Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-03

or two of the Ten Commandments he will
find it easy to break them all. Sin of any
kind weakens the conscience, and the con-
science weakened the door is open for trans
gression of all sorts. If, for instance, a
man be profane, he is not Trustworthy for
if he maltreats the Almighty, doyou think he
would, if tempted, decline malreating his
fellow? After man has been guilty Of
malfeasance in Office you cannot trust his
word in anything. A man that will steal
will be vice versa If man IS unehaste
he viii do any crime under proper provoca-
ton. In such unchastity he commits theft of
the worst sort and is guilty of covetousness
of the unit basest style and is chargeable with
talsehood because he pretends to be decent
when he is not; he fractures the law against
dishonering parents because he disgraces
their name if they were good. Be careful
how you charge such sin against any man,
whether candidate tor Office or not, for in 80
doing you charge that man with all vile
ness, with all disgusting propensities With
all rottenness. A libertine is beast lower
than the swine. for the swine have no intel
ligence to sin against. Be careful how you
charge such dishonor an any man, either in
Office or out of office. Be so careful of it
that mathematical demonstration would
be doubtful compared to it. Moreover, if
you know of any man who has thus fallen
inquire diligently and prayerfully if he has
not repented. Perhhps he may have been
down on his knees before God crying for
mercy, although if a man at thitty.6ve be
reprehensibe for such sin there is not
more than one chance in thousand
if he ever reforms, yet the case YOU
are investigating may be that glorious one.
Especial Cases,
To meet any especial case enlarge your for
giveness but don't shave off the seventh
commandment. Let that stand as the ever
lasting defence of society. DO not change
Fairbanks scale to suit what you are going
to weigh with it. Do you join in the cry
that have seen in some newspapers that
there is no such thing as purity? Then
you are a foulmouthed scandalizer Of the
human race. You are yourself a leper.
Make room for that leper. When man
utters such sentiment as that, either with
tongue or pen. | know he is a walking Lag
aru, and know that he is a reeking ulcer
and that he is fit for no society better than
that of devils damned. There is such
thing as purity and ten thousand times ten
thousand are its disciples, who are the up.
holders Of family and church and nation.
Yes; if man breaks one commandment
it makes it easy for him to break them all.
Do you notice that when one OF those Wall
street defrauders or one Of those bank
embezziers is brought to justice 1t turns out
in the trial that he had loose companions
and gambled and went to places where he
ought not? Sins 90 in aocks
and herds and droves. Admit one
and you will be apt TO admit all the
miserable aggregation. Noted by the pa
pers that tbs campaign orators bombarding
the suffering candidates in their speeches
think nothing of riding from place to place
all Sabbath day, or sit, as they are proba-
bly doing now, in a political headquarters
calculating the election probabilities Dur.
ing al the week they have been hurting the
eighih commandment at Mr.. Blaine and the
seventh commandment at Mr.. Cleveland
aul the ninth commandment at Mr.. ST.
join. But what are they doing with the
fou, n commandment - Remember the
Sarath day to keep it holy?' They are
breaking it. Is not the fourth command.
me!d as good as the seventh or eighth or
ninlh? All the week denouncing candi
dates for miSbehavior while some Of these
campaign orators proiane The name OF God
tossing it irreverently from their lips. Aud
Whist are they doing with the third com
maudment-"Thou shall not take the
ramc Of the Lord thy God in vain, for the
Loii will not hold him guiitless that taketh
His name in vain" Is not the third com.
MS, dmcnt as the other seven?
Break One Break An.
Ave, this decaloguc is my authority for
sayug that the man who swears or breaks
the sabbath is as rPprehensi5!e as any OF the
candidates now nominated il they should be
touud guilty, of tfc offences charged What
right have we TO 20 through the Ten Com
mandments and make our selection aS 10
Nhi,h We shall keep and which We shall
break Better not experiment with the
divine ammunition. Better not handle the
thrndcrbolts OF God to see which has the
J. at hlazes. the least momentum. Better
rot NEEDLE with the guns and say this is
Iahigrcen and this, three inch mortar
snd dat an Armstrong and this krupp aud
,h:s Whilworth aad this is Nordenteidt
f,r barrelled gun. this is a gatt!ing ten.
Iarrcllcd gun, this is a Martigny
-barrelled gun and lis
Parrott They are all OF
the same calibre and Of the same make
and thev shoot from eternity TO eternity.
Cicero says he saw the laid written on q
nutshell, and have seen the Lord prayer
on n j.cent piece, and the attempt is TO
wrie the decaiogue so small that 1t cannot
lie seen at oil. protest against the Ire
uucnt attempt TO revise the decslogue given
from Mount Sinai amid blast Of trumpets
ami the cracking of the porphyry rocks and
the psroxysm Of the mountains OF Arabia
Ptirun.
Stand up Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr. St. John and let US measure yCu by
tie first II verses of Exodus the 2Gth. OF
course they, like all the rest Of us. will be
found imperfect BY that rule. But the one
who comes the nearest TO the moral accur-
acv Of the decalogue is the one shall vote
for and the one you vote Tor If you regard
Gcd more than your party. Herodotus tells
u that Nitocris, the daughter OF Nebechad.
ne.zar. was so fond the beautiful village Of
Aidericca that she had the river above
Babylon changed into winding course,
curying this way and that, SO tha, sailing on
il for three days one mast come three times
in sight Of the exquisite village. And |
do not care which way you sail, if you sail
al the time in sight OF this group OF divine
commands. A little angular they may
seem TO you, but sailing thus you will never
pe. aground and you will never shipwreck.
The worst army on earth to fight is the
ten regiments that with sabres and bayonsts
of FIRE march dcEn the side Of Mosnt Sinai.
They always gst the victory, aad 20 down
heir enemies must. What was the matter
with that yong man Ct whom l read dylng
IN his dissipation? Nothing. excep. thst
J., ,,-ss ,vo,sisd of the decalogDe In bis