Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-17
WRONG USES OF MONEY.
SERMON OF GREAT POWER BY
REV. T. DE WITT TAlMAGE.


80 NJ Home-Abuse Of Trust Funds.
10 Rsys To BE Honest.
BROOKLYN, March 10.-Atthe taber-
lsce this morning, six thousand
oices supported by organ and cor
vet rolled out the hymn beginning;
NeNcr think the victory won,
Nor once at ease sit down:
Thine arduous work will not be done
7nl thou hast got thy crown
The Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, d. D.,
weAched the sermon. His subject
~, wrong Uses of Money" and his
sd / Timothy vi, Q: They that will
10 rich fall into temptation and a
s'lare, and into many foolish and
:Irtful lusts, which drown men in de-
iruction and perdition."
That is the Niagara Falls over
which rush a multitude Of souls,
,smely the determination to have mo-
iey anyhow, right or wrong. Tell me
CIV a man gets his money and what
30 does with il, and / will tell you his
haracter, and what will be his des-
my in this world and the next. /
ropose to speak this morning about
me of the ruinous modes of getting
;.ioney.
We recently passed through a ma
lional election in which il has been
stimated that thirty million dollars
ere expended. l think about twenty
aillion of it were spent in out and
Tut bribery. Both parties raised all
lliey could for this purpose. But that
q only on a large scale what has
cen done on a smaller scale for fifty
yesrs and in all departments.
Politics from being the science of
good government has often been be-
iraggled into the synonym for trucu-
.ency and turpitude. A monster sin,
~Ilsusible, potent, pestiferous, has gone
,orth to do its dreadful work in all
ages. Its two hands are rotten with
,eprosy. 1t keeps its right hand hid
len in a deep pocket The left hand
S clenched, and with its ichorous
Snuckle il taps at the door Of the
,ourt room, the legislative hall, the
congress and the parliament. The
loor swings open and the monster
enters, and glides through the aisle of
he council chamber as softly as q
shppered page, and then it takes its
right hand from its deep pocket and
Jfers it in salutation to Judge or legis-
iatDr. If hat hand be taken, and the
palm of the intruder cross the palm of
The official, the leprosy crosses from
pafm TO palm in a round blotch,
round as q gold eagle, and the virus
spreads, and the doom is fixed, and
Tho 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
dsome Of his pursuers, Their right
hand is full of bribes." Amos says of
sme men in his day, They take a
bribe and turn aside the poor in the
gate" Eliphaz fortells the crushing
blows of Gods Indignation, declaring,
Fire shall consume the tabernacles
Of bribery"
II is no light temptation. The might
iest have fallen under il. Sir Francis
Bacon, lord chancellor of England,
founder OF our modern philosophy,
author of ''Novum Organum," and a
whole library Of books, the leading
thinker of his century, so p~recocious
TINT when o little child he was asked
by Queen Elizabeth, How old are
Joni" he responded, II am two years
younger than your majesty's happy
BGSn;" Of whose oratory Ben johnson
wrofe, "The fear of every man that
hsard him was lest he should make an
I'D" having an income which you
wuuld suppose would have put him
hgyond the temptation of bribery
6irty-six thousand dollars q year,
md Twickenham court a gift, and
pincely estates in Hertfordshire
md Gorhambury-yet under this
tsmptation TO bribery falling fiat
into ruin, and on his confession OF
taking brides, giving as excuse tina,
al his predecessors took them; he was
fined to hundred thousand dollars,
or what corresponds with our two
hundred thousand dollars, and impris
oned ia London tower. So also Lore
Chancellor Macclesfield fell; so also
Lord Chancellor Waterbury persisted
The black chapter in English, Irish,
French and American politics is the
chapter of bribery. Some of you re
member the Pacific Mail subsidies.
Most Of you remember the awful trag.
edy of the Credit Mobilier. Under the
temptation 10 bribery Benedict Arnold
sold the fort in the Highlands for
81, SIS. Forthis sin Gorgey betrayed
Hungary, Ahithophel forsook David
and Judas kissed Christ. When 1 see
&c many Of the illustrious going down
under this temptation, il 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 lobbies of the legisla
lures Of this country control the coun
try. The land is drunk with bribery
EVERY MAN HAS NOT HIS PRICE.
"Oh," says some one, there's M
need Of talking against bribery by
promise or by dollars, because every
man has his price, / do not believ,
H. Even heathenism and the darl
ages have furnished specimens Of in
corruptibility. A cadi Of Smyrna
bad a case brought before him OF
trial. A man gave him five hundred
ducats in bribery. The case came on.
Tho briber had many witnesses. The
poor nan on the other side had nc
Witnesses. AT the close Of the case
The cadi said; This poor man has nc
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