Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-22
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the earth" The altar OF the ancient
tabernacle was "four square, and the
breast-platc of the priests "four
square. and heaven, according TO 81.
John. is flour square" But the Bible
has no admiration for lines that are
merely crooked. Indeed, my text in
prophesying the worlds complete recti-
fcatiOn declares: "The crooked shall be
made straight"
There have been SO many moral
earthquakes that many things have got
into q terrible twiSt-croOked laws,
crooked governments, crooked for
tunes, crooked diSpoSitionS-and many
OF the efforts 20 Straighten things have
only made them more crooked. And
some good people sit down in despair
and become peSSimiStic and give up life
and the church and the world rs dead
failures. With such lachrymoSe be-
havi0r ] have no sympathy. 1t is a
promise Of the Lord Almighty. The
crooked shall be made straight l
propose. as l may be diyinely helped,
20 mention some Of the crooked things
that are going TO be Strengthened.
THE USE OF MONEY.
Much Of the wealth 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 De redistribution Of property. II
10 were possible. 10 would be u bad thing
to have things divided equally. Some
mcn are able to endure more success
than others. and prosperity that might
not unbalance YOU might destroy me.
The Declaration of American Indepen-
dencc declares that all men are born
equal. but the opposite is the truth Tor
they are born unequal. In no respect
is this more evident than in their ca
pacity 90 endure success, financial
or social. have seen men by
the acquisition OF fifty thous-
sand dollars made arrogant
| and ovcrbearing, and ] have known
others with their millions of dollars
childIike and uuassuming and Christian.
We would all bc allucnt but the Lord
cannot trust us. I am glad there are
those He can trust. Much is said
against capitalists. but the world would
Boz a very shaky world without them.
Who built the great railroads which,
while they gave such facilities OF travel,
employ ten. of thousands % lahOrcrs
supporting them and their families?
Capitalists Who built great ships that
stir Che rivers and bridge the ocean?
Capitalists. Who reared the thousands
of factories a'l over che land in which
hundreds of thousands Of employees earn
thc.r daily hread2 Capitalists. W ho
endowed your colleges. and opened free
Libraries. and built asylums Tor the
orphan. Che crippled and the insane2
Capitalists, But for them there
would not bc an Academy Of
Music. or picture gallery, or
free library. or steamboat
ora railroad in America. Who put the
world on soveuty-fye years beyond what
t would have been in enterprise, in
comforts in educational advantage, in
good things without number? Capital
Ist-, Tho more money a man gets the
better NJ DO come honestly and Is en-
u'oVcl rICltcous.y. Nevertheless We
all SEQ that there needs 20 be rcdistri-
button of property. Communism pro-
poses to make that distribution by torch
and dagger and dynamite. Throw the
midnight express train of the track
and put the factory into cOniiagration.
Disrupt society. Burglarize. Assassin
ate. 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 any
thing better.
REDISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY.
I tell YOU how there will come re-
distribution of property. Under the dl-
vine blessing good people will get more
alertneSs and acumen and aSSiduity.
Many good people are kept in straight
ened circumstances because they have
been indOlent, or lacked courage to take
honest advantage OF circumstances, ana
were too stupid 10 get on. win the
very same surroundings others went on
90 competency. In the better days 10
come good men will have their IacultleS
wakened, and will in consequence rise
TO larger share of prosperity. On the
other hand, estates wrOngfully accumu-
lated will dissolve. III not the sons,
then the grandsons will make the money
ily, and il will gradually scatter IN their
hands and become a part of the general
wealth. Then, as TO vast prop
critics righteouSly gathered AND
there are thousands Of them
such estates, will contribute
toward helping the unfortunate,
not more by charities than by helping
struggling people into lucrative bust
ness. and the man who has amasSed
enough and a surplus will say: There
is Young merchant without any cap
ital. I will start him on Fulton street,
and .there is a young mechanic who
has no means of his own, and l will put
him on career Of prosperity" and
"Tbere is a farmer with too big a
mortgage on his land, and l will help
him lift the encumbrance. The fact
is that II the kindlineSS and generosity
manifested by moneyed men toward the
struggling during the last fifty years,
increases in the same ratio for the next
fftv wears. there will be q condition OF
society paradiSic. We are going to
have a multiplication Of William Z.
DodQes. and Peter CO0pers, and James
SenoxeS. aud George PeabodyS. 80 VIII
come redistribution, and the crooked
will be made straight
TIE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE.
never vet asked God to do anything
but He did il. if it were best, and In all
the cases where my prayer has not been
answered | have found out aiteWaru
\ that il was best not to have been an
swered i'm my way. But none OF Us
have tested the full power OF prayer
Ii is force very like some of the FORCES
/ of nature. that were In existence out
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