The Grenada sentinel., 1889-03-16
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Wrong Uses OF Money" and
the Danger Therein.
The SIN OF the Hour the Diversion oi
MoSsy From Its Legitimate Uses to
Channels of Corrupt, Dishonest
ard Vicious Expenditures.

Money from which he evolved the fol
lowing ooluted discourse. His text was
They that will be rich fall into temptation
and s0are, and into many foolish and hurtfu
iusts, which drown men in destruction and per
dition. -! / Timothy. vi, 81
That is The Niagara Falls, over which
rush i multitude of souls, namely, the de-
ternlL3tlQ to have money anyhow, righ
or wrong. Tell me how man gets hl'
money and what he does with it, and
will yfl you his character and what viii
be his destiny in this world and the next
l propose TO speak this morning abou,
some OF the ruinous modes of getting
money.
We recently passed through National
election, n which it has been estimated
that thirty million dollars were expend-
ed. | .t.EE about twenty million dollars
Of it were spent in out and out bribery.
Botb parties raised all they could for this
PURPOSE. Bat that was only on large
scale what has been done on a smaller
scale .Cr fifty years and in all depart
meLts.
Politics rom being the science of good
government, has often been bedraggled
INT" -he synonym for truculency and
turp.tade, A monster sin, plausible, po-
tent p@s;iterous, has gone forth to do
its G,euGfgl work in all ages. Its two
hands urs rotten with leprosy. 1t keeps
its rlg.t Daud hidden in a deep pocket,
The lrL; atud is clenched and with its
lcho-,.s ECLckle it taps at the door Of the
cou.t- room. the legislative hall, the Con-
grc-> @ua The Parliament The door
swing open and the monster eu,n'S and
glide Trough the aisle of the council
Ghan- .e. - s0ftly as a slippered page,
and c-er It .aEes its right hand from i is
deep poke, and offers it TO Judge orlegls'
LatyF I maj hand be taken and the palm
OF I-- .1,ruder crosses the palm Of the
otrc-s., the leprosy crosses from palm to
- - Sa55 me vtr2S H=3s''! !spf9stds, aud the
doom IS Exgd and the victim pcrishes.
Let bribery. accursed Of God and man,
stand iY fer trial.
TIE Bible arraigns it again and again.
Sau-ei say Of his two sons who became
judge. They took bribes and perverted
7udgLoG@' David says Of some of his
pur~.e"s; Their right hand is full Of
briCes.' Amos says Of some men in his
day, The take bribe and turn aside
The poor III the gate" Eliphaz foretclls
thu .---sG.-g blows Of Gods indignation,
deria!.E. Fire shall consume the tab
arLas-'e 9. bribery"
"lI,' SAYS some one, there's no need
Of t--rlAg against bribery by promise or
by . 49,, because every man has his
price 10 not believe it. Even heathen-
ism and ne Dark Ages have furnished
spe..5a. D. of lucorruptibility. A cadl of
Smyrna lad case brought before him on
trjd.. A IuaA gave him five hundred ducats
in t--rH-y, The case came on. The hriber
had many witnesses. The poor mau on
tDe -.ar lad no witnesses. AT the close
q. .-.. .o-e the cadi said:
"Ti poor man has no witnesses, he
FhmEa, ! snail produce in his behalf five
1uLIred witnesses against the other
sll".
Al. then pulling out the bag Of ducats
fro.- auaev the ottoman, he dashed it
sIow- a;tLe feet of the brlber, saying:
II give MY decision against YOU"
Es-Hlluudas, offered bribe said:
Il w.i DO this thing if it be right, and if
il DC wrong all your goods can not per-
sua.4 u.-."
Fa,E.l.GS, of the Roman Senate, was
offered d uribe by Pyrrhus Of Macedon.
Farr."Gs answered:
w IT, an example this would be to the
Roman people; you keep your riches and
/ WI. Gee1 my poverty and reputation"
The President of the American Con-
g~c~- 3a~iug the American revolution,
Gcre era! Reed was offered ten thousand
gUuea- DV foreign commissioners if he
wUu-u Dt5TGE this country. He replied:
"G~It'"meu, am very poor man, but
tel y,.., King he is not rich enough to
buy ue.'
b. WY go so far, when you and |, if
We move n honorable society, know men
ami women who by all the concentrated
for O. earth and hell could not be
brioct They would no more be bribed
than yy1 would think of tempting an angel |
OF light 70 exchange Heaven for the pit.
To ofteg a bribe is villainy, but it is very
poor compliment to the man to W HON it
is Offered.
! have not much faith in those people
who 60 ABOUT Dragging how much they
could get if they would only sell out.
Those women who claim that they are
very otten iusulted need to understand
that there is something in their carriage
to invite insult. There are men at AL
banv and at Harrisburg and at Washing
ton who would no more be approached by
a bribe than pirate boat with few cut
lasses would dare to attack British
man n-of. war with two banks Of guns on
each side loaded to the touch hole. They
are incorruptible men, and they are the
tew men who are TO save the city
and save the land Meanwhile, my ad-
vice is to all people to keep out of
politics unless you are invulnerable to
this style of temptations. Indeed, if you
buttressing. Nothing but the grace Of
God can sustain our public men and make
them what we wish. | wish that there
might come an old-fashioned revival of
religion, that it might break out in Con-
gress and in the Legislatures and bring
many of the leading Republicans and
Democrats down on the anxious seat of
repeItaLce That dav will come or some
Gh!rg 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.
My charge, also, to parents Is, renlem-
Der that this evil of bribery often begins
in the home circle and in the nursery. Do
not oribe your children. Teach them to
do that which is right and not because Of
ten cents or the orange you will give
them There Is great difference between
rewarding vrture and making the profits
thereof the impeling motive. That man
who is honest merely because honesty