The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-11
WRONG USES OF MONEY.
THEY THAT WILL BH RICH FALL
INTO TEMPTATION.

lSuCS ana lurpltude.
Brooklyn, March l0.-At the Tabernacle
this morning. six thousand voices supported
by organ and cornet, rolled out the hymn
beginning:
Ne'er think the victory won,
Nor once at sit down;
Thine arduous work will not be done
TIL thou hast got thy crown.
The Rev. 4. De Witt Talmage. D. D..
preached the sermon. His subject was
Wrong Uses of Money! and shis text I
Timothy vi, o: "They that will be rich fall
into temptation and snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts which
drown men in destruction and perdition.r
That is the Niagara Falls over which
rush multitude of souls, namely, the de-
termination TO have money anyhow, right
OF wrong. Tell me how man gets his
money and what he does with it, and will
tell you bis character, and what will be
his destiny in this world and the next
propose 10 speak this morning about some
OF the ruiuous modes Of getting money.
We recently passed through national
election in which it has been
were expended. l think about twenty
million OF 1t were spent in out and
out bribery. Both parties raised all tley
could for this purpose. But that was only
on large scale what has been done on a
smaller scale for fifty years and in all de-
partments.
Politics from being the science of
good government has often been bedraggled
into the synonym for truculency and
turpitude. A monster sin. plausible, potent
pestiferous, has gone forth to do its dread
ful work in all ages Its two hands are
rotten with leprosy. 1t keeps its right
hand hidden In a deep pocket. The left
hand is clenched, and with its 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
cutters 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 sautation
to judge or legislator, If that hand be
taken, and the palm Of the intruder cross
the palm of the official, the leprosy eros es
from palm TO palm in a round botch,
round as gold eagle, and the virus spl eads,
and the doom is fixed, and the victim per-
ishes. Let bribery, accursed 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 bribes and perverted
Judgment" David says some Of his pursuers,
Their right hand is full OF bribesn Amos
saws of some men in hs day, ''1hey take a
bribe and turn aside tho poor ia the gaten
Eliphaz foretells the crushing blows Of
Gods indignation, declaring, "Fire shall
consume the tabernacles Of b-iberyn
1t is no light temptation. The mightiest
have fallen under 1t. Sir Francis Bacon,
lord chancellor Of England, founder of our
modern philosophy, author of "Novum
OrRanum," and a whole library of books,
the leading thinker of his century, so pre-
cocious that when little child he was asked
faU ahaHh 4 ~.
responded: 81 am two years younger than
your majesty's happy reign" Of whose
oratory Ben johnson wrote: "The
fear or every man THAI heard
him was lest he should make an
end" having an income which you
would suppose would have put him beyond
the temptation of bribery-thirty-six thou
sand dollars year. and Twickenham court
gift, and princely estates in Hertfordshire
and Gorhambury-yet under this tempta-
ton to bribery falling fiat into ruin, and
on his confession of taking bribes, giving
as excuse that all his predecessors took
them; he was fined two hundred thousand
dollars, or what corresponds with our two
hundred thousand dollars, and imprisoned
in London tower. So also Lord Chancellor
Macclosfield fell; so also Lord Chancellor
Waterbury perished The black chapter in
English, Irish, French and American politics
il the chapter Of bribery Some Of you re-
member 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 ia the
Highlands for s3l ,575 For this sin Gorgey
betrayed Hungary, Ahithophel forsook
David and Judas Kissed Christ. When
see so many Of the illustrious going down
III der this temptation, it makes me think
Of the red dragon spoken Of in Revelation,
with seven heads and ten horns and seven
draw "a third Of ha gta
Of heaven down after him. The lobbies OF
the legislatures Of this country control
the country. Tho land is drunk with brib-
cry.
"Oh,p says some one, "there's no need Of
talking against bribery by promise or by
dollars, because every man has his price" I
do not believe IL. Even heathenism and
the dark ages have furnished specimens Of
lity. A cldi Of Smyrna had a
case brought before him on trial A man
gave lin five hundred ducats In bribery.
The case came ON. The briter had many
witnesses. The poor man on the other side
had no witnesses. At the close of the case
witnesses, no thinks; l shall produce
in his behalf five hundred witnesses
against the other side.h And then pulling
out the bag Of ducats from under the otto
man, he dashed IL down at the feet OF the
briber, saying, II give my decision against
you. EpafnlnOnuhs, oHeTeu DfiDe, sdldf
~ will do this thing IL it be right, and il 10
be wrong ali your goods cannot persuade
me-" Fabricius of the Roman senate was
offered bribe by Pyrrhus of Macedon
Fabricius answered, "What an example
this would be 10 the Roman people; you
keep your richeg and l will keep my poverty
and reputation"
The president Of the American congress
during the American revolution, Gen. Reed,
was offered 10000 guineas by foreign com
missioners II he would betray this country
Hs replied: "Gentlemen, am a very poor
man, but tell your king he is not rich enough
10 buy me- But why 60 80 far, when you
and !, II we move in honorable society,
know honorable men and women who b
all the concentrated force OF earth and he'll
could not be bribed. They would no more
be bribed than you would think Of tempt
Ing an angel Of Light to exchange heaven
for the pit. To offer bribs is vilairy,
but it is a very poor compliment 10 the ma
~ whom IL is offered
have not much faith In those people who
go about Dragging how much they could
get If they would only sell out Those
women who complain that they are very
often insulted need 10 understand that there
Is something IN their carriage to invite IN
suit. There arelmen at Albany and at Harris
burg and Washington, who would no more
be approached by a bribe than a pirate
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