Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE PAYS HIS RE-
SPECTS TO POLITICIANS.
Democrat and Republican About Equal
In christian Virtues About This Time
Every Year-A Political House Clean
Ing Needed.


while the agitation in political circles Is
raging in eli parts of the land The sermon
is pertinent and useful, and is based on the
text: Acts xix 1872. "Some therefore cried
one thing and some another, for the assem-
bly, was confused and the more part XXI ew
not wherefore they were come together.
And they drew Alexander out OF the mul-
titude, the Jews putting him forward And
Alexander beckoned with the hand ana
would have made his defense unto the peo-
pie But when they knew that ne was
jew ali with one dice about the space or
two hours cried out, Great is Diana OF the
Ephesians
Ephesus was upside down. 1t was
about the silver question. A manu-
facturer of silver boxes for holding
heather images hal called his labor
ers together to discus the behavior OF
one Paul, who had been in pub &c
places a saulting image worship, ana
consequently very much damaging
that particular business. There was
great excitement in the city. leople
stood in knots along tire streets, vlo-
lently gesticulating and calling each
other hard names. Some of the peo-
pie favored the policy of the silver
smith: other people favored the policy
of Paul There were great moral
questions involved: but these did not
bother them at all. The only ques-
ton about which they seemed to be
interes ed was concerning the wages
and the salaried positions. The silver
smith and his compeers had put up
factories at great expense for the max.
ing of these silver boxes, and now, II
this new po icy is to be inaugurated,
the b, siness will go down.. the
lab prers will be throw n out OF EN-
ployment, and he whole city Will sur
fer. Well, what is to be done? Call
a convention" says some one; Tor IN
all ages convention has oeen
panacea for public evils. The conven-
ton is called, and, as they want the
largest room in the city, they take
the theater. Having there assem- Sled,
they all want to get the hoor, ana
they all want to talk at once. You
know VIII t excitement that always
makes in a convention, where great
many people want to talk at once
Some cried one thing, some cried an
other. Some wanted TO denounce'
some wanted to resolve. After
while prominent man gets the noor'
an he begins to speak: but they very
soon hiss him d wn and then the con-
fus on rises into worse uproar, anu
thew begin to shout, all of them to-
gether, and they keep on until they
are red in face and hoarse in the
throat, for two long hours crying out,
Great is ID ana of the Ephesians!
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.'
I he whole scene remi DIS me OF the
excitement we have almost every au-
tumn at the elections. While that
IL. Ct har
and her temples have gone into the
dust, our American people want to set
up a god in place of it, and they want
us all to bow down before it; and that
god is political party. Considering
our superior eiviliz ton, l have t. de-
clare to you that the Ephcsian idol
try was less offensive in the sight of
God than is this ail-abs orbing Ameri-
can partisanship.
While there are honest men, true
men, Chris ian men, who's and in both
political parties, who come into
the autumnal rlecti ms resolving to
serve their ii or their state or the
nation in the be possible way, | have
noticed also that with many it is a
mere contesi between the ms and the
outs-those who are trying to stay in
and keep the ,uts out, and tho who
are out Try ing to get in and thrust the
ms out. And one party cries, "Great
is Diana of the Ephesians" and the
other party cries, Great is Diana of
the Ephesians," neither If them hon
est enough to say, Great is my pock-
etbook!"
once or twice year it is my custom
to talk to the people about public "a
fairs from what / call Chri' tian
standpoint, and this morning | have
chosen for that duty. ] hope &c say a
practical word History tells us of a
sermon once preached amidst the
Highlands of Scoil nd-a sermon two
hours long-ou the sin of luxury,
where there were not m re than three
pairs of shoes in the au fence; and
during our last war a 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 appropriate and adapted
word, as next Tuesday, at the ballot
box, great affairs are to be settled.
Rev. DIR. Emmons. in the early his
tory of our country, in Massachu-
sets, preached about the cleo
ton of Thomas jefferson to the
Presidency. Kew. DIR. Mayhem of
Boston, in early days of our republic,
preached about the repeal of the
stamp act. There are times when
mini ters of Christ must look off upon
public affairs and discuss them. We
need go lack to no example. Every
man is, before God, responsible for hi >
own duty. If the Norwegian boasts
of his home ofrocks, and the 81 erian
is pleased with his land of perpetual
snow: if the Roman thought that the
muddy Tiber was the favor d river in
The sight Of heaven, and if the Lap
lander shivers out his eulogy Of his
native climate, and if the Chinese
have pity for anybody born outside
the 81 owery kin gdom, shall not we,
born under these ia skies and stand
ing day by day amidst these & orious
civil and religious liberties, be public
spi tied? propose to tell the eople
very plainly what l consider to be
their Christian duty at the ballot box.
First. st Yourself ainst all politi-
cal falsehood. The most monstrous
lies ever told in this country are dur
ing the elections. ] stop at the door
of democratic meeting and listen
and hear that the rem blicans are