Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22

CROOKED THINGS.
Rev. Or. Talmage's Discourse
Yesterday in Brooklyn.
Crooked Laws. Crooked Governments
and Crooked Dispositions Dis
cussed by the Famous Divine.
lie Tells You in an Eloquent Appeal How Al,
Things May be Made straight for That
Last Great Day.
TALMAGE's APPOINTMENTS.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sept. 21.-Prelimi-
nary to his sermon at the Academy of Mu-
sic 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 Sunday mornings. He was
glad to add that by an arrangement
made through the Christian Herald of
New York city he would be enabled to
preach in the New York Academy of
Music, on Fourteenth street, on Sunday
evenings, beginning with the evening of
September %. He also announced that
on next Sabbath morning, September
%, he would begin a series of sermon
entitled my Recent Journey Through
the Holy Land and N~eighboring Coun-
tries; What l Saw and Learned.'
The subject of to-day's sermon vas:
"Crooked T%hings.' Text, Isaiah XII:
"The crooked shall be made STRAIGHT
Geometry, from the time it was discov-
cred on the banks of the Nile, which, by
its overflow annually obliterated the
landmarks, and the restoration of these
landmarks made such d science neces-
saIS-l say BcOLDelTE, eStT sluce lU6u
has been busy with lines, straight lines,
curved lines, lines in angles and cones
n spheres, but has never been able to
evolve any beauty from a line that was
merely crooked. The circle aud the
square were always considered admir-
able. Isaiah recognizes the circle and
says: 1.-The Lord sits upon the circle of
the earth.' The altar of the ancient
tabernacle vas "tour square," and the
breast plate of the priests ''four
square, and heaven. according to St.
John, is "four square, But the Bible
has NJ admiration for lines that are
merely crooked. Indeed, my text in
prophesying the world IS complete recti-
fication Declares: ''The crooked shall be
made straight.'
There have been so many moral earth
quakes that many things have got into a
terrible twist-crooked laws, crooked
governments, crooked fortunes, crooked
dispositions--and many of the efforts to
strengthen things LAY only made them
more crooked. And some good people
sit down in despair and become pessi-
MYSTIC and give up life and the church
and the world as dead failures. With
such a lachrymose behavior l have no
sympathy. 1t ia q promise of the Lord
Almighty. "The crooked shall be made
straight l propose, as l may be di-
vinely helped, TO mention some of the
crooked things that are going to be
Strengthened.
Much of the wealth of the world Is in
the hands of the profigate, while many
of the best people are subjected to dis
tres>ing privRtion; and there is going to
be a redistribution of property. If it
were possible, it would be a bad thing to
have things divided equally. Some men
are able to endure more success thar
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 his more
evident han in their capacity to endure
financial or social. l have seen
men by the acquisition of $50, 900 made
arrogant and overbearing, and l have
known others with their millions of dol
lars childlike and unassuming and Chris
We would all be afluent,
But H ORR CANNoT TRUST Us.
1 am glad there are those He can
trust. Much is said against capitalists,
the world would be a very shaky
without them. Who built the
great railroads which, while they give
such facilities of travel, employ tens of
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? Capt.
Who endowed your colleges, and
opened free Libraries, and built asylums for
the orphan, the crippled ana the insane?
But for them there would
be au academy of music, or q pic
gallery, or q free library or q
or q railroad in America. |
Who put the world on seventy-five years
what it would have been
in enterprise, in comforts, in ed
advantages, in good
things without number? Capitalists
The more money q man gets
The better If it comes honestly anu Is
employed righteously. Nevertheless we
Ill see that there needs to be a redistri-
button of property. Communism pro-
poses to make that distribution by torch
dagger and dynamite. Throw the
midnight express train of the track and
Out tue lactOTy INTO Ou~udgTdIlOQ. Dis
'upt society. BurglariZe. Assassinate.
such people believe neither in God nor
nan nor woman and they know how to
things worse but never have made
me never can make anything better.
1 tell you how there will come a re-
of property. Under the di-
zine blessing good people will get more
and acumen and assidui v.
Many good people are kept in straight
circumstances because
THEY HAVE BEEN INsoLENT,
,r lacked courage to take honest adyan-
age of circumstances, and were too
to get on. With the very same
surroundings others wen on to compe-
In the better days to come good
men will have their faculties Weakened,
md will in consequence rise to larger
of prosperity. On the other hand,
estates wrongfully accumulated will dis
olive. II not the sons, then the grand
ons VIII make the money fly, and 1t will
yradually scatter IN their hands and be-
'ome q part of the general wealth.
Then. as TO vast properties righteously
'athered-and there are thousands of
hem-such estates will contribute
oward helping the unfortunate, not
more by charities than by helping the
truggling people into lucrative business.
nd the man who has amassed enough
nd a surplus will say: s.There is a
merchant without any capital,
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