The national leader., 1889-03-30
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Wrong Uses OF Money.

tnst viii be rich fall into Termination
nare, and into many foolish and h,,,t
rs, which drown men in dast,nnt;o,,
fdition."-1 Tim. 9. nv"
IT is the Niagara Falls over
rush a multitude of souls name
determination to have money
w, right or wrong. Tell me how
gets his money and what he does
I, ana | will tell you his charac-
III what will be his destiny in this
ana the next. propose to speak
ornlng about the ruinous modes
ting money.
recently passed through a ma
election. in which it has been es-
"a that thirty million dollars were
ded. l think about taoenty mil
q Scere spent In out dnd out brib-
both parties raised all they could
pls purpose. But that was only
arge scale what has been done on
Llier sca'e for fifty years and in all
tments.
itlcs FROM being the science of
government has often been bed
ed into the synonym for trucul-
and turpitude.
A MONSTER SIN,
lhle, potent, pestiferous, has gone
10 do its dreadful work in all
Its two hands are rotten with
sy. 1t keeps its right hand hid
ln a deep pocket. The left hand is
hed, ami with its ichorous knuc-
taps at the door of the court
P, the legislative hall, the congress.
the parliament. The door swings
and the monster enters, and glides
ugh the aisle of the council CHAM
IS softly as a slippered page, and
it takes its right hand from its
pocket and offers it in salutation
hdge or legislator. Ii that hand be
|n, and the palm of the intruder
IS the palm of the official, the lep-
cr' sSes from palm to palm in Il
hd blotch, round rs a gold eagle,
the virus Spreads and the doom is
j, and the victim peIiShes. Let
berry, accursed of God and Mail,
id up for trial.
he Bible arraigns it again and again.
huel says of his two sons, who be-
be judges, "They took bribes and
Eerted judgment. David says of
e OF his pursuers, "Their right hand
'ull Of bribes." Amos says of some
b in his day, "They take a bribe,
turn aside the poor in the gate"
Ephaz foretells the crushing blows of
Us indignation, declaring, Fire
I'll consume the tabernacles of Drib-
!" 1t is no light temptation.
THE MIGHTIEsT HAVE FALLEN
der it. Sir Francis Bacon, Lord
hncellor of England, founder of our
|dern philosophy, author Of "Novum
ganum," and a whole library books,
leading thinker of his century, so
,coclous that when a little child he
S asked by Queen Elizabeth, "How
are you?" he responded, II am two
lrs younger than your Majesty's hap
reign; OF whose oratory Ben Jonson
ote. 1.-The fear of every man that
ard him was lest he should make an
10 having an income which you
uld suppose would have put him be-.
nd the temptation of bribery-thirty-
thousand dollars year, and Twick-
nam court gift, and princely estates
and Gorhambury-yet
der this temptation to bribery, fall
: flat into ruin, and on his confession
taking bribes, giving as excuse that
his predecessors took them; he was
ed two hundred thousand dollars
what corresponds with our two hun
I'd thousand dollars-and imprisoned
London Tower. So also Lord Cham
lor Macclesfeld fell; SO also Lord
aterbury perished.
The black chapter in English, Irish,
ench. American politics IS the chap
. of bribery. Some Of you re-
,mber the Pacific Mail subsidies.
ost of you remember the aw'ul
'oedv of the Credit Mobilier. Un-
: the temptation to bribery Bene-
# Arnold sold the fort in the
pbiands for S31, $50. For this sin
,rgev betrayed Hungary, Ahithophel
,sook David, and Judas kissed Christ.
hen 7 see SO many of the illustrlous
mo down under this temptation, it
IKE ,pes me think Of the red dragon
1ken of in Revelation, with seven
ads and ten horns and seven crowns,
awing a third part OF the stars of
: Won down after him. The lobbies
the legislatures of this country con-
j the country.
TT LAND is DRUNK WITH BRIBERY
.soh - saws some one. there's no need
talking against bribery by promise
SU t%lAdi dollars, because every man has
" go u ,, / do not believe it. Even
!. .thsnism ph.S and the Dark Ages have
rnished specimens of incofruptlblllty:
lnisie nS; Of Smyrna had case brought
sa.a Cau' him T on trial. A man gave HIM
1 lor5 SnnGred m,dI ducats in bribery; The
2 nu one m. The briber had many
se !, esses ea% The poor man on the other
le nau Sa III the cadi said: This poor
cI9s has no witnesses, he thinks; l
I'D nas d,,ca m in his behalf five hum
all pIOOuSo - fbo other side -