The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-07-26
SIN IN HIGH PLACES.
Tendency to Excuse Brilliant Faults
Because They Are Brilliant.
DE-. Talmage Says the Same Law
Ought to BE Applied to the High
- to the L0w-The Sacred
2 ness Of Life.
1Copyright. 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI
Washington, July q.

Washington, July q.
In this discourse DR.. Talmage shows
that there is tendency to excuse bril-
iiant faults because they are brilliant.
when the same law of right and wrong
ought to be applied to high places and
low; text, Daniel 4:33: "rhe same
hour was the thing fulfilled upon Neb-
uchadnezzar, and he was driven from
men and did eat grass as oxen"
Here is the mightiest of the Baby
lonish kings. Look at him. He did
more for the grandeur of the capital
than did all his predecessors or sue
cessors. Hanging gardens, reservoirs,
aqueducts, palaces, all of his own plan
ming. The bricks that are brought up
to-day from the ruins of Babylon have
his name on them, IN ebuchadnezzar,
son of Nabopolassor, king of Babylon"
He was great conqueror. He
stretched forth his spear toward ma
ton, and it surrendered. But he plum
dered the temple of the truesGod. He
lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and COM
PEELED the people to bow down before
It, and if they refused they must go
through the redhot furnace or be
crunched by lion 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. God did not
excuse him because he had committed
the sin in high places or because the
transgression was wide resounding.
He measured Nebuchadnezzar in high
places just as he would measure the
humblest captive.
But in our time, you know is we'll as
I, that there is disposition to put
halo around iniquity if it is committed
In conspicuous place and if it is wide re-
sounding and of large proportions.
Ever and anon there has been an cpl
demic of crime in high places, and
there is not state or city and hardly
q village which has not been called to
look upon astounding forgery or an abb
sconding bank cashier or president or
the wasting of trust fund or swindhng
mortgages. 1 propose in carrying out
the suggestion of my text, as far as
can, to scatter the destinations around
iniquity and show you that sin is sin
and wrong is wrong whether in high
place or 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, and 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 to-day
hnn Of h he.
hind 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, although they are all wrong
with man. And, while want you to
understand that by the deeds of the
law no flesh living can be justified and
a mere honest life cannot enter us into
Heaven, 1 want you as plainly to I'M
derstand 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 some times the morality of
the Gospel.
1t seems to me there has not been a
time in the last so years when this lat
ter truth needed more thoroughly to
be presented in the American churches.
It needs to be presented to-day.
Look upon all the destinations
thrown around fraud in this country.
You know for years men have been
made heroes of and pictorialized and in
various ways presented to the public
asthough sometimes they were worthy
of admiration if they have scattered
estates that did not belong to them.
Our young men have been dazed with
this quick accumulation. They have
said: That's the way to do it. What's
the use of our Flooding on with small
wages or insignificant salary when we
may go into business life and with
some stratagem achieve such fortune
as that man has achieved?" A different
measure has been applied to the crime
of Wall street from that which has
been applied to the spoils which the
man carries up Rat alley.
So peddler came down from New
England many years ago, took hold of
the money market of New York, haunt
ed his denominations in the sight of all
the people, defied public morals every
day of his life. Young men looked up
and said: "He was a peddler in one
decade, and in the next decade he is
one of the monarchs of the stock mar