Before They Adjourn
T. DeWitt Talmage
Psalm, 105: 22: "And teach his senators wisdom."
Senators in this text stand for law-makers. Joseph was the Lord Treasurer of the Egyptian government, and among other great things which he did, according to my text, was to teach his senators wisdom; and if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom, it is senators, whether they stand in congresses or parliaments or reichstags or assemblies or legislatures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Law- makers are sometimes so tempted by prejudices, by sectional preferences, by opportunity of personal ad- vancement, and sometimes what is best to do is so doubtful that they ought to be prayed for and encour- aged in every possible way, instead of severely criti- cised and blamed and excoriated, as is much of the time the case. Our public men are so often the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted but could not reach, that more injustices are hurled at our national Legislature than the people of the United States can possibly imagine. The wholesale belying of our public men is simply damnable. By residence in Washington I have come to find out that many of our public men are persistently misrepresented, and some of the best of them, the purest in their lives and most faithful in the discharge of their duties, are the worst defamed. Some day I want to preach a sermon from the text in II. Peter: "They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not." So constant and malignant is this work of depreciation and scan- dalization in regard to our public men that all over the land there are those who suppose that the city of Washington is the centre of all corruption; while, what with its parks, and its equestria ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Psalm, 105: 22: "And teach his senators wisdom."
Senators in this text stand for law-makers. Joseph was the Lord Treasurer of the Egyptian government, and among other great things which he did, according to my text, was to teach his senators wisdom; and if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom, it is senators, whether they stand in congresses or parliaments or reichstags or assemblies or legislatures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Law- makers are sometimes so tempted by prejudices, by sectional preferences, by opportunity of personal ad- vancement, and sometimes what is best to do is so doubtful that they ought to be prayed for and encour- aged in every possible way, instead of severely criti- cised and blamed and excoriated, as is much of the time the case. Our public men are so often the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted but could not reach, that more injustices are hurled at our national Legislature than the people of the United States can possibly imagine. The wholesale belying of our public men is simply damnable. By residence in Washington I have come to find out that many of our public men are persistently misrepresented, and some of the best of them, the purest in their lives and most faithful in the discharge of their duties, are the worst defamed. Some day I want to preach a sermon from the text in II. Peter: "They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not." So constant and malignant is this work of depreciation and scan- dalization in regard to our public men that all over the land there are those who suppose that the city of Washington is the centre of all corruption; while, what with its parks, and its equestria ...
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