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WORDS TO CONGRESS-.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON "BEFORE THEY
ADJOURN"


More Undono--A Grand and Hopeful
Sermon of Interest to National Legisla-
tors.
WASHINGTON, May 1o.-Never was
timelier or moro appropriate sermon than
that preached by Rev. DIR. Talmage this
morning. The subject was, Before They
Adjourn" having reference to tho carly
dissolution of congress, and the text Sc
lected was Psalms CIV, 80, "And teach his
senators wisdom"
Senators in this text stand for lawmak-
ers. Joseph was the lord treasurer of the
Egyptian government, and, among other
great things which no did, according to
my text, was to tench his senators wisdom,
and II any men on earth ought to be en-
dowed with wisdom IL is senator's whether
they stand In congresses, parliaments or
reichstags or assemblies or legislatures.
by their decisions nations go up or down.
Lawmakers are sometimes so tempted by
prcjudices, by sectional preferences, by OPP
portunity Of personal advancement, and
sometimes what is best to d-t so doubtful
that they ought to be prayed for and en-
couraged in every possible way, instead of
severely criticised and blamed and exec
rated, as is much Of tho time the case.
Our public men nre so often tho target to
DO shot at, merely because thoy obtain en-
inence which other men wanted, but could
not reach that more injustices ore hurled
at our national Legislature than tho people
of the United States can possibly imagine.
The wholesale belying of our public men
is simply dainnnblo.
BY residence in Washington l have como
20 find out that many Of our public men
are pcrsistently misrepresentcd, and some
of tho best Of them, tho purest In their
nves and most faithful in the discharge Of
their duties are tho worst DETAINED. Some
day want to preach u sermon from the
text in II Peter: "Thoy are not afraid to
speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels,
which arc greater In power and might
bring not railing accusation against them
before the Lord. But these, as natural
brute beasts, mado to BIO taken and de-
stroyed, speaS evil Of the things that they
understand not" So constant and malig-
nant is this work Of depreciation and scan
dalization in regard to our public men
that all over the land there are those who
suppose that the city of Washington is the
center of oil corruption, WHILE what with
its parks, and it's equestrian statuary. and
its wide streets, and its architectural
symmetries, and its lovely homes, 1t is not
only the most beautiful city under the sun,
but has the highest style Of citizenship.
have seen but one intoxicated man in the
more than six months of my residence,
and do not think any man can give sim
liar testimony of any other city on the
American continent
God In the Constitution.
Tho gavels of our two houses OF national
legislature will soon fall, and adjourn
ment of two bodies OF men as talented, as
upright, and as patriotic as ever graced
tho capitol will take place. The two or
three unfortunate outbreaks which you
have noticed only make moro conspicuous
the dignity, tho fraternity, the eloquence,
the fidelity, which have characterized those
two bodies during all tho long months Of
important and anxious dcliberation. We
put halo around great men Of the past
because they were so rare in their time.
Our senate and house of representatives
have five such men where once they had
one. But it will not be until after they are
dead that they will get appreciated. The
world finds 1t safer to praise the dead than
the living, because the departed, having a
heavy pile Of marble above them, may not
rise to become rivals.
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