Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-22
IT IS GODS PROMISE.
DR.. Talmage on the Text. the Crooked
Shall be Made Straight.
WEALTH WISELY AND BETTER USED
Prayer and Faith as Qualifications for
Everyday Business,
AMONG CHANGES THAT ARE COMING
,srrc1A1 TELEGRAM TO THE D1spArcH, :,

BROOKLYN, September 21.-Preliminary
TO his sermon at the Academy of Music in
this city, this forenoon, Rev. Dr. Talmage
announced that, until the new Brooklyn
Tabernacle was completed, he would preach
in the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sun
day mornings. He was glad to add that, by
an arrangement made through the Christian
Herald, of New York City, be would be en-
abled to preach in the New York Academy
of Music, on Fourteenth street, on Sunday
evenings, beginning with the evening OF
September 2S He also announced that on
next Sabbath morning, September %, he
would begin a series of sermons entitled:
my Recent Journey Through the Holy
Land and NeIghboring Countries; What 1
Saw and Learned" The subject of to-day's
sermon was: Crooked Things" Text,
ISAIAH XII, /: THE crooked shall be made
straight"
Geometry. from the time it was discovered
on the banks of the Nile, which, by its over
flow annually obliterated the landmarks, and
the restoration of these landmarks made such
a science necessary-I say, geometry, ever
since then has been busy with lines, straight
lines. curved lines, lines in angles and cones
and spheres, but never has been able to evolve
any beauty from a line that was merely
crooked. The circle and the square were
always considered admirable. Isaiah recog-
UiZes the circle and SAYS: The Lord sits upon
the circle of the earth" The altar of the
ancient tabernacle was -four square. and the
breaStplate of the priests -four square" and
heaven according to st. John, is -four
square" But the Bible has no admiration for
lines that are merely crooked. Indeed, my
text in prOphe>ying the worlds complete
rec .ication declares: THE crooked shall be
made straight
THE GOOD WEALTH DOES.
Much of the wealth of the world is in the
hands of the prohigate while many of the best
people are subjectedto distressing privatiou;
and there is going to be a redistribution of
properly. If 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 un-
balance you might destroy me. The Declara-
tion Gf American Independence declares that
all men are born equal, but the opposite is the
truth for they are born unequal. In no respect
j. this more evident than in their capacity to
endure success. financial or social have seen
men by the acquisition of $4,000 made arro-
CANT and oyerbearinE. and have known others
with their millions of dollars childlike and un-
assuming aud Christian. We would all be af-
fluent but the Lord cannot trust US. lam glad
there are those He can trust.
Much is SAID against capitalists. but the
world would be a very shaky world without
them. Who built the great railroads which,
while they give such facilities of travel. en-
pOy tens of thousands 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 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 orphan, the crippled and
the insane? Capitalists. But for them there
would not be an Academy OF Music, or a pict-
ure gallery. or a free library, a steamboat or
a railroad in America. Who put the world on
- years beyond what it would have been in
enterprise in comforts, in educational advan-
tage. in good things without number? Capt.
tallsts. The more money a man gets the better
II 1t come honestly and is employed righteous
". Nevertheless we all see that there needs to
be 4 redistribution of property Communism
proposes to make that distribution by torch |
and sdagger and dynamite Throw the mid |
night express train off the track and put the /
factory into conhagration. Disrupt society. |
Burglarize. Assassinate. 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.
MORE BENEFACTORS.
tell you how there will come redistribu- |
ton of property. Under the divine blessing
good people will get more alertness and acu-
men and assiduity. Many good people are |
kept in straitened circumstances because they |
have been indolent or lacked courage to take |
honest advantage of circumstances. and were |
too stupid to get on. With the very same sur |
rOundInEs Others went on to competency In |
the better days to come good mep will have
their faculties wakened, and will in conse- |
quence rise to larger share of prosperity. On |
the other hand, estates wrongfully accum-
uaJed. will dissolve. If not the sons then the
-rindsOns will make the money fy and it will |
Eradu My scatter in their hands, and become
a part of the general wealth. Then as to vast
properties riChteously gathered-and there are
thousands of them-such estates will contrl-
butte toward helping the unfortunate not more
by charities than by helping struggling people
Ne are going to have multiplication of Will
lam r. DOdges and Peter Coopers, and James |
SenoXes and George Peabodys. So will come |
redistribution, and the crooked will be made |
Mind this: God never yet undertook fail |
IRE. The old book which is worth all other |
books put together makes it plain that God has |
undertaken TO regulate this world by gospel in |
nueuces. and if H has the power He will do |
what H says He WILL and no one who amounts |
To anything will deny His power. God has said |
q hundred times II will" but never once has /
aid i cannot" We may with our tack ham |
UrTS pound away, trying to mend and improve |
and straIGhten the financial condition of the |
world, and be disappointed in the result, be-
cause our arm Is too weak and the hammer we 1
H- -e.d too small. but the most defiant difficulty
w-.l flatten and disappear when God with |
hammer made of summer thunderbolts strikes
H..
In your business concerns there are infu-
euCes peTpleXinC. 1Onr affairs may seem all
right 10 outsiders. for business firms do not ad-
yeIUSc their private troubles but where one
Irm has everything Just as they want il. there
are q hundred firms at their wits end, what to
DO WITH ihat partner who draws more than his !
share Of the profts, or with that stockholder |
who comes IN Just often enough to upset |
things. or with that disappearance of funds
which you cannot account for although Won
have suNplcions you cannot mention or with
investment which IAyas |
your judgment because there was determine
zion to push Ii through, or because YOU are
r0ing behind month by month without any
prospect of eXtTcation. The trouble is nnr- |
JiEE wrinkle on your forehead that oupht
not TO appear there for 10 years yet, and YOU
viii he 40 years old when you ought TO be ONLY
80, or &C when you ought 10 he 80, or 20 when
YOU ought to be Onlv 60. Stop WORRYING
either by the dissolution of that firm, OF by
re3djusting matters you will be
DROUGHT SAFELY THROUGH
# you put your trust in God When CONNER
rial houses fail the suspension is advertised,
but Of the tens Of thousands of men, who are
every day extricated no public mention is made.
csterdaywas Saturday and warrant that at
the windows Of the banks. and in counting
rooms Ot stores and on every street of every
city, God appeared for the deliverance of good
men. as certainly as when with His right
foot He trod Lake Galiee into placidity and
made Daniel as safe among the lions as though
they had been house dogs asleep on a rug be-
fore winters FIRE. Throw Yourself ON the
promise Of the text or a hundred other rerts
meaning about the same thing
never yet asked God to do anything but He
I'D It. II IL were best and in all the cases where
NY prayer has not been answered, 1 have |
found out afterward that it was best Eot to |
have Oeen answered IN my way. But none of |
IS nave tested the full power of PRAYER Itisa
force very Ike some Of the forces of nature |
hat were in existence but not employed For |
iEes electTlclty was thought good for nothing |