. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . ave been turned out, and theycome down now to be entertained by the humble and theinsignificant. There is not a land on earth which has so many moralmen in authority as this land. There is not a session oflegislature, or Congress, or Cabinet, but in it are thoroughlyChristian men, men whose hands would consume a bribe,whose cheek has never been flushed with intoxication, whosetongue has never been smitten of blasphemy or stung of alie; men whose sjDeeches in behalf of the right and againstthe wrong
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . ave been turned out, and theycome down now to be entertained by the humble and theinsignificant. There is not a land on earth which has so many moralmen in authority as this land. There is not a session oflegislature, or Congress, or Cabinet, but in it are thoroughlyChristian men, men whose hands would consume a bribe,whose cheek has never been flushed with intoxication, whosetongue has never been smitten of blasphemy or stung of alie; men whose sjDeeches in behalf of the right and againstthe wrong remind us of the old Scotch Covenanters, and thedefiant challenge of Martin Luther, and the red lightning ofMicah and Habakkuk. These times are nothalf as-bad-asthe times that are gone. I judge so from the fact that AaronBurr, a man stuffed with iniquity until he could hold no more,the debaucher of the debauched, was a member of the Legis-lature, then Attorney-General, then a Senator of the UnitedStates, then Vice-President, and then at last coming within (388) RESPONSIBILITY OF RULERS. 389. AARON BURR. one vote of the highest position in this nation. I judge itfrom the fact that more than half a century ago the Governorof New York disbanded the Legislature because it was toocorrupt to sit in council. There is a tendency in our time to extol the past to thedisadvantage of the present, and Isuppose that sixty years from nowthere may be persons who will rep-resent some of us as angels, althoughnow things are so unpromising. Batthe iniquity of the past is no excusefor the public wickedness of to-day,and so I unroll the scroll. Thosewho are in editorial chairs and in pul-pits may not hold back the David must be made to feel thereproof of Nathan, and Felix musttremble before Paul, and we may notwalk with muffled feet lest we wake up some big sinner. Ifwe keep back the truth, what will we do in the day whenthe Lord rises up in judgment and we are tried not only forwhat we
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