The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-03
CROOKED THINGS.
THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE
STRAIGHT.


Holy Land to be Delivered.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 2l,-Preliminary
to his sermon at the Academy of Music
In this city. this forenoon, Rev. DR. Tai
mage announced that, Tptil 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 2Sth. He also announced
that on next Sabbath morning, Septem-
Der 5Sth, he would begin series of SER
mons entitled: My Recent Journey
Through the Holy Land and Neighbour
ing Countries; What Saw and Learned"
The subject of to-day's sermon was
CROOKED Things" Text, Isaiah Xl, 4:
''The crooked shall be made straight"
Geometry, from the time it was d:s-
covered on the banks ofthc Nile, which,
by its overflow annually oblterated [ c
landmarks, and the restoration Of the
landmarks made such science ncceS-
sary-I say, Geometry. ever since the;
has been busy with lines, straight lines,
curved lines. lines in angles and cones
and spheres, but has never been ab' C 10
evolve any beauty from line that w&S
merely crooked. The circ,c and the
square were always considered adm. =
able. Isaiah recognizes the circle and
says: 1.-The Lord sits upon the circle of
the EARTH" The altar of the ancient
tabernacle was ''tour square," and tie
brcastplate of the priest -four square. >
and heaven, according to John, Is go, :
square," But ''Ie Eble has no admir-; :
ton for lines {. It are merely crooked.
Indeed, my text in prophcsying tie
worlds complete rectilicatiOn declares !:
"'rhe crooked shall be made straight -
There have been set!.,r,,y - 49,, -
quakes that many things hii, 81. hs"a~s
terrible twist-crooked laws, crooked
governments, crooked fortunes, crooked
dspositions-and many of the et orts TO
straightcn things have o MY M tlem
more crooked. And some good people
sit down in despair and become pessim-
istic and give up lite and the church and
the world as dead failures. With such
lachrymose behavior l have no sympa
thy. 1t is a promise OF the Lord A.
mighty. 1.-THE crooked shall be ma, ;
straight" l propose. rs / may be di-
vinely helped, to mention some of the
crooked things that are going to be
siraightened.
Much of the wealth of the world is in
the hands of the profilgatc while many
OF the best people are subjected to ds-
trcssing privation; and there Is going 10
he n redistribution Of pfopcrN.' If 1T
wore possible, it would be bad thing
have things divided sQlaHSa i1SS3c
men are able to endure mere, SUCCESS
than others, and prosperity1hat miSst
not unbalance you, might destroy me,
The Declaration of American Independ-
ence declares that all men are bofH
equal, but the oplaoate is =! g truth lot
is this more evident than 1h tlisir capa-
city TO endure success, financial or social.
l have seen men by the acquisition OF
fifty thousand dollars made arrogant al d
overbearing, and l have known others
with their millions of dollars childiika
and unassumlng and Christian. We
would all be affluent but the Lord cam
not trust us. l am glad there are tho G
He can trust. Much is said against
capitalists, but the world would be n
shaky world without them. Who built
railroads which, while they give such
facilities OF travel, employ tens OF thous-
ands 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.
talists. Who endowed your colleges.
and opened free libraries, and built asy-
lums for the orphan, the crippled and
the insane? Capitalists But for Them
there would not be an Academy ofM =
lc, or picture gallery or n free library
or steamboat, or railroad In Amcric.;.
Who put the world on seventy-iive yc;
beyond what it would hayc been IN
enterprise, in comforts, in educat,on-
al advantage, in good things Wit out
number? Capitalists ! The more moley
a man gets the better, if it co ne honest
ly and is employed righteously. Neyc
theless we all see that there needs to he
redistribution of property. COM
munism proposes to make that distribr-
ton by torch and dagger and dynamit2 :.
Throw the midnight express train Off tie
track and put the factory into conflagra-
ton. Disrupt society. Burglarize. AS
sassinate. 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.
/ tell you how there will come re-
distribution of property. Under the die
vine blessing good people will get more
alertness and acumen and assiduity.
Many good people are kept in straitcn-
ed circumstances because they have been
indolent, or lacked courage to take hon
est advantage of circumstances, and
were too stupid to get on. With the
very same surroundings others went on
to competency. In the better days to
come good men will have their faculties
wakened, and will in consequence ri se TO
larger share ofproperty. On the other
hand, estates wrongfully accumulated,
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