News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-25
God Will Reform Them.
DR.. TALMAGE ON GODS METHODS
OF PURIFICATION.

rage. as Well as in Purely Spiritual
Matters-He Answers Prayer.
BROOKLYN, Sept. Preliminary to
his sermon at the Academy of Music in
this city this forenoon Rev. DR.. Tai
mage announced that until the new
Brooklyn Tabernacle was completed he
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, of
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 Saw and Learned"
The subject of today's sermon was
Crooked Things" Text, Isa. xl, A:
1.-THE crooked shall be made straight. J"
Geometry, from the time it was dis
covered on the banks of the Nile,
which, by its overflow annually oblit-
Grated the landmarks, and the restora-
ton of these landmarks made such a
science necessary say geometry
ever since then has been busy with
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
my text in prophesying the worlds
complete rectiffcation declares, The
crooked shall be made straight.
There have been so many moral
earthquakes that many things have got
into a terrible twist-crooked laws,
crooked governments, crooked fortunes,
crooked dispositions-and many of the
efforts to straighten things have only
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
ures With such lachrymose behavior
| have no sympathy. 1t is a promise
of the Lord Almighty 1.-THE crooked
shall be made straight" propose, as
| may be divinely helped, to mention
some of the crooked things that are 60
ing to be Strengthened
CAPITAL AND JUSTICE.
Much of the wealth of the world is in
the hands of the profligate, while many
of the best people are subjected to dis
tressing privation, and there is going to
be a redistribution of property. If it
were possible it would be q bad thing
to have things divided equally. Some
men are able to endure more success
than Others, and prosperity that might
not unbalance you might destroy me.
The Declaration of American indie
pendence declares that all men are
born equal, but the opposite is the
truth. for they are born unequal. In
no respect is this more evident than in
their capacity to endure success, tinan-
ciaI or social. have seen men by the
acquisition of fifty thousand dollars
made arrogant and overbearing, and
have known others with their millions
of dollars childlike and unassuming
and Christian We would all be afflu-
ent, but the Lord cannot trust u.s. /
am glad there are those he can trust.
Much is said against capitalists, but
the world would be a very shaky world
without them. Who built the great
railroads which. while they give such
facilities of travel, employ tens of thou
sands of laborers, supporting them and
their faInilies2 Capitalists. Who built
great ships that stir the rivers and
bridge the ocean, Capitalists. Who
reared the thousands of factories all
over the land in which hundreds of
thousands of employees earn their daily
breadl Capitalists. Who endowed
your colleges and opened free libraries
and built asylums for the orphan, the
crippled and the insanel Capitalists!
But for them there would not be an
academy of music, or picture gallery,
or free library, or a steamboat, or
railroad in America. Who put the
world on seventy-five years beyond
what it would have been in enterprise,
in comforts, in educational advantage,
in good things without number2 Capt.
talists
The more money man gets the bet
ter. If it comes honestly and is employ
ed righteously. Nevertheless we all see
that there needs to be a redistribution
of property. Communism proposes to
make that distribution by torch and
dagger and dynamite. Throw the mid
night express train off the track and
put the factory into confiagration.
Disrupt society, burglarize, assassi-
nate. Such people believe neither in
God nor man nor woman, and they
know how to make things worse, but
never have made and never can make
anything better
tell you how there will come re-
distribution OF property. Under the
divine blessing good people will get
more alertness and acumen and assidu-
ity. Many good people are kept in
straitened circumstances because they
have been indolent or lacked courage
TO take honest advantage Of circum-
stances. 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 wakened, and will
in consequence rise to larger share of
prosperity. On the other hand, es-
tates wrongfully accumulated will dis
solve. If not the sons, then the grand
sons will make the money fly, and it
will gradually scatter in their hands
and become a part of the general
wealth.
Then, as to vast properties righteous
ly gathered-and there are thousands
of them-such estates will contribute
toward helping the unfortunate, not
more by charities than by helping strug
Cling people into lucrative business,
and the man who has amassed enough
and a surplus will say, There is
young merchant without any capital; |
will start him on Fulton street," and
there is a young mechanic who has
no means of his own, and | will put
him on a career of prosperity" and
there is farmer with too big q mort