Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-23
DR.. Talmage Delivers a Ser
mon on the Art Of
Money Getting.
The Many Schemes for Get
ting It and What Is
Done With It.
A Question That Interests Every
Good Citizen Discussed From
a Bible Standpoint by the
Brooklyn Divine.

W organ and cornet, rolled out the hymn
oeginning:
Meier think the victory won,
Nor once at ease sit down;
Thine arduOus work will not he done
Till thou hast got thy crown.
The Rev. II. Dewitt Talmage, ID.
preached the sermon. His subject was
Wrong Uses of Money" and his text, l.
Timothy vi. o.: They that will be rich
fall into temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
drown men in destruction and perdition.'
That is the Niagara Falls over which
rush a multitude of souls, namely the de
termination TO have money anyhow,
right or wrong. Tell me how a man gets
his money and what he does with it, and
will tell you his character, and what
will be his destiny in this world and the
next. | propose to speak this morning
about some of the ruinous modes of get
ting money.
We recently passed through a national
election in which it has been estimated
that $50. 000, 900 were expended. think
about 500, 600, 600 of it were spent in out
and out bribery. Both parties raised al
they could for. this purpose But that was
emily 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 bedraggled
into the synonym for truculency and
turpitude. A monster sin, plausible,
potent, pestiforous. has gone forth to do
it's dreadful work in all ages. Its two
hands are rotten with leprosy. 1t keepsits
right hand hidden in a deep pocket. The
left hand is Clenched, and with its lchor,
Gus knuckle it taps at the door Of the
court room, the legislative hall, the con
gress and the parliament. The door
swings open and the monster enters, and
glides through the aisle of the council
chamber as softly as a slippered page,
and then it takes its right hand from its
deep pocket and offers it in salutation
to Judge or legislator. If that hand be
taken, and the palm of the intruder cross
the palm of the official, the leprosy
crosses 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, &C
cursed Of God and man, stand up for
trial.
The Bible arraigns it again and again
Samuel says of his two sons who became
judges: They took brides and perverted
judgment" David says of some Of his
pursuers: Their right hand is full OF
ribes." Amos says Of some men in his
day: They take a bride and turn aside
the poor in the gate" Eliphaz foretell.
the crushing blows of Gods Indignation
declaring: Fire shall consume the tab
ernacles Of bribery"
1t is no light temptation. The might
est nave fallen under it, Sir Francis Ba
con, lord chancellor Of England, foundel
of our modern philosophy, author O
"NOvum Organum," and a whole library
of books. the leading thinker of his cen
Jury. so precocious that when Il LITTLE
child he was asked by Queen Elizabeth
How old are your" he responded, -.
an two years younger than your majas
tvs happy reign Of whose oratory BEL
Johnson wrote, The fear OF every maj
that heard him was lest he should maxi
AN end" having an income which you
would suppose would have put him be
yOnd the temptation of bribcry-S36, 00'
a year, and TwiCkenham court a gift, ant
princely estates in Hertfordshire ant
Gorhambury-yet under this temptation
to bribery falling fiat into ruin, and, OF
his confession OF taking brides, givins
as excuse that all his predecessors tool
them, he was fined $500, 600, o
what corresponds with our 5000,
600, and imprisoned in LondoI
tower. SO also Lord Chancellor Maccles
field fell; 80 also Lord Chancellor Water
bury persisted. The black chapter IL
English, Irish, French and American pol
itics is the chapter Of bribery. Some o.
YOU remember the Pacific Mai subsidies
Mast ce you remember the awful tragedy
Of the Credit Mobilier. Under the temp
,ation to bribery Benedict Arnold sole
the fort in the highlands for S3l, 575. Fo
this sin Gorgey betrayed Hungary, Ahith
ophei fcrsoOk David, and Judas klsset
Christ. When l see 80 many of the illus
trieus going down under this temptation
il makes me think Of the red dragon
spoken of in Revelation, with seven head
and ten horns and seven crowns. drawing
third part IF the stars Of heaven dow
after him. The Hobbies of the leglsla
lures of this country control the country
The land is drunk with bribery.
ON" says some one, there's no neet
of talking against bribery by promise or BY
dollars. because every man has his price.
do not believe it. Even heathenlsn
and the dark ages have furnished speci
mems of incorruptibility. a cadi O
SMYRNA had a case brought before HIN
on trial. A man gave him 900 ducats II
bribery. The case came on. The brlbe
had many witnesses. The poor man OF
the other side had no witnesses. Al I'M
close Of the case the cadi said I'M
poor man has no witnesses. he thinks;
shall produce in his behalf 500 witnesse
against the other side" And then pull
ing out the bag of ducais from under IN
ottoman. he dashed il down AZ the feet o
the briber. saying: Il give my d'clslo
against you." Epaminondas. offered
bride. said: II will do tails thing II II D
right, and If il be wrong all your good
cannot persuade me-" FabIIcius OF th
Roman senate wac offered p hribe d
Pyrrhus eft Macedon. Fabricius Ans