The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-11-16

cent. unto or subtract scfehty-h'o PEI 00A'
from the public morals. -, .oa oe-
trials The Young men OF this country can
mot afford to have bad officials. Inc com
gperciaI the moral. the artistic, the agrlcul-
tural. the manufacturing, the rehglouS III
+erasis OF this country cannot aUoru 10 na'V
bad officials. and if you, on LOOKING over the
whole field cannot find men VINO IN your
estimation come within reasonable distance
OF obedience OF the Decaiogue stay at home
and do not vote at all.
+ sunpose when in the city OF Sodom there
were four candidates put up for Office, and
Lot did not believe in any Of them, nc dld
not register. | suppose Ii there came
crisis in the politics OF Babylon, Where
Daniel did not believe IN any OF the cdnal-
dates. he staid at home on election day,
prsviDg with his face toward Jerusalem.
But we have no such crisis. We have no
such exigeucv, thank God. But L nave 10
CAV TO you to-day that the moral character OF
rulers always affects the ruled, and appeal
to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the moral
tone OF all the Nation OF judah ana threw
them into idolatry. Good King josiah hited
IN the whole Nation by his excellent example.
why is it that to-day England Is higher up
in morals than at any point in her National
history it is because she has the best rulei
in ALI Turope-al! the attempts to scandal1zo
her name q failure. The political power OF
Talleyrand brooled all the political tricksters
OF the last ninety years. Inc dishouest Vice
nresidency OF Aaron Burr blasted this Nation
until important letters were written in cipher,
because tire people could not trust the United
St,,es mail. And let the court circles OF
Louis Nv ana Henry VIII march out, 1ol-
lowed by the deOauched Nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil. The great 1ab-
ulist SAYS that the pigeons were IN fright at
a Kite flying in the air, and so these pigeon
lowered near the dovecote, but one day tho
kite said why are you so afraid? why
do you pass your life in terror? Make me
king. and I'll destroy all your enemies" SO
the pigeons made the kite king, and as soon
as he got the throne his regular diet was q
pigeon day. And while one OF his victims
was waiting for its turn to come 1t SAID
"Seryed us right p The malaria OF swamps
rises from the plain to the height. but NOR
malaria descends from the mountain re- quo
plain. Be careful, therefore, how you ele-
vate into any style of authority men who are
in any wise antagonistic to the len Com
mandments.
As near as can tell, the most important
thing now to be done is to have about 40
900. 900 copies of the Sinaitic Decalogue
printed and scattered throughout the land.
1t was a terrible waste when the AleXandrian
library was destroy ed, and the books were
taken to heat 1000 baths for the citizens OF
Alexandria 1t was very expensive heat.
But without any harm to the Decalogue you
could with it heat 1000, 600 baths OF moral
publication for the American people,
I say We want tonic-a mighty tonic,
corrective, an all powerful corrective-and
Moses IL the text, with steady hand, notwith-
standing the Earring mountains and the iuil
orchestra of the tempest and the blazing OF
the air, pours out the ten drops-no more,
no less-which our people need TO take Tor
their moral eonvalescence.
But [ shall not leave YOU under the dis
couragement of the Ten Commandments, be-
cause we have all offended There is an
other mountain in sight. and while one
mountain thunders the other answers in
thunder, and while Mount Sinai, with light
ming, writes doom, the other mountain with
lightning, writes mercy. The only way you
will ever spike the guns of the Decalogue is
by the spikes of the cross. The only rock
that will ever stop the Sinatic 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 nigh,
and another 5000, and another 5000 feet high,
and travellers tell US that Mount Cavalry Is
only bluff outside of the wall OF Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains OF the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington ana
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hlllocEs
compared with il. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another for
tress
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the
mountain of the law | put the mountain OF
the cross. 1.-The soul that sinneth, ii shall
die" booms one until the earth jars under
the cannonade Save them from going
down to the pit. have found a ransom"
pleads the other, until earth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses, who commands the one, surrenders
to Christ, who commands the other.
Once by the law hopes were slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted one
day and poured torrents of scoria upon the
villages at the base but that the mountain
divided its flame and made a lane OF safety
for all those who came to rescue their aged
parents And this volcanic Sinai divides its
fury for those whom Christ has come to res
cue from the red ruin on both sides. Stand
ing as | do to-day, halfway between the two
mountains-the mountain OF the Exodus and
the mountain of the nineteenth of John--ail
my terror comes into supernatural calm, for
the uprOar of the one mountain subsidies into
quiet and comes down into so deep silence
that can hear the other mountain speak
aye, | can hear 1t whisper, The blood, the
blood, the blood that c!eanseth from all SIM"
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
tic mountains have wadys or water courses
Alleyat and Ajelah-emptying into Feiran.
But those streams are not nayigahle No boat
put into these rocky streams could sail. But
l have to tell you this day that the boat Of
gospel rescue comes right up amid the wa
tercourse5 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 res
cue coming this day you would feel as John
Gilmore in his book, 1.-THE Storm Warriors"
says that ships crew felt on the Kentish
Knock sands, off the coast of England, when
they were being beaten to pieces and they all
felt they must die They had given up ali
hope and every moment washed off another
plant from the wreck, and they said, I'VE
must die we must die ~ But after awhile
they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers for them and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said "Can it be?
1t is, it is, it is, it is Thank God II is the
Ramsgate lifeboat 1t is, it is, it is, it is -
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after he got ashore.
said, "Oh, my lads, what beauty it did
seem, coming through the breakers that awful
day." May God, through the mercy in Jesus
Christ, take US all Off the miserable wreck Of
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