The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
 DIR. TAlMACf'S SERMON 
 THERE TALMAGE,

those Chinamen are? ?" Thus a man treats
 foreigners who cannot understand his
 language Well, this is what happened
 at the tower of Babel. God saw the evil
 of these men of Shinar. He saw the
 walls of the tower rising higherand high
 CT. Then God said. "I will stop this evil
 york; So he touched the tongues of
 the workmen. Then the workmen began
 to speak in different languages. As the
 different workmen could not understand
 each others language, in all probability
 they did just what you and I do when
 we talk to foreigners-they yelled at their
 fellow men loudly. And the other work
 men yelled back their answers in the
 same way until the building became a
 pandemonium of confusion.
 As the different workmen could not un-
 derstand each others language, of course
 the work on the tower of Babel ceased. Then the people scattered themselves abroad upon the face of the earth and set , tied in different groups, the members of which spoke the same language. You can readily understand that each person did not necessarily speak different language from every other person. My text means that those people of the land of Shinar had to scatter into small groups of fam flies. Each of these groups of people spoke a different language from every other group. This was the first great cause of the many distinct languages being spoken upon the face of the earth. Comparing this account of the buid- ing of Babel with our own method of life and art" wrote Dr. Joseph Parker, Tit Is clear that from the beginning of time men have been doing pretty much the same as now all the world over" The sins of our time. like the diseases of our time may not bear the same names that they did in olden times, but, after all, they are the same old sickness and the same old sins. When the ancient work men gathered together trying to rear the walls of Babel they were doing just what 1 this generation is doing. They were say ] ing Let us gather together enough of material and lift our walls as high as | heaven and we will be independent of 1 God, independent of our fellow men, inde- ] pendent of the opposing elements. So l some men and women of this present gca- eration are saying: Let me gather to- l gether so much gold and silver, let me | have so many securities in my safety vault, let me own so many houses and 1, stores, and then I shall be independent | of God and man. The two statements l in a flgurative sense are almost synony. nous.
 Living For Money.
 ! Here, for instance, is man who has surrendered himself, body, mind and soul l to the purpose of making money. lie lives | and breathes and eats and sleeps merely l for the acquisition of gold. You never ] talk to him five minutes but his talk re l CUTS to his favorite subject. When yot | want to introduce a friend to him tht 1 first question he asks is, How much i. l he worth?" He judges everything by tho l criterion of money. Gold, gold.' he nut | ters; q must have gold" For years ht | has led life of bondage in his quest fol ! gold From early morning till late al l night he sticks to the store. He never 1 takes a vacation. His face gets a gaunt l haggard look. He works so hard that hi. l digestion is ruined. He works so hart | that insomnia makes his eyelids most ol | the night stand as wide open as an owls l What is the matter with that man? I vii | tell you. He is trying to build tower o Babel out of gold. He thinks if he car 1 only build his Midas to one high enough l it will satisfy every want of earth ana 1 every want of heaven. Gold. goldr' fl l his cry "Give me gold and everything l else will be added unto me"
 1 Here in the same way Is man work l ing for fame or political spreferment ol literary reputation. Why? He thinks
 either position is a stepping stone to