The Forrest City times., 1890-09-27
CROOKED THINGSs
9R TALMAGE PkBACHEs or AN. : sWER TO PRAYER.

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 On Sunday Dr. Talmaee announced thaS ossinaisg next Sabbath he would preach . seriss of sermons entitled 'sNry Recent tourney Through tho Holly Land and Neighboring Countries; What Saw and Learned" The subject upon which he spoke Sunday was Crooked Things. ' Aae text being taken from Isaiah 70. {:
 me oroclrcd shall be made straight,'
 Geometry, from tho tme it was discovered
 ne banks of the Nile, which, by its over oew annually obliteratcd tho landmarks, gu the restoration of these landmarks ms0c such . science ncccssary--1 say, Ge- nmetfy, over since then has been busy with unes~Stratght lines curved lines, lines in aneies and cones and spheres. but has never .scn aote to evolve any beauty from line snae vas merely crooked. Tho circle and sne square were always considered admira- "H. Isaiah recognizes the circle, and says: ne Lord sits upon the circle of the earth. ' ano altar of the ancient tabernacle was
 -Four squarc, and the breastplate of the pFNsts Tour square" and heaven. accord snH 70 St. John. Is four square," Rut the eibac has no admiration for lines that ara merely crooked. Indeed my text, ir pr,,phe- syins the worlds complete rectification. de- cssees The crooked shall be made Nraight."
 Tnere have been 90 many moral carth- euexes that many things have got into NruMe s~sst-crooked laws, crooked gov csancHts, crooked fortunes, crooked dispo- Atsons-and many of the efforts to straight en things have only made them more evoked. And sosac good people sit down in uespeir and become pcssimistic and give up ute eaa the church and the world as dead cultures With such lachrymose behavior oave 70 sympathy. It Is promise of the 1oea Almighty: Tho crooked shall be divinely helped, to mention some of the esled.
 MscA of the wealth of tho world is in the aaeos of tho protiigate, while many of the s~st people are subjected to distressing pri- vauon; and therc is going to be redistri- oStios of rrVpcrty. If 1t wcre possible. it would ee bad thing to hAvp thines divided equally. Some men arc able to endure moro s1ccess than others. and prosperity that @sHnt not unbainnce you might destroy me. the Declaration of American Independence ucciares that all men are born equal but sse opposite Is the truth, for they aro born uMeqnai In no respect Is this more evident saan in their capacity tu endure success, financial or scciak thave seen men by the AcNufsatton of afty thousand dollars made aftoeant and nduvcrbearing, and have known otnees with their millions of dollars child Hko ana unassuming and Christian. We wouio all be aniuent, but the Lord cannot uuSs us. am glad there are those He can nr1x Ia. .l -t---x tne world would be a very shaky place with out them. Who built the great railroads which. while they give such facilities of travel. employ tens of thousands of labor efs, supporting them and their familiesi
 Capitalists. Who built great ships that stir the rivers and bridge the oceani Capital ists. Who reared the thousands of factories all over tho land in which hundreds of thou sands of employees earn their daily breadi SApitaiistsl Who endowed your colleges. and opened free libraries. and built asy- !oms Tor the orphan, tho crippled and the tnsanes CApitalistsi But for them there would not be an academy of music, or a picture gallery, or free library, or steam ooAe, or railroad in America. Who put tho world on seventy-fve years beyond what 10 would have been in enterprise, in comforts, In educational advantages, in good things without number? Capitalists. The more money . man gets the better, if it come honestly and Is employed righteously. nevertheless, we all 500 that there needs to Dc redistribution of property. Commun- ism proposes to make that distribution by torch and dagger and dynamite. Throw the midnight express oH tho track and put the factory Into confagration. Disrupt society: ourBiarisc; Assassinate. Such people be- lieve neither in God nor man nor woman, and they know how to make things worse, but never have made and never can make anything bettar
 tell you how there will come a redistri- button of property. Under the divine bless Ing good people will get more alortncss and scumen and assiduity. Many good people arc kept in straitened circumstances be- cause they have been indolent. or lacked courage to take honest advantage of cir cumstAnces, and were too stupid to get on. With the very same surroundings others went on to competency. In the better days to come good men will have their faculties wskencd, and will in consequence rise to . larger share of prosperity. On the other esnd: estates wrongfully accumulated will oissoivc. IT not the sons. then the grand sons will mako the money fly. and 1t will gradually scatter in their hands, and be- come part of the general wealth. Then e 10 vast properties righteously gathered ana therc are thousands of them--such es- tstes wiilcontribute toward helping the un- fortunate, not moro by charities than by
 
 ousiness, and the man who has amassed enough and surplus will say: There is n young merchant without any capital; Twin start him on Fulton street." and there is . young mechanic who has no means of his own. and l will put him on . career of pros- pefity; ana "there is farmer with too ois mortgage On his land, and win helr nim lift tho encumbrAnce.' The fact Is, tnat 1T the ktndliness and generosity mani- tessoo oy moneycd men toward the strug- gitng during the last fifty yeArs increases h the sAme ratio for the next ffty years. tnerc VIII be condition of society para aiAic- We arc going to have multiplica- sson or William F. Dodges, and Potter Coop sr.. and James Lenoxes, and George Pea oodys- So will come redistribution, and the crooked will be made straight.
 Mind this: God never yet undertook n faiiure. The old book which is worth all other books put together. makes 1t plain .nAs Sod nns undertaken to regulate this world ey Gospel influences. and if He has tne power He will do what He says He will. .no 20 ono who amounts to anything will ueny His power. God has said a hundred times "l will. but never once has said Il cannot We may with our tack hammers pound away, trying to mend and improv, sno ssraishten the hnancial condition of the because our arm Is too weak and the ham nacs we yield too small. but the most detlau, VIII hatten and disappear whcr tod with hammer made of summer thun. 1erooits strikes 1t. saying. "The crooked 1 shall bo made straight"
 An your business concerns there arc influ- 1 snces perplexing. Your affairs may seem III rt&ht to outsiders, for business firms do ] aot advertise their rlvate troubles, but shere one nrm has everything Just as they 1 ant It, there are n hundred firms at their 1 sits end, what to Go with that partner ' no oraws more than his share of the pro- | les. or with that stockholder who comes in | ust oftcn enough to upset things. or with | nat dtsa appearance of funds which you can | 'ot account for. although you have sus- | 'scsous you cannot mention. or with that investment which was made contrary to | our Judgment because there was n deter | n'nAsiou to push it through. or because 'ou ere going behind month by month with | ot my prospect of evtrication. Tho fouplc ss putting wrinkle on you fore cad that ought not to appear there for ten ears yet, and you will be forty years old non you ought to De only thirty, or sixty nen you ought to bc fifty. or seventy hen you ought to be only sixty. s,ou orrying. Either by the dissolution of thai run, of 0y TO adjusting matte rx vs,u - m t.. l