Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-11-11
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REV. OR. ALhiAGE ATTACKS THE
4: s. EVIL. OF PARTIeANsHlR.
3 Christianity Con Remedy the Flood Of
l Yndeoency-Dallot Box PerIls-A scath-
ing Sermon by the Tabernacle Pastor.
I'D BROOKLYN, Nov. 5.-In his sermon
athis forenoon Rev. DR.. Talmage touched
kon o topic which is just now uppermost,
while the agitation In political circles Is
asraging in all parts Of the land. The SER
4smon is pertinent and useful and Is based
BON the text, Acts XIX, 90: "Some there
ffore cried one thing, and some another,
lfor the assembly was confused, and the
fmore part knew not wherefore they were
EGome together. And they drew Alexan-
|ss5er out Of the multitude, the Jews put
Sing him forward. And Alexander beck
|oned with the hand, and would have
made his defense unto the people. But
lsWhen they knew that he was Jew, all
with one voice about the space Of two
|saours cried out, Great is Diana Of the
tsEphesians."
E ;Ephesus was upside down. II wac
|sabout the silver question. A manufao-
|sGnrer of silver boxes for holding heather
images had called his laborers together
|Ho discuss the behavior Of one Paul, who
shad been in public places assaulting
|amage worship, and consequently very
much damaging that particular bust
ness, There was great excitement In the
CITY. People stood in knots along the
streets, violently gesticulating and call
ing each other hard names. Some Of the
Teople favored the policy Of the silver
smith; other people favored the policy Of
Paul There wero great moral questions
Involved, but these did not bother them
atsall.
5aThe only question about which they
seemed to be interested was concerning
the. wages and tho salaried positions.
The silversmith and his compeers had
put up factories at great expense for the
making Of these silver boxes, and now,
infj;Ethis new policy is to be inaugurated,
the business will go down, the laborers
Will be thrown out of employment and
tie whole city will suffer. Well, what
islto be done? "Call O convention, " says
some one, for In all ages convention
hes been panacea for public evils. The
convention is called, and as they want
tie largest room In the city they take
thetheater.
Having there assembled, they all want
toiget the floor, and they all want to talk
atHonoe. You know what excitement
that always makes In o convention,
where a great many people want to talk
atbnce Some cried one thing, some cried
another. Some wanted to denounce,
some-wanted to resolve. After awhile
o prominent man gets the floor, and he
begins to speak, but they very soon hiss
Rundown, and then tho confusion rises
into worse uproar. and they begin to
shout, all Of them together, and they
.keepson until they are red in face and
hoarse in the throat, for two long hours
crying out: "Great is Diana Of the
Epaeslansl Great is Diana of the Ephe-
'5sasss
cite6snt We nave almost nc every "a autumn u
at the elections. While that goddess
Diana has lost her worshipers and her
temples have gone into the dust, our
american people want to set up god in
lace of her, and they want us all to bow
down before it, and that god is political
jarty. Considering our superior civiliza-
Ion, 1 have to declare to you that the
Iphesian idolatry was less offensive in
he sight of God than is this all absorb
hg American partisanship.
While there are honest men, true men,
Christian men, who stand IN both po-
itical parties, and who come into the
sutumnal elections resolving to serve
sheir city or their state or the nationin
he best possible way, have noticed
ilso that with many it Is mere contest
|etween the ms and the outs-those who
ire trying to stay in and keep the outs +
iut, and those-who are trying to get in
ind thrust the ms out. And one party
,ries, "Great is Diana Of the Ephesiansl'
md the other party cries, "Great is Di-
ma Of the Ephesiansl' neither of them
lonest enough to say, "Great is my
PUBLIC AFFAIRS DISCUSSED. {
Once or twice year it is my custom ]
o talk to the people about public affairs
rom what I call Christian standpoint, s
nd this morning l have chosen for that 6
uty. hope to say practical word. {
history tells us of q sermon once s
reached amid the highlands of Scot /
lnd-a sermon two hours long-on the I
n of luxury, where there were not more v
ian three pairs of shoes in the audience, C
nd during our last war good man I
'ent into hospital distributing tracts y
nd gave tract on ''The Sin of Dane a
lg" to man both of whose legs had t
cen amputatedl But hope this morn C
e topresent an appropriate and adapt n
word, as next Tuesday at the ballot 81
oX great affairs are to be settled. Il
The Rev. DR.. Emmons in the early n
story of our country in Massachusetts IL
cached about the election of Thomas
'ferson to the presidency. The Rev. e7
r. Mayhem of Boston in the early days 81
our republic preached about the repeal m
the stamp act. There are times when tt
inisters of Christ must look off upon re-
lbio affairs and discuss them. We pr
ed go back to no example. Every man SO
before God, responsible for his own m
ty. N
If the Norwegian boasts of his home nj
rocks. and the Siberian is pleased yc
th his land of perpetual snow; If the m
,man thought that the muddy Tiber tn