The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-03
CROOKED THINGS.
THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE
STRAIGHT.

Of MuRtC--A Series ot W. N--~
Holy Land to be Delivered.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 2l,-Prellmnary
TO his sermon at the Academy OF Music
I'm this CITY. this forenoon Rev. Dr1 la'-
mage announced that, until the new
Brooklyn Tabernacle was completed no
would preach IN the Brooklyn Academy
OF Music, on Sunday mornings. lie WAS
glad to add that, by an arrangement
made through The Christian Herald, oi
New York city, he would be enabled TO
preach i'm the New York Academy OF
Music, on Fourteenth street, on Sunday
evenings, beginning with the evening "i
Scptcmber 2Sth. He also announced
that ON next Sabbath morning, Scptcm-
her 5Sth, he would begin a series OF SER
mons entitled: My Recent Journey
Through the Holy Land and Ncighbor-
ing Countries; What Saw and Learned"
The subject of to-day's sermon was I:
"Crookcd Things" Text, Isaiah ri, -:
1.-The crooked shall be made straight"
Geometry, from the time it was d.
covered on the banks ofthc Nile, which,
by its overflow annually oblitcratcd c
landmarks, and the restoration OF the e
landmarks made such Il science ncccS-
sary-I say, Geometry. ever since the
has been busy with lines, straight lines,
curved lines. lines in angles and cones
and spheres, but has never been ab g 10
evolve any beauty from line that was
merely crooked. The circ'c and the
square were always considered adm :
able. Isaiah recognizes the circle ana
says: 1.-The Lord sits upon the circle "l
the carth." The altar OF the ancient
tabernacle was 'tour square, ana g
brcastplatc of the priest -four square,
and heaven, according to John, Is "ln'
square," But 'e EIblc has no admir-
ton for lines {. It are merely crooked.
Indeed, my text i'll prophcsylng u"
worlds complete rcctiiicaton declares
'"rhc crooked shall bc made straight.
There have been SO I....,tl I..;ctlr,, o,,';;, 49,, "
quakcs that many things NAV. %. ~.
terrible twist-crOokCd laws, crooked
governments, crooked fortunes, crooked
dispositions many OF the ct "rts to
straightcn things have only M cf lcm,
more crooked. And some good people
sit down in despair and become pcsSn.
istc and give up lite and the church ano
the world as dead failures. With such
lachrymosc behavior | have no symra
thy. 1t is Il promise oi the Lord a.
mighty. 1.-The crooked shall be mae }
straight" l propose, rs l may he dI-
vincly helped, to mention some oi thc
crooked things that are going to he
siraightcncd.
Much of the wealth of the world is IN
the hands of the proillgatc while many
of the best people are subjected to d.
trcssing privation; and there Is goin" to
DC redistribution Of pfopcrtN.> Ii II
were possible, it would he y haI !h!:g
to have things divided eQlalfNH LS0nc
men arc able to endure mere, suSeSrssS
than others, and prospcritylhat mis.t
not unbalance you, might destroy me.
The Declaration of American lndcpcnl-
cnce declares that all men arc botn
equal, but the opposite is L trHiuL glG
is this mere evident than in TIER capa-
city To endure success. financial or social. d.
l have seen men by the acquisition oi
fifty thousand dollars made arrogant ai.d
ovcrbcarin., and | have known othel ;
with their millions of dollars chil,liLka
and unassumlng and Christian. We
would all bc aillucnt but the LORD can-
not trust us. am glad there arc tho Q
He can trust. Much is said against
capitalists, but the world would be Il
shaky world without them. Who built
railroads which, while they give such
facilities OF travel, employ tens oi thouS-
ands of laborers supporting them and
their families: Capitalists. Who built
great ships that stir the rivers and bridge
the ocean? Capitalists. Who reared
the thousands of factories ali over the
land in which hundreds of thousands ni
employees earn thcii daily bread? Capt.
talists. Who endowed your colleges.
and opened free libraries, and built asy-
lums for the orphan, the crippled and
the insane? Capitalists! But for chem
there would not bc an Academy ofM =
ic. or II picture gallery or IL free librar;
or Il steamboat, or railroad In Amcri, {.
Who put tho world on Scvcuty-iivc ",
beyond what it would hayc been n
enterprise, in comforts, in cducat on
al advantage. in good things wiz out
number? Capitalists The more mo :.
4 man gets the better. il il co ne homes =
~ and is employed ri@hlcou>ly. Ncr =
thclcss We all see that there needs to lie
Il redistribution of property. COM
munism proposes to make that diStriEr-
ton by torch and dagger and dynaml' q.
Throw the midnight express train OIL Il Z
track and put the factory into cont'a"rl-
ton. Disrupt society. Burglarizc. A.
sassinatc. such people believe neither
III 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 dj-
vine blessing good people will get more
alcrtncss and acumcn and asSiduity.
Many good people are kept in >tra,tcn-
ed circumstances because they have been
indolcnt, or lacked courage to take huu-
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 iaculti :
wakcncd, and will in consequence ri ,c to
larger share of property. On the other
hand, estates wrongtully accumulated,