Newport weekly independent., 1901-07-26
SIopsch, N. VI yashfngton, July 2l.

When the same law of right and wrong ought to be applied to high places and tow; text, Daniel 4:33: ''The same hour was the tLin < fulfilled upon Neb- uchsdnezzar, and he was driven from men and did eat grass as oXen."'
 Here is the mightiest of the Baby ionish kings. Look at him. He did more for the grandeur of the capital than did all his predecessors or suc- cessors. Hanging gardens, reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces, all of his own plan nlng. The bricks that are brought up to-day from the ruins of Babylon have hjs name on them, "Nebuchadnezzar, : son of Nabopola ssor, king of Babylon" ," lie was a great conqueror. He stretched forth his spear toward na- tion, and it surrendered. But he plum dered the temple of the true God. He lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and com pelled the people to bow down before 1t, 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 NoiA Ndh tHI opN anu lducltu tld ilc 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 trans9re ression was wide resounding. He measured Nebuchadnezzar in high places just as he would measure the humblest captive.
 But in our time. you know as we'll as ]. that there is disposition to put halo around iniquity if it is committed m 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 village which has not been called to look upon astounding forgery or an ab- scondin9 bank cashier or president or the wasting of trust fund or swindling mortgages. l propose in carrying out the suggestion of my text, a s far as I can, to scatter the ia scinations 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 tha 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 there are hundreds of men hiding be- 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 I 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, l want you as plainly to un- 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.
 It seems to me there has not been time in the last 50 years when this lat ter truth needed more thoroughly to be presented in the American churches. 1t needs to be presented to-day.
 Look upon all the Vaccinations 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 ss though sometimes they were worthy of admiration if they have scattered the funds of banks or swallowed great estates that did not belong to them. Our young men have been dazed with this quick accumula ton. They have said: That's the way to do it. Whats the use of our plodding on with small wages or insignificant salary when We may go into business life and with some stratagem achieve such fortune $ that man has achieved?" A different measure has been applied to the crime of Wall street from that which has been applied to the spells which the man carries up Rat alley.
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