Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-22
GOD WILL REFORM THEM.
DR.. TALMAGE ON GODS METHODS
OF PuRIFICATION.

The Bible Promises Are for Men In busi-
ness and Social Life, Politics and Mar
rage. as Well as in Purely spirituai
Matters-He Answers Prayer.
BROOKLYN, Sept. Preliminary to
his sermon at the Academy OF Music III
this city this forenoon Rev. DR.. TAI
mage announced that until the new
BROOKLYN Tabernacle was completed ne
would preach in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music on Sunday mornings. He was
glad to add that by an arrangement
made through The Christian Herald, OIL
New York city, he would be enabled TO
preach in the New York Academy OF
Music, on Fourteenth street, on Sun
/ day evenings, beginning with the even
! ing of Sept. % He also announced
that ON next Sabbath morning, Sept
! % he would begin series of sermons
entitled MY Recent Journey Through
the HOLY Land and Neighboring Coun-
tries: What l Saw and Learned"
The subject of today's sermon was
Crooked Things" Text, Isa Xl, 4:
1.-THE crooked shall be made straight.
Geometry, from the time it was as
covered on the banks of the ME,
which. by its overflow annually obht-
Grated the landmarks, and the restora-
ton of these landmarks made such
science necessary say geometry
ever since then has been busy WIN
lines. straight lines, curved lines, lines
in angles and cones and spheres, but has
never been able to evolve any beauty
from a line that was merely crooked.
The circle and the square were always
considered admirable. Isaiah recognizes
the circle and says, 1.-THE Lord sits
upon the circle of the earth. The
altar of the ancient tabernacle was
-four square, =" and the breast plate OF
the priests -four square," and heaven,
according to St. John, is -four square. "
But the Bible has no admiration for
: lines that are merely crooked. Indeed
nv text in prophesying the worlds
complete rectification declares, 1.-The
crooked shall be made straight
There have been so many moral
earthquakes that many things have got
: into a terrible twist-crooked laws,
4 crooked governments crooked fortunes,
f crooked dispositions-and many OF the
d efforts to straighten things have only
l. made them more crooked. And some
good people sit down in despair and
become pessimistic, and give up life, and
the church and the world as dead fail
e ures. With such lachrymose behavior
4 have no sympathy 1t is a promise
1t of the Lord Almighty. '"The crooked
=. shall be made straight" I propose, a
- may be divinely helped, to mention
E. some of the crooked things that are go
re ing to be Strengthened.
p CAPITAL AND JUSTICE.
J, Much of the wealth of the world is il
$ the hands of the profigate, while man,
III of the best people are subjected to dis
E. tressing privation, and there is going t
I'd be a redistribution of property. If
Is were possible it would be bad thin
to have things divided equally. Som
70 men are able to endure more success
as than others, and prosperity that Nigh
all not unbalance you might destroy me
d. The Declaration of American Indt
&c pendence declares that all men al
d born equal, but the opposite is til
is truth. for they are born unequal.
IN no respect is this more evident than i
their capacity to endure success, final
cial or social. [ have seen men by I'll
= acquisition of fifty thousand dolla
IN made arrogant and overbearing, and
&c have known others with their million
Y of dollars childlike and unassumiI
= and Christian We would all be afi
II ent. but the Lord cannot trust us.
IL. bo I1St
:. Much is said against capitalists, b'
u the world would be very shaky wor
ed. without them. Who built the gre
e es railroads which, while they give sue
facilities of travel, employ tens OF tho
: sands of laborers, supporting them al
S their families? Capitalists Who bu
nd great ships that stir the rivers al
bridge the ocean? Capitalists. WI
~ reared the thousands of factories ;
over the land in which hundreds
thousands of employees earn their da1
We bread? Capitalists Who endow
- YOUR colleges and opened free ibrar
2@@ and built asylums for the orphan, t
crippled and the insane? Capitals
But for them there would not be
academy of music, or a picture gallel
or a free library, or a steamboat, o.
S railroad in America. Who put t
world on seventy-five years beyo
what it would have been in enterpri
zz in comforts in educational advantat
. in good things without number? Ca
talists.
lir The more money man gets the
aya ter. IL it comes honestly and is empl
1,A1/ 111I
- that there needs to be redistribut
- of property. Communism proposes
ugh make that distribution by torch {
ons. dagger and dynamite. Throw the II
- night express train off the track s
put the factory into confagrati
Disrupt society, burglarize, ASA
nate. Such people believe neithe
God nor man nor woman, and t
q know how to make things worse,
never have made and never can m
anything better.
fell YOU how there will come q
distribution of property. Under
divine blessing good people will
more aIertness and acumen and ass
ity. Many good people are KEEP
straitened circumstances because
have been INDECENT or lacked coul
. to take honest advantage of Giro
stances, and were too stupid to
on. With the very same surround
ma others went on to competency. In
better days to come good men
have their faculties Weakened, and
in consequence rise to larger share
sty. prosperity. On the other hand,
tates wrongfully accumulated Will
"a solve. IF not the sons, then the or
sons will make the money fly, ar
81 will gradually scatter in their III
= and become a part of the ger
# wealth.
Then, as to vast properties rgnte
, Iy gathered-and there are thous
of them-such estates will contrl
ms u toward helping the unfortunate
on. 81 more by charities than by helping s
- Cling people into lucrative ousl
I'll and the man who has amassed en-
- and surplus will say, There
H@ W 1900 boY 1t without anV capt.