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

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kicks II. for instance. man be proiane.
under proyocation he will commit any
crime. soy under provocation. For, II a
man will :naltreat the Lord Almighty.
would he not maltreat his fellow mani II
a man he guilty Of malfeasance la Office, be
will under provocatiOn commit any sin.
He who will steal will lie, and he who will
lie win steal.
II, for instance, a man he impure, itopens
the door for all other iniquity, for in that
one iniquity he commits theft of the worst
kind, and covetousness OF the worst kind,
and falsehood-pretending to be decent
when he is not-and maltreats his parents
by disgracing their name, IL they were
good. Be careful, therefore; how you
charge that sin against any man either in
high place or low place, either in Office OF
out of Office, because when you make that
charge against man you charge him with
all villainies, with all disgusting propensi-
ties, with all rottenness
A libertine is beast, lower than the YER
min that crawl over a summer carcass
lower than the swine, for the swine has no
intelligence to sin against. Be careful, then,
how you charge that against any man.
You must be so certain that mathematic-
al demonstration is doubtful as compared
with It.
And then, when you investigate man
on such subjects, you must go to the whole
length Of investigation and find out wheth-
er or not he has repented. He may have
been on his knees before God and implored
the divine forgiveness, and he may have
implored the forgiveness of society and the
forgiveness of the world. Although If a
man commit that sin at 80 or 35 years OF
age, there is not one case out of thousand
where he ever repents. You must in your
investigation see If it is possible that the
one case investigated may not have been
the exception. But do not chop off the
seventh commandment to suit the case. Do
not change Fairbanks scale to suit what
you are weighing with it. Do not cut off q
yardstick to suit the dry goods you are
measuring. Let the law stand and never
tamper with it.
Above all, I charge you do not join in the
cry that have heard-for Is, 20 years
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 leperl When man, by pen or type
or tongue, utters such slander on the hui
man race that there is no such thing as
purity, know right away that that man
himself is walking lazaretto, a reeking
ulcer, and is fit for no society better than
that of devils damned. We may enlarge
our charities in such case, but in no such
oosa lat nc choya off stba To-, Coro,oonJ
ments. Let them stand as the everlasting
defense of society and of the church of God.
The committing of one sin opens the
door for the commission of other sins. You
see it every day. Those embezzlers, those
bank cashiers absconding as soon as they
are brought to justice, develop the fact that
they were in all kinds of sin. No excep.
tion to the rule They all kept bad com.
pany, they nearly all gambled, they all
went to places where they ought not Whyi
The commission of the one sin op d the
gate for all the other sins. Sin 20 in
hocks, in droves and in herds. VI open
the door for one sin, that invites in the
miserable segregation.
THE LETTER OF THE DECALoGUE,A
Some of the campaign orators this au-
tumn-some of them-bombar1ing the suf.
'fering candidates all the week, will think
no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All the
week hurling the eighth commandment at
one candidate, the seventh commandment
at another candidate and the ninth com.
mandment at still another, what are they
doing with the fourth commandment, IRE
member the Sabbath day to keep it holy?'
Breaking it. Is not the fourth command.
ment 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 have heard it in regard to them.
bombarding the suffering candidates ali
the week, yet tossing the name of God from
their lips recklessly, guilty of profanity
what are they doing with the third COM
mandment? Is not the third command
ment, which says, "Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh
his name in vain"-is not the third COM
mandment as important as the other sevens }
Oh, yes, we find in all department men are
hurting their indignation against sins per-
haps to which they are not especially tempt
ed-hurling it against iniquity toward
which they are not particularly drawn.
have this book for my authority when
l say that the man who swears or the man
who breaks the Sabbath is as culpable be-
fore 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 Almighty, saying this has less blaze,
this has less momentum. Better not han
die the guns, better not experiment much
with the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the "Iliad" written on
nutshell, and you and / have seen the Lords
Prayer written on 5 cent piece, but the
whole tendency of these times is to write
the Ten Commandments SO small nobody
can see them. Iprotest this day against
the attempt to revise the Decalogue which
was given on Mount Sinai amid the blast of
trumpets, and the cracking of the rocks,
and the paroxysm Of the mountain of
Arabia Petr@a
bring up the candidates for ward and
and city and state office. / bring
them up, and try them by this decalogue
OF course they are imperfect We are all
We say things we ought not to
cay; we do things we ought not to do. We
have all been wrong; we have all done
wrong. But shall find out one of the can.
didates who comes, in my estimation, near
est to obedience of the Ten Command.
ments. and will vote for him, and you
will vote for him unless you love God less
than your party-then you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitocris, the daugh.
ter of Nebuchadnezzar, was SO fascinated
with her beautiful village of Ardericca that
she had the river above Babylon changed
30 it wound this way and wound that, and
curved this way and curved that, and
though you sailed on it for three days every
day you would be in sight of that exquisite
village. Now, do not care which way you
sail in morals or which way you sail in life
IL you only sail in sight of this beautiful
group of divine commandments. Although
they may sometimes seem to be little an
gular, do not care which way you sail, if
you sail in sight of them you will never
run aground, and you will never be ship