Connecticut western news., 1890-09-24
GOD WILL REFORM THEM.
DR. TALMAGE ON GODS METHODS
 OF FABRICATION.


 ness and Social Life, Politics and Mar
 riage, as We'll as in Purely Spiritual
 Matters-He Answers Prayer.
 BROOKLYN, Sept. 1.-Preliminary to his sermon at the Academy of Music in this city this forenoon Rev. Dr. Tal- mage 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 Sun day evenings beginning with the even ing of Sept. 28. He also announced that on next Sabbath morning, Sept. 28, he would begin series of sermons entitled My Recent Journey Through the Holy Land and Neighboring Coun- tries: What I Saw and Learned"
 The subject of today's sermon was Crooked Things" Text, Isa. xl, 4: t"The crooked shall be made straight. "
 Geometry, from the time it was dis covered on the banks of the Nile, which, by its overflow annually oblit- erated the landmarks, and the >restora- ton of these landmarks made such 8 science necessary-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 a line that was merely crooked. The circle and the square were always considered admirable. Isaiah recognizes the circle and says, s"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 worlds complete rectification declares, 'The crooked shall be made straight"
 There have been SO many moral earthquakes that many things have got into a terrible twist-crooked laws crooked governments, crooked fortunes crooked dispositions many of the efforts to straighten things have only made them more crooked. And some good people sit down in despair and become pessimistic, and give up life, and the church and the world as dead fail ures. With such lachrymose behavior I have no sympathy. It is promise of the Lord Almighty. 'The crooked shall be made straight" I propose, as may be divinely helped, to mention some of the crooked things that are go- ing to be strengthened.
 CAPITAL AND JUSTICE.
 Much of the wealth of the world is in the hands of the profiigate, while many of the best people are subjected to dis dressing privation, and there is going to be @ redistribution of property. If it were possible 1t would be a 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 Inde- pendence 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, f1nan- cial or social. have seen men by the acquisition of fifty thousand dollars made arrogant and overbearing, and I have known others with their millions of dollars childlike and unassuming and Christian. We would all be afflu- ent, but the Lord cannot trust us. l am glad there are those he can trust
 Much is said against capitalists, but the world would be very shaky world without them. Who built the great railroads which, while they give such facilities of travel employ tens of thou sands of laborers,s supporting them and their familiesa Capitalists. Who built great ships that stir the rivers and bridge the ocean7 Capitalists. Who reared the thousands of factories all over the land in which hundreds of thousands of employees earn their daily bread2 Capitalists. Who endowed your colleges and opened free libraries and built asylums for the orphan, the crippled and the insane2 Capitalists! But for them there would not be an academy of music, or 8 picture gallery, or free library, or steamboat, or a railroad in America. Who put the world on seventy-five years beyond what it would have been in enterprise, in comforts, in educational advantage, in good things without number2 Capi- talists.
 The more money 8 man gets the bet ter, if it comes honestly and is employ ed gbtsously. Nevertheless we all see that there needs to be redistribution of property. Communism proposes to make that distribution by torch and dagger and dynamite. Throw the mid | night express train off the track and put the factory into conflagration | Disrupt society, burglarize, assassi- nate. 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 a re- distribution of property Under the divine blessing good people will get more alertness and acumen and assidu- ity. Many good people are kept in straitened circumstances because they have been indolent or lacked courage to take honest advantage of circum- stances, 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