The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-23

commandments ana Will VOCe 1OI
Eiih; and yoli Viii Vote for Bin iifiless
you love God less than your party;
then you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitrocris, the
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so
fascinated with her beautiful village
of Ardericca that she had the river
above babylon changed SO it wound
this way aid wound that, and etirved
this way and curved that, and though
you sailed on it for three days every
day you would be in sight OF this sx.
quisits village. Now, / do not care
which way you sail in morals; or which
way you sail in life; if you only sail
within sight OF this beautiful group
of divine commandments. Although
they may sometimes seem to be q
little angular. do not care which way
you sail, if you sail in sight of them
you will never run aground and you
will never be shipwrecked. Society
needs toning up ON all these subjects.
1 tell you there Is nothing worse to
bayonets and sabers 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 thou
sands of men being slain by the
Decalogue. What is the matter with the
young man of whom read, dying in
his designations? In his dying delirium
he said: Now. fetch on the dice. Il
is timel No, no! Bring on more winel
Oh, how they rattle their chainsl
Fiends, fiends, flends! Isay you cheat!
The cards are markedi Oh, DEATH oh,
death! Fiends. fiends, fiends!' And
he gasped his last and was gone. The
ten commandments slew him.
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. Isuppose If
there came 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 l have to
say to you to-day that the moral
character 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 up 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 HIS
tory? 1t is because she has the best
ruler in all Europe; all the attempts
to scandalize her name failure.
The political power of the Talleyrand
brooded all the political tricksters of
the last ninety years. The dishonest
vice-presidency of Aaron Burr blasted
this nation until important letters were
in cipher, because the people
could not trust the United States mail.
And let the courtcircles of Louis XIV.
and Henry VIII. march out, followed
by the debauched nations.
But shall not leave you under the
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
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 Slnaitic upheavals is the
Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is
higher than Mount Sinai The English
survey expedition, know, say that
one Sinaitic peak is seven thousand feet
high and another eight thousand and
another nine thousand feet high, and
travellers tell us that Mount Calvary
IS only bluff outside of the wall of
but Calvary in moral sig
nificance overtops and .overshadows
LII the mountains of the hemispheres,
md Mount Washington and Mount
Blanc and the uimalayas are hill
locks compared with it. You know
hat sometimes one fortress will silence
another fortress. Moultrie silenced
and against the mountain of |
The law l put the mountain of the
ross. 1.-THE soul that sinneth, it shall |
lie" booms one, until the earth jars
under the cannonade. s.Save them
rom going down to the pit. 1 have
'ound ransom" pleads the other,
Until earth and Heaven and hell
,remble under the reverberation. And |
Moses, who commands the one, sur
'enders to Christ, who commands the |
,ther.
Once by the law our hopes were slain.;
But now in Christ we live again..
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupt- |
d one day and poured torrents of |
CORA upon the villages at the base,
,ut that the mountain divided it's |
lame and made lane of safely for all |
hose who came to rescue their aged |
PARENTS. And this volcanic Sinai |
livides its fury for all those
whom Christ has come to rescue |
rom the red ruin on both sides.
standing as do to-day, half way be-
;ween the two mountains-the noun
ain of the Exodus and the mountain
# the nineteenth of John--all my ter
or comes into supernatural calm, for
he uproar of the one mountain sub |
ides into quiet. and comes down into |
o deep a-silence that can hear the |
'ther mountain speak-ayc, can hear
whisper: 'The,blood, the blood, the |
Hood that cleanseth from all sin"
The survey expedition says that the
,inaitic mountains have wadyS. or |