Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Or. TALmAoE ENLARGEs HIS FIELD
or WORK.


Labor-Answers TO Prayer.
BROOKLYN, Sept Preliminary to his
sermon at the Academy of Music in this
city this forenoon Rev. DR.. Talmage an
nounced That until the new brooklyn Tab
ernacle was completed he would preach in
the Brooklyn Academy Of Music on Sun
day mornings He was glad to add that by
IN arrangements made through The Chris
tian Herald Of Sew 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 Sept. 2S He also announced
chat on next Sabbath morning Sept, 2S,
be would begin series of sermons en-.
titled, my Recent Journey Through the
Holy Land and Neighboring Countries;
What Saw and Learned"
The subject of today's sermon was,
@Crooked Things" Text, Isa. xl, 4; 'The
crooked shall be made straight"
Geometry, from the time it was discover.
I'd on the banks Of the Nile, which by its
overflow annually obliterated the land.
marks, and the restoration of these land
marks made such science necessarily
jay geometry ever since then has been
busy with lines, straight lines, curved
lines, lines in angles and cones and Spheres
out has never been able TO evolve any
beauty from Il line that WAS merely crook
ed The circle and the square were always
considered admirable Isaiah recognizes
The circle and says, 1.-THE Lord sits upon
tito circle Of the Garth" The altar Of the
ancient tabernacle was -four square," and
the breastplates of the priests -four
square, and heaven, accordingt to St. John,
is "four square" But the Bible has no
admiration for lines that are merely crook.
ed. Indeed my text in prophesying the
worlds complete rccti(lcation declares,
"Tho crooked shall be made straight"
There have been so many moral earth
quakes that many things have got into
terrible twist-crooked laws, crooked gov,
ernments, crooked fortunes, crooked dis.
positions-and many of the efforts to
straightcn things have only made them
more crooked And some good people sit
down in despair and become pcssimistic,
and give up life, and the church, and the
world as dead failures. With such lachry-
NOSE behavior | have no sympathy. 1t is
promise Of the Lord Almighty: "The
crooked shall be made straight" | pro
pose, as may be divinely helped, to men
ton some OF the crooked things that are
going to be Strengthened.
INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY.
Much Of the wealth of the world is in the
hands of the pronigatc, while many of the
best people are subjected to distressing
privation; and there is going to be redis-
tribution Of property. If it were possible
it would be n bad thing to have things
divided equally. Some men are able to
endure more success than others, and pros
perity 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 tire 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.
bearing, and have known others with
their millions of dollars childlike and I'M
assuming and Christian. We would all
be afIlucnt but the Lord cannot trust us.
| am glad there are those he can trust.
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 laborcrs, sup
porting them and their families? Capital
lists 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 thou
sands of employees earn their d:ily breadP
Capitalists Who endowed your colleges,
and opened free libraries, and built
Hsylums for the orphan, the crippled and
the insane2 Capitalists. But for them
there would not he nn academy of music,
or n picture gallery, or "a free library, or
steamboat or II railroad in America. Who
put the world on seventy-fve years be-
You'd what it would have been in enter
prise, in comforts, in educational ndvant
age, in good things without number? Cap
italists,
The more money n man gets the better il
it come honCstly.Hnd is employed right
cously. Nevertheless we all see that there
needs to be redistribution of property
proposes to make that distr-
button by torch and dagger and dynamite.
Throw the midnight express train of the
track and put the factory into conllagra-
ton, disrupt society, burglar2e, assas
sinate 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
GODS METHOD or RFDIsTRIBUTION.
tell you how there will come u rodistr
button of property Under the divine
blessing good people will get more alert
ness and ucumen and assiduity. Many
good people are kept in straitened circum
stances because they have been indolent, or
lacked courage tG take honest advantage
Of circumstances, and were too stupid to
get on With the very same surroundings
others went on to competency. In the bet
ter days to come good men will have their
faculties Weakened, and will in consequence
rise TO larger share of prosperitJ. On the |
other hand, estates wrongfully accumu-
lated will dissolve. II not the SONS, then |
the grandsons will make the money fly |
and it will gradually scatter in their hands, |
and become Il part OF the general wealth
Then as to vast properties righteously !
there are thousands of them |
such estates viii contribute toward help |
ing the unfortunate, not more by charities |
than by helping struggling people into |
lucrative business, and the man who hns |
nmasscd enough and surplus will say; |
There is young merchant without any |
ramtal. will start him on Fulton street, |
and there is n young mechanic who has |
40 means Of has own, and | will put him |
on career of prosperity" and there is a 1
farmer with too big II mortage on his land, |
md will help him lift the incumbrnnce. !
The fact is that If the kindiness and gen |
crosby manifested by moneyed men to-
ward the struggling during the last fifty |
years increases in the same ratio for the |
next fifty ycars there will he a condition of |
society paradiaiao We are going to have |
a multiplication Of William Il, Dodgcs and |
Peter Coopers and James I.cnoXes and |