Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-09

THE BROOKLYN DryINE,s sim
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Gospel in Politics. y,

TEXT: 'sSon,e therefore cr;ed one n;na
ana some another, for the assemble, ,ngs
conJused, ana me more part kae,o not sgJe,e-
Jore Mey mere come together And men 6re,o
alexander oau Of The multitude. The ,Je,rs
p'4t'sng han. forpard. And Alexander beck-
Gneo tottn me tand, and acould haoe made
nas defense unto The people, Bat ,phen me-,
kseac that ne cds a Jeac, all aoih one roicge
u0oat me space of teeo hours cried out:
Great IS Diana Of the Eolesidnsr Acts
xix, 49,
Ephesus was upside down. II VIA. about
fhe silver question A manufacturer of silver
poxes ior holding heather images had called
aa as iaporers togethef to discuss the behavior
Oh one raul, who had been In public places
assuming image worship, and consequently
very mgoh damaging that particular bust
ness~ lnere was great excitement in the
cl.s- People stood in knots along the
s.r9ets. violently gesticulating and calling
escD 'e.her hard names. Some of the people
taWczedf the policy OF the sllversmith. Other
Rsepie favored the policy of Paul. There
were great moral questions involved. but
"A rs, did not bother them at ALL
Tue only question about which thew
suelleu 70 be interested was concerning the
wages and the salaried positions. The silver
smith and his coNpeers had put IN factories
az great expense for the making of these sill
sei boxes, and now, ii this new policy is to
80 inaugarated the business will 90 down.
aooiers VIII De thrown out of employ
heht anc toe whole city will suffer. We'll
what is 20 W done? '!Call a convention. y
51ays 'r'o one, for in all ages convention
oerin panacea for public evils The
~, Ion FSntton is called, and as they want the
-ai SefSt room In the city they take the theatre.
haSing there assembled, they all want to
fS she 1oor, and they all want to talk at
once You know what excitement that al
ways makes III a convention, where a great
fUlanv people want to talk at once Some
scrled one thing, some cried another. Some
Wanted TO denounce. some wanted to resolve
Alter awhile prominent man gets the floor,
ana ne begins TO speak, but they very soon
Mss him down. and then the confusion rises
into worse uproar. ana they begin to shout
faii OF them together, and they keep on until
ftney are red in the, face and hoarse in the
ftnroat, for two lopg hours crying out ''Great
lis Diana of haGphesians Great is Diana
'of the EpheSians! r
Inc whole scene reminds me of the excite
ment we have almost every autumn at the
-eiectlcns. While that goddess Diana has lost
snef worshipers and her temples have gone
INTO the dust, our American people want to
sSet up god IN place of her, and they want
US al to bow down before it, and that god is
poiitical party. Considering our superior
eyilzation, l havet to declare to you that
Ephesian sdolatry was less offensive in the
s'ght OF God than is this all absorbing Ameri-
can panisanshp
christi AN men, who stand in both political
parti &, and who come into the autumnal
oiec 1ons resolving TO serve their city or their
suite or the Nation in the best possible way,
nave noticed also that with many it is
mere contest between the ms and the outs
Nhosa who are frying to stay in and keep tho
Fouts out, and those who are trying to get in
and thrust the ms out And one party cries.
Great is Diana OF the Ephesians l' and the
N2tner party cries, Great is Diana of the
Ephesians = neither Of th0n honest enough
10 say, Great is my pocketbook p
Once or twice a year it is my custom to
Talk TO THE people about public affairs from
what l call Christian standpoint. and
TINS morning have chosen for that duty. 1
nopetto say practical word. History tells
y US u sermon once preached amid the high
iaiLus OF Scotland--a sermon two hours long
: ION the sin of luxury where there We're not
more than three pairs of shoes in the au-
silence, and during our last war q good man
went into hospital distributing tracts and
gave tract on ''The Sin of Dancing to a
man both OF whose legs had been amputated
But hope this morning to present an APP
propriate and adapted word, as next Tues
day at the ballot box great affairs are to be
settled.
The Rev. DR.. Emmons, in the early his
tory of our country, in Massachusetts,
preached about the election of Thomas JEFF
ferson to the Presidency. The Rev. DR..
Mayhem, of Boston, in the early days of our
republic, preached about the repeal of the
stamp act There are times when ministers
'of Christ must look of upon public
affairs and discuss them. We need go back
to no example. Every man is, before GOD,
responsible for his own duty.
Ii the Norwegian boasts of his home OF
rocks, and the Siberian is pleased with his
land OF perpetual snow il the Roman
thought that the muddy Tiber was the
favored river in the sight of heaven, and if
khe Laplander shivers out his euiogy of his