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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
DISCOURSE BY REV- T. DeWITT
TALMAOE, OH SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 6,
CHRISTIAN? POLITICS.
Then mid all the trees unto tht bramble, come
thou and reign over u* — Judges, lx-. 14.
The politics of the laraelitish nation were
hopelessly mixed. Some of the people wanted
one ruler, and some wanted another. While
the great masses of the people were in this
agitation, they assembled around the foot of
Mount Gerizin. A talented, witty, imagina
tive man by the name of Jotham got himself
Into a pulpit on the side of Mount Geriz'n,
where he could not be seen, but at a place
from which he could easily be heard, and
thrilled the assembly with the first parable
of which the world has any record. He rep
resented the trees of the forest as gathered in
a political convention to nominate a ruler,
and after the convention had been called to
order, and the leafy voices had been hushed,
the great convention of trees, by acclama
tion, nominated for ruler the olive-tree; but
the olive-tree declined on the ground that it
was an expensive ofti - e to hold and that it
would probably cost more than it came to.
Then the convention of trees by acclamation
nominated the fig tree for ruler. The fig
tree declined on the same ground. Then the
convention by acclamation nominated the
vine, and the vine declined on the same
ground. Then all the trees of the forest,
their leafy voices full of huzza, and while the
branches were clapping their hands, nominat
ed the bramble. The bramble accepted the
nomination, no doubt in graceful speech
thanking the convention for the unexpected
honor, while the trees of the forest, at this
display of arborial eloquence, cried, “Hear!
hear!” It is only a short story, and you
would like to bear me read it:
‘‘The trees went forth on a time to annoint
a king over them; auU they said unto the
olive tree, ‘R“'gn thou over us.’ But the
olive tree said unto them, ‘Should I leave my
fatness, wherewith by me they honor God
and man, and go to be promoted over the
trees?’ And the trees said to the fig-tree,
•Come thou and reign over us.’ But the fig-
tree said unto them, ‘Should I forsake my
sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be
promoted over the trees?’ Then said the
trees unto the vine, ‘Come thou and reign
over us.’ And the vine said unto them,
‘Should I leave my wine, which cheereth
God and man, and go to be promoted over
the trees V Then said all the trees unto the
bramble, ‘Come thou and reign over us.’
And the bramble said unto the trees. ‘If in
truth you anoint me king over you, then
come and put your trust iu my shadow’ ”
We are at the season of the year when the
great political conventions of the country
have made nominations for office. The ser
mon I preach this morning will not be more
appropriate to this city than to all cities.—
Nomination--have been made to the Mayor
alty, to the Shrievalty, to Aldermanic, Sei-
atonal, and Congressional positions, and in
all the cities of the land this autumn the peo
ple will have to choose a ruler, and next
Tuesday you will be called to make your se
lections, and you will have before you the
olive, the fig-tree, the vine and the bramble.
Some people in the land, perhaps, will say to
the bramble, “Come thoN and rule over ns;”
but I hope that this people, under the influ
ence of the spirit of God, and inspired by a
right style of patriotism, will say either to
the oiive, or the fig-tree, or the vine, “Come
tbou and rule over us.” The morale of the
city will decide the fate of the nation. All
cities are characteristics. Babylon for pride
Sparta for military prowess; Dresden for
pictures; Rome for political power; Ediu
burgh for learning; Glasgow for sbip-biuld
ing; London for being the great metropolis
of the world. So on this side of the sea, and
in our time, every city has its characteristics.
Washington for political power; Boston for
literary culture; Philadelphia for beautiful
order; Chicago for miraculous growth; New
York for commercial supremacy; Brooklyn
for homes. But these last two cities, in the
providence of God (not yet by any enact
ment of legislature), consolidated iuto one, so
that practically from Harlem river to Brigh
ton Beach it is one city. New York no more
independent of Brooklyn than tl e heart can
lie independent of the lungs. Together we
go up, or together go down. I aduress you,
then, as residents of a city of more than two
million souls. Ic seems to me that it is time
to speak upon the great questions that per
tain to the best interests of our cities His
tory tells us of a sermon two hours in length
preached in the highlands of Scotland, on the
sin of luxury, to an audience in w bich there
wrre only two or three pairs of shoes, and it
is often tne case that sermons lack in adapta
lion. It seems to me there ean be no such
charge against a sermon addressed to the
ciliz ns of this great city, at a time when
they are about to discharge their duty in the
exercise of the right of suffrage. We have
precedent for speaking upon all suchthemps
R-v. Dr. Euimons, in the early days of the
Repi blic, preached about the election ot Tho
mas J. fferson to the Presidency. R- v. Dr.
May hew, in the early days of our country,
preached a sermon on the repeal of the
Stamp Act. And it seems to me that at such
a time as this w e need to preach in regard to
the duty of citizens. We want no precedent.
Every minister of Christ must take his own
c.orscience, enlightened bv the Word of God,
as bis dictator. All the people must be in
terested in such a theme. If the Norwegian
boasts of his home of rot ks, and the Laplan
der is proud of his land of perpetual snow,
and the Icelander shivers our his eulogy of
his native country, and the Chinese is'sorry
tor any one born outside of :he flowery king
dom, certainly we who live under these fair
skies, and are surrounded by these civil and
religious lilierties, ought to lie public spirited
1 charge vou then, next Tuesday, and be
tween this and that, as cilize's in the first-
place to frown upon all political falsehoods.
There are more lies told in the autumnal
elections than all the rest of the y< ar put to
gether. Public men microscopized and truth
distorted. Who believes one-half of what he
sees now in regard to the character of public
men? Not half do you believe, not a tenth
part part do you belie* e It is an old maxim
thBt ‘ figures never lie,” but when, during
this last week, one political party presents
you a line of figures in regard to the taxes,
and another political party presents to you
another line of figures in regard to the taxes,
there must be a monstrous lie somewhere. In
the far East there is a day on which the peo
ple do as they please, and the law is i ot exe
cuted. -nd it is a day of uproar and wicked
ness. They call it the "devil’s day ” The
nearest approach to that in this country is
the first Tuesday in November,and in the au
tumn whole committees seem to say, “Go to
now, and let us have a good time at false
hood.” What garbling of speeches, what
misrepresentation of individual antecedents.
A falsehood will start in an obscure co-rerof
a country newspaper and go on up until it
has captured tba printing-presses of a oon-
t nent. To 1 .etrav the unwary, thpre will be
a Democratic bead to a ticket. Republican
names following—a Republican head to a
ticket, Democratic names following, and the
p -or man will stand at the polls, utterly be
wildered, perhaps voting at last for men
whom for three weeks he has been denouac-
irg Ah! my friends I want to tell you that
a political lie is as black as any other Jie. God
bus kept an account of all the falsehoods told
the city, State and rational elections since
e foundation cf the American Government
and though all the perpetrators and their vic
tims may have gone into the dust, in the last
day judgment will be awarded. The false
hoods that Aaron Burr breathed in the ear
of Blennerhassett, the scandals that L'euten
ant-General Gage published in regard to
Gtorge Washington.the campaign falsehoods
told in regard to James Madison and in re
gard to Monroe,are as fresh in God’s remem
brance as the lies told last week in regard to
Seth L >w or James Howell. “And all liars
shall have their place in the lake which burn
eth with fire and brimstone, which is the
second death.”
Again: 1 charge you, next Tuesday, and
between this and that, to frown upon all mis
use of money for election purposes. There '
a lawful use of money for the publication
political tracts and documents, for the estab
lishing of political headquarters and main
taining them, for holding great mass meet
ings to present the principles which you think
most important. We must admit there is
right use of money for campaign purposes,
bur, there is also a wrong use, and he who puts
a bribe into the bands of a voter, or brings
mercenary or corrupt influences to bear upon
him, is sinning against God, and sinning
against the city, and sinning against the na
tion. God thunders in this Bible, “Fire shall
consume the tabernacles of bribery !' Away
with it from the ballot-box ! If a man next
Tuesday shall try to tamper with your vote,
clutch him by the collar and shout ‘ Police!
An election that cannot be carried withnur
bribes ought never to be carried at all. Alas!
bow this country has been smitten wi-
bribery from the highest plac- s to the lowest.
You know during the past few years a re
former appearing at any of our great legis
latures desiring to have a bill passed for the
betterment of the condition of the communi
ty, but having no money in his hand, has
been laughed to scorn. The first question in
regard to a bill is, “How much money is in
it ?” You vote for my bill and I will vote for
your bill. You vote for my bill giving m;
moneyed insti 1 utiou a monopoly, and I wi!
vote for your bill giving your moneyed insti
tution a monopoly. But here is a bill we will
have hard work to get through, and yet we
must have it go through. Therefore, crowd
the legislative lobbies with railroad men and
contractors and manufacturers. Give them
a banquet, and when they are good and
drunk make them promise to vote on your
side. Give $5 000 to this man who will mike
prudent use of it, and $1,000 to that man who
will “put it where it will do the most good.”
Now, we want four more votes to carry the
bill. Give $1,000 to that, intelligent member
from Wes'chester, and $5oo to that stupid
member from Ulster. Now, we want only-
two more votes to carry the bill. Give $300
to that member to stay at home and he sick
and give $300 to t hat member to go to the bed
side of his wife’s great-aunt, languishing in
her last sickness The time has come for the
passage of the bill The Speaker pounds with
his gavel on the desk and says: “Senators,
are you ready fur the question !” “Question!
“Question!’ “Question !” “Question 1” “All
those in favor 01 passing this bill which will
vote $5,000 000 or $1,000,000 out of the pock
ets of the people for this especial enterprise,
will say aye ” “Aye!” “Aye!” “Aye!” “Aye!”
“All opposed no,” “Tue ayes have it.” Tne
money of the people has been voted away,
and your wealth has been depleted. 0! ye
men of affluence; and your faces are ground
harder. O! ye children of the poor. Some
of the finest mansions on Fitth avenue, Madi
son square. Beacon street, and Rittenbouse
square were built out of moneys paid for
votes to pass railroad bills in New York and
New, Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and Massa
chusetts. It is the appalling crime ot this
country, and I charge you resist it, whether
you stand in Legislative hall, or, next Tues
day, as private cit zms, deposit your ballots.
Frown upon bribery;" it is the curse of
Brooklyn, it is the curse of New York, it is
the curse of the nation.
Further, I charge you, next Tuesday, and
between this and that, to frown upon all the
dissipations that surround the ballot box. I
know in many of the cities it is against the
law to have the dram shops open while the
polls are open; but. any man that walks these
streets and sees people staggering along them
election day will be persuaded of the fact that
there is plenty of rum to be got somewhere.
Every politician ought to be an abstainer
There is something about political discussion
that creates an unnatural thirst, and hun
dreds of thousands of men have gone down
into drunkenness through the dissipations
that surround the ballot box. After a hot
political discussion the man must “take some
thing.” and then when he comes to retire at
night he is nervous and exhausted from the
political excitement, and he cannot sleep, and
he “takes something.” The next morning
he rises, and his animation is below par, and
be “takes something;” and then he goes out
with a comrade to the political headquarters,
and he ‘takes something,” and by that time
“something has taken him.” Ah! my friends
—and 1 say this especially to young met.—
there are but few who can endure the temp
tation to dissipation in political life. Joseph
was a politician, and maintained his integri
ty to the last; Dsniel was a politician, and
a teetotaler to the last; Abraham was a politi
cian. but wns worthily called “the father of
the faithful;” Moses was the grandest of ail
politicians, but he honored God more than he
did the Pharaohs. And so we have bad in
this country men who have endured all the
temptations of political life, and yet have
conquered; George B riggs, of Massachusetts;
John McL“on, of Ohio; Theodore Freling-
huvsen, of New Jersey, and James A. Gar
field, of all Christendom. And there are
thousands of good men, Christian men, who
will stand amid the blasted, lecherous, loath
some crew that sometimes surrounds the bai-
lot-box, and they will come back to the
church of God as pure as when they went
away. But you know and I know that is the
exception. It is often the case that a man
comes back with a glaz’d eye and a cheek un
naturally flushed, and his voice is more bois
terous than usual, and on the least provoca
tion he will propose to bet; aDd you say he is
“c .nvivial,” and you say he is “supremely
vivacious,” but God knows he is drunk. Some
of vou had not more religion than yon ought
to have six weeks ago, before the election
ex-itpme't began, a”d to calculate what you
will have left when the elect on is over will
a sum in vu’gar fractions. The pressure
is tremendous. Many mighty men have gone
down under it. A man came from the West
t ■. be a Senator of the United States. For
months he stood in the Spnate, grappling the
whole Sena’e, the mightiest man there. He
had brain enough to write a constitution, or
govern a nation. His voice was terrible to
biscountrv’s enemies, and an inspiration in
the time of peril to his country’s friends. He
was in a fair way to be President of the Unit
ed States, but he came down until twenty
glasses of intoxicating liquor were his ordi
nary supply fora day. Down further, and
down further, until he sleeps the last sleep,
and the costly monument over his grave, and
the fact that the cornerstone was laid in the
pre ence of the mighty men of the nation,
the army and the navv, should not hinder
any man id this audience from learning
the awful lesson that a brilliant intellect and
one of the most powerful defenders of the
Constitution of the United States was a vic
tim of strong drink You wonder whom I
mean. I will not answer. Ask y air father,
when you go home, whom I mean young
man. 'Passing along a street in Phil
adelphia one night, just after I had come
tithe city to live, a gentleman said, “Do
y hi know who that is lying on the curb
stone?” I said, “No.” He said, “He used
to represent us in Congress, one of our
most eloqnent representatives.” There
gees the worn-out politician down the street,
bis limbs hardly able to hold him up, surly to
every one who accosts him, his last decent
garment pawned for drink, glad if some low
/tnmnantnn irt! 1 tmti'fl him l'ntn a omporv fn
causes combined. The family physician, to
relieve the feelings of the family and to save
the nation from disgrace, called it gout, or
congestion, or obstruction of the liver, or
epilepsy, or exhaustion from patriotic ser
vices: but it was whisky! That man high in
political position was struck down by the
-sme habit that struck dowB the poor wretch
iD the dark alley. The one yon wrap in a
rough cloth aDd tumble into a rough coffin,
and put into a box wagon and cart out to
the cemetery, and let down into a pauper’s
grave without a benediction or a prayer.
The other gathered around him the pomp of
the city, and there was a name on the silver
plate of the coffiu. and lordly men walked
along by the tossing plumes on the way to
a grave to be adorned with a pillar of four
si es, all covered with eulogy of the man
who died of exhaustion from patriotic ser
vices! I write both epitaphs. On a shin
gle over the pauper’s grave I write it with a
lend pencil; on the marble column over the
Senator’s tomb I cut it with a chisel: “Sl-in
—slain by strong drink.” Oh! young man
do not treat anybody, and do not be trea ed.
There are m an men standing around all
I he bar rooms It has always been the his
tory. These are mean men, and yon, the
generous man. come in, and you say ‘Well,
won’t you take s >mething?”' and the man
who has be«n standing th- re for an hour,
waiting for some one to i-sk him to drink
looks around as if it were a sud len matter,
and says, “Well, yes; I guess I will!” Too
mean to go to perdition unless somebody
will pay the expenses’ And now, I charge
you to frown upon the dissipations that sur
round the ballot-box, which have destroyed
so many of our best men. 1 have lived
nearly thirteen years in B ooklyn, snd I
have seen a great many pood men go down,
lost for this world, and I fear lost for the
world to come.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Evert five years this country loses
enough by fire to pay off every dollar of the
national debt.
WnAT IB Death?—Death is simply a
natural event in the course of life, as the
failing of the eyesight or hearing is a nat
ural event. If there were no such thing
as death, everything would come to an end
in wearing out; death is letting go of worn,
decaying present and taking hold of the
new and strong future.
Sowing Happikebs.—Blessings on the
man who sows the seed of happy nature
and a noble character broadcast wherever
his feet wander—who has a smile alike for
joy and sorrow, a tender word always fora
child, a compassionate utterance for suffer
ing, courtesy for friends, and for strangers,
encouragement for the despairing, an open
heart for all, love for all—good words for
all!
Confessing—The body of a man whom
a bullet bad killed was found at Fremont,
Ohio. “ I am tired of life,” was written
on a card, and the theory of suicide was ac
cepted by everybody except a detective,
who believed that a murder had been com
mitted. After a great deal of labor he fixed
his suspicion on Peter Welsh and his wife,
but he had not a particle of evidence agaiudt
them. Almost in despair, he secured their
arrest, and then told each that the other
had confessed. The trick succeeded, for
the pair have fully implicated themselves.
Settling It.—Daniel Carpenter was
noted for owning the finest farm in Eaton
County. Mich., and for being a miser and
confirmed bachelor. He wore an old straw
hat the year round, and that was a fair ex
ample of his pennriousness. The one thing
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A XoTel Proposal.
A young gentleman, happening to be !
seated at church in a pew in which eat a ! for which he would have spent money freely
young lady for whom he entertained tho ' was the Rosier farm, which adjoined his
most tender regard, was desirous of enter-! own ’ but the owner would not P art with «
ing into a courtship on the spot; but, re- i on an ^ terms. Rosier died lately, and Car-
membering that the place was not site. 1 P ent ? r be ^ ed the vridow to fix a price for
ble for a formal declaration, he hit upon 1 If"*™: * \ sald * hat she “5*;
the following plan : He politely handed ; >* she would many him and thus
. • t,., , ^ | unite the farms. Matrimony was a horror
^lbl fu g r ,i ? T n :.T^ apm I to him, but as he was 82 years old, and
T , , e , ollompS text Arid now ; feared this was his last opportuniry to carry
I eseech thee, lady, not as though I ou t his lifelong project, he made the sacri
wrote a new commandment unto thee. ! free.
but that which we had from the begin
ning, that we love one another.” She
returned it, pointing to the second chap
ter of Ruth, verse 10th—“Then she fell
on her face, and bowed herself to the
I The Right Kind of Pride.—A young
I man “that works for his board,” no matter
! what honest work he does has no reason for
j shame. A young man who eats the bread
•> j ., _ , , . —, , -r of idleness, no matter how much he has, is
ground, and said unto him, Why have 11 disgraced . A11 men starti in life , ought
f u ili fr, e eye8 i that thou ; to aim, first of all, to find a place where
shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing they can e am their bread and butter with a
am a sfrfcBgfc* • H© returned hoe, ax, spade, wheel-barrow, curry-comb,
the book, pointing to the Third Epistle blacking-brush —no matter how. Indepen-
of John—“Having many things to write dence first. The bread and-butter question
unto you, I would not write with paper j settled, let the young man perform his duty
and ink, but I trust to come unto you, so faithfully as to "attract attention, and
and speak face to face, that our joy may let him constantly keep his eye open for a
be full.” From the above interview a chance to do better. About half the poor,
marriage actually took place. proud young men, and two-thirds of the
poor, discouraging young men, are always
out of work. The young man who pockets
his pride, and keeps a stiff upper lip, need
not starve, and he stands a chance to be-
Naking Money.
Why some men are so eager to make
money is a problem; they certainly do come rich, if he cares to.
not spend it freely. They care nothing _ _
for the good things of life. They seem 1 , Literally Led into Captivity.-The
to value money for its own sake. Most 1 ! earned auth °" °/ l he ‘ Descent of Man
men start- in life with a bright object be-! J f n no ^mg that the ammds often suffer
t i. _ at t a? - • v • , from tbe diseases that afflict ourselves,
fore them, the means for attaining which mi ht have added that in some cas they
is money, and so they resob e to make | are ° not free from our vi ’ ces also Acc0 ’ rdin g
money. But the means push the end £ 0 a recent letter from Darfur, in Africa,
out sight. A new fascination springs . the monkeys of that region are inordinately
up, which banishes the younger dream, i fond of a kind of beer made by the natives,
The real pushes the ideal from its seat. L who use the beverage to capture their sia-
Money acquires, or seems to acquire, a | ial poor relations. Having placed quanti
value of its own ; it becomes both : ties of the beer where the monkeys can get
means and end, and making it grows; at it, the natives wait until their victims
into a habit seldom lost. The proverb are in various degrees of inebriation, and
says that “ Use is second nature,” and when they then mingle with them the poor
it is fully proved, when the natural de- j creatures are too much fuddled to recog-
sire of men for happiness is obliterated ' n,ze the difference between negro and ape.
by the habit of making money.
A Court Scene
“William, look up; tell ns, WiUiam,
ho made yon ? do yon know?
William who was considered a fool,
screwing his face, and looking thought
ful and somewhat bewildered, slowly
answered;
Most s, I s’spose. “
That will do, Now,“ said Counselor
Gray, addressing the Court, “(he witness
sajs s'pose Moses made him. This certa
inly is an intelligent answer—more th n
supposed him capable of giving-for it
hows that he has some faint idea of
Scripture, but I submit it is net sufficient
> justify his being sworn as a witness
qualified to give testimony. “
Mr. Judge," says tbe fool, “may I ax
be lawyer a question ?“
C.r:ainly,“ said the Judge, ask him
any qn stion j«u plesse.
Waal, then, Mr. Ltwyer, who’d you
pose made yon ?"
Counsellor Gray imitating the wicness:
iron I s'pose.“
After the mirth had somewhat subsided
he witness ixclamed:
Waal, cow, do read in the G>od Book
at A-iron once made a oalf; but whc‘d a
bought the tarual orilter had got in
re. ?*•
Verdict for the fool, and nproanius
ghter from tbe crowd.
companion will invi‘e him into a grocery to
take a nip of beer, wiping his lip with his
greasy sb eve. Kicked off the steps by men
who were once proud to be his constituents.
Manhood obliterated. Lip blistered of a
curse. Soars of assault on cheek and brow.
Foul mouthed. A crouching, wheezing, stag
gering wretch. No friends, no G d, no hope.
Who is it? It is you, O! politician, unless
you give up strong drink, taking this warn
ing of God this morning. Unless God’s crac *
rescue some of you, you are goue. It is a
sin,He fact that during the last thirty years
more puhlic men have died of delirium tre
mens and kindred diseases than of all other
Mr. Charles’" Darwin has inherited a large
fortune from his late brother, Erasmus A,
Drrwin. It amounts to nearly a million dol
lars. He will be apr to flog henceforth as a
siudent in natural history.
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When the negro takes the hand of one of
them to lead him off, some other fond crea
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another to his hand, and thus a single negro
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