Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-02

Souillit lHdt SIN Ut thirty OF InlrIy-nVe 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 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 a
yardstick to suit the dry goods you are
measuring. Let the law stand and never
tamper with il.
Above all / charge you do not join in the
cry that | have heard--for fifteen, twenty
years have heard it--that there is no such
thing as purity. If you make that charge
you are a foul-mouthed scandaler OF the
human race. You are leper. Make room
for that leperl When a man, by pen or type
or tongue, utters such SANDER on the hui
man race that there is no such thing as
purity / know right away that that man him
self is a walking lazaretto. a reeking ulcer.
and is fit for no society better than that of
devils damned. We may enlarge our char
tiles in such a case, but in no such case let
us shave off the Ten Commandments. Let
them stand as the everlasting defense OF So
eisty and 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 abscondina9 as soon as they are
brought to justice, develop the fact that
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to the rule. They all kept bad company,
they nearly all gambled, they all went to
places where they ought not. Why? The
commission of the one sin opened the gate
for all the other sins. Sins go in foeks. in
droves and in herds. You open the door for
one sin that invites in all the miserable
segregation.
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 commandment at one candidate,
the seventh commandment at another can
didate and the ninth commandment at still
another, what are they doing with the fourth
commandment. Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy? Breaking it. Is not the
fourth commandment 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 1 have heard it in regard to them,
bombarding the suffering candidates all the
week, yet tossing the name of God from their
lips recklessiy, guilty of profanity--what are
they doing with the third commandment?
Is not the third commandment, 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 commandment as impor-
tant as the other seven? Oh, yes, we find in
nation against sins perhaps to which they are
not especially tempted-hurling it against
iniquity toward which they are not particu-
larry drawn.
I have this book for my authority when l
say, that the man who swears or the man who
breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God
as these candidates who break other com
mandments. What right have you and 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 mo-
mentum. Better not handle the guns. better
not experiment much with the divine ammu-
milton.
Cicero said he saw the '.Ihad' written ON
a nutshell, and you and I have seen the
Lords Prayer written on a five cent piece,
but the whole tendency of these times is to
write the Ten Commandments SO small no.
body can see them. protest 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
Petraa.
bring up the candidates for ward and
township and city and State office. / bring
them up, and try them by this DecaIogue
OF course they are imperfect. We are all
imperfect. We say things we ought not to
say 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, nearest
to obedience of the Ten Commandments 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 daughter
OF Nebuchadnezzar, was so fascinated with
her beautiful village of Ardericca that she
had the river above Babylon changed so it
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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 if you
only sail in sight of this beautiful group of
divine commandments. Although they may
sometimes seem to be little angular do
sight of them you will never run aground,
and you will never be shipwrecked. Society
needs toning up ON all these subjects.
tell you there is nothing worse to fight
than the ten regiments, with bayonets and
sabres of fire, marching down the side OF
Mount Sinai. They always gain the victory.
and those who fight against them go under.
There are thousands and tens of thousands
of men being slain by the Decalogue. What
is the matter with that young man of whom
Tread dying in his designations? In his dy-
ing delirium he said, Nov fetch on the
dice. 1t is mine No, no ! 1t is gone. all is
gone Bring on more wine! Bring on more
wine Oh, how they rattle their chains
Fiends, fiends, fiends say you cheat The
cards are marked Oh, death oh, death
oh, death Fiends, fiends, fends p And he
gasped his last and was gone. The Ten
Commandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nine
tenth century revise the Ten Command
ments, but let them in society and at the
polls put to the front those who come the
nearest to this God-lifted standard. On the
first Tuesday morning OF November read the
twentieth chapter OF Exodus at family
prayers. The moral or immoral character OF
the officers elected will add seventy-five per
cent. unto or subtract seyensy-fiye per cent.
from the public morals.
You and cannot afford to have bad Off
cials. The young men of this country can
not afford TO have bad officials The COM
mercial, the moral, the artistic, the agricul-
tural, the manufacturing, the religious in
terests of this country cannot afford to have
bad officials, and if you, on looking over the
whole field, cannot find men who in your
estimation come within reasonable distance
of obedience 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. l suppose if there came a
crisis in the politics of Babylon, where
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