The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-26
CROOKED THINGS.
The Subject of Late Sermon By
DR.. Talmage.
Capitalists Defended For Their Good Deed.
-crOolsd Things Made straIght-The
Gospel In Daily Trnde-MakIng the
Best OF Life.

Fest OF Lie.
The subject of a late sermon at Brook
1yn by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage was:
"Crooked Things" Text, Isaiah XII. 4:
Tho crooked shall be made straight"
DR.. Talmage said:
Geometry, from the time 1t was dis
covered on the banks OF the Nile, which,
by its overflow annually obliterated the
landmarks. and the restoration of these
landmarks made such a science neces-
sary-I say. geometry, ever since then,
has been busy with lines, straight limos,
curved lines, lines IN angles and cones
and spheres, but has never been able Ia
evolve any beauty from line that was
merely crooked The circle and the
square were always considered admir-
able. Isaiah recognises the circle. and
says: The Lord sits upon the circle of
the earth" The altar of ancient tab
ernacle was flour square, +" and Heaven,
according TO John. Is flour square"
But tho Bible has no admiration for
lines that are merely crooked Indeed,
my text in prophesying the worlds COM
pleto rectlfication. declares: ''The
crooked shall be made straight"
There have been so many moral
earthquakes that many things have got
into a terrible twist-croolCed laws,
crooked governments. crooked fortunes,
crooked d. spositions-and many OF the
efforts to straighteR things have only
maze them moro crooked. And some
good people sit down in despair and be-
oone pessimistic and give up life and
the church and tho world as dead fall
ures- With such lachrymose behavior l
have no sympathy. 1t Is q promise Of
the Lord Almighty: THE crooked shall
be made straight" propose, as may
be divinely helped. to ment ton some of
the crooked things that are going TO be
Strengthened.
Much of the wealth of the world is in
the hands of the prJ1igate, while many
OF the best poodle are subjected to dis
tressing privation; and there is going to
be redistribution of property. IL 1t
were possible il would be bad thing to
haze things divided equally. Some men
are able to endure moro success than
others, and prosperity that might not
unbalance you might destroy me. The
Declaration of American Independence
declares that all men are borne equal,
but the opposite is the truth,
for they arc born unequal In
no respect is this more evident than in
their capacity to endure success, finan'
cial or social have seen men, by the
acquisition of $780, 900, made arrogant
and overbearing and 1 have known
others with their millions of dollar.
childlike and unassuming and Christian
We would all be afIluent but the LORD
can not trust us. l am glad there are
those HO can trust Much is said agains
capitalists, hut the world would be
worry shaky world without them. Wht
built the great railroads which, while
they give such facilities of travel, EN-
ploy tens of thousands of laborers, sup
porting them and their families? Capt.
talists. Who built great ships that sti
the rivers and bridge the ocean, Capt.
talists. Who reared the thousands o
factories all over the land in which
hundreds OF thousands of employee
earn their daily bread? Capitalists
Who endowed your colleges, and opened
free libraries, and built asylums for tn,
orphan, the crippled and the insane
Capitalists. But for them there woult
not be an academy of music
or picture gallery, or a fire.
library, or a steamboat, or rail
road in America Who put the world oil
have been in enterprise, in comforts, il
educational advantage, in good thing
without number? Capitalists, TIL
more money man gets the better, if
come honestly and is employed right
eously. Nevertheless we all see tina
there needs to DO q redistribution c
property. Communism proposes to max
that distribution by torch and dagge
and dynamite. Throw the midnight e,
press train of the track and put tn
factory into conflagration. Disrupt Sc
ciety. Burglarize. Assassinate. Sue
people believe neither in God nor ma
nor woman and they know how to max
things worse, but never have made an
never can make any thing better.
tell you how there will come r,
distribution of property. Under the d
vine blessing good people will get NOR
alertness and acumen and assiduit,
Many good people arc kept in strai
ened circumstances because they hay
been indolent or lacked the courage I
take honest advantage OF circumstance
and were too stupid to get on. Wit
the very same surroundings othel
went on to competency. In tn
better days To come good men wi
have their faculties wakened and wi
in consequence rise to larger shares
prosperity. On the other hand estate
wrongfully accumulated will dissolv
III not the sons, then the grandsons, wi
make the money ny and twill gradual
scatter in their hands and become pa
OF the general wealth. Then. as to va
properties righteously gathered-ar
there arc thousands OF them-such G
tates will contribute toward helping I'll
unfortunate, not more by charities tina
by helping struggling people into L
crattve business, and the man who h.
amassed enough and surplus will sa
There is young merchant withol
any capital, / will start him on FultC
street." and there is a young mechan
who has no means of his own, and / wi
put him on a career OF prosperity" AZ
there is farmer with too big q NOR
gage on his land. and will help hi
lift the fncumbrance" The fact is tn
IL the kindliness and generosity man
tested by moneyed men toward Il
struggling during the last fifty year
increases in the Same ratio for the ne,
fifty years, there will be condition
society paradlsaic
Mind this: God never yet unuertoc
q failure. Tho old book. which is wort
all other books put together. makes
plain that God has undertaken to reg
late this world by Gospel influences ar
IL He has the power He will do VIII
lie says He will, and no one WI
amounts to any thing will deny II
power.
In your business concerns there a
influences perplexing: Your affai
may seem all right to outsiders. f