KL SIN IN HIGH PLACES. Dr. Talmage Says the Same Law of Right and Wrong Should Apply to Both Rich and Poor. {Copyright 1801.1 Wasninagron, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows that there is a ten dency to excuse brilliant faults, because they are brilliant, when the same law of right and wrong ought to be uppied to high places and low; text, Daniel iv, 33, “The same hour was the thing fulilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen. Here is the mightiest of the Babylonish kings. Look at him. He did more for the grandeur of the capital than did all his predecessors or successors. Hanging gar dens, reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces, all of his own planning. The bricks that are brought up to-day from the ruins of Baby- lon fave jis name on them, “Nebuchad- nezzar, son of Nabopolassor, king of Baby- lon.” He was a great conqueror. He stretched forth his spear toward a nation, and it surrendered. But he plundered the temple of the true Cod. He lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and compelled the people to bow down before it, and if they refused they must go through the redhot furnace or Lo erunched 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 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. He meas- ured Nebuchadnezzar in high place ju he would measure the humblest captive, But in our time, you know as well that there is a disposition to put a halo around iniquity if it is committed in con- spicuous places, and if it 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 a State or a city and hardly a village which has not been called to look upon astounding forg- ery, or an absconding bank cashier or president, or the wasting of trust fund or swindling mortgages. I propose, in carry ing out the suggestion of my text, as fa as I can, to scatter the fascinations 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 Nebuchadnezzar, : 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 you 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 all right with God, although they are all wrong with man. And, while I want you to under stand that by the deeds of the law no flesh living can be justified and a mere honest life cannot enter us into heaven, I 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 mo- rality of the gospel. It seems to me there has not been a time in the last fifty vears when this latter truth needed more thoroughly to be pre- sented in the American a hen. It needs to be presented to-day. Look upon all the fascinations 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 sometimes they were worthy of admiration, if they have 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 if What's the use of plodding 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 haz achieved?” A different measure has been applied to the crime of Wall street from that which bas been applied to the spoils which the man carries up Rat alley. So a peddler came down from New Eng land many vears ago’ took hold of the money market of New York, flaunted his abominations in the sight of all the peo- ple and defied public morals every day of is life. Young men looked up and said “He 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 influ. ence of that profligate financier has becs felt, and ithin the past few weeks he has had conspicuous imitators There has been an irresistible sion going abroad among young men that the poorest way to get money 18 to earn it. The young man of flaunting cravat savs to the young man of humble anparel “What! You only get $1800 a year? Why, that wouldn't keep me in pin money. I spend $5000 a year.” “Where do you get it¥’ asks the plain young man “Oh, stocks, enterprises, all that sort of thing. you know.” The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board, has to wear 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 as achieved suddenly large estate, and he says, “Just show me how it is done.” And he 1s 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 a 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. Xow, if he can es cape the penitentiary for three or four Jeans Le will get into political circles, and will get political jobs and will have something to do with harbors and pave. ments and docks. Now he has got so far along he is safe for perdition. It is quite a long road sometimes for a man to travel bef he gets into the ro- mance of crime. Those are caught who are only in the prosaic stage of it. If the iffs and constables would only leave them alone a little while they would steal as well as anybody. might not be able to steal a whole railroad, but they could master a load of pig iron. Now, I always thank God when I find an estate like that to smash. It is p! struck, and it blasts the nation. hank when it goes into such a it can be gathered 3D spf, I want it to #0 loathsome such an insuf.- ferable stench that honest young men will mmanroe £ ngs, men have got to find out that Cod EI Ton in in 8 be man w wets d remember that gain by imiqui soon lose it Ef: One moment after his departure from life he will not own an opera house, he will not own a certificate of stock, he will not own one dollar of Government securities, and the poorest boy that stands on the street with a penny in his pocket looking at the funeral procession of the dead cheat as it goes by will 3 that man who one week previous boasted that he controlled the money market. So there has been a great deal of fasei- nation thrown around libertinism. So- ciety is very severe upon the impurity that lurks around the alleys and low haunts of the town. The law pursues it, smites it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it, You know as well as I that society be- comes lenient in proportion as impurity becomes affluent or is in elevated circles, and finally society is silent or disposed to palliate. . : Where is the judge, the jury, the police officer that dare arraign the wealthy liber- tine? He walks the streets; he rides the parke; he flaunts his imiquity in the eyes of the pure. : Sometimes it seems to me as if society were going back to the state of morals of Herculaneum. when it sculptured its vile ness on pillars and temple wall and noth: ing but the lava of a burning mountain could hide the immensity of crime. whether He will do it by fire or hurricane think, will stand it much longer. He has uttered Himself more bitterly than wi the fate of our modern society, which knew better, but did worse. We want about 10,000 pulpits in Amer- ica to t mongers shall have their place in the hell that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the se { It is hell on h and hell f 'e¢ have got to rstand that gity on Columbia Fifth avenue or Beacon Hill is in the sight of God as it is wr dw the putridity of a tenement house, God is after it in His Yet the pulpit of the Chris } been so cowed down on t it hardly speak, nost apol when they ‘ommandments, look at the fascinations thrown gsgassination There are in all meh who have liv ¢« unlaw ¥, not tioners of the law You say that they had their provocations God gave and He alone bas a right to take it, and He may take it by visita tion of Providence or by an executioner of the law, who is His messenger. But when a man assumes that divine preroga tive he touches the lowest depth of crime Society is alert for certain kinds of mur- der. If a citizen going along the road at might is waylaid and slain by a robber, we all want the villain arrested and exe- cuted. For all garroting, for all beating out of life by a club or an axe or a slung- dares voget Then around communities h 4 of other 48 execy- And life, affluent and high position and they avenge their wrongs by taking the lives of others great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead, ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed, and the man goes free. If the verdict happen to be against him a new trial is called on through some technicality, and they adjourn witnesses that never come and adjourn and adjourn until the community has forgotten all about it, and then the prison door opens and the mur derer goes free Now, if capital punishment be right 1 say let the life of the polished murderer go with the life of the vulgar assassin, let us have no partiality of gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution chair Do not let us float back to barbarism, when every man was his own judge, jury and executioner, and that man had the su- premacy who had the sharpest knife and the strongest arm and the quickest ste and the stealthiest revenge He who il. fully and in hatred takes the life of an- other is a murderer, 1 care not what the provocation or the circumstances He may be cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom, he may be sent by the Gov. ernment of the United States as Minister to some foreign court or modern literature may polish the crime until it looks like heroism. but in the sight of God murder is murder, and the judgment day will so reveal it Now, do not be fascinated by the gla mor thrown over crime of whatever sort Because others have habits that seem bri lant, but yet at the same time are wicked, do not choose such fauita, Stand inde pendent of all such influences. Put your confidence in the Lord God. He will be your strength. “Vengeance is mine. | will repay, saith the Lord.” Cultivate old fashioned honesty book 1s full of it. for y This Old fashioned honesty the famous explorer he was descended from the Highlanders the old around him and said: “Now, my lade, 1 have looked all through our family line. I have gone back as far as | can, and I find that all our ancestors were honest people. There doesn’t seem to be one rogue among them, and you have good blood. Now, my lads, be honest.” have good blood. Shall I ask three or four plain questions? Are your habits as good as when you left your father's house? Have you a Have you a fraudulent document? you been experimenting to see how accur- ate an imitation you could make of your employer's signature? blood. Remember your father's prayers. Remember your mother's example, not in an evil way. Have you been goin astray? Come back. Have you venture out too far? diences sometimes my heart fails There are so many tragedies present, so many who have sacrificed their integrity, brother, there have been offered for you to bave you go overboard. And there are those venturing down into At Brighton Beach or Long Branch vou have seen men go down into the surf to bathe, and they waded out farther and farther, end you got anxious about them. You said, “1 wonder if they can swim?’ And you then stood and shouted: “Come back! Come back! You will be drowned!” They waved their hand back, saying: No danger.” kept on wading deep: ot Sown and farther out from ghore until a awhile a great wave with a str undertow took them out, their ¢ - the next da washed on the beach. bo 1 gee men wi wn into sin farther farther, and I call to them: “Come back! 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