The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BRILLIANT FAULTS" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.

BRILLIANT FAULTS" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
ihe Same Hour Was the Thing Full
hiled on Nebuchadnezzar and He
Was Driven From Men and Did Eat
| Grass as Oxen"-Dan. ": 80.
copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. "
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
De applied to high places and low;
text, Daniel Nv, SO, 1.-THE same hour
was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchad-
nezzar, and he was driven from men
and did not eat grass as oxen"
Here is the mightiest of the Baby
lonlsh kings. Look at him. He did
more for the grandeur of the capital
than did all his predecessors or sue
cessors. Hanging gardens, reservoirs,
aqueduct, palace. all of his own plan
ming. The bricks that are brought up
To-Day from the ruins of Babylon have
MS name on them, "Nebuchadnezzar
son OF Nabopolassor, king of Babylon"
lie was great conqueror. He stretch
cd 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 it. and
II they refused they must go through
the RED not furnace or be crunched
by lion or lioness. So God pulled him
down.
He was smitten with what physi-
clans 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 committed
the sin in high places or because the
transgressor 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 a disposition to put
halo around iniquity if it is commit
ted in conspicuous place and if it is
wide resounding and of large proper
lions. Ever and anon there has been
an epidemic of crime in high places,
and there is not a state or city and
hardly a village which has not been
called to look upon astounding for
gerry or an absconding bank cashier or
president or the wasting of trust fund
or swindling mortgages. l propose in
carrying out the suggestion of my text
ss far as can, to scatter the fascina-
lions 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 Nebuchad-
nezzar.
Needs to Re Presented.
| A missionary in the island Of the
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 ma
tive told him, "Our gods permit us to
purloin goods. but the God you told
us about yesterday, the God of hea-
ven and earth, it seems, is against
these practices, and so we brought all
the goods that do not belong to us, and
they are in the yard, and we want you
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rightful owners" And if in all the
pulpits of the United States today rous-
ing sermons could be preached on
honesty and the evils of dishonesty and
the sermons were blessed of God and
arrangements could 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.
Morality of the gospel we must just as
certainly proclaim.
Now look abroad and see the fascina-
lions that are thrown around different
styles uf crime. The question that
every man and woman has been asked
has been, Should crime be excused be-
cause it is on large scale? Is iniquity
guilty and to be pursued of the law in
proportion as it is on small scale?
Shall we have the penitentiary for
the man who steals an overcoat from
a hatrack and all Canada for man to
range in if he have robbed the public
of millions?
The Way to Got Money.
There has been an irresistible i'm
preston going abroad among young
men that the poorest way to get money
is to earn it. The young man Of flaunt-
ing cravat says to the young man of
humble appearance: What, you only
get s1,SO0 year? Why, that wouldn't
keep me in pin money. I spend $4,000
year." "Where do you get it?" asks
the plain young man. ooh, stocks, en-
terprises-all that sort of thing, you
know" The plain young man has
hardly enough money to pay his board
and has to wear clothes after they are
out of fashion and deny himself all
luxuries. After awhile he gets tired of
his plodding and he goes to the man
who has achieved suddenly large es-
tate, and he says. Just show me how
it is done" And he is shown. He