News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV DIR TALNIACE'S
STERLING DISCOURSES.
Subject: Wrong Uses of Money"

That is the Niagara Falls over which rus
a multitude OF souls, namely the determine
ton to have money anyhow, right or wrong
Tell me how a man gets his money and wha
he does with it. AMI ] viii tell you his char
acter. and what viii he his destiny in thi
wor and the next. Iproposs to speak thi
morning a cut some of the ruinous modes o
getting money.
We recently raised through a nationa
election in which it has been estimated tina
thirty million dollars were expended. 1thinl
about twenty million of it wers spent in on
and out bribery. Both PARTIES raised al
the could for this purpose. But that wa
only on a la ge scale what has been done Oh
a smaller scale for fifty years and in all &c
partmcnts
Politics frUm being the science of gooC
government has often been bedraggled int
tie synonym for truculency AMI turp,tude
A monster sin, plausible, potent, pestiferous
has gone forth to do its dreadful work IL
all ages. It's two hands are rotten will
leprosy. 1t keeps its right hand hidden in {
deep pocket. he left hand is clenceed, an;
with its ichCrous knuckle it taps at the doc
of the court room, the legislative hall, tn
door swings open and the monste
enters, and glides through the aisle of tn
council chamber as softly as a sippered page
and then it takes its right hand from it
deep pocket and offers it in salutation t.
Judge or legislator. If that hand be taken
and the palm of the intruder cross the palm
of the official, the leprosy crosses from pain
TO palm in a round blotch, round as a gold
eagle, and the virus spreads, and the doom IS
fixed and the victim per. shes. Let bribery,
accused of God and man. stand up for trial
The Bible arraigns 1t again ana again.
Samuel says of his two sons VINO Oecain5
iudees: stThey took br,beS and perverted
iudgmentn David says of some OF MS pur-
s,Irers. ssTheir right hand is full of brides
Amos saws 2. s'i tth hi ASIDE The poor in the
II a.. L. l. H.
of Gods Indignation, declaring: Fire shall
consume the ,bernabes of bribery"
It is no light temptation. The mightiest
have fallen under it. Sir Francis Bacon,
Lord Chancellor of England, founder of our
modern philosophy, author of ''Novum
the leading thinker of his century, so
precocious that when a little child he was
asked by Queen Elizabeth: How old
are your he responded, Il am two years
younger than your Maiesty's happy
reign" of whose oratory Ben. johnson
him was lest he should make an end" hav-
ing an income which you would suppose
would have put him beyond the temptation
of bribery-thirty-s thousand dollars u
year, and Twickenham court q gift, and
princely estates in Hertfordshire and Cor
hamburg yet under this temptation
TO bribery falling fat into ruin,
brides, giving as excuse that all
his predecessors took them; be was fined
two hundred thousand dollars, or what cor
responds with our two hundred thousand
dollars, and imprisoned in London tower.
so also Lord Chancellor Macciessield fell: so
also Lord Chancellor W aterbury persisted. The
black chapter in English, Iri,h, French and
American pc itics Is the chapter of bribery
Sone Of you remember the Pacific Mail
subsidies. Most OF you remember the awful
tragedy of the Credit Mobilier Under
the temptation to bribery Benedict Arnold
sold the fort in the Highlands for
sSl, 575. For this sin Gorgey BETRAYED
Hungary, Ahithophel forsook David and
Judas kissed Christ When | see so many
of the iliustrious 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 third part of the stars of heaven
down after him. The Hobbies of the legisla-
lures of this country control the country
The land is drunk with bribery.
oh says some one. there's no need of
talking against bribery by promise or by
dollars because every man has his price"
do not believe 1t. Even heather sm and the
dark ages have Furnished specimens of i'll
compatibility. A cadi of Smyrna had a case
brought before him on trial \ man
gave him five hundred ducats in
bribery. The case came on. The
bribcr had many witnesses. The poor
man on the other side had no witnesses AT
the close of the case the cadi said: This
poor man has no witnesses, he thinks: | shall
produce in his tehalf five hundred witnesses
against the other side And then pulling
out the bag OF ducats from under the otto
man. he dashed it down at the feet
of the briber, saying: 81 give my
decision against you "Epam-
inondas, offered a bride, sill: 81 viii do
this thing if it be right, and if it be wrong
n lz Ia
Fahricius of the Roman senate was offered
bribe by Pyrrhus of Mecedon. Fabric IL
answered; Nv hat an example this would b.
to the Re- man people: you keep your richie!
and will keep my 70; Q ty and reputation.
The President OF the American Congress.
during the American Revolution, General
Reod, was offered ten thousand guineas by
foreign commissioners If he would betray
thi country. He r piled: Gentlemen, l an
a very poor man, but tell your King he j:
not rich enough TO buy mo" But why &c
so far. when you and |, if we move in
honorable society, know men and women who
oy all the concen rated tOrca of earth AMI
hell could not te bribed. They woul nc
more lie ribbed than YOU would think OF
tempting an angel OF light to exchange heaven
Tor tho pit To offer a brittle is villainy, bu;
1t Is very poor compliment to the man
whom it is offered.
have not much faith in those people who
60 about Dragging how much they could get
II they would only sell out Thos. women
who complain that they are very often in.
su ted need TO understand that there is some.
thing IN their carriage TO invite insult.
There are men III Albany and at Har
rishurg ana at Washington who wculd M
more oe approached by a eribe than pir ate
boat with a few cuslas&es would dare to at.
tack British mau-of-war with two banks OF
guns on each si,Ie loaded to the touch hole
ihey are IncoIrupsiblc men, and they are
the few men VINO are to savo the city ant
save the land Meanwhile. nv nd
wee Is TO all people to keep out of politics
un esS you are Invulnerable to this style O!
temptation. Indeed. if YOU ara naturally
strong, you reed religious buttressiny
Nothing but the grace of God can sustain
our public men and make them what we
visa l wish that there might come an
oldfashioned revival of religion. that
IL might break out in Congress and in
tie Legislatures AMI bring many of the lead
ing Republicans and Democrats down on the
anxious seat of repentance. That day will
come, or something better, for the Bib'e de.
cia' es that Kings and Queens shall become
nursing fathers and mothers to the church
and II the greater in authority, then certain
lv tho less
My charge also to parents Is, remember
that this evil of bribery often be .lns in the
horne circle and in the nursery. Do not
brine Your children Teach them 10 do that
which Is right. and not because OF the ten
cents or the orange you will give them.
There is great difference between rewarling
virtue an making the profits thereof the
1mpelling motive That man who is honest
merely because honesty is tina best policy"
is already moral blnkrup+
My charge is to y u, in a ] departments OF
lie, steer clear of bribery, all of you. Every
man an woman at so ne time will he
tempted to do wrong for compensation. The
bride may not be offered in money Il may
Ia nfFaral in Enaia al NJ
member that there is day comm :
when the most secret transaction of pri-
~ate life an of public life will come un for
public apprehension. We cannot bride death,
we cannot bride sickness, we cannot brihe
the grave, we cannot bride the judgments of
that God who thun1ers against this sin.
''Fier' said Cardinal Beaufort. "ie can't
death be hired2 is money nothngl must
die. and so rich! if the owning OF the whole
realm would save me, ] could get il "
policy or by purchase-bv money! No.
death would not be hired then: he will not
be hired now. Men of the world often regret
that they have to leave their money here
when they go away from the world. Yo1
ran tell from what they say in
their last hours that one of their
chief sorrows is that thew have to leave their
money / break that delu-i0n. ! tell that
bride taker that he will take his money with
him God will v--ap it up in your shroud. or
put 1t IN the palm OF your hand in resurrec-
ton, and there it will lie, not the cool. bright
shining gold as it was on the day when YOU
sold YOUR vote an your moral principle, but
there it viii lie, hot metal, burning and
consuming your hand forever. Or, il there
he enough OF it for a chain, then
IL will fall from the wrist clank-
in , the letters of an eternal captivity. The
lribe is an everlasting possession. You take
It for time, you take it for eternity. Some
5ay in the next world. when yoJ are long
ing for sympathy, you will feel on your
sheek kss. Looking up you will find it TO
De Judas, who took thirty pieces OF silver as
bribe and finished the bargain by putting
an infamous kiss on the pure cheek of his
Divine Master
Another wrong r1sa of r,o,ay is car, n;