Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-03
All Candidates, Municipal, State, National
Must be Tried by Heavens
Pure Laws.
PERFECTION NOT EXPECTED.

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this country, says: "Mr. Talmage's dis
courses lay hold Of my inmost soul. The
Lord is with this mighty man of valor. So
may he ever be till the campaign closes with
victory. am indeed glad of his voice. 1t
cheers me intensely. He loves the gospel
and believes in something which some
preachers hardly do. There are those about
who use the old labels but the articles are
not the same. May the Lord win armies of
souls to Jesus by this man. am astonsh-
ed when God blesses me, but somehow
should not be so much surprised if he bless
ed tins man The opening hymn TO day
wes:
"Am 4 soldier OF the Gross,
\ follower Oi the lamb,
And shall lear to own His CAUSE
Or blush to speak Hisname"'
Before the sermon to-day DR., Talmage
read and expounded the Ten Command
mentS. The subject OF his discourse was
Should the moral character of candidates
for office be taken into consideration. by
voters? DR.. Talmage announced his text
as Exodus the 10Th chapter and the first
seventeen verses; name, the Ten Command
ments.
Earthquake and lightning said he, put
their forces together to rock mountain Of
Arabia Petrpa and the traveller to-day
finds heap of broken porphyry and green
stone rocks, boulders against boulders, the
ruins of the first law library, not written on
parchment or papyrus, but on shattered
slabs of granite. The corner stones of all
morality, of all wise law, Of all righteous
jurisprudence Of all good government, are
the two tables of stone on which the Ten
Commandments we're written. All Roman
law, all English law, all French law, all
American law worth anything, civil law,
criminal law, common law, martial law and
law of nations were rocked in the cradle OF
the goth chapter of Exodus. 1t would be
we'll fiat this time all the newspapers ofthe
land would at some time publish this chap
ter in place Of ore Of their
editorials. Some of lis passages
haze evidently been forgotten;
they are all equally IN force. Iou have no
right to say which is the more important.
They are the pillars upon which the temple
of society rests. Strike down any one and
you damage the whole structure. | notice
that men are very apt to become incarnate
Sinai5 and thunder, espec ally against the
sin to which they are not especially tempted.
They take one gun out of the battery Of ten
guns and unlimber that and load that and
fire that.
The -Four Candidates.
To-day | shall, in continuance Of the ser
les OF sermons on national affairs and within
two davs of the Presidential election, try
the four candidates for the chief fmagistracy.
This decalogue prohibits idolatry, image
making and profanity and Sabbath de8ecra-
ton and irreverence Of parents and murder
and incoutinence, and theft and lying and
covetousness. That is the standard by
which all candidates national, State and
citv, must be tried. We must not expect
reflection. If we don't vote until we find
the immaculate nominee we would never
vote at all. Ourselves far from perfect we
must not be cenSorious or msledic-
tory or hypercritical OF others. The
Cfristly rule is as appropriate for
November as for any month OF the year and
for every four years, as :or the preceding
three year Judge not that ye be not
Judged.
Neither am 10 take that which opposing
red-hot partisanship shall say Of a man as
his true character. From nearly all the
great cities Of this continent | receive daily
or weekly papers sen: me regularly or in
compliment so see both sides OF every
thing. 1t is interesting 10 see the opposites
Of a man stated. The one makes him an
angel and the other demon. Then split
the difference and find that he is half way
between. There never has been respect
able or honest man that ran for the Presi-
dency since the foundation of this govern
ment i'll am to believe the Old files of
newspapers in museums. What great
mercy that they were not all hung before in
suguration day! If man should believe
one-half he saw in the newspapers his career
would be short outside of Bloomingdale
Asylum. That procession last week in
New York was 5,8OO," says one paper. at
was 1900" says another. THE orator at
the Rink or the Academy Of Music received
a very cool reception says one paper.
As One Man.
The audience rose at him as one man, says
the Other, ardit was only after he had lifted
his hand to quiet the multitude that the vo-
ciferation subsided One paper twists a
letter one way and another paper twists it
another way. You must admit that at such
a time it is difficult to estimate which OF the
candidates comes the nearer to keeping the
ten commandments. l charge you 10 cat
ton and mercifulness in your Judgments.
Be careful also not to make the mistake
which many do make in thinking that men
10 high position are to be Judged BY dit
Ssrent standard from that which they apply
10 ordinary uSOrtals Men in high places Oh
with large means have no more liberty
given then in the Interpretation of the ter
Commandments than those in places ineon
spicuoas. Sinners on large Scale are n
more to be excused than sinners on
small scale. Do not call such illustrioa
detection eceentricity, or chop of snythin
of these Ten Commandments 10 suit esp
cial cases. The right ia everlasting!
right aud tn e wrong is eyerisstingiY wraaa