The intelligencer., 1890-09-27

The subject of late sermon at Brook
lyn by Rev. I. De Witt Talmage was:
CROOKED Things" Text Isaiah xi. 4:
"The crooked shall be made straight"
DR. Talmage said:
Geometry, from tho time it 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 science neces-
sary-I 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 n line that was
merely crooked. The circle and the
square were always considered admir-
able. Isaiah recognizes the circle, and
says: "The Lord sits upon the circle of
the earth" The altar of ancient tab
ernacle was "four square, and Heaven,
according to John, is 'four square.
But the Biblesha no admiration for
lines that are merely crooked. Indeed,
my text in prophesying the worlds COM
plete rectihcation, declares: ''The
crooked shall be made straight"
There have been so many moral
earthquakes that many things have got
into 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 be.
come pessimistic and give up life and
the church and the world as dead fail
ures. With such lachrymose behavior
have no sympathy. 1t is promise oi
the Lord Almighty: ''The crooked shall
be made straight" / propose, as may
be divinely helped, to mention some oi
the crooked things that are going to be
Strengthened.
Much Of the veal tn of the world Is in
the hands OF the profigate, while many
Of the best people are subjected to dis.
tressing privation; and there is going To
be redistribution OF property. II il
were possible IL would be bad thing to
!. have things divided equally. Some men
Rfo able to endure more success than
>s.<<efs.sand prosperity that might not
nu I452nca, YOU might destroy me. The
} - ..tinn Of American Independence
!, ,Si1r1 y ~ i>$tall men are borne equal,
n, -5posite is the truth,
f0.< 8 <4fe born unequal In
no reet,t., {lf,H more evident than In
tbeir - +. Iffpdure success, finan.
cial s,f<4t3at 4 &axe seen men, by the
acouisi ~; s. & ao, made arrogant
and overh1|<1 4 pave known
others with g Of dollars
childlike and ul'f}z hristian.
We would all bc a S # 4, 4 the lord
can not trust us. 8 ~ NJ, are
those He can trust. MHt5 f' ~ ]slssl
capitalists, but the worn q
very shaky world without ts<' -
built the great railroads wbid|4 w &
tbey rive such fac iitics OF trate{ MI
nIov tens OF thousands OF laborers, stE
porting them and their families? Capl
talists. Who built great shi ps that stil
the rivers and bridge the ocean? Capt
talists. Who reared the thousands o
factories all over the land in which
hundreds OF thousands OF employees
earn their daily bread? Capitalists.
Who endowed your colleges, and opened
free libraries, and built asylums for the
ornhan. the cripp ed and the insane:
Capitalists. But for thcm there would
NOT be an academy OF music,
or a picture gallery or n Tree
library. or steamboat, or rail
road in America Who pntthe world on
seventy-flve years beyond what it would
have been in enterprise, in comforts, In
educational advantage, in good things
without number? Capitalists The
more money man gets the better, II 1t
come honestly and is employed right
eously. Nevertheless we all see that
there needs to be a redistribution OF
Communism proposes to make
that distribution by torch and dagger
and dynamite. Throw the midnight ex-
press train OF the track and put the
factory into confagration. Disrupt So
eiety Burglarize. Assassinate Such
people believe neither in God nor man
nor woman and they know how to make
tbings worse, but never have made and
never can make any thing better.
! tell you how there will come re-