Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-30

Ialmage'S subject for today is OF uni
versal application, and az a time wheI
North, South, East aud West the righI
or suffrage is about 10 be exercised
The theme is patriotic aud national,
and from a Christian standpoint. The
text is, Exodus 20: Is: 'And all the
people saw the thunderings and the
lghtnings, and the noise of the trumpet
aad the mountain smoking"
On the eve OF elections In the sixty
counties 10 this State, and in all the
counties OF most Of the United States,
while there are many hundreds Of noun
lnees TO Office, 10 Is appropriate and i'm
DOrtant that 1 preach this Before Flee
tiOn Sermon.
My text Informs you that the light
nings and earthquakes united their
forces 20 wreck a mountain OF Arabia
Petrea in O.den time, and travellers to-
day find heaps OF porphYry and green
stone rocks, bowlder against bowlder,
the remains OF the 6rSt law library,
written, not on parchment or papyrUs
but on shattered slabs OF granite. The
corner stones OF al morality, of all wise
law, Of all righteous Jurisprudence, OF
all good government, are the TWO tab
lets OF stone on which were written
she Ten Commandments. AN Roman
law, all French law, all English law,
all American law that Is worth
anything, all com mon law, civil law,
criminal law, martial law, law Of ma
lions were rocked In the cradle Of the
twentieth chapter of Exodus. Aud it
would be well in these times Of great
political agitation n the newspapers
would print the Decal0gue some day 10
place of the able editorial. The fact Is
that some people suppose that the law
has passed out Of existence, aud some
are not aware of some Of the
PASSAGES or THAT LAW,
snd others say this or that is OF the
more Importance, when no one has any
right 90 make such an assertion. These
laws are the pillars of society, and If
you remove one pillar you damage the
whole structure. ] have noticed that
men are particularly vehement against
sins TO which they are not particularly
tempted, and find no especial wrath
against sins in which they themselves
indulge. They take out one gun from
this battery OF ten guns, and load that,
and number that, aud fire that. They
say: This Is an Armstrong gun, and
THE is q krupp gun, and this Is o Nor
denieldt hve-barreled gun, and this is a
Calling ten-barreied gun, aud this is a
NartigEy thirty-s -barreled gun"
But 1 have 20 tell them that
they are an of the same Cali5re, and
thar they shoot from eternity 10 eter-
nifty. Many questions are before the
people To- the coming elections all over
this land, but I shall try 20 show you
that the most important thing 90 be set
tied about all these candidates is their
personal, moral character. The Deca-
lOgue fOrbids idO.atry, image-making,
profanity, maltreatment OF parents,
Sabbath dissertation, murder, theft, in
confluence, lying ana Dvrv.,----.'---
That is the DecaI0gue by which you and
I will have 10 be tried, and by the same
DscaIogue you and i must Try caudl-
dates for office.
OF course, we shall lot find anything
Ike perfection. III we do not vote uu-
tU we find an immaculate nominee we
will never vote at all We have so many
faults Of our own we ought not 10 be
censorious or malediCtOry or hypOcriti-
cal in regard 90 the faults OF others.
The Cnrisny rule is as appropriate
for November as any other mouth TO the
wear: s'Judge not t6atye be not judged,
for with what measure ye mete it shall
DO
MEASURED TO YOU AGAIN.
Most certainly are we not to take the
statement OF red-hot plrtisanship as the
real character OF any Wan. From near
Nv am the great cities OF the land re-
raive daily or weekly newspapers, sent
IN me regularly aud In compliment, so /
see both s,des-I see all siieS-an1 10
Is most entertaining aud my regular
amusemeut, 90 read the opposite
statements. The one statement says
the man is an angel, and the other says
he is q devil; and j split the difference,
and find him halfway between. There
never has been an honest or respectable
man rnuning for the United States Pres
idercy. or for judgeship, or for tho
uayoraltv, or for the shrlevolty, since
the foundation OF the American gov
eminent if we may believe the ola Mes
of newspapers 10 the museums. NhaL
a mercy it Is that they were not all nung
before they were iuaugurated. III man
beIfeye One-hali OF what he sees 10 the
pewspaDers in these times, his career
vii be very short outside OF Blooming
5aIe Insane Asylum. was absent two
or three years ago during one week or
a nolitfcal canvass, and was dependent
entirely upOn what read in regard 20
what had occurred 10 these cities, and i
road there was q procession 10 New
York of five thousand patriots, aud a
DInute after I read To- another sheet
that there were seventeen thousand;
and then / read I'm regard TO another
procession that there were ten thou
sand. aud then I read in another paper
that there were sixty thousand,
A CAMPAIGN ORATOR
In the Rink OF the Academy OF Music
received a very cold receptions very
cbfIipg reception-said one statement.
rpba other statement said that the anCl'
s,ca rose against him; so great was the
s,tbusiasm that for a long whil7 the
GATOR could not be heard, and it was
NV after lifting his hard that the vo'
cifsratiop began 20 subSiie. One state
,,o,t will twist an Interview one way,
aud another sldlcM5u ' ~" u.s. ~
terview another way. You must almIt
n is A very difficult thing M times Ike
these to get very accurate estimate
Ga mans character, and / charge you
~ vour religious teacher, charge you
~ canton and to mercifulness ana &c
prayer. .-.t-., tho -,;st,l,.
uticb many are making, and always do
male, OF applying different STANDARD
of character for those 10 prominent 20
Sit,on from the standard they apply foI
sJDerv DsrsOns. However much