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DIR. 7ALMAoE ON GODS METH
OBS OF PuRIFIcArloN.

DIR. TALMAGE ON GODS METH
OBS OF PURIFICArIoN.
| Tie Bible Promises Arc for Mon in Busi.
moss and Social Lifs. Politics and Mar
riage, as Well rs in Purely Spiritua
Aiatters-Re Answers Prayer.
The subject of Rev. DIR. Talmage's ser
| mon, preached last Sunday at BROOKLYN
was "Crooked Things" Text, Isa.. 81.
a: 1.-The crooked shall be mad,
straight
Geometry, from the time it was discov
cred on the banks of the Nile, which. b,
its overflow annually obliterated tn,
landmarks, and the restoration of these
landmarks made such a science neces
sary-I say geometry ever since then ha.
been busy with lines. straight lines,
curved lines, lines in angles and cone.
and spheres. but has never been able to
evolve any beauty from a line that wa;
merely crooked. The circle and tn,
square were always considered admir-
able. Isaiah recognizes the circle anc
says, "The Lord sits upon the circle OF
the earth. The altar of the ancient tab
| ernacle was ''fonr square," and til,
breast plate oil the priests flour square
and Heaven, according to st. John, j,
-four square," But the Bible has nc
admiration for lines that are merely
crooked. Indeed, my text in prophesy
ing the worlds complete ratification de
clarcs. 's,Thc crooked shall be made
straight"
There have been so many moral earth
quakes that many things have got into
n.
governments, crooked fortunes, .crookcG
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 pessimis
tic, and give up life. and the church ano
the world as dead failures. With sucl
thy. 1t is promise of the Lord AL
mighty. s'The crooked shall be mad,
straight" | propose, as l may be d
vinely helped. to mention some of tho
crooked things that are going to bt
Strengthened.
Much of the wealth of the world is il
the hands of the proflgatc, while man,
of the best people arc subjected to dis
tressing privation, and there is going to
be redistribution of property. If il
were possible it would be a bad thing tc
have things divided equally. Some mel
are able to endure more success thar
others, and prosperity that might not
unbalance you might destroy me. The
Declaration of American independence
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, financial 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 childlikt
and unassuming and Christian. W.
would all be affluent, but the Lord can
not trust us. / am glad there are those
He can trust.
Much is said against capitalists, but
the world would be a very shaky worlC
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 families? Capitalists. Who built
! great ships that stir the rivers anC
bridge the ocean? Capitalists. Who
reared the thousands of factories al
over the land in which hundreds of thou
sands of employees earn their daily bread:
\ Capitalists. Who endowed your colleges
| and opened free libraries and built asy
lums for the orphan, the crippled, anC
the insane? Capitalists! But for. then
| there would not be an academy of music
or picture gallery, or a free library, OF
a steamboat, or a railroad in America
| Who put the world Oh seventy-tive year:
beyond what it would have been in enter
| prise, in comforts, in educational ad
vantage, in good things without number.
Capitalists.
The more money man gets the bet
ter, if it comes honestly and is employed
righteously. Nevertheless we all Sc,
that there needs to be redistribution
of property. Communism proposes t,
make that distribution by torch ant
dagger and dynamite. Throw the mid
night express train off the track and pu
the factory into confagration. Disrup
society, burglarizc. assassinate. .Sucl
people believe neither in God nor MAJ
nor woman, and they know how to MAX,
things worse, but never have made ant
never can make anything better.
tell you how there will conc re
distribution Of property. Under TIN
divine blessing good people will get NOR
alertness and acumen and assiduity
Many good people are kept in Straitenet
circumstances because they have beef
J lndolcnt or lacked courage to take homes
advantage of circumstances, and wer.
too stupid to get ON. With the yer!
same surroundings others went on t,
competency. In the better days to com,
good men will have their facultie
Weakened, and will in consequence rise t,
larger share of prosperity. On the othe
hand, estates wrongfully accumulate.
will dissolve. If not the sons, then TIN
grandsons will make the money fly. an.
it will gradually scatter in their hand
and bee ONE a part of the genera
wealth.
Then. as to vast properties righteousl.
gathered-and there are thousands o
them-such estates will contribute to
ward helping the unfortunate, not NOR
by charities than by helping struggling
people into lucrative business, and TIN
man who has amasscd enough and a sur
plus will say, ''There is a young mer
chant without any capital: l will star
him on Fulton street, and ssthcre is
young mechanic who has 10 means of hi
own. and will put him on u career o
prosperity:" and ''therc is a farme
| with too big a mortgage on hN land ANT