The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-10

afford to have bad officials; the youn.
men of this country cannot afford t,
have bad officials; the commercial. TIL
moral. the artistic, the agricultural
the manufacturing. the religious inter
ests of this country, cannot afford t,
have bad officials: and if you, on look
ing over the whole field, cannot fine
men who, in your estimation. com,
within reasonable distance of obedi
ence of the Decalogue, stay at hom,
and do not vote at all
! suppose when in the city of Sodon
there were four candidates put III
for Office, and Lot did not believe il
any of them. he did not register.
suppose if there came a crisis in the
politics of Babylon, where Daniel did
not believe in any of the candidates. he
stald at home on election day. praying
/ with his face toward Jerusalem. But
we have no such crisis, we have no such
exigency, thank God But | have to
say to you to-day that the moral char.
acter of rulers always affects the ruled:
and | appeal to history. Wicked King
| Mannasseh depressed the moral tone OF
| all the nation of Judah, and threw
| them into idolatry. Good King
Josiah lifted up the whole nation by
/ his excellent example. Why is it that
to-day England is higher up in morals
| than at any time in her national his
tory? 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
ninety years. The dishonest vice pres
idency of Aaron Burr blasted this ma
ton until important letters were writ
ten in cipher. because the people could
not trust the United States mail And
let the court circles Of Louis Nv. and
Henry VIII march out. followed by
the debauched nations
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil Be care
full. therefore, how you elevate into any
style of authority men who are in any
wise antagonistic to the Ten Command
ments.
As near as I can tell the most i'm
portant thing now to be done is to
have about 10000, 600 copies of the
Sinatic Decalogue printed and scat
tered throughout the land. 1t was a
terrible waste when the Alexandrian
library was destroyed. and the books
were taken to heat 1000 baths for the
citizens of Alexandria. 1t was a very
expensive heat But, without any
harm to the Decalogue. you could with
it heat 100, 600 baths of moral purifica-
ton for the American people.
| say we want a tonic-a mighty
tonic-a corrective-an all-powerful
corrective-and Moses in the text. with
steady hand, notwithstanding the Jar
ring mountains and the full orchestra
of the tempest and the blazing of the
air, pO1rs out ten drops-no more, no
less-which our people need to take for
their moral convalescence.
But | shall not leave YOU under the
discouragenen of the Ten Command
menta. 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 mountain. with light
ming, writes mercy. The only way YOU
will ever spike the guns OF the Deca-
logue Is by the spikes of the cross.
The only rock that will ever stop the
Sinaitic upheavals i the Rock of Ages.
Mount Calvary is higher than Mount
Sinai. The English survey expedition.
l know. say that one Sinaitic peak is
:, 600 feet high and another 5000 and
another 5000 feet high. and travellers
tell us that Mount Calvary is only a
bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem:
but Calvary in moral significance over
tops and Overshadows all the mount
aims of the hemispheres. and Mount |
and Mount Blanc and !
the Himalayas are hillocks compared |
with it. You know that sometimes one |
fortress will silence another fortress. |
Moultrie silenced Sumter; and against |!
the mountain of the law | put the /
of the Cross. The soul that |
it shall die" booms one. until /
the earth jars under the cannonade |
Save them from going down to the /
pit. have found n ransom" pleads the |
other. until earth and Heaven and hell |
Moses, who commands the one, sur
renders to Christ, who commands the
Other
Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But rOw in Christ we live again
Aristotle says that Mount Etna
.rupted one day and poured torrents of
,coria on the villages at its base but
that the mountain divided its flame
and made lane of safety for all those
who came to rescue their aged parents
And this vaicanic Sinai divides its fury
,or all those whom Christ has come to
,escue from the red ruin on both sides
as l DO to-day, half way be-
ween the two mountains-the mount
in OF the Exodus and the mountain OF
he nineteenth of John-al my terror
omes into supernatural calm. for the
lDroar of the one mountain subsidies
nto quiet. and comes down into so
eep a silence that l can hear the
ther mountain speak-aye. l can hear
: whisper: The blood. the blood. the
blood that cleanseth from all sin"
The survey expedition says that the
'inaitic mountains have wadys or wa
er courses - Allevat and Ajelah -
implying into Feiran. But those
treams are not navigable. No boat
ut into those rocky streams could
all But l have to tell you this day
hat the boat of gospel rescue comes
light up amid the water-courses OF
inaitic gloom and threat, ready to
axe Us off from under the shadows
tito the calm sunlight of Gods pardon
nd into the land OF peace. Oh, if you
ould see that boat of gospel rescue
oming this day, you would feel as
Ohm Gilmore in his book. The STORM
'arriors, says that ships crew felt +