The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-02
TALMAGG'g SERMON.

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In Witch he Shows the Tendency to-
Rxouse Brilliant Faults.
In this Discourse DR.. Talmage shows
that there is tondoncy TO exouso brill
liant faults because they arc brilliant,
whom the same law Of right and wrong
Sought$to bo applied to high places and
low; toxt, Daniel iv, 33, "Tho same
hour was tho thing fulfilled upon Ncbu-.
n Sohadnezzsr, and he was driven from
mon and did cat grass as oxen" IS
Hero is the mightiest of tho Babylon
8ish kings. Look at him. Ho did moro
\ for tho grandeur Of the capital than did
all his predecessors or suoc osBorD. Hang
J ing gardons, reservoirs, aquoduots, pal
acos, all Of his own planning. Tho
4 bricks that arc brought up today from
the ruins Of Babylon havo his namo on
them, "Nobuohadnezzar, son of Nabo
polasaor, king Of Babylon" He was a
great oonquoror. He strotohed forth his
spear toward q nation, and it surrender.
ed. But he plundercd tho tomplo Of
II the true God. He lifted an idol, Bel
Merodaoh, and compelled the pooplo
to bow down before it, and if thoy 70
fused thoy must 60 through the rodhot
furnace or bo orunohed by lion or lion
eas. So God pulled him down.
He was smitton with what physioians
oall lyoanthropy and fanoied that ho WAS
wild beast, and he wont out and pas.
tured amid tho cattlo. God did not ex-
( ouae him because he had committed tho
sin in high plsoog or because tho trans.
erosion was wido roBounding. He meas
J ured Nebuohadnezzar in high plaoos just
as he would measure tho humblest oap-
u tive.
But in our time, you know as woll as
|, that there is disposition to put a
halo around iniguity if it is committed
in conspicuous place and if it is wide 70
sounding and of large proportions. Ever
and enon thore has been an opid demic Of
crime in high places, and there is not a
state or city and hardly village which
has not been called to look upon as
founding forgery or an absoonding bank
onshioT VI president or tho wasting
Of trust fund or swindling mortgages.
| propose in carrying out tho sugges.
tion Of my text, as far as can, to scat
ter the fasoinations around iniquity
and show you that sin is sin and wrong
is wrong whether in high plsco or low
place and that it will bo doalt with by
that God who dealt with impalaced
Nebuohadnczzar.
All who preach feel that two kinds of
sermons arc neooossary, the one on the
faith Of tho gospel, tho other on the
morality Of tho gospel, and tho ono is
just as important as the othor, for you
know that in this land today thoro are
hundreds of mon hiding bohind tho COM
munion tables and in ohurohos Of Jesus
Christ who have no business to be thore
as professors Of religion. ThoY oxpect
to be all right with God, although they
are all wrong with man. And. while
want you to understand that by tho
deods Of tho law no flesh living can be
justified and mere honest lifo cannot
entor us into heaven. I want you as
plainly to understand that unless tho
& life is right the heart is not right. Grace
! in tho heart and grace in the lifo;so wo
must preach sometimes the faith of the
Z gospel and sometimes the morality Of
the gospel.
1t soems to mo there has not been a
time in tho last 80 years whom this lat
tor truth needed more thoroughly to be
presented in tho American churches. It
noeds to be presented today.
missionary in the islands of the Pa
oifo preached one Sabbath on honesty
and dishonesty, and on Monday he
found his yard full Of all styles of goods
which tho natives had brought. He
could not understand it until native
told b. a. Our gods permit us to pur-
loin goods but tho God you toldus about
yesterday, the God of hoayen and oarth
Y 1t seems, is against these PRACTICES, and
. 80 we brought all the goods that do not
B bolong to us, and they arc lying in the
yard and We want you to help us to dis
5 tribute thom among their rightful ownor
And If in all tho pulpits of the United
States today r0using sermons could be
preached or honesty and tho OWLS of
Il dishonosty ar d the sermons were blessed
nllt God and arrangements could be made
(which all tho gor which have been
improperly taken fir one man and ap.
propriatod by another .hould be put in
the oity halls Of tho country thore is not
CITY hall in tho United States that
would not be crowded from COLLAR to GU
pola. Faith of the gospel; that wo must
preach and wo do preach. Morality Of
the gospel wo must just as certainly pro.
claim.
Now, look abroad and sec tho fasoi-
nations that arc thrown around diffor.
ent styles Of orime. The question that
every man and woman has been asked
has been, Should orime bo excused be.
CAUSE it is on large scale? Is iniquity
guilty and to be pursued Of tho law in
proportion as it is on small scalo?
Shall wo have the ponitentiary for the
man who stoals an overooat from hat
rack and all Canada for man to range
in If he have robbed the public Of mil
lions?
@ Look upon all the fasoinatiops thrown
around fraud in this country. You know
for. years men havo boon made heroes of
and piotorializod and in various ways
presented to tho public as though somo-
timeD they were worthy Of admiration if
thoy have scattered tho funds OF banks
or swallowed great estates that did not
belong to thon4. Our young mon have
been dazed with this quick aocumula-
tion. Thoy havo said: That's tho
way to do it. What's tho uso Of our
p!odding on with small wages or inaig.
nificant salary whom We may 20 into
businoss life and with somo stratagem
achieve such fortune as. that man has
aohieved?" A different measure has