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gify this fors aeon Rev. Dr. 1slnASse 49,
+ eaares.i thst unEii tae new BFooklya t<o-
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/ d. Rrooklyn Aca4szay q Aasie 0n ouE-
.l.v uasrainEs. lie 50 glad 10 zta that -
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sian Hsra43. u New Ycrk city, he would
- enabled u preaeh IN the Ae@ York
Academy az Music. OF rearteeatA street,
a. sunday evenings. beginning vita re
exsning q Seps - he also announced
that on next sabbath m0rning, sept -
be would tegin series o. sermons sn-
titled, NY Recent Journey Through tie
holy Land and Neigheoring Countries,
What saw and Learned
The subject OF t0dsy's sern0n was,
I Crooked Things" Text, Iss- II. I. The
crooked sh All oe made straight"
Geometry, nom the time i was discover
ed ca the BANKS of ths Nile, which b. rs
overflow annually obliter@tsd tae land
marks, and the restoration OF these land
marks made such q science necessary
say geometry ever since then has been
busy with lines. straight lines, curved
lines, lines ia angles and cones and spheres,
bat has never been able 10 evolve any
beauty from line that was merely crook
ed The circle and the square were always
considered admirable. Isaiah recognizes
the circle and says, The Lord ats upon
the circle Of the earth" The altar Of the
ancient tabernacle was -four square, and
TIE bresstplates Of the priests -four
4 % "A .r.nrr tnu N. .fQhn
IS -four square" But the Bible has 40
admiration for lines that ara merely crook
"a. Indeed my text in prophesying the
World,s complete rectihcation declares.
sThe crooked shall be made straight"
There have been so many moral earth
nuakes that many things have got into
| torrible twist-crooked laws, crooked gov
ernments, crooked fortunes. crooked dis
positlons-and many OF tho efforts TO
straighten things have only made them
more crooked. And some good people sit
down in despair and become pessinliStic,
Z and give up life, and the church, and the
world as dead failures With such lachry-
NOSE behavior | have no sympathy. IL s
a promise Of the Lord Almighty; The
| crooked shall be made straight" l pro-
i pose, as | may be divinely helped, TO men
Il | ton some OF the crooked things that are
| going 20 be Strengthened.
INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY.
Much OF the wealth of the world is in the
hands Of the proaigate, while many of the
best people are subjected 10 distressing
: privation. and there is going to be a redis-
tribution OF property. If it were possible
: il would be a bad thing 70 have things
I divided equally Some men are able TO
endure more success than others, and pros
perity that might not unbalence 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 over
Z bearing, and | have known others with
their millions Of dollars child!ike and IN
) | assuming and Christian. We would al
! be alfluent, but the Lord cannot trust Us
& am glad there are those he can trust
8 Much is said against capitalists, but The
+ | world would be a very shaky world With
!. out them
Who built the great railroads which
= while they give such facilities Of travel
= employ tens OF thousands Of laborers, sup
y porting them and their familiesl Capital
lists Who built great ships that stir th'
rivers and bridge the ocean5 Capitalists
Who reared the thousands Of factories al
over the land in which hundreds Of thou
sands Of emplcyes earn their daily bread
Capitalists. Who endowed your colleges
II, and opened free libraries, and bull
asyIums for the orphan, the crippled anC
The insanes Capitalists. But for then
~ 80
Dr. a picture gallery, or @ free library, or
amboat, or a railroad in America. Wh'
put the world on seventy-ive years be
yond what it would have been in enter
prise, in comforts, in educational advant
age. in good things without numbesf Cap
italists.
The more money man gets the better
IL come honestly and is employed right
eously. Nevertheless we all see that ther
needs 10 be n redistribution Of property
Communism proposes to make that distri
button by torch and dagger and dynamite
Throw the midnight express train OF ia
track and put the factory into confagTa
q ton. disrupt society, burglarize, assas
= sinate. Such people believe neither 4
y God nor man nor woman, and they kno'
IA how 20 make things worse, bat never hav
70. made and never can make anything ,ettei
GODS METHOD OF REDIs-RIBUTI0S.
= / tell you how there viii come redistr
- button Of property. Under the diyiu
20 blessing good people viii set more aleT
BY ness and acumen and assiduity. Man
e,E good people are kept In strRitened circun
~ stances because they have been indolent. {
"a lacked courage TO take honest advantaf
-, of circumstances. and were too stupid I
% get on. With the very same surrounding
= others went on 10 competency. In the be
"a Ter days 70 come good men viii have the
A. faculties wakened. aud will IN consequent
it rise 20 larger share Ct prosperity On z
- other hand. estates wrongfuily accum'
az lated will dissolve. II not the sons, tbs
the grsndsons wiz make the money e
end it will gradually scatter IN their haad
. and become part Of the general wealth.
y Then as 20 vast properties righteous
\ gathCred-znd there are Thousands of the
y such estates viii contribute toward bel
(. inz the uDforturate. not more b chariti
than BY helping struggling people II
lucrative business, and the nan who B
. anassed enough and a surplus vii 81
There is a youug merchant without ~
cspitsL VII start him On Fulton street
and there il a young mechanic who
n nsaus of bis own. and I vii put ~
on career II prosperity sud there is
fsrrner With TOO big rCrtage ca his ia7
and viii help hin 1T The incTlTn D. s-aoe
The fart "a that II tie kiniliress Nna s.
srus.t7 manifested by roneyed rueu
i. ward the sfruggiiag daring the last r
~ years Increases in The saue re'lo To- 2
- pext ffty ysals there wiN bs condition
society psrs6isiec. We sre F-ing - hs
mulffplicafion - XTi.lism = Dalges a
.s Peter Co,s1ers and James I@noxes =.