The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03

the door for all kinds Of transgression.
If, for instance, a man go into this
political compaign welding scurrility
as his chief weapon, and he believes
every thing bad about man. and be-
lieves nothing good. how long before
that man himself will get over the
| moral depression. Neither in time nor
eternity. If / utter falsehood in re-
gard to man l may damage him. but
get for myself ten-fold more damage.
If man be guilty of malfeasance In
Office, he will, under provocation. COM
NIT any sin. He who will steal will
lie. and ne who will lie will steal
II, for instance. man be impure it
opens the door for all other iniquity.
for in that one iniquity he commits
theft of the worst kind. and covetous-
ness of the worst kind, and falsehood-
pretending 20 be decent when he is not
and maisreats his parents by disgrace
ing their name. if they were gooc. be
careful. therefore. how you charge that
sin against any man either in high
place or low place either in office or
| out of office, because when you make
| that charge against man you charge
| him with all viilanies, with all disgust
| ing propensities with all rottenness.
A libertine is a beast lower than the
| vermin that crawl over a summer car
cass-lower than the swine, for the
swine has no intelligence to sin
against. Be careful. then, how you
charge that against any man.
And. then. when you investigate a
man on such subjects, you must go to
the whole length of the investigation
| and find out whether or not he has re-
pented He may have been on his
| knees before God and implored the
| divine forgiveness, and he may have
J implored the forgiveness o. society and
the forgiveness OF the world: although
| if man commit sin at 80 or 35 years OF
| age there is not one case out of thou
| sand where he ever repents- You must
| in YOUR investigation see if it is posi-
| bic that the one ease Investigated may
not have been the exception. But do
not chop off the seventh command
ment to suit the case. Do not change
| Fairbanks scale to suit what you are
weighing with it. Do not cut off yard
stick to suit the dry goods You are
measuring. Let the law stand. and
never tamper with it.
| Above all. charge you, do not join
in the cry that have heard-for fifteen,
twenty years l have heard it-that
there IS no such thing as purity. If
you make that charge you are foul
mouthed scandaler of the human race.
You are leper. Make room for that
leper. When a man by pen or type or
tongue utters such q SANDER on the
human race, that there is no such thing
as purity, l know right away that that
man himself is a walking lazaretto, a
reeking ulcer, and is fit for no society
better than that of devils damned.
| The committing of one sin opens the
door for the commission Of other sins.
You see it every day. Those embezzlers,
those bank cashiers descending, rs soon
as they are brought to justice, develop
the fact that they were in all kinds OF
sin. No exception to the rule. They
all kept bad company, they nearly all
| Gambled, they all went to places where
they ought not Why? The commits
sion of one sin opened the gate for al
the other sins. Sins go in hocks, in
droves and in herds You open the
door for one sin. that invites in all the
| misera BILE congregation.
Some of the campaign orators this
autumn, some OF them. bombarding the
suffering candidates all the week, will
think no wrong in Sabbath breaking.
All the week hurting the eighth CON-
mandment at one candida tie. the sew
| enth commandment at another candi-
date. and the ninth commandment at
still another. what are they doing with
| the fourth comma nGment, Remember
| the sabbath day to keep it holy?'
| Breaking it. Is not the fourth COM
| mandment as important as the eighth.
| as the seventh. as the ninth? Some of
| these political campaign orators, as
have seen them reported in other years.
| and as l have heard it in regard to
them. bombarding the suffering cam
| didates all the week, yet tossing
the name OF God from their lips
recklessly, guilty Of profanity. What
are they doing with the third
commandment? Is not the third com
mandment, which says Thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord thy God
in vain, for the Lord will not hold MIN
guiltless that taketh His name in vain"
is not the third commandment as i'm
portant as the other seven?
have this book for my authority
when say that the man who swears or
the man who breaks the Sa bbath is as
culpable before God as those candidates
who break other commandments.
What right have you and l to select
which commandment we will keep and
which we will break? Better not try
| TO measure the thunderbolts of the AL
mighty. saying this has less blaze, this
has less momentum. Better not ham
die the guns, better not experiment
much with the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the Had written on
a nut shell. and you and l have seen
the Lords prayer written on scent
piece: but the whole tendency of these
times is to write the Ten Command
nents so small that nobody can see
them.
l bring up the candidates for ward,
and township. and city, and state of