The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03


be profane, under provocation he will
commit any crime. | say under provo
cation. For if man will maltreat the
Lord Almighty, would he not maltreat
his fellow man2 If man be guilty of
malfeasance in sffice, he will, under
provocation, commit any sin. He who
will steal viii lie, and he who will lie
will steal.
If, for instance, a man be impure, it
opens the door for all other iniquity, for
in that one iniquity he commits theft of
the worse kind, and covetousness of the
worst kind, and falsehood- pretending
to be decent when he is not-and NAL
treats his parents by disgracing their
name If they were good. 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
villainies, with all disgusting propensi-
ties, with all rottenness.
A libertine is a beast lower than the
vermin that crawl over 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. You must he so GER
tain that mathematical demonstration
is doubtful as compared with it.
NO TAMPERlNG WITH THE LAW.
And then, when you investigate man,
on such subjects you must go to the
whole length of investigation and find
out whether 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 forgive
ness of society and the forgiveness of the
world. Although if 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 in
vestigated may not have been the excep-
ton. 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
yardstick to suit the dry goods you are
measuring. Let the law stand and new
er tamper with it.
Above all, charge you do not join in
the cry that have heard-for 10, 20years
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 man, by
pen or type or tongue utters such
SANDER on the human race that there is
no such thing as purity, l know right
away that that man himself is walking
lazaretto, 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 case let us
shave off the Ten Commandments. 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 exception to the rule. They all
kept bad company; they nearly all gam
bled; 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 hocks, in droves
and in herds. You open the door for one
sin-that invites in all the miserable seq
regation
Some of the campaign orators this au-
tumn, some of them-bombard the
suffering candidates all the week, will
think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All
the week hurting the eighth command
ment at one candidate, the seventh COM
mandment at another candidate, and the
ninth commandment at still another,
what are they doing with the fourth
commandments Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy?" Breaking it.
Is not the fourth commandment as i'm
portant as the eighth, as the seventh,
as the ninth?
Some of these political campaign or
ators, as | have seen them reported in
other years, and as l have heard it in
regard to them, bombarding the suffer
ing candidates all the week, yet tossing
the name of God from their lips reck-
lessly, guilty of profanity-what are
they doing with the third command
ment? Is not the third commandment,
which says, Chou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain,
for the Lord will not hold hing guilt
less that taketh his name in VAIN
Is not the third commandment as i'm
pori INT as the other seven? Oh, yes, we
find in all departments men are hurting
their indignation against sins perhaps to
which they are not especially tempted
hurting it against iniquity toward which
they are not particularly drawn.
TRIED BY THE DECALoGUE.
I have this book for my authority
when say that the man who swears or
the man who breaks the Sabbath is as
culpable before God as those candidates
who break other commandments, What
right have You and / to select which
commandment we will keep and which
we will break? Better not try to meas
ure the thunderbolts of the Almighty
saying this has less blaze, this has less
momentum. Better not handle the guns
better not experiment much with the di.
vine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the "Iliad" written
on nutshell, and you and l have seen
the Lords Prayer written on s cent