Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-11-04

morning in November read the twenti-
eth chapter Of Exodus ut family prayers
The moral or immoral character
of the officers elected will add 20 per
cent unto or subtract rs per cent from
the public morals. You and / cannot
afford to 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 religious inter
ests of this country, cannot afford to
have bad officials; and II you, on look
ing over the whole field, cannot find
men who in your estimation, come
within reasonable distance of obedi-
ence of the Decalogue, stay at home
and do not vote at all.
suppose when in the city of Sodom
there were four candidates put up
for Office, and Lot did not believe in
any of them, he did not register.
suppose If there came u 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 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 mp the whole nation by
his excellent example. Why is it that
to-day England is higher up in morals
than ut 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 n failure. The
political power Of Talleyrand brooced
all the political tricksters of the last
ninety years. The dishonest vice PIES
idency of Aaron Burr blasted this ma
ton until important letters were witt
ten in cipher, because the people coald
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.
/ say we want 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, pours out ten drops-no more, no
less-which our people need to take Tor
their moral convalescence.
But shall not leave You under the
encouragement of the Ten Command
ments, 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 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 1900 feet high, and travellers
tell us that Mount Calvary is only
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
Washington 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 j put the
mountain 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 ransom" pleads the
other, until earth and Heaven and hell
tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses, who commands the one, sur
renders to Christ, who commands the
other.
Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But now In Christ We live again.
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys, or wa
ter 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 water-courses 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 this day, you would feel as
N:l.~1.o -, HE h0oly tsf1,ha Storm