The morning times., 1896-05-11
TEACH SENATORS WISDOM
Rev. Or. Ta'mage Suggests Ger
tain Legislation TO Congress.
ALL PUBLIC MEN NOT BAD
The Great Divine Says Many of Them
Are Misrepresented- Says That Be
fore Final Adjournment There Are
Few Things Which Should BE
Done-God In the Constitution.

and interest. The subject OF the night
sermon was from Isaiah, The lame take
the prey the salient ideas in which are
suggested by the paradox OF the text.
In the morning, however, DR.. Talmage
spoke on a national theme, the special
title OF the address being, Before they
adjourn
In this sermon he touched upon the
criticisms OF living American statesmen,
the sectarian school question, denounced
Tom Paine as a sot, iibcrtine and a
coward, and developed the question of
" Shall God be put in the Constitution
He said in part:
And teach the senators wisdom" Sem
ators il this text stand for law ma kers
Joseph was the lord treasurer OF the Egypt
ian government, and among other great
things which lie did, according tO my text.
was to teach his scnatOrs wisdom, and il
any men on earth ought TO he endo wed with
wisdom it is senator's, whether they stand
in congresses parliaments or reichstags or
assemblies or legislatures.
BY their decisions nations 20 up or
down. Law -makcrsare esometmesso tempt
ed by pre- iudces. by sectional preferences,
by opportunity of personal advancement,
and sometimes what is hes1 to do is 50
doubtful that they ought 90 be prayed
for and encouraged in every possible way
instead of severely criticised and blamed and
eXcOrated as is much of the time the case.
Our public men are so often the target
to be shot at, merely because they obtain
cminenCe which other men wanted but
could not reach, that more inlustiCes are
hurled at our national legislature than the
people Of the United States can possibly i'm
agine.
VICTIMS OF MISREPRESENTATI
IS simply damnable. BY residence in
Washington | have come TO find out that
many OF our public men are persistently
:msreprc Sented, and some of the best Of
them, the purest In their lives and most
faithful in the discharge of their duties.
are the worst DETAINED. Some day I
want To preach sermon from the text / II
II Peter: They are not afraid to speak
evil of dignties. Whereas angels. which
are greater in power and might bring not
railing accusation against them before the
Lord. But these as natural brute beasts.
made to be taken aud destroyed. speak
evil Of the things that they understand
not"
SO constant and malignant is this work
Of depreciation and standardization in re-
gard to our public men that all over the
land there are those who suppose that the
city of Washington is the center OF all
corruption, while, what with its parks,
and its equestrian statuary, and its wide
streets, and its architectural symmetricS,
and It's lovely homes, it is not only the
most beautiful city under the sun. but has
the highest style of citizenship. ] have
seen but two intoxicated men in the more
than six months Of my residence. and do
not think any man can give similar testi-
nony OF any other city on the American
continent.
GOD IN THE CONS
Before the gavels OF adjournment drop
and the doors OF Capitol Hall shut there
are one or two things that ought to be
done, and let Us pray God that they ma Y
be accomplished. More foTcibly than ever
before, Congress has been implOred 70
acknowledge God in our Constitution.
1t was only an oversight or a mental
accident that the fathers who made the
Constitution did not insert a divinely
worShipful sentence. They all, so far as
they amounted TO anything. believed IN
God. the Father Almighty, the Maker
| of heaven and earth. and in Jesus Christ,
His only begotten Son"
| know that there was an exception to
| the fact that the prominent men of those
| times were good men. Tom Paine, a liber-
| tine and Sot. did not believe in anything
| good until he was dying, and then he
| shrieked out for 6 GOd's mercy. And Ethan
| have received within FEW days confirma-
| ton of the incident mentioned in Il recent
| sermon, as saying to isdying daughter that
! she had better take her mothers Christian
| religion than his own infidelity.
! The article sent me says: The story has
i been denied by some of the Allen family, hut
| the Bronson family, some of whom were
| with the dying girl. affirm that it is sub
| Stantially true. In such a matter one con-
f1an lie
! SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
| The man who cannot see Godin our Amer
| lean history is us blind of soul as lie would
| be blind of body if he could not at 2 O'Clock
! of an unclouded noon see the sun in the
! heavens. AS a matter of gratitude to AL
/ mighty God. gentlemen of the American
| Congress. be pleased to insert the -four
| words suggested by the Methodist confer
ence.
Again, before the approaching adjourn
| ment of our american Congress. II ought tC
! be decidedly and forever settled that nc
| appropriations be made to sectarlan institu
tions as such, and that the courtship
| between church and state in this country
| he forever broken up. That question nj
| ready seems temporarily settled. | wist
| il might be completely and forever settled
| All schools and all institutions, as wei
as all denominations, should stand on tht
same level before American law.
Oh you are stupid man If yor do moi
understand how God answered Abraham
Lincon's prayer in the White House, ant
Stonewall Jackson's prayer in the saddle
and answered all the prayers OF all the
| cathedrals on both sides OF Mason anC
| Dixon's line. Gods country all the way
| past; God s country now.
l take a step further, and say that be
fore the gavels of our Senate and House O
Representatives and our political cOnven
tions pound adjournment, there ought t(
be pa ssed law or adopted plank OF in
tellgent helpfulness for the great foreigi
populations which are coming among us.
FOREIGNERS IN THIS COUNTRY.
1t is too late now to discuss whether we
had better let them come. They are here
They are coming this mOTneut through th'
Narrows They are this moment taking
the first full inhalation of the free air o1
America And they will continue to come
as long as this country is the best place t
live In.
You mi ght as well pass law prohibiting
summer bees from alighting on fielt
of blosSoming buckwheat; you might al
well prohibit the stays or the mountain
from coming down TO the derrick, as L
prohibit the hunger-bitten nations o
Europe from coming to this land of bread =
as to prohibit the people of England, Ire
land Scotland, Italy, Norway, Sweden
and Germany, working themselves to deatl
on small wages on the other side of th
sea. from coming TO this land where ther
are the largest compensatiOns under tn
sun. Why did God spread laws?
Now, I say, let the government of tn
United States, so commanded by one pc
litical party or both political parties. CIV
to every immigrant who lands here
volume. in good type and we'll bound Z,
long usage-a volume containing tt
Declaration of Independence, the Const
tuition OF the United States. and chal
ter on the spirit of our government.
Let there be such book on the shelf {