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dates for Mayor, and Lot did not believe in
any Of them, he did not register at all.
Politics in Babylon were in such desperate
state that Daniel stayed home all election
day and prayed with his face towards Jeru'
salem. But we are are not shut up to such
an exigency, l am glad TO say.
Thai the moral character Of rulers affects
| the ruled | prove from all history. Wicked
| King Manasseh lowered the moral tone of
all the kingdom OF Judah and established
idolatry. Good King Josiah lifted the
whole nation by his excellent example.
What helps to make the English nation
higher in the present reign than in all its
predecessors? The fact that at the head Of
it is the best sovereign Of Europe, the at
tempt at scandalizing her name is always a
conspicuous failure. The political power of
T'alleyrand brooded into life the tricksters
OF the last ninety years. The Vice Presi-
dency of the dishonest Aaron Burr was 80
baleful that nearly all the important letters
in the postoficc in this time were in CIPHER,
because the United States mails could not
be trusted. March out, We court circles OF
Louis Nv and Henry VIII, followed by the
debauched nations that you led into sin.
The malaria OF swamps rises from lowlsnds
to the heights, but moral malaria settles
from the heights to tie plains, The higher
you elevate ap ~gprighteous man the worse
+ his power for evil. The greatest OF fsba.
lists tells US that the pigeons were in mortal
dread of a kite, but kept hiding from it day
by day. But one day the kite said: Why
do you live thus in fear from day to day?
Make ME you king aud | will protect you
from all evil" The pigeons called him to
the throne. Then The kite had for his regu.
lar fare o pigeon a day. One otthcm while
waiting for his fate, said; at served US
right" -,
But suppose you put in the Presidential
chair vice of any sort, you simply say to
the Young men Of America; Don't YOU
see? The ten commandments Go not mean
as much as they used to. Honesty is not
| the best policy. immortality pays. Huzzah
for the powers of darkness in the ascend
! ancv,' What we need most is " publish a
! campaign document and scatter it through
all tue States, a we'll printed copy OF the
SinaItic decalogue. 1t was a terrible waste
when the old Alexandria library was de-
stroyed and the books were used as fuel 10
heat 1000 baths for the citizens of AleNan-
dria. That was n very expensive heat.
But without any harm 10 the decalogue IL
sclfit might be made to heat 10000 baths
for the moral publication Of the American
people.
The nation needs a tonic, a powerful
tonic, a corrective, n mighty corrective and
Moses in the test with steady hand, aotwlth-
standing the iarrins Of the mountains and
the blazing Of the air and the awful orches-
ira OF the TEMPEST, pours out the ten drops,
no more ard no less, which this American
nation needs Immediately to take for its
moral convalescence, But | am not the
man to leave you in the Encouragement
that might come from the reading OF the
Ten Commandments, because we have all
offcuded and we have all done wrong and
been wrong. There is another mountainin
sight and when Sinai thunders the other
mountain answers in thunder and il the
lightning of the one writes doom, the light
ming of the other writes mercy. Only in
one way can the guns Of the decalogue be
spiked and that is BY the spikes OF the cross,
only one rock that can stop the boulders OF
Sinai from quaking and that is the Rock Of
Ages,
Higher than Sinai.
Higher than Sinai is Calvary. | know
that one peak Of Sinai, according to the
English survey expedition, is 1000 feet
high, and onOther peak 5000 feet and
another 1000, aud that Mount Cavalry, &c
cording TO modern explorers, is only a
slight rising kncll outside the wall of Jcra.
salem. But in moral power it overtops and
overshadowS all the mountains OF the hem
~isphcrcs, and HimaIniabs and Mount BIancs
and Mount Washington and Sinais are hill.
ocks compared with it. AS fortress ome
times ~silcnces fortress, Moultries dlsmant-
ling Sumters, so | set against Sinai, the
mountain Of the law, the mightier mountain
of the cross. The soul that sinneTh it
shall die booms the ore till the earth jars
under TIE cannonade. Save them from 60
ing down to the pit for ! have found a AN
som peals forth the other and earth and
heaven shall tremble under the reverbcra-
ton. Moses, who commands the one sur
renders to Jesus, who commands the other.
"Orcc by the law our hopes were slain,
Put now In Christ they live again.
Aristotle says that once when Mount
Etna eruptcd and torrents Of scoria came
upon the villages at the base the flames parted
so that they made a lane Of safety for those
who went to rescue their aged parents from
the destruction ofthe o~vertlowing mountain.
SO this flaming volcanic Sinai Of the text
parts its fury 10 let pass into eternal safety
those whom Christ has come TO rescue
from the red ruin that bounded them on
both sides. As | stand this moment, half
way between the mountain Of the 9TH Of
Exodus and TIE mountain Of the 18th Of
John, my terror subsidies in a supernatural
calm, because the uproar Of the Sinaitic
peak is moderating and subsiding and quiet
ing. until il comes TO so deep a silence that
] can hear the other mountain speak. Yea,
| can hear it whisper as it softly says "The
blood, the blood, the blood cleanscth from
all sim
That upturned mountain of the text,
| writer's tell us, has several bodies Of water
courses-Aleyatt and Ajelah, emptying into
Feiran, but they are not navigable. You
cannot put a boat Of human construction
into those rocky streaps. But the boat Of
Gospel rescue can sail anywhere, and il
comes right up amid these water courses OF
| Sinaitic threat and doom and offers 20 take
you off and out and from under the shadows
| into the sunshine and to the land Of peace.
Oh, If you could see that boat Of rescue
coming you would feel as John Gilmore in
bis book Storm Warriors says q ships
crew felt when they were being beaten 10
pieces on the Kentish Knock sands OF the
coast OF England. And they had all given