
understand that there Is something In
their carriage to invite insult. There
are men at Albany. and at Harrisburg.
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