Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-07-26


course DR.. Talmage shows that there is
l tendency to excuse brilliant faults be-
cause they are brilliant, when the same
Jaw Of right and wrong ought to be APP
| piled to high places and low; text, Dan
| lei iv, 80, "The same hour was the thing
| fulfilled upon NebuchadnezZar, and he
was driven from men and did eat grass
as oxen"
Here is the mightiest of the Babylon
| ish kings. Look at him. He did more
| for the grandeur of the capital than did
! all his predecessors or successors. Hang
! ing gardens, reservoirs, aqueducts, pal
aces, all of his own planning. The bricks
that are brought up today from the ruins
| of Babylon have his name on them,
! Observation-Disclosures, son of NabOpOlassOr,
king Of Babylon" He was Il great con-
! qCerOr. He stretched forth his spear to-
ward n nation. and it surrendered. But
he plundcred the temple of the true God.
| He lifted an idol Bel Merodach, and
| compelled the people to bow down before
! it, and if they refused they must go
| through the redhot furnace or be crunch
cd by lion or lioness, So God pulled him
down.
He was smitten with what physicians
| call lycanthrOpy and fancied that he was
a wild beast, and he went out and pas.
tured nmid the cattle. God did not ex.
cuse him because be had committed the
sin in high places or because the trans
grcssion was wide resounding. He meas
urcd Nebuchadnezzar in high places just
as he would measure the humblest cap.
tive.
But in our time, you know as well as
that there is a disposition to put halo
around iniquity if it is committed in con.
gDicuous place and if it is wide resounding
and Of large proportions Ever and anon
there has been an epidemic of crime in
high places. and there is not a state OF
city and hardly a village which has not
been called TO look upon astounding for
gerry or an ebsconding bank cashier o,
president or the wasting of trust fund OF
swindling mortgages. propose in carry
ing out the suggestion Of my text, as fal
as can. to scatter the fascination,
around iniquity and show you that sin Is
sin and wrong is wrong whether in hgl
place or low place and that it will BE-
dealt with by that God who dealt witt
impalaced NeEuchadnezzaf
All who preach feel that two kinds o
sermons are necessary, the one on tn
faith Of the gospel, the other on tn
morality Of the gospel apd the one i
just as Important as the other, for yol
NOV thai ~ this land today there ar
hundreds of men mqigg behind the com
munion tables and ~ churches Of Jesu
Christ who have no business 10 be Their
as professors OF religion. Ihey eNpeet L
be all right with God although tiiey-ar
ali wrong With maD, And, while l wan
you to understand that by the deeds o
the law no flesh living can be Justihe
and mere honest life cannot enter u
into heaven, | want you as plainly I
understand that unless the NE is rlgh
the heart is not right Grace IN the near
and grace IN the me- so we must preac
sometimes the faltA OF ths gospel an
sometimes the morality OF the gospel
1t seems TO me there mas NOT Deen
time ~ the last oO years wheh TINS latte
truth needed more thoroughly 10 be pr,
, sented IN the American chnrchss'
needs to be presented today.
Needs to BE Presented,
Fl A missionary in the islands of the p;
cifc preached one Sabbath on honest
and dishonesty, and on Monday he four
II his yard full OF all styles of goods, whiC
the natives had brought. He could n,
understand it until a native told hin
e "Our gods permit us to purloin good
but the God you told us about yesterda
the God Of heaven and earth. it seem
is against these practices, and so v
brought all the goods that do not belor
to us, and they are in the yard and Y
want you to help us TO distribute the
8 among their rightful owners" And if
y all the pulpits of the United States tod,
rousing sermons could be preached
" honesty and the evils OF dishonesty al
a the sermons were blessed of God and a
rangements could be made by which ;
the goods which have been Improper
taken from ono man and approDriat
by another man should be nut in the ci
halls Of the country tbcre IL not n ci
hall in tbe limited States that would n
III no crovvdod from COLLAR m cunolo Fai
m of tho gosncI. tbot ,ve must nrnocb n
wn do nrcocb MoroIitv Of the 0osnei ,
u must inst as certainly nrocloim
eR Now Iool, abroad and SEQ the foscir
tions that orn thrown around difforf
K styIos 80 cr;D,o M o,os+ion tbo+ o,,c
man and woman bos been osked h
noon SborId o,in,o no oyoTsod hooe,
II Is ON q largo ecola9 Ia ini0nitv cTi
onJ 70 no nnrsuod Of tho Ia,,, in D,.on
tior NJ II is on srnoIi soaIo9 shall
have tho nanitontioIv for tho man W
stools ON ovorcoot frcro a ba+roci. ard
SonnIo co.. ,,,,,, i, - bo y,
. robboJ 4io n,,i I,l;, Of ,,,iiii"ns9 N'
TooI, 49, Iii al +bo faHo;,at;ors Elmo,
around fraud in this country. You kr
for years men have been made heroes
and plctorialiZed and in various WI
Il. p ,. " Tue puoilc as .nousn soI
m ~ my VIZ WI ny % 10, iol
Ivy uIse sI"'teleu 'ne lunus Vi D"i