Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25

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

nary 10 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
rs, he would begin series of sermons
entitled "My Recent Journey Throug h
the Holy Land and Neighboring Coun-
tries; VIII 1t Saw and Learned.
| The subject of to-day's sermon WIS:
| "Crooked Things Text, Isaiah XII:
1.-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 obIiterated the
| landmarks, and the restoration of these
| landmarks made such science neces-
sary--I 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
evolve any beauty from q line that was
merely crooked. The circle and the
| square were always considered admir-
9ble. Isaiah recognizes the circle and
says: 1.-The Lord sits upon the circle of
| the earth. - The altar of the ancient
| tabernacle was "four square, and the
breast plate OF the priests "four
| square, and heaven, according to ST.
John, is "four square. But the Bible
has no admiration for lines that are
merely crooked. Indeed, my text in
prophesying the world IS complete recti-
fication declares: 1.-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
govern ments, crooked fortunes, crooked
| dispositions land many of the efforts to
straIshten things have only made them
more crooked. And some good people
sit down in despair and become pessi-
mIstic aud give up life and the church
and the world us dead failures. With
such lachrymose behavior l have no
sympathy. 1t is a promise of the Lord
Almighty. 'The crooked shall be made
straight. l propose, as 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 protligate, while many
of the best people are subjected to dis
tres-ing privation; aud there is going to
be Il redistribution of property. II it
were possible, it would be q bad thing to
have things divided equally. Some men
are able TO endure more success than
others, 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 This more
evident than in their capacity to endure
success, financial or social. l have seen
men by the acquisition of $50 900 made
arrogant and overoeuring, and l have
known others with their millions of dol
lars childlike and uDassuming aud Chris
tan. We would all be affluent,
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 without them. Who built the
great railroads which, while they give
such facilities of travel, employ tens of
thousands of laborers supporting them
and their families? Capitalists. Who
built great ships that stir the rivers and
bridge the oceaui 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 ana the insane?
Capitalists! But for them there would
not be an academy of music, or a pic
ture gallery, or free library or q
steamboat, or q railroad in America.
Who put the world on seventy-6ve years
beyond what it would havs been
in enterprise, in comforts, in ed
ucatIonal advantages, in good
things without number? Capitalists!
The more money man gets
the better if It comes honestly anu is
employed righteously. Nevertheless we
all see that there needs to be redistri-
button of property. Communism pro-
poses to make that distribution by torch
and dagger and dynamite. Throw the
midnight express train off the track and |
put the factory into contiagration. Dis
rupt society. Burglnrize. Assassiuate. |
Such people believe neither in God nor
man nor woman and they know how to |
make Things worse but never have made |
ane never can make anything better.
l tell you how there will come re- |
distribution of property. Under the d. |
vine blessing good people will get more |
alertness and acumen and assiduiy.
Many good people are kept in straight |
ened circumstances because
THEY HAVE BEEN INsoLENT,
or lacked courage TO take honest advan- |
tage of circumstances, and were too |
stupid to get on. With the very same |
surroundings others went on to compe- |
teEcy. In the better days to come good |
men will have their faculties Weakened, |
and will in consequence rise to larger |
share of prosperity. On the other hand, |
estates wrongfully accumulated will dis
solve. II not the sons, then the grand |
SOUS will make the money fly, and It will |
gradually scatter IN their hands and be-
come q part Of the general wealth. |
Then, as 10 vast properties righteously |
gathered-aud there are thousands of |
them-such estates will contribute |
toward helping the unfortunate, not
more by charities than by helping the
struggling people into lucrative business,
and the man who has amassed enough |
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