The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-01
CROOKED THINGS.
THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE
STRAIGHT.

of Music--A Series OF Sermons OIL the
Holy Leaa 10 be Delivered.
BROOKLYN. Sept. 2l.-Prcliminary
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. lie was
GLAD to add that, b.. an arrangement
made through The Christian Herald, Of
New York city, he would be enabled to
preach in the New York Academy Of
Music, or Fourteenth street, on Sunday
evenings, beginning with the evening of
September 2Sth. He also announced
that on next Sabbath morning, Septem-
Der 53th. ne would begin series OF ser
mons entitled: MY Recent Journey
Through lie Holy Laud and Nciahbor-
ing Countries; What / Saw and Learned y
The subject Of .o-day's sermon was ::
CROOKED Things" Text, Isaiah X. K:
1.-THE crooked shall be made straight"
Geometry. from the time it was dis
covered on the banks tthe Nile, which,
by its overflow annually obllterated the
landmarks, and the restoration of these
landmarks made such q science ncces-
sary-I say, Geometry, ever since t!:en
has been busy with lines. straight lines.
curved lines, lines n angles ard cones
and spheres. but has never been able %
evolve any beauty from a line that w&s
merely crooked. The circle and the
square were always considered admir-
able. ISAIAH recognizes the circle and
says: The Lore sits upon tae circle OF
the earth" The altar Of the ancient
tabernacle was "Sour square," and the
breastplate Of the priest -four square, :"
and heaven, according to John, Is -four
square, But the Bible has no adinira-
ton for lines that are merely crooked.
Indeed, my text in pcophesying the
worlds complete rectifcaticn declares ::
ssThe crooked shall be made straight" :"
There have been so many moral earth
ouakes that many things have got into a
terrible twist-crooked laws. crooked
governments, crooked fortunes, crooked
dispositions-and many Of the efforts to
stralghten things have Dly MADE them
more crooked. And some good people
sit z wn in despair and become pess:n-
IS and give up life and the church ana
the world as dead failures. With such
lachrvmose behavior I have no sympa-
thy. It is promise OF the Lord Al
mighty. The crooked shall be made
straight" I propose, as may De oi-
yinely helped. to mention some OF the
crooked things that are going to be
siraightened.
Much Of the wealth of the world IS II
the hands of the pcoflgate while many
Of the best people are subjected to dis
tressing privation; and there is going TO
be 8 redistribution Of property. II it
were possible. it would be 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 Independ-
ence declares that all men are born
equal, but the opposite is the truth Tor
they are born unequal. In 10 respect IS
is this more evident than in their capa-
city to endure success. financial or social.
I have seen men by the acquisition OF
fifty thousand dollars made arrogant and
oyerbearing, and I have known others
with their millions Of dollars chlld!ike
and unassun!ng and Christian. We
would all be affiuent but the Lord can
not trust US. l am glad there are those
He can trust. Much is said against
capitalists, but the world would be
shaky world without them. Who bullt
railroads which, while they give such
facilities Of travel. employ tens OF thous-
anas of laborers supporting them and
their families Capitalists. Who built
great ships that stir tue rivers and bridge
the ocean: Capitalists. Who reared
the thousands of factories all over the
land in which hundreds OF thousands OF
EMPLOYEES earn thei, daily bread: Cap'-
talists. Who endowed your colleges,
and opened free libraries. and built asy-
lums for the orphan, the crippled and
the insane? Capitalists! But for Them
there would not be an Academy Mus
ic. or a picture gallery or a free library
or steamboat. or railroad IN America.
Who put the world on seventy-fve years
beyond what it would haYe been IN
enterprise, in comforts, in education
al advantage, in good things without
number? Capitalists The more moneT
a man gets the better, if it come honest
lv and is employed righteous!y. Never
theless we all see that there needs to be
a redistribution Of property. Com
munism proposes to make that distriou-
ton By torch and dagger and dynamite.
Throw the midnight express train OF the
track and put the factory INTO contiagra-
t,on. Disrupt society. Burglarize. AS
sassinate. 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 a re-
distribution of property. Under the di-
vine blessing good people will get more
alertness and acumen and assldulty.
Many good people are kept in straiten-
ed circumstances because they have been
indolent. or lacked courage to take hon
est advantage of circumstances, 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 rl'e to !
larger share of property. On the other
hand, estates wrongtully accumulated, !
will dissolve. Ifnot the sons, then the !!
grandsons will make the money fly. and !
it Will gradually scatter in their hands, |
and become part of the general wealth. |
Then, as to vast properties rishteousiy |
cathered-and there are thousands OF !
then,-such estates. will contribute to- |