Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-04
I'm WILL REFORM THEM
MAGE ON GODS METH
one OF PURIFICATION.

a. Well as In Purely Spiritual
"sters-Re Answers Prayer.
mho subject of Rev. DR.. Talmage's SER
w coached last Sunday at Brooklyn,
~ nPCrooked Things" Text, Isa., XII,
p ..Tbe crooked shall be made
c@ometry. from the time it was discov-
u on the banks of the Nile, which, by
oTorAow annually obliterated the
| dD,arks. and the restoration OF these
Jnoorks made such science neces-
Il cav geometry ever since then has
bnsv with lines, straight lines,
rved lines, lines in angles and cones
4 snheres but has never been able to
live any beauty from line that was
raIv crooked The circle and the
loro were always considered admir-
!" Isaiah recognizes the circle and
s.The Lord sits upon the circle of
earth. The altar of the ancient tab
DarIe was -four square," and the
#naSt plate of the priests -four square,"
IN Heaven, according to st. John, is
W opr SQUARE" But the Bible has no
imiration for lines that are merely
ssroked. Indeed, my text in prophesy-
~ fine worlds complete ratification de-
2&res, THE crooked shall be made
sfaight"
There have been SO many moral earth
Il axes that many things have got into
& nrriblp tWist-crooked laws, crooked
N vprDments, crooked fortunes, crooked
III ositions-and many of the efforts to
.ksiybten things have only made them
m crooked. And some good people
u down in despair and become pessimis-
ID and give up life, and the church and
liz world as dead failures. With such
Nv hrymose behavior [ have no sympa-
IN, 1t is promise Of the Lord AL
&ghty. 'The crooked shall be made
IS aight." | propose, as [ may be di-
1{bpIy helped, to mention some of the
Walked things that are going to be
Sksightened.
$HMGch Of Che wealth of the world is in
IA hands of the prohigate, while many
II the pest people are subjected to dis
;Essing privation, and there is going to
Ii a redistribution of property. If it
Ire possible it would be bad thing 10
I've things divided equally. Some men
"a able to endure more success than
5,hers, and prosperity that might not
81 balance you might destroy me. The
4kclaration of American Independence
l&cares that all men are born equal,
aAt the opposite is the truth, for they
La born unequal. In no respect Is this
Ebre evident than in their capacity to
lldure success, financial or social.
i I've seen men by the acquisition Of fifty
thousand dollars made arrogant and
and l have known others
X tn their millions of dollars childlike
ia unassuming and Christian. We
build all be atfluent, but the Lord can
"a trust us. l am glad there are those
liz can trust.
Much is said against capitalists, but
|he world would be very shaky world
#thout them. Who built the great
roads which, while they give such
Ncilites of travel, employ tens of thou
|nds of laborers, supporting them and
HEIR families? Capitalists. Who built
Heat ships that stir the rivers and
s(idge the ocean? Capitalists. Who
Jared the thousands of factories all
Der the land in which hundreds of thou
MndS of employees earn their daily bread?
capitalists. Who endowed your colleges
Nd opened free libraries and built asy-
Pms for the orphan, the crippled, and
ke insane? Capitalists! But for them
Here would not be an academy of music,
a picture gallery, or a free library, or
Steamboat, or railroad in America.
no put the world on seventytive years
hat hox IN
&se in comforts, in educational ad-
Rntage, in good things without number?
capitalists.
\ The more money man gets the bet
8r if it comes honestly and is employed
F8hteously. Nevertheless we all see
Pat there needs to be redistribution
i property. Communism proposes to
axe that distribution by torch and
Rgger and dynamite. Throw the mid
ght express train off the track and put
Re factory into confiagration. Disrupt
Rcety, burglarize, assassinate. Such
Rople believe neither in God nor man
Pr woman, and they know how to make
flngs worse, but never have made and
Rlyer can make anything better.
tell You how there will come re-
SStrlbution of property. Under the
RVlne blessing good people will get more
EertnesS and acumen and assidulty
8any good people are kept in straitened
FcumStances because they have been
RdoIent or lacked courage to take honest
PFantage of circumstances, and were
p stupid to get ON. With the very
fme surroundings others went on to
Pmpetency. In the better days to come
fod men will have their faculties
Nakened, and will in consequence rise to
PfSer share of prosperity. On the other
Ina, estates wrongfully accumulated
4 III dissolve. If not the sons, then the
FandSons will make the money fly, and
viii gradually scatter in their hands
pa bee ONE u part of the general
tealth.
Then, as to vast properties righteously