Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
SUNDAYS SERMON.
oxr OF REV. DIR TALMAGE'S
aTERLING DISCoURSES.
cublect: Wrong Usesof Money"

Il destruction and peTddioa. II Timothy
w.,
That is the Niagara Falls over which rush
auItitllde of souls namely the determine.
s;an h have money ANYHOW, right or wrong.
Mi me how a man gets his money and what
~ does with it, and will tell You his char
ae,sr and what will be b $ destiny in this
Tord and tie next. Iproposs to speak this
morning 6 ~ ~, soma OF the ruinous modes OF
ErtHSS r:o1ey.
slsetion in which it has been estimated that
thirty million dollars were expended. Think
sbout twenty million Of it were spent in out
mi out bribery. Both parties roised all
,bs, could for this purpose. But that was
only on laig &c scale what has been done on
ssalaller scale for fifty years and in all de-
partments.
Politics from being the science OF good
government has often been bedraggled into
s.e synonym for truculeucy AMI turpitude.
monster sin, plausible, potent. pe,tiferous,
bas gone forth to do its dreadful work in
m ages. lis two hands are rotten with
cnrosy. 1t keeps its right hand hidden in a
deen rocket The left hand is clenched, and
with It's ichorous knuckle it taps at the door
Of the court room. the legislative hall, the
congress and the parliament. The
door swings open and the monster
enters, and glldes through the aisle of the
council ehamher as softly as a slippered page
and then it takes its right hand from its
deep pocket and offers it in salutation to
MICE or legislator. If that hand be taken
and the palm Of the intruder cross the pain
Of the official the leprosy crosses from palm
10 palm in a round blotch, round as a gold
eagle and the virus spreads. and the doom is
fixed. and the victim pershes. Let bribery,
uccursed of sod 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 pur-
sarers: "Their right hand is full of brides. /"
Amos saws of some men in his day: They
take bride and turn aside the poor in the
gate Elphaz fortels the crushing blows
Of Gods Indignation, declaring: Fire shall
consume the tibernahles of brioery.n
1t Is no light temptation. The mightiest
have fallen under il. Sir Francis Bacon,
Lord Chancellor Of England. founder of our
Organum.n and a whole library of books,
Tie leading thinker of his century, SO
precocious that when little child he was
asked by Queen Elizabeth: How old
are you" he responded, Il am two years
Younger than your Maiestys happy
reign" of whose oratory Ben. johnson
wrote: 1.-THE fear of every man that heard
him was lest he should make an end" hav-
inc an income which you would suppose
would have put him beyond the temptation
Of bribery thirty-six thousand dollars n
year and Twickenham court a gift, and
prncely estates in Hertfordshire aud Cor
hnmbury - yet under this temptation
to bribery falling fat into ruin,
and on his confession OF taking
brides, giving as excuse that all
bis predecessors took them; he was fined
two hundred thousand dollars. or what cor
responds with our two hundred thousand
dollars and imprisoned in London tower
30 also Lord Chancellor Mncclesield fell: so
also lord Chancellor Waterbury persisted. The
black chapter IN English Irish, French and
American pc itics is the chapter of bribery
Rome 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
Sl515 For this sin Gorgey betrayed
Hungary, Ahithophel forsook David and
Judas kissed Christ When | see so many
Of the lllustrious 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 lob5ies Of the legisla-
lures Of this country control the country.
Ire ANA 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, |
donot believe it. Even heathenism and the
DARK ages have Furnished specimens of in
corrupnbility. "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
orlDer 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 behalf 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
o. TIE briber saying: 81 give my
decision against youn Epam-
nonias, offered a bride, sail: 81 viii do
tns thing if it be right and if it be wrong
~ your gools cannos persuade me-
fa6nelus Of the Roman senate was offered
1flos by PyrThus of Macedon. Fabricius
answered: what an example this would DO
70 ns Roman people; you keep your riches
ss A VIII Keep my ToN erty and reputation
Inc President o, tue American Congress
y,uilng the American Revolution. General
heci was offered ten thousand guineas by
i.geelgn commissioners if he would betray
20 country. He piled: "Gentlemen.I am
avery poor man, but tell your King he is
NY r'eh enough to buy me" But why go
lar, when you and l, if we move in
tllhorabe society, know men and women who
y an The cOncen rated force of earth and
uen could not be bribed. They would no
more lie bribed than you would think of
sSlptng an angel of light to exchange heaven
AZ 'he PIT To offer brihe is villainy, bus
= ~ e very poor compliment to the man
whom it is offered.
nave not much faith in those people who
k'Usoont Dragging how much they could get
Il lsley would only sell out. Those women
@lo complain thai they are very often in
y yea need 10 understand that there is some-
rug IN their carriage TO invite insult.
~, .esfe are men in Albany and at Har.
,Auufg ana at Washington who would no
~ ut oe approached by bride than pirate
-. eSe with few cutlasses would dare to at
~ british NARROWER with two banks OF
~ I'M On each SHE loaded to the touch hole.
~. e! are incorruptble men, and they arc
s 1s le' men who arc to save the city and
- The land Meanwhile, my ad,
M M = 70 az people to keep out of politics
-. on are mvulnerable to this style OF
s-.psatlon. Indeed, if you are naturally
So.as you reed religious buttressing
~ eut the grace of God can sustain
~, PUBIC men and make them what we
Is wish that there might come an
|, laslloned revival of religion, that
y. might break out ia Congress and in
j.. y sslslatures and bring many of the lead
=, republicans and Democrats down on the
aA'sdS seat of repentance. That day will