The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-10-02
CROOKED THINGS.
THs CROOKED SHALL BE MADE
STRAIGHT.

OF Music--A Series of Sermons on tie
holy land to be Delivered.
BROOKLYN. Sept. 2l l.--Prclminary |
to his sermon at the Academy Of Muse |
IN This city, tins forenoon, Rev. Dr.. T&',
mage announced tl,nt. until the ne" |
Brooklyn Tabernacle WAS completed, he |
would preach in the brooklyn Academy |
oi Music, on Sunday mornings. lie was |
glad to add that, by IN arrangement
made through The Christian Herald, of
New York city, he would be enabled to
preach in the New York Academy of
Music, Oh Fourteenth street, on Sunday
evenings. beginning with the evening Of
September 2Sth. He also announced
that on next Sabbath morning, Scptcm-
hcr 5Sth, he would begin series Of ser
mons entitled: My Recent Journey
Through tho Holy Land and Neighbour
ing Countries; What Saw and LcMncG."
The subject Of to-day's sermon Was
"Crookcd Things.N Text, Isaiah 81, /:
The crooked shall hc made straight"
Geometry. from the tiEiG il Was dis
covered on TIE banks otthc Nile. which.
by its ONcHiluN annually "blitGrAtcd the
landmarks, and the restoration Of these
landmarks made such q science uCccs-
sary--l say, Geometry. ever since then
has been busy with lines, straight lines,
curved lines, lines in angles and cones
and spheres, but has never been able to
f,S
merely crooked The circle and tho
able. ISAIAH recognizes the circle and
says: 1.-The Lord sits upon the circle O
the carth." The altar OF the ancient
tabernacle was "Cour square," ana th>
hrcastplatc Of the priest -four square,
and heaven, according to John, is "!o,u
square," But the Bible has no atlmiru
ton for lines that arc merely crooked
Indeed, my text in prOphcsyin9 ~,
WORLDS complete rcctilication declares
'SThc crooked shall hc made STRAIGHT ;
There have been so many moral rarth
quakcs that many Things have GOT into I:
terrible iwiSt---croDkcl laws, C!cokut
governments, crooked fortunes. crooked
dlspositionS--and many Of the efforts tl
stralghtcn things have only made thvn
more crooked. And some good UCollc
sit down i'll despair and become pcssiu-
jstic and give up liic and the church and
the world as dead failures. With sucl,
lachrymoSc behavior | have no symVA-
thy. 1t is Il promise OF the Lord \ l.
mighty. 1.-The crooked shall be made
Stra!Ght.' | propose, rs / may be t'i-
vmclY helped, to mention some OF the
crooked things Nlat are going 10 hc
siraightcncd.
Much OF thc wealth of ":c world is n
the hands OF tlo Vrotlgatc while many
OF the best people arc subjected to dis
UcSsmg prlvatiOn; and there Is going to
he redistribution Of property. II it
were possible. it would be a bad thing
to have things divided equally. Some
men arc able to endure Morc succt IS
than others, and prosperity that might
not unbalancc YOU, might destroy me.
The Declaration Of American Indcpcnd,
cncc declares that all men are hor
equal, but the opposite is the truth !0l
they arc born unequal. In 30 respect i:
IS this more evident than in Their cara
city to endure success, financial or social
l have seen men by the acquisition .
fifty thousand dollars made arrogant ant
overbcaring, and l have known Othcrs
with their millions Of dollars chilllnNc
and massuming and Christian. We
would all be aillucnt but the Lord can
not trust US. ] am clad there are those
lie can trust. Much is said AGAINST
capitalists, but the world would he a
shaky world without them. Who built
railroads which, while they give such
facilities of travel, employ tens OF thous-
ands Of laborcrs 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 o
employees earn THEN daily bread? Capi.
talists. Who endowed your colleges
and opened free libraries, and built asy.
lums for the orphan, the crippled an(
the insane? Capitalists! But for :hcn
there would not be an Academy Of Mus
lc, or a picture gallery or a free library
orr stcambT cat, or a railroad IN America
who put the world on ScVCnty-livC years
beyond what it would hayc been III
enterprise, in comforts, in cducation-
al advantage. in good things without
number? Capitalists The more money
man gets the better, fit come honest
ly and is employed righlcously. Never.
thclcss we all sec that there needs to be
redistribution Of property. COM
munism proposes to make that distribu-
ton BY torch and dagger and dynamite.
Throw the midnight express train Of the
track and put the factory into conllagra-
ton. Disrupt society. BurglariZc. As
sHssinatc. Such people believe neither
~ FOd nor man nor woman and they
ct, and, ihow to make Lhinga worse but
mucb ,,,t We made and never can nlakc
nDoc'iilc' lis how there viii come d re-
scaiawa3s to lcTfopcrty. Undcr the di
his fall. lie wipod people viii get more
n ro,>,,,1: aCumcn and asSiduity.
- .opoolican c>plc are kept in straitcn-
III MN. Gs because they have been
-" Go.---Hd courage TO take hon
tore rooms ownnd.f f circumstances, and
were coo stupid c3 get on. With the
vi, ~fy same surroundings others went on
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