Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-06
CHRISTIAN CITIZENS
RgE. DR.. TALMAGgS TABERNACLE SERMON
YESTERDAY.
A Brilliant and Finely Discourse on the Political
Life o. ,hs Present Day-SOna Pangan!
Cri6cisns-Goi Should
Come First

a
uppermost, while the agitation in polit-
cal circles is raging In al parts OF the
land. The sermon is pertinent and use
full and is based on the text: Acts 1889
"Some therefore cried Onesthing and
some another, for the assembly was con-
fused; and the more part knew not
wherefore they were come together
And they drew Alexander out OF the
multitude, the Jews putting him for
ward Aud Alexander beckOned with
the hand, and would have made his de-
Tense unto the people. But when they
knew that he was Jew all with one
voice about the space Of two hours cried
out Great is Diana Of the Ephesians. "
EDhesus was upside down. 10 was
about the silver question. A manutac-
turer of silver boxes for holding heather
images had called his laborerS together
90 discuss the behavior OF one Paul, who
had been in public places assaulting
image 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
calling each other hard names. Some
Of the people favored the policy
OF the silversmith; other people
favored the policy Of Paul.
There were great moral questions In
VOlved; but these did not bother them
at all. The only question about which
they seemed 20 be interested was con-
corning the wages and Salaried posi-
tions. The silversmlth aud his COM
peers had put up factories at great ex-
penSe for the making OF these silver
boxes, and-uoW, II this new policy is to
be inaugurated, the business will go
down, the labOTers win be thrown out
Of employment, and the whole city will
suffer. Well, what to be done? "Call
q cOnventio u, says one; for 10 all ages
q convention has been panacea for all
evils.
THE CONVENTION Is CALLED
and, as they want the largest room in
the city, they take the theatre, Hav-
ing there assembled. they all want to
get the floor, and they all want TO talk
at once. You know what excitement
that always makes in a convention,
where great many people want to talk
~ once. Some cried one thing, some
cried another. Some wanted 20 de-
nOuncs, some wanted to resolve. After
a while prominent man gets the floor,
and be begins 70 speak, but they very
soon Mss him down, and then the con-
fusion rises into worse uprOar, aud they
begin TO shout, all Of them together,
and they keep on until they are red in
face and hOarSe ia throat, for two long
hours CRYING out, Great is Diana Of the
Enhasfausl Great is Diana of the EpheS-
ians"
The whole scene reminds me OF the
excitement we have almost every
autumn az the elections. While that
ess Diana has lost her wOrsqippers,
az temples have gone into the
i American people want 70 set
g-tiu place OF 10, and they want
Us all TO bow down before IL; and that
god IS Political Party. Considering
SUPER or ivilIzatiOn, have 70 declar 10
YOU that the Ephesian idOlatry was less
offensive To- tho sight of God than is
this au-absorbiag American partisan
ship.
While there are honest men, true
men, Christian men, who stand
IN BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES,
and who come into the autumnal cleo
tious resolving to serve their city OF
their State or nation ia the best posi-
bic wav, / have noticed also that with
many 10 is mere contest between the
in and the outs-thOse who are trying
10 stay In and keep the outs out, and
those who are trying to get 10 aud
thrust the ius out. And one party
cries. "Great is Diana OF the Ephe-
sians." aud the other party cries,
Great is Diana Of the Ephesians"
neither Of them honest enough 70 say,
Great is my pOCket-bOck!
Once or twice year 10 IS my custom
to talk TO the people about public az
fairs from what i call Christian stand
point, and this morning l have chosen
for that duty. I hope 70 say prac-
tical word History tells US OF ser
mon once preached amidst the High
lands of ScOtland-a sermon two ho0rS
lonV-on the sin Of luxury, whore there
pair of shoes IN the audience; and dur
ing our last war good man went into
a hospital distributing tracts, and gave
a tract on
1.-THE SIN OF DANCING
hoaman both of whose legs had been
Smputate6! But / hope this morning
tolpresent an appropriate and adapted
Won, as next Tuesday, at the ballot
HOY great affaies are 20 be settled. The
Rev. DR.. EmmOns, In the early history
Of onr country, IN Massachusetts,
Dreached about the election of Thomas
Jefferson to the Presidency. The Rev,
mr.. Mayhem, Of Boston in the
serly days of our republic, preached
ahont the repeal of the Stamp Act
Tbere are times when ministers Of
Christ must look of upon public affairs
and discuss them. We need 30 back TO
no example. Every man IS, before God,
responsible for his own duty. II the
Norweigan boasts OF his home or rocks
and the Siberian is pleased with his
land of perpetual snow; II the Roman
tbourht that the muddy Tiber was the
fsvored river in the sight Of heaven,
ond n the Lapauder shivers out his
enloqy of his native cline, and II the
Chipese have pity for anybody outside
- the "dowery kingdom, shall not we,
6orn upder these fair skies and standing
dov nv dav amidst these glorious civil
- religious liberties, be public-spir-
eco 7 prouese to tell the people very
,'Iainlv what / consider 70 be their
Cbrjstian duty at the 6allot-box.
First, set yourself against all political
falsehoOd.
THE MOST INDUSTRIOUS LIES
or told in this country are during the
oIoctions. / stop at the door Of q
Dsmoeratlc meeting and listen and
heor that the Republicans are liars. 1
s n9', At the door OF a Republican meet