The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-07-26
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE sY TaE NOTED
DIVINE.
subject. Sin In High Pisces-rhe same
Law OF Right and Wrong should APP
ply To Both Rich and foor-fAseina-
ton OF Fraud.

DIR. Ialnage shows that thefe Is Neh-
dency 10 excuse brilliant faults, because
they are brilliant, when the same law oi
right and wrong ought to be appled 70
high places and low; text, Daniel ", 81,
The same hour was the thing tulhlied
upon NebuchadneEzar. and he was driven
from men and did eat grass as oxen.
Here is the might.est OF the BSoy.onisA
kings. Look al him. He did more Tor the
grandeur OF the capita. than dad all his
Predecessors or successors. Hanging gar.
dons, reservoirs, aqueducts. palaces, al OF
his own planning. The bricks that are
brought up to-day from the RUNS OF Baby
Ion have his name on them, "Nebuehad-
nezzar, son of Nabop0.asSor, king OF BABY
lon" He was a great eonqueror. lie
stretched forth has spear toward a nation,
and IL surrendered But he plundered the
temple of the true God. tie htted an
idol, Bel Merodaeh, and compelled the
people 20 bow dowa before it, and II tney
refused they must go through the redhot
furnace or be crunchcd by hon or honess.
80 God pulled him down.
He was smitten with what physicians
can lycanthropy, and fancied that he was
a wild beast, and he went out and pas
tured amid the cattle. God did not ex'
cuse him because he had committed the
sin IN high places or because the trans
gression was wide rosounding. lie meas
ured Nebuehadnezzar IN high place lust as
he would measure the humbest captive.
But in our time. You know as well as |,
that there is disposition to put halo
around iniquity If 1t is committed in con-
spicuous places, and II 1t Is wide resound.
ing and of large proportions. Ever and
anon there has been an epidemic OF crime
in high places, and there Is not State or
city and hardly a village which has not
been called 60 look upon astounding forg-
cry, or an abscondiug bank cashier or
president, or the wasting Of trust fund or
swindling mortgages. ! propose, III carry
ing out the suggestion OF my text, as Tar
as | can. TO scatter the destinations
around iniquity and show you that sln is
sin and wrong Is wrong, whether IN high
place or low place, and that Il will be
dealt with by that God who dealt with
impalaced Nebuehadnezzar.
All who preach feel that two kinds OF
sermons are necessary-the one on the
faith of the gospel, the other on the mo-
rality of the gospel-and the one IS just as
important as the other, for yol know that
in this land to-day 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 re-
ligion They expect to be ell right with
God, although they are all wrong with
man. And, while | want you to under
stand that by the deeds OF the law no
flesh living can be justified and mere
honest lie cannot enter us lnlO HtdNti,
/ want you as plainly to understand that
unless the life is right the heart Is not
rght-grace IN the heart and grace In the
life So we must preach sometimes the
faith OF the gospel and sometimes the mo.
rahty of the gospel.
1t seems TO me there has not been a
time in the last hfty years when this latter
truth needed more thoroughly to be pre-
sented in the American churches. IL needs
TO be presented to-day.
Look upon all the iasclnGtlons thrown
around fraud In this country. You know
for years men have been made heroes of
and pictorialized and in various ways pre-
sented to the public, as though somStimes
they were worthy of admiration, II they
hayes scattered the funds OF banks or
swallowed great estates that did not be-
long 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 ploddne on with small
wages or insignificant salary when we
may go into business life and with some
stratagem achieve such a fortune as that
man has achieved?" A different measure
has been applied to the crime of Wall
street from that which has been applied
10 the spoils which the man carries up
Rat alley.
So peddlcr came down from New Eng
land many years ago, took hold OF the
money market OF New York, hannted his
abomlnations in the sight OF all the pco-
pie and defed public morals every day of
his life. Young men looked up and said ::
lie was "A peddler in one decade, and IN
the next decade he is one of the mon
archs of the stock market That's the
way to do it." To this day the evil infu-
ence of that profligate fnancier has been
felt, and within the past few weeks he
has had conspicuous imitators.
There has bpC1 an Irreg ggtiblp tuprpg.
sion going abroad among young men that
the poorest way TO get money is to earn
It. The young man Of faunting cravat
saws TO the Young man OF humble apparel.
What! You only get $500 year!
Why, that wouldn't keep me IN pin
money. | spend 5000 a year. Where
do you get it," asks the plain young man.
"Oh, Stoke enterprises, all that sort OF
thing, you know" The plain young man
has hardly enough money TO pay his
board. has to ws,.r clothes after they are
out OF fashion and deny himself all luxu-
ries After awhile he gets tired Of his
plodding, and he goes TO the man who
has achieved suddenly large estate, and he
says, just show me how it is done And
he is shown. He soon learns how, al
though he is almost all the time idle now
and has resigned his position in the bank
or the factory or the store he has more
money than he ever had, trades off his old
silver watch for a gold one with a flashing
chain, sets his hat little further over on
the side Of his head than he ever did,
smokes better cigars and more OF them.
He has his hand IN. Now, II he can es-
cape the penitentiary for three or four
years he will get into political circles and
he will get political Jobs and will have
something 10 do with harbors and pave
ments and docks. Now he has got so far
along he is safe for perdition.
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man to travei before he gets into the ro.
nance Of crime. Those are caught who
are only in the prosaic stage OF 1t. If the
sheriffs and constables would only leave
them alone a little while they would steal
az well as anybody. They might not be
able 20 steal a whole railroad, but they
could master a load of pig iron
Now, ! always thank God when find an
estate like that go TO smash. IL IL plague
struck. and II blasts the nation. j thank
God when II goes into such wreck II can
never be gathered up again. ! want 1t 20
become 50 loathsome and such an insult
ferable stencil that honest young men will
take warning.
RI God should put into money or it's
representative the capacity TO 20 % ia
lawful owner, there would not be a bank
or a safety deposit IN the United States
whose walls would not be blown out. and
mortgages would rip and parchments would
rend, and gold would shoot, and bezgars
would get on horseback, and stock eanb-
lers would 90 10 the almshouse
How many dishonest,es in the making
out Of invoices. and in the plastering OF
false labels, and in the flching Of custom.
ers OF rival houses, and IN the making and
breaking Of contracts. Young men are in.
doctrinated in the idea that the sooner
they get money the better. and the get.
ting Of n on larger scale only proves to
them their greater ingenuity. There i1 a
glitter thrown around all these thlr a..
Young men have got % fiaf out that God
looks upon SIN 90 very different light.