Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-09-09
4 MONSTER SIN.
ThE EVERLASTING CREED FOR
FILTHY LuCRE.
Honesty observation-disclosures Modes of
Getting Monry-Why Politics Has he
come = synonym Tor TrucuIency aud
Turpitude-The Morals Of the Gospel.

foundation aud q snare aud into many
foolish aud hurttul lasts, which drown men
l.. destruction and Perlition. - Timothy
vi. ..
That i the Niagara Falls over which rush
a multitude of souls. namely, the deter
minatinn t0 have the money ANYHOW, right
or wrong. Tell me how man gets his
money and what he does with it. aud will
tell Won his character, and what will be his
DESTINY in this world aud the next. pro-
pose ta sneak to-day about the ruinuus
modes OF getting money.
la all our city. state and national cleo
tions large sums Of money are used in BIRTH
ery Politics, from being the science ~
good government, has often been be-
dragged into the synonym for truculenry
and turpitui". monster sin, plausible.
potent. pestiierous, has gone forth To- do
it, dreadful work in all ages. Its two
hands are rotten with lepro-y. II keeps
it, right hand hidden in a deep pocket
The left hand j. cleuched aud with it,
ichorouS knurkle il taps at the door Of the
court room, the legislative hall. the con-
gresS and the parliament. The door swings
open and the monster enters and glid"-
through the aisle of the council chamber
aS softly rs a slippered page and then il
takes its right hand from its deep pocket,
and offers it in salutatiOn to judge or
legislator. II that hand be taken aud the
official. the leprosy crosses from palm to
palm in a round hotrh, round rs II gold
eagle, and the virus spreads, and the doom
is fixed. and the victim perishes. Let
bribery accursed Of God and man. stand
up for trial.
The Bible arraiens it again and again.
Samuel saws of his two sons who became
judges. They took brides and perverted
judgment" David says of some ot his
pursuers, Their right hand is full ct
brides" Amos says Of some men in his
day. "They take a hrihe, and turn aside
the poor in the gate Elipha2 fortels the
crushing blows of Gods indignation, de-
claring. Fire shltl consume the tabcr-
nacie of bribery"
1t is no light tenn alton. The mightirst
have fallen under a.. Lord Bacon, Lord
Chancellor Of England, founder of our
modern science, author of "Novum
Organum,' and a whole library of books,
the leading thinker Of his century, so
precuciOus that when Il little child he was
asIs5d by Queen Elizabeth, "lIow old are
you?' he responded, Il am two years
younger than your Maaiestys happy
reign OF whose OratOry Ben Jonson
wrote, The fear of every man that heard
him was lest he should make an end hay-
ing an income which you would suppose
would have put him beyond thetemptation
Of bribery thirty-siX thousand dollars
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