Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-11-02

20 per cent unto or subtract T5per cent from
the public morals
You and / cannot efford 10 have bad
officials The young men OF this country
cannot afford to have bad officials. The
commercial, the moral, the artistic, the
agricultural, the manufacturing. the re-
ligious interests OF this country cannot af-
ford to have bad officials, and Il you, on
looking over the whole field, cannot find
men who In your estimation come within
reasonable distance of obedience OF the Deca-
logue stay at home and do not vote at all.
l suppose when in the city Of SOdom
there were four candidates put up for Of
flee, and Lot did not believe in any of them,
be did not register. l suppose IL there
came crisis in the politics Of Babylon,
where Daniel did not believe In any Of the
candidates, he staid at home on election
day, praying with his face toward Jerusa-
lem. But we have no such crisis. We'have
no such exigency, thank God. But have
to say to you today that the moral charac-
ter of rulers always affects the ruled, and ]
appeal to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the
moral tone of all the nation of Judah and
threw them into idolatry. Good King Jo-
siah lifted up the whole nation by his ex-
cellent example. Why is it that today
England is higher up in morals than at any
point in her national history 1t is because
she has the best ruler in all Europe-all the
attempts to scandalize her name a failure
The political power of Talleyrand brooded
all the political tricksters of the last 90
years. The dishonest vice presidency Of
Aaron Burr blasted this nation until i'm
portant letters were written in cipher, be.
cause the people could not trust the United
States mail And let the court circles OF
Louis XIV and Henry VIII march out, fol-
lowed by the debauched nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil. The great
fabulist says that the pigeons were IN
fright at kite flying in the air, and SO
these pigeons lowered near the dovecote,
but one day the kite said: "Why are you SO
afraidf Why do you pass your life in ter,
rorP Make me king, and I'll destroy all your
enemies" So the pigeons made the kite
king, and as soon as he got the throne his
regular diet was pigeon day. And while
one of his victims was waiting for its turn to
come it said: Served us rightr' The ma.
laria of swamps rises from the plain to the
height, but moral malaria descends from
the mountain to the plain. Be careful
therefore how you elevate into any style OF
authority men who are in any wise antag.
onistic to the Ten Commandments.
As near as can tell, the most important
thing now to be done is to have about 40.
100000 copies of the Sinaitic Decalogue
printed and scattered throughout the land.
1t was terrible waste when the Alexan.
drian library was destroyed, and the books
were taken to heat 4, 900 baths for the citi.
zens of Alexandria. 1t was very expensive
heat. But without any harm to the Deca.
logue you could with it heat 100000 baths
of moral publication for the American peo-
pie.
say we want a tonic-a mighty tonic,
a corrective. an all powerful corrective
and Moses in the text, with steady hand,
Notwithstanding the jarring gmountains, ,and
the full orchestra of the tempest, and the
blazing of the air, pours out the 10 drops
no more, no less-which our people need to
take for their moral convalescence.
THE CLOSING INJUNCTIoNs.
But shall not leave you under the dis
couragement of the Ten Commandments,
because we have all offended. There is
another mountain in sight, and while one
mountain thunders the other answers in
thunder, and while Mount Sinai, with
lightning, writes doom, the other noun
tain, with lightning, writes mercy. The
only way you will ever spike the guns of
the Decalogue is by the spikes of the cross
The only rock that will ever stop the Sin
attic upheavals is the Rock of Ages. Mount
Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, know, say
that one Sinaitic peak is 1000 feet high, and
another 5000, and another 5000 feet high,
and travellers tell us that Mount Cavalry is
only bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains of the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks
compared with it. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another for
tress
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against
the mountain of the law put the noun
tain of the cross. 1.-THE soul that sinneth,
it shall die" booms one until the earth
jars under the cannonade. Save them
from going down to the pit. have found
a ransom," pleads the other, until earth
and heaven and hell tremble under the re-
yerbation. And Moses, who commands
the one, surrenders to Christ, who com
mands the other.
Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted
one day and poured torrents of scoria upon
the villages at the base, but that the noun
tain divided its flame and made lane of
safety for all those who came to rescue
their aged parents. And this volcanic
Sinai divides its fury for all those whom
Christ has come to rescue from the red
ruin on both sides. Standing as 1 do to.
day, half way between the two mountains
the mountain of the Exodus and the
mountain of the nineteenth of John-all my
terror comes into supernatural calm, for the
uproar of the one mountain subsidies into
quiet and comes down into deep asilence
that can hear the other mountain speak
aye, can hear it whisper, 1.-THE blood, the
blood, the blood that cleanseth from all
SIM"
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys or water
courses-Alleyat and Ajelah-emptying
into Feiran. But those streams are not
navigable. No boat put into those rocky
streams could sail. But have to tell you
this day that the boat of gospel rescue
comes right up amid the watercourses of
Sinaitic gloom and threat, ready to take us
off from under the shadows into the calm
sunlight of Gods pardon and into the land
of peace.
Oh, if you could see that boat of gospel
rescue coming tbs day you would feel as
John Gilmore in his book. ''The Storm
Warriors" says that a ships crew felt on
the K.ntish Knock sands, off the coast of
England, when they were being beaten to
pieces and they all felt they must diel They
had given up all hope, and every moment
washed off another plank from the wreck,
and they said. "We must die; we must
diep But after awhile they saw Rams
gate lifeboat coming through the breakers
for them, and the man standing highest up
m the vrack said. tt(yan H. hap tt ;c II io