The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-03

henSlble Tor sucn SIM there Is not mort
than one chance in thousand If
he ever reforms yet the case you
are investigating maybe that glorious one. 10
meet any especial case enlarge your forgiveness
but don't shave off the Seventh Commandment.
Let that stand as the everlasting defense of so
ciety. Do not change Fairbanks scale to suit
what you going to weigh with it. Do you
join in the cry that l have seen in some news
papers that there is such thing as purity!
Then you are a oulmouthed scandalizer of the
human race. You are yourself leper, Make
room for that leper When a man utters such
a sentiment as that, either with tongue or pen,
know he is a walking lazaretto and know that
he is a reeking ulcer and that he is for no so
ciety better than that of devils damned. There
is such a thing as purity. and ten thousand times
ten thousand are its disciples, who are the uphold
ers of family, and church. and Nation.
Yes; if a 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, one of those bank embezzlers, is
brought to Justice it turns out in the trial that
he had loose companions and gambled, and
went to places where he ought nott Sins go in
aocks, and herds, and droves. Admit one, and
you will be apt to admit all the miserable seq
regation. Noted by the papers that many of
the campaign orators bonbarding the suffering
candidates in their speeches think nothing of rid
ing from place to place all Sabbath day or sit as
they probably are doing now, in political head
quarters calculating the election probabilities
During all the week they have been hurting the
Eighth Commandment at Mr.. Blaine, and the
Seventh Commandment at Mr.. Cleveland, and
the Ninth commandment at Mr.. St John But
what are they doing with the Fourth Command
ment: Remember the Sabbath day. to keep it
holy2' They are breaking it. Is not the Fourth
Commandment as good as the Seventh, or Eighth.
or NINTH All the week denouncing candidates
for misbehavior, while some of these campaign
orators profane the name of God, tossing it II
reverently from their lips. And what are they
doing with the Third Commandment: Thou
shaltnot take the name of the Lord thy God in
~ I'D hold
that taketh His name in vainl' Is not the Third
Commandment as important as the other nine!
Aye; this Decalogue is my authority for saying
that the man who swears or breaks the Sabbath
is as reprehensible as any of the candidates now
nominated, if they should be found guilty of the
offenses charged. What right have to go
through the Ten Commandments, and make our
selection as TO which we shall keep and which we
shall break Better not experiment with the di
vine ammunition. Better not handle the thun-
derbolts of God to see which has the least blaze,
end the least momentum Better not NEEDLE
with the guns, and say this is a Dahlgren, and
this three-inch mortar, and that an Armstrong,
and this a Whitworth, and this is Nordenteldt
five-barreled gun, this is Calling ten barreled
gun, this is Martig ny thirty seven barreled
gun, and this is Parrott They are all of the
same caliber and of the same make, and they
shoot from eternity to eternity. Cicero says he
saw the Had written a nut shell, and l have
seen the Lords prayer on five-cent piece, and
the attempt is to write the Decalogue so small
that it cannot be seen at ALL protest against
the frequent attempt to revise the Deealogue
given from Mount Sinai amid blast of trumpets
and the cracking of the porphyry rocks, and the
paroxysm of the mountains of Arabia Petrpa.
Stand up, Mr.. Blaine, and Mr.. Cleveland, and
Mr. st. John, and let us measure you by the first
seventeen verses of Exodus, the GOTH OF course,
they. like all the rest of u.s. will be found imper
feet by that rule. But the one who comes the
nearest to the moral accuracy of the decalogue
is the one | shall vote for, and the one you vote
for if you regard God more than your party,
Herodotus tells us that Nitocris, the
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so
fond of the beautiful village of
Ardericca that she had the river above Babylon
changed into winding course, curving this way
and that, that sailing on it for three days one
must come three times in sight of the EXQUISITE
village; and l do not care which way you sail if
you sail all the time in sight of this group of
divine commands. a little angular they may
seem to you, but sailing thus you will never get
aground and you willnever shipwreck.
The worst army earth to fight is the ten
regiments that, with sabres and bayonets of fire,
march down the side of Mount Sinai. They
always get the victory, and so down their enc
mics must. What was the matter with that
young man of whom l read, dying in his dissipa-
ton2 Nothing except that he was worsted of
the Decalogue. In his last delirium he cried out,
Now for the diee that is minei No, all, all is
gonel More wine, more winel Oh, how they rat
tie! Fiends, tiends assail me! | say you cheat!
The cards are markell Now the chains rattle!
o death! deathp Ladies and gentlemen, don't
attempt at any time to revise and remodel the
Ten Commandments
And charge you to use your influence in So
ciety and at the polls for such rs come the near
est to that God-lifted standard At family pray
ers next Tuesday morning read the twentieth
chapter of Exodus. The moral or immoral char
acter of your next President will add 10 per
cent subtract 70 per cent. from the moral
welfare of this Nation. Hou and l cannot afford
it and the homes of America cannot afford it.
The commercial, the Agricultural, the literary,
our country cannot afford it. If you
cannot find a candidate who, in your estimate,
comes within reasonable distance of obeying the
Decaogue, stay athome and vote not at all. When
the election times came in SodOm, and there
were four candidates for mayor, and Lot did not
believe in any of them, he did not register at
all Politics were in such desperate state in
Babylon that Daniel stayed at home all election
day and prayed with his face toward Jerusalem.
But we are not shut up to such an exigency, l
am glad to say.
That the moral character of rulers affects the
ruled prove from all history. Wicked King
Manasseh lowered the moral tone of all 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 the head of it is the best sover-
eign of Europe-the attempt at scandalizing her
name alW avs conspicuous failure. The political
power of Talleyrand brooded into life the trick
sters of the last ninety years The vice presi-
uency or dlshonest aaron burt was SO pale1u
that nearly all the important letters in the post
Office in his time lwere in cipher, because the
United States mails could not be trusted
March out, ye court circles of Louis XIV and
Henry WILL followed by the debauched nations
that you led into sim The malaria of swamps
rises from the lowlands to the heights, but
moral malaria settles from the heights to the
plains. The higher you elevate an IN
righteous man the worse his power for
evil The greatest of fabulists tells
US that the pigeons were in mortal
dread of 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 dayl Make me
your king and will protect you from ali evil "
The pigeons called him 10 the throne. Then the
kite had for his regular fare pigeon day. One
of them Willie waiting for his fate. said: ct