The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-01

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
l suppose when in the city Of Sodom
there were four candidates put up for Of
fee 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 Daniel did not believe in
any of the candidates, he stayed at home
on lection day, praying with his face
toward Jerusalem. But we have no
such crisis. We have no such exigency,
thank God. But have to say to you to-
day that the moral character of rulers
always affects the ruled and 1 appeal to
history.
Wicked King Manassen depressed the
moral tone of all the nation of judah and
threw them into idOlatry. Good King
Josiah lefted up the whole nation by his
| excellent example. Why is it that today
England is higher up in morals than at
any point in her national history? IT
is because she has the best ruler in all
Europe-all the attempts to scandaliZe
her name failure. The political power
of Talleyrand brooded all the political
tricksters of the last ninety years. The
dishonest vice-presidency OF Aaron Burr
blasted this nation until important let
tiers were written in cipher, because the
! people could not trust the United States
mail And let the court circles of Louis
XIV and Henry VIII march out, followed
by the debauched nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil. The great
fabulist says that the pigeons were in
fright at a kite flying in the air, and so
these pigeons lowered near the dovecote,
but one day the kite said: "Why are
you so afraid? Why do you pass your
life in terror? Make me king, and I'll
destroy all your enlslies" So the
pigeons made the kite king. and as soon
as he got the throne his regular diet was
a pigeon a day. And while one of his
victims was waiting for its turn to come
it said: Served us right!' The ma
laria of swamps rises from the plain to
the hight but moral malaria descends
! from the mountain to the plain. Be
careful therefore how you elevate into
any style of authority men who are in
any wise antagonistic to the ten COM
mandments.
As near as I can tell the most i'm
portant thing now to be done is to have
about forty million copies of the Sim
attic decalogue printed and scattered
throughout the land. 1t was a terrible
waste when the Alexandrian library was
destroyed, and the books were taken to
heat 1000 baths for the citizens Of Alex
andria. 1t was very expensive heat.
But without any harm to the decalogue
you could with it heat 100000 baths of
pie.
l say we want a tonic-a mighty ton
| &c, a corrective, an all powerful correct
| ive-and Moses in the text, with steady
hand, Notwithstanding the Earring mount
| aims, and the full orchestra of the tenn
| pest, and the blazing of the air, pours
| out the ten drops-no more, no less
which our people need to take for their
moral convalescence.
The Closing InjunctiOns.
| But shall not leave you under the dis
| enlargement of the ten commandments,
| because we have all offended. There is
another mountain in sight, and while
| one mountain thunders the other an
| swers in thunder, and while Mount
| Sinai, with lightning, 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 viii ever stop the Sinaitic upheavals
| is the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is
| higher than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, 1 know,
say that one Sinaitic peak is 1000 feet
! high and another 5000, and another 1000
/ feet high, and travellers tell US that
i Mount Calvary is only a bluff outside
/ of the wall of Jerusalem, but Calvary,
| in moral significance. overtops and
| overshadows all the mountains of the
! newspapers, ana Mount washington
| and Mount Blanc and the Himalayas
| are hillOcks compared with it. You know
| that sometimes one fortress will silence
! another fortress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against
| the mountain of the law l put the noun
| tain of the cross. THE soul that sinneth
| it 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 reverbation. And Moses, who COM
mands the one, surrenders to Christ, who
| commands the other.
Once by the law our 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 it's 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 all
/ those whom Christ has come tc rescue
| from the red ruin on both sides. Stand
| ing as / do today half way between the
\ two mountains-the mountain of the
j Exodus and the mountain of the nine
| teenth of John-all 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 it whisper. THE blood,
the blood, the blood that cleanseth from
| all sim"
The survey expedition says that the
| Sinaitic mountains have wadys or water
courses-Alleyat and Ajelah-emptying
| into Feiran. But those streams are not
| navigabie. No boat put into those rocky
| streams could sail. But 1 have to tell
| you this day that the boat of gospel res
| cue comes right up amid the water
courses of Sinaitic gloom and threat,
| 1xr 10 foly off he
| shadows into the calm sunlight of God S
| pardon and into the land of peace.
Oh, If you could see that boat of gospel
rescue coming this day you would feel as
| John Gilmore in his book, THE Storm
| Warriors" says that a ships crew felt
on the Kentish Knock sands, off the coast
Of England, when they were being beat
| en- to pieces and they all felt they must
| diei They had given up all hope, and
every moment washed off another plank
| from the wreck, \and they said, 1--WE
| must die; we must der But after they
saw Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers for them, and the man
| standing highest up on the wreck said
| Can 1t be? 1t is, ii is, it is, il isl Thank
| Cod 1t is a Ramsgate hfeboati 1t is,
! il Is, Ii is, ii isp'
And the old Jack Tar, describing that
| lifeboat to his comrades after he got
ashore, said, "Oh, my lads what beauty
it did seem coming through the break
| ers that awful day. May God, through
! the mercy Of Jesus Christ, take us all off
1 the miserable wreck of our sin into the
| beautiful IfebOat of the gosDell