Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-11
WRONG USES OF MONEY
BRIBERY Is DENOUNCED A MONSTER SIN
OF THB AGB.
The Abuse Of Trust Fnnds-POhhcal JObbsry-Plain
Words Of Advcs-Rey. DR.. Talmage's
Sermon IN Brooklyn Tabernacle
Yesterday
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/ Special Tele0rdm to The Register.
BROOKLYN, March 1O.-At the Taber-
nacle this morning, six thousand voices
supported by organ and cOrnet, rolled Out
the opening hymn.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. D. D.,
preached the sermon. His subject was,
Wrong Uses of Money" and his text,
Timothy vi, 8: ''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 man gets his
money and what he does with it, and l
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 getting
money.
We recently passed through a national
election in hich it has been estimated
that thirty million dollars were expended
think about twenty million of it we're
spent in out and out bribery. Both par
ties raised all they could for this purpose
But that was only on large scale what has
been done on smaller scale for fifty years
and in all departments.
A MONSTER SIN.
Politics, from being the science of good
~ of hadr 4
into the synonym for trueulency and turpi-
tude. A monster sin, plausible, potent
psstiferOus, has gone forth to do its dread
iul work in all ages. It's two hands are
rotten with leprOsy. 1t keeps its right
hand hidden in deep pocket. The left
hand is clinched, 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
aud the monster enters and glides through
the aisle of the council chamber rs 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 be taken, and the palm of the in
lruder cross the palm OF the official, the
leprosy crosses from palm to palm in
round blotch, round as a gold eagle, and
the virus spreads, and the doom is fixed,
and the victim perishes. Let bribery,
accurstd 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 of some of his
pursuers, "Their right hand is foll Of
bribes" Amos says Of come men in his
day, "They take hrlbe and turn aside the
poor in the gate" Eiphsz fortells the
crushing blow of Gods Indignation, de-
claring, Fire shall consume the taber-
nacles of bribery"
THE MIGHTIEsT HAVE FALLEN.
Il is no light temptation. The might
lest have fallen under it, Sir Francis Ba-
con, Lord Chancellor of England, founder
Of our modern philosophy, author OF
"NOvum OTganum," and q whole library
of books, the leading thinker of his CEN
tury, so precocious that when a little child
he was asked by Queen Elizabeth, "HOw
old are yOu?" he responded, 81 am two
years younger than your msjesty's happy
reign;u of whose oratOry Ben johnson
wrote, 1.-THE fear Of every man that heard
him was lest he should make an end"
having an income which You would cup
pose would have put him beyond the
temptation of bribery-thirty-s thous-
and dollars year, and Twickenham
court gift, and princely es-
Z tes in Hertfordshire. and Cor
hamburg, yet under this tempta-
ton TO bribery falling fiat into ruin,
and on his confession of taking brides,
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 Mscclesfeld fell; so also
Lord Chancellor Waterbury perished.
The black chapter in English, Irish, French
and American politics is the chapter OF
bribery. Some of you remember the
Pacific Mail subsidies Most OF you re-
member the awful tragedy OF the Credit
Mobilier. Under the temptation to bnb-
ery Benedict Arnold sold the fort in tine
Highlands for $31, 575. For this SIN Gorgey
betrayed Hungary, Ahithophel forsooE
David and Judas kissed Christ. When l
see 80 many OF the illustrious 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 lobbies OF
the legislatures of this country
control the country. The land ia drunk
with bribery.
MEN WHO ARE APPROACHED.
have not much faith in those people
who 90 about Dragging how much they
could get if they only would sell out.
Those women who complain that they are
very often insulted need TO understand
that there is something in their carriage to
invite insult There are men in Albany
and at Harrisburg and at Washington who
would no more be approached by bribe
Than q nitrate boat with few cutlasses
would dare to at sck British man-ot-war
with two banks of guns on each side load
ed 10 the muzzle They are incOrrupt-
ible men. and they are the few men who
ara 10 save the city and save the land.
Meanwhile. my advice is to all people to
keen out of politics unle you are invul-
nerable to this style Of temptation. In
II
deed, if you are naturally strong, you need
religious buttressiDg. Nothing but
the grace of God can sustain our public
men and make them what we wish. wish
there might come an old fashioned revival
of religion, that ii might break out in Con-
Oress and in the Legislatures and bring
many of the leading Republicans and Dem
ocrsts down on the anxious seat OF repent
ence. That day will come, or something
better. for the Bible declares that kings
and queens shall become nursing fathers
and mothers TO the church, and if the
greater in authority, then certainly the
| less.
Nv charge also to parents is, remember
that this evil of bribery often begins in
the home circle and in the nursery. Do
NOT bribe YOUR children. Teach them to
do that which is right, and not because OF
the ten cents OF the orange you will give
them. There is a great difference between
rewarding virtue and making the prohts
thereof the impelliug motive. That man
who is honest merely because honesty is
the best policy" is already moral bank
rupt
ABUsE OF TRUST FUNDS.
Another wrong use Of money is seen IN
the abuse of trust funds. Every man dur
inp the course of his life, on larger or
smaller scale, has the property of others
committed to his keeping. he Is 80 far 3
safely deposit, he is an administrator, ana
holds in his hand the interest OF the lam
ily of deceased friend. Or ne IS an at