Connecticut western news., 1901-07-25

4E$&6E 1>DSELS WASHINGTON, July 21.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage shows that there is tendency to excuse brilliant faults, because they are brilliant, when the same law of right and wrong ought to be applied to high places and low; text, Daniel iv, B, "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 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 ping. The bricks that are brought up today from the ruins of Babylon have his name on them, "Nebuchadnezzar, son of Nabopolassor, king of Babylon" He was great conqueror. He stretch ed forth his spear toward nation, and 1t surrendered. But he plundered the temple of the true God. He lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and compelled the people to bow down before is 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 a 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 place Just as he would measure the humblest captive.
 But in our time, you know as well as I, that there Is a disposition to put halo around tniquity if 1t is committed in conspicuous places and if it 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 absconding bank cashier or president, or the wasting of trust fund or swim ding mortgages. I propose, in carry ing out the suggestion of my text, as far as I can, to scatter the Vaccinations around iniquity and show you that sin Is sin and wrong is wrong, whether in high place or low place, and that 1t will be dealt with by that God who dealt with impalaced Nebuchadnezzar.
 Morality of the Gospel.
 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, al- 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 and a mere hon. est life cannot enter us into heaven, 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 gospel
 It seems to me there has not been a time in the last 90 years when this lat ter truth needed more thoroughly to be presented in the American church. es. 1t needs to be presented today.
 A in iclo de nf hn 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 a na- tive told him, "Our gods permit us to purloin goods, but the God you told us about yesterday, the God of heaven and earth, 1t seems, Is against these prac- tices, and so we brought all the goods that do not belong to us, and they are in the yard, and we want you to help us to distribute them among their right ful owners" And If in all the pulpits of the United States today rousing ser mons could be preached on honesty and the evils of dishonesty, and the ser mons were blessed of God, and ar rangement should be made by which all the goods which have been improp- erly taken from one man and appro- priated by another man should be put in the city halls of the country, there is not a city hall in the United States that would not be crowded from cellar to cupola. Faith of the gospel-that we must preach and we do preach. ~f YNa1r ,,e.t{ {,,ct oe, certainly proclaim.
 Now, look abroad and see the fasci- nations that are thrown around diff - ferent styles of crime. The questions that every man and woman has asked have been: Should crime be excused be- cause 1t is on large scale? Is iniquity guilty and to be pursued of the law in proportion as it is on a small scale? Shall we have the penitentiary for the man who steals an overcoat from a hatrack and all Canada for a man to range in if he has robbed the public of millions?
 Fascination of Fraud.
 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. as though sometimes they were worthy of admi- ration. 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 accumulation. They have said That's the way to do 1t. Whats the 1P ,.Io r-stt wages or Insignificant salary when we may go into business life and with some stratagem achieve such fortune as that man has achieved?' A differ ent 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.
 So a peddler came down from New England many years ago, took hold of the money market of New York faunt