The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-28
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
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Washington. July 21.-In this dis course pr. Talmsge shows that there is a tendency to excuse brilliant faults be- cause they are brilliant, when the same law of right and wrong ought to be ap- piled to high places and low; text, Dan iel iv. 33. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he wasidriven from men and did eat grass as oxen.''
 Here is the mightiest of the Babylon ish kings. LookYat him. He did more for the grandeur of the capital than did all his predecessors or successors. Hanging gardens. reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces. all of his own planning. The bricks that are brought up today from the ruins of Babylon have his name on them. "Nebuchadnezzar, son of Nabo- polassor. king oE Babylon.- He was a great conquePor He stretched forth his spear toward a nation and it surren- dered. But he plundered the temple of the true GodsS He lifted. an idol, Bel Merodach aad compelled the people to bow down before it. and if they re- fused they must go through the redhot furnace or be crunched by lions or lioness. So God pulled him down
 He was smitten with what physicians call lycanthropy and fancied that he was wild beast, and he went out and pastured amid the cattle. 5sGod did not excuse him because he had committed the sin in high places or because the transgression was wide resounding. He measured Nebdchadnezzar in high places just as he would measure the humblest captive.
 But In our time. you know as well as l. that there is disposition to put a rnI inf l. in conspicuous places and if 1t is wide resounding and of large proportions. Ever and anon there has been an epi- demic of crime in high places and there IS not State or city and hardly village which has not been called to look upon astounding forgery or an ab- scondtng bank cashier or president or the wasting of a trust fund or swind- ling mortgages. l propose in carrying out the suggestion of my text, as far as l can. to scatter the Vaccinations around iniquity and show you that sin Is sin and wrong is wrong whether in high place of low place and that it will be dealt with by that God who dealt with impalaced Nebuchadnezzar,
 All who preach feel that two kinds of sermons are necessary. the one on the faith of the gospel. the other on the morality of the gospel, and the one Is just as important as the other. for you know that in this land today there are hundreds of men hiding behind the communion tables and in churches of Jesus Christ who have no business to be there. as professors of religion. They expect to be all right with God, all though they are all wrong with man. And. while I want you to understand that by the deeds of the law no flesh living can be justified ind a mere hon est life cannot enter us into heaven, I want you as plainly to understand that unless the life is right the heart is not right. Grace in the heart and grace in the life; so we must preach sometimes the faith of the gospel and sometimes the morality of the gosped.
 It seems to me there has not been a time in the last fifty years when this latter truth needed more thoroughly to be presented in the American churches. It needs to be presented today.
 Needs to Be Presented.
 A missionary in the islands of the Pacific preached one Sabbath on hon esty and dishonesty, and on Monday he found his yard full of all styles of goods. which the natives had brought. He could not understand it until n3- tive told him our gods permit us to purloin goods. but the God you told us about yesterday. the God ofheaven and earth. II seems. is against these prsc- tices. and so we brought all the goods that do not belong to us5 and they are EA the yard. and we want you to help