The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-02

ter Ne ~ Test of Fitness Tor onico
rIca Nor the Spcr.dn.ss Of the Ten Com.
mandmcnts.
BEouTIYN, oct - The text OF Rev Dr
Talmage's ante-election sermon was Exc.
aus xV, Is. And all the people saw the
ihunderiuyS and the lightnings and the
noise Of the trumpet and the mountain
smoking" csail:
On the eve of elections "a the co counties
Of this state md in all the counties Of
most of the United : trs, while there are
many hundreds of nominees to Office, It is
appropriate and important that | preach
this before election sermon.
NV text informs you that the lightnings
aud earthquakes united their forces to
wreck mountain of Arabia petrPa in old
IN time aud travellers today finds heaps of
porpntry and greensboro rocks. bowlder
against bow llrr the remains Of the first
law library, written, not on parchment or
papyrus but on shattered slabs of granite
The cornerstones of all morality, of all
wise law, of all righteous Jurisprudence, of
all good government are the two tablets
of stone on which were written the Ten
Commandments.
All Roman law, all French law, all Eng
lish law, all American law that is worth
anything, all common law, civil law, Grim
inal law, martial law, law of nations were
rocked in the cradle of the twentieth chap
ter of Exodus And, it would be well in
these times Of great political agitation IL
the newspapers would print the Decalogue
some day in place of the able editorial
The fact is that some people suppose that
the law has passed out Of existence, and
some are not aware of some of the passages
Of that law, and others say this or that is
Of the more importance, when no one has
any right to makesuch an assertion. These
laws are the pillars of society, and if you
remove one pillar you damage the whole
structure.
! have noticed that men are particularly
vehement against sins to which they are not
particularly tempted and find no especial
wrath against sins in which they them
selves indulge They take out one gun
from this battery of 10 guns, and load that
and unlimber that and fire that. They
say, This Is an Armstrong gun. and this
is krupp gun, and this is Nordenfeldt
) barreled gun, and this is a Gatling 10
barreled gun, and this is Martini 81
barreled gun But | have to tell them
that they are all of the same caliber, and
that they shoot from eternity to eternity.
Many questions are before the people in
the coming elections all over this land, but
| shall try to show you that the most i'm
portant thing to be settled about all these
candidates is their personal, moral charac.
ter. The Decalogue forbids idolatry, i'm
age making, profanity, maltreatment of
parents, Sabbath Dissertation, murder,
theft, incontuence, lying and covetous-
ness. That is the Decalogue by which you
and / will have to be tried and by the same
DccalOgue you and | must try candidates
for office.
SPLITTING TIE DIFFERENCE.
OF course we shall not find anything like
perfection. If we do not vote until we FIND
an immaculate nominee, we will never vote
atall We have so many faults of our owl
we ought not to be censoriouS or maledic
tory or hypercrtical in regard to the fault,
of others. The Christly rule is as appropri
ate for November as any other month il
the year. Judge not that We be not Judged
for with what measure We mete it shall b.
measured to you again"
Most certainly are we not to take thu
statement of redhot partisanship as tn,
real character of any man. From nearl,
all the great cities of this land 1 receiv,
daily or weekly newspapers, sent to III,
regularly and in compliment, so j see botl
sides-I see all sides-and it is most enter.
tanning and my regular amusement to read
the opposite statements The one state.
ment says the man is an angel, and the
other says he is devil; and split the diff
ference and find him half way between.
There never has been an honest. or re-
spectacle man running for the United
States presidency, or for judgeship, or
for the mayoralty, or for the shrievalty
since the foundation of the American gov
eminent, II we may believe the old files of
newspapers in the museums What mercy
it is that they were not all hung before they
were inauguratedi If a man believe one
half of what he sees in the newspapers in
these times, his career will be very short
outside of Bloomingdale insane asylum.
was absent two or three years ago dur
ing one week of a political canvass, and
was dependent entirely upon what / read
in regard to what had occurred in these
cities, and read there was a procession in
New York of 5000 patriots, and minute
after | read in another sheet that there
were 1900, and then read in regard to
another procession that there were 10, 600
and then | read in another paper that there
were 10000.
campaign orator in the Rink or the
Academy OF Music received very cold re
ception-a very chilling reception-said on,
statement The other statement said tn,
audience rose at him. So great was the EN-
thusiasm that for a long while the orato
could not be heard, and it was only afte
lifting his hand that the vociferatiol begal
to subside One statement will twist a.
interview one way, and another statemen
will twist an interview another way. Yo
must admit il is n very difficult thing /