The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-12

! | BROOKLYN, ". V, Nov. 5.-In his sermon
this forenoon Rev. DR.. Talmage touched
on topic which is just now uppermost,
while the agitation in political circles Is
raging in all parts of the land. The sermon
is pertinent and useful, and Is based on the
text: Acts, xix :32. ''Some therefore cried
one thing and some another, for the assem-
bly, was confused and the more part kI eW
not wherefore they were come togetner'
And they drew Alexander out of the null
titude, the Jews putting him forward. And
Alexander beckoned with the hand and
would have made his defense unto the peo-
pie. But when they knew that he was Q
lew all with one voice about the space OF
70 hours cried out, Great Is Diana OF the
Psians."
phesus was upside down. 1t was
but the silver question. A manu-
turer of silver boxes for holding
then images had called his labor
sts together to discuss the behavior OF
one Paul, who had been in pubic
places a>sanlting image worship, and
consequently very much damaging
that particular business. There was
great excitement in the city. People
stood in knots along the streets, vio-
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-
tion about which they seemed to be
intereste 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, If
this new policy is to be inaugurated,
hA
laborers will be thrown out OF en-
ployment, and the whole city will suf-
fer. Well, what is to be done? Call
a convention" says some one; for in
all ages a convention has been a
panacea for public evils. The conven-
tiop is called, and, as they want the
largest room in the city, they take
the theater. Having 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 convention, where great
many people WAIT to talk at once
SNme cried One thing, some cried an
er. Some wanted to denounce,
Come wanted to resolve. After a
while prominent man gets the floor,
and he begins to speak; but they very
soon hiss him down, and then the con-
fusion rises into worse uproar, and
bACH DGk1A W Sk1OuI, oil Va NAOAh W
gether, and they keep on until they
are red in face and hoarse in the
throat, for two long hours crying out,
''Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
Great is Diana of the Ephesians!h
The whole scene reminds me of the
excitement we have almost every au-
tumn at the elections While that
goddess Diana has l, st her worshipers,
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 civi1iza ton, have to de-
clare to you that the Ephcsian idola-
try was less offensive in the sight of
God than is this all-ab> orbing Ameri-
can partisanship.
While there are honest men, true
men, Christian men, who stand in both
political parties, aud who come into
the autumnal elections resolving to
serve their city or their state or the
nation in the bet possible way, have
noticed also that with many it is
mere contest between the ins and the
outs-those who are trying 20 stay in
and keep the outs out, and tho~e who
are out trying to get in and thrust the
ins out. And one party cries, ''Great
In Diana of the Ephesians!" and the |
other party cries, "Great is Diana of |
the Hphesiaus!" neither of them hon
est pgh to say, Great is my pock-
Once or twice a year it is my custom |
to talk to the people about public af- |
fairs from what l call Christian |
standpoint, and this morning l have |
chosen for that duty. l hope to say n
practical word History tells us of a
sermon once preached amidst the |
Hirhlands of Scoiland-a sermon two |
hours long-on the sin of luxury,
where there were not more than three |
nairs of shoes in the audience; and
during our last war a good man went
into hospital distri buting tracts, and
gave q tract on THE Sin of Dancing"
"a \ man both of whose legs had been
But hope this morning
"a present an appropriate and adapted
word, as next Tuesday, at the ballot
I,ox. great affairs are to be settled.
Rev. DR.. Emmons, in the early his
4orv of our country, in MaSsachu-
retfs. preached about the cleo
ffon of Thomas Jefferson to the
Presidency. Rev. DIR. Mayhem of
Roston, in early days of our republic,
nreached about the repeal of the
stamp act. There are times when
r,inisters of Christ must lock off upon
- bic affairs and discuss them. We
need 20 back to no example Every
~snS a. before God, responsible for his
nwu duty. If the Norwegian boasts
- lis home ofroc<s, and the Siberian
q srIssssd with his land of perpetual
-,,9rv. IL the Roman thought that the
,nTddr Tiber was the favored river in
Re rirht Of heaven, and il the Lap
iender shiVers out his eulogy OF his
native climate, and II the Chinese
s.~wa pitv for anybody born outside
es,n s4fiowery kingdom" shall not we.
ss,sn under these fair skies, and stand
no day by day amidst these glorious
81 Fl a1lAreligious liberties, be public