The Penn's Grove record., 1893-11-10
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
CHE BROOKLYN DiVINE'S Sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Gospel in Politics."

TEXT . ogte therefore crini orc tim.
and so ~s another, for tie assembly iris
! confused, and the more part kHe,r not ,rdere.
fore Meu pe5e come together. Awi tIoy dye,1
| Alexander out of The nau!ftlur, he Je,rs
| Duuin1 him foylcdrd. Amt Alaramie,. beck
oncd i1siaa ne hand, and 'coult hare anaia
| his defense Unto Tie people. Bp' ,rhcn they
| knelc ma he ,r1s a Jep, al irjtt one r0ice
about nc space q ft1O ho5trS c,i,d out:
sGren, is Diana Of the EpluStGHs!n'-.Act
xiv, 90.
| Ephesus was upside down. It was ahor
| the silver question. A manufacturer Of silver
| boxes for holding heather images had called
| his Iaborers together to discuss the behavior
| of one Paul, vino had been in publ, places
| assaulting image worship, and consequently
very much damaging that particular bust
! ness. There WINS great excitement in the
/ city. People stood in knots along the
| streets. violently gesticulating and calling
| each other hard names. Some Of the people
| fayoredthe policy of the silversmith. Other
people favored the policy Of Paul. There
| were great moral questions Involved, but
these did not bother them at all.
The only question about which they
seemed to be interested was concerning the
wages and the salaried positions. The silver
| smith and his eompeerS had put mp factories
I III GTttl GADtll1D ~ NAtH AlAsAhlA- " lIt-F sis
yer boxes. and now, if this new policy is to
| be ~inaugurated the business will 20 down,
i the laborers will be thrown ont o. employ
| ment and the whole city will suffer. Well,
| what is to be done? "Call u ronyentinn.''
| SAYS some one, for in all ages n convention
has been a panacea for public evils. The
| convention is called, and as they want the
largest room in the city theytqkcth he theatre.
Having there assembled, they all want to
| rat tho Hpor and thpu Dll wont m taIt- at
once. You know what excitement that al
| ways makes in a convention. where u great
| many people want to talk at once. Some
| cried one thing, some cried another. Some
wanted to d~enounce, some wanted to resolve.
After awhile a prominent man gets the floor,
and he begins to speak, but they very soon
hiss him down, and then the con u4ion rises
into worse uproar, and they begin TO shout.
| all of them together, and they keep on until
they are red in the face and hoarse in tho
throat, for two long hours crying out Great
/ is Diana of the EphesianS- Great is Diana
of the Ephesians ~
The whole scene reminds ne OF the excite
/ ment we nave almost every autumn 1t the
elections. While that goddess Diana has lost
| her worshipers and her temples have zone
| Iato the dust, our American people want 10
| set up a got in place Of her, AMI they want
US all to bow down before it. ami that god is
political party. Considering our superior
| civilization, / have to de ,llrt to you that
Epaasian idolatry was less Offensive in the
| sight of God than Is this all absorbing AIneri-
can partisanship.
While there are honest men, true men,
| Christian men, who stanl in both political
parties. and who come into the %autumnal
elections resolving to serve their city or their
Stsee or the Nation in the host possible way,
| have noticed also that with many it is a
mere contest between tho ms and the outs
those who are trying to stay in and keep the
outs out, and those who are trying to get in
| and thrust the ms out. AMI one party cries.
"[+reat is Diana of the Epbesians = and the
other party cries, "Great is Diana OF the
Ephesians y neither OF them honest enough
20 cay, "Great Is my poeketbook"
Once or twice a year it is my custom to
talk to tho people about public affairs from
| what l call a Christian standpoint, and
this morning 1 have chosen for that duty. /
hope to say a practical word. History tells
VS. of a sermon once preacheda amid the high
lands of Scotland-a sermon two hours long
Ion the sin Of luxury, where there were not
more h three pairs of shoes IN the au-
dienco, and during our last war a good man
went into a hospital distributing tracts and
gave q tract on THE Sin Of Dancing" to q
man both OF whose legs had been amputated
But 1 hope this morning to present an APP
propriate and adapted word, as next Tues
day at the ballot box great Affairs are to bs
'ettled.
The Rev. DR.. EnnoIs, N the emily his
tory of ouc country. N Mass lrluS IT'S,
| preached abou, the election oi lnonls JEFF
| ferson to the Presidency. The Rev. DIR.
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 off upon public
| affairs and discuss them. We need go back
to no example. Every man is. before TOD
responsible for his own duty.
II the Norwegian boasts OF his home OF
rocks, and the Siberian is pleased with MS
land of perpetual snow II the Roman
| thought that the muddy Tiber was the
favored river in the sight OF heaven, and If
the Laplander shivers out his eulogy oil ms
native cline, and II the Chinese have pity
for anybody born outside OF the floWery
Kingdom, shall not we, born under these
fair skies and standing day by day amid
those glorious civil and religious liberties,
be public splrited2 IpropOse to tell the peo-
pie very plainly what I consider to be thelr
Christian duty at the ballot box
First, set yourself against all political talse-
hood. The most monstrous lies ever told In
this country are during the elections. lstoP
nj tho door of a Democratic meeting ana
listen and hear that the Republicans are llarS'
/ stop at the door of a Republican meeting
and listen and hear that the Democrats art
scoundrels. Our public men microscopized
and the truth distorted. Who believes 8
tenth part OF what he reads or hears in the
autumnal elections? Men who at other sea
sons OF the year are very careful in thel
speech become peddlers ii scandal.
In the far east there is a place where once
a year they let the people do as they please
and say what they please. and the place Il.
fuli OF uproar, misrule and welcomes, and
they call it the ''devil's day" The nearest
approximation to that in this country has
been the first Tuesday in November. Inc
community at such times seems to say, Go
to, now, let US have a good time at lying.
Prominent candidates for Office are de-
nounced as unprincipled and renegade. A
smart lie will start in the corner Ola country
newspaper, an keep or running until 1t mas
capturedthe printing presses OF the whole
continent. What garbling Of specches! what
misinterpretation of motives! What mis-
representation OF individual antecedents|
Inc trouble is that we have inthls country
W great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
hes-the Republican mandatory OF lies and
the Democratic mandatory OF nes-and
they are run day and night, and they turn
out MALT q dozen a day all equipped ana
ready for full sailing. Large lies n small
lies. Lies private and lies public and lies
prurient. Lies cut bias anu lies cut diagonal.
Long lHDeu lies and lies WIN uuuuis paSA
action. Lies complimentary and les de-
famatory. Lies that some people believe,
and lies thai all the people believe, and lies
mat nobody believes. Lies with humps IKE
camels, and scales like crocodiles, ana necRs
as long as storks, and feet as swift as an an
teiope's, and stings like aiders. Lies raw
and scalloped and pannoi and steweo.
Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring
mes; Lies with attachment screws ana
railers and braiders and ready wound BOD
pins. Lies by Christian people, who never
ne except during elections, and lies by peo-
pie who always lie, but beat themselves In a
political campaign.
4 confess l am ashamed to HAYES .oreignef
Visit this country in these times. L should
think he would stand da2ed and dare not 20
out at nightsl What will the hundreds OF
thousands of foreigners who come mere 10
live hin Of us2 What a disgust they must
have for the land of their adoption inc
only good thing about It is that many otthem
cannot understand the English language;
Hut suppose the German and ltalian ana
swedish and French papers tr!nstate II an'
m peddle out the internal stun tothelr SUD-
scribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop sueh
a Hood of indeeency. The Christian religion
VIII speak after awhile. The biilingsgate n
low scandal through which We wade almost
every autumn must be rebuked by tnat re-
hgion which speaks from itstwo great noun
taln9, from the ona mountain fntOnlnS tue