Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-03

BROOKLYN, N. ", Oct 29.-To-dny DR..
Tulmage preached an ante election sermon
The text from Exc us 2O;lS: was used:
"And a the people saw the thunderings
and the lightnings and the noise OF tine
trumpet an the noun ain smoking"
On the eve of elections in the sixty
counties of this state, and in all the
counties of most OF the United States,
while there are many hun 1reds of
nom nees to Office, it is appropriate
and important that l preach TINS Oe-
fore election sermon.
My text Informs you that the light
nings and earthquakes united their
fore S TO wreck a mountain of Arabia
Petrea in olden time, and travellers
to-day find heaps OF porpnyry and
greensboro rocks, bowlder against
bowlder, the remains Of the first l'w
library written, not on parchment
or papyrus, but on shattered sla S
of granite. The corner-stones OF all
moral w, of all wise law, of all right
eous JURISPRUDENCE, of all good gov
eminent, are the two table OF stone
on which were written the ten com
mandments. All Roman law, all
french law, all English law, all
American law that is worth anything,
all common law, civil law, criminal
law, martial law, law of nations, were
rocked in the radle OF the TWEEN lletn
chapter of Exodus. And it would b.
well in these times of great political
agitation if the newspapers would
print the decalogue some day in place
of the alb 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 IN re Importance, when no
one has any right to make such an as
sertion. These laws are the pill airs OF
society, and if you remove one pillar
you damage the who G structure.
have noticed that men are particu-
larly vehement against sins to which
they are not particularly tenn pied, and
find no especial wrath against sins in
which they themselve> indulge. They
take out one gun rom this battery OF
ten guns, and load that, and uniimb Der
that, and fire that. They say, This
is an Armstrong gun, and this Is
Krupp gun, and this is n Norden!eldt
! ii barre led gun, and this is n Cat
! ling ten Darrell d gun, and this is
Martigny thirty-seven- barrelled gun
but have to tell them that they are
ali Of the same calibre, and that they
| shoot from eternity to eternity. Many
! que stions are before the people in the
! coming elections all over the land. but
! | shall try 10 show you that the most
! important thing to be settled about
| all these Candidates is their p rsonal,
mora Echaracter. The decalogue 1or-
bids idolatrv, image. making profanity
maltreatment of parents, Sabbath
desecration, murder, theft, incontin'
ence, lying ana covetousness. That is
the decalogue 10y which you and
have To b tried, and by the same
deralogue you and / must try candi-
dates for office.
OF course we shall not find ANYTHING
! like perfec ton. IL we do not vote =
til we find an immaculate nominee we
y H. never vote at all. We h We sc
many faults OF our own we ought not &c
be -ensurious or maledictoiy or hyper
critical in regard to the faults Of
others. The Chris ly rule is as appro
priaie for November as any Other
month in the year: Judge not thai
We be no judged, for with wha'
measure We mete it shall be measured
to you again.
Most certainly are we not to take
the statement of red-hot partisanshiI
as the real character Of any man
FIR IN nearly all he great ties of thi'
land rec, i've da ly or weekly news
p r.. sent TO me regularly and IL
comp iment, so | see both Sides SCI
all sides an it is most entertaining
aud my regular amusem snt, to reaC
the opposite statements The on'
statement says the man is an angel
and tn other says he is q devil
and split he difference and ] fine
him halfway between. There never
has been an honest or respecta bl,
man running for the United States
presidency, or for a iudgeship, o. fol
the may orally, or for the shrievalty
since the ioundation of the American
government If we may believe the ole
files of newspapers in the museums
What a mercy it is that they were 20
all hung b fore they w re inaugur
at, d! If a man believe one-half o
what he sees in the newspapers il
these ii es, his career will be yer,
short outs de of Bloomingda insan,
ylum. was absent two or three
yea ago during one week of - politi
cal canvass and | was dependent en-
Jlf ~ upon WndJ re u IN regard II
what had o Cured in these cit es ant
| read there was procession il
New ) ork of FIVE thousand patriot
and minute after read il
another sheet that there w r.
seventeen thousand; and then l rea,
in regard to another process ion tina
there were 10000, and then / read il
another paper that there were $4,000
A campaign orator in the rink or tn
Academy of Music received very col,
reception-a very chilling reception
said one statement. The other stata
ment said the audience rose at him; S.
great w s the enthusiasm that for
long willie the orator could not b
heard, and IL w S ouy after lifting hi
hand that the vociferaiion began L
subsidel One statement will tw st al
interview one way, and another state
ment will twist an intervi w anothe
! way. You must admit it is very dill
fcult thing in times like these to get
very accurate estimate of man
char ,cte~, and l charge you, as YOU
religious teacher. / charge you I,
caution aud to mercifulness and L
prayer.