The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-11-01

AAN'b -.'J' soy ing JHlS HAS lcsS UliiLe, Julb
has less momentum. Better not han
die the guns better not experiment
much with the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the Had written on
nut she'll, and you and | have seen
the Lords prayer written on fve-
cent piece; but the whole tendency of
these times is to write the Ten Com
mandments so small nobody can see
them. lprotest this day against the
attempt to revise the Decalogue which
was given on Mount Sinai amid the
blast of trumpets and the cracking Of
the rocks and the paroxysm of the
mountain Of Arabia Petrea.
bring up the candidates for ward,
and township, and city, and state
office; bring them up and try them
by this decalogue. OF course they are
imperfect. We are all imperfect We
say things we ought not to say, we do
things we ought not to do. We have
all been wrong, we have all done
wrong. But shall find out one of the
candidates who comes, in my estima-
tion, nearest to the obedience of the
Ten Commandments, and l will vote
for him, and you will vote for him un-
less you love God less than your party;
then you will not.
Herodotus SAID that Mitocris, the
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so
fascinated with her beautiful village OF
Ardericca, that she had the river above
Babylon changed so 1t wound this way
and wound that, and curved this way
and curved that, and though you sailed
on 1t for three days every day you
would be in sight OF that exquisite
village. Now, do not care which way
you will sail in morals, or which way
you will sail in life, II you only sail
within sight of this beautiful group OF
divine commandments. Although they
may sometimes seem to be little an
gular, 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. tell
you there is nothing worse to fight
than the ten regiments, with 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 thousands of men being
slain by the Decalogue. What is the
matter with that young man Of whom
read, dying in his dissipations? In
his dying delirium he said: Now,
fetch on the dice. " is mine! No, mol
1t is gone, all is gone! Bring on more
winel Bring on more winel o, how
they rattle their chainsl Fiends, fiends,
fiends! say you cheat! The cards are
markell o, death! oh, death! oh, death!
Fiends! fiendsl fiends" And he gasped
his last and was gone. The Ten Com
mandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this
nineteenth century revise the Ten
Commandments, but let them in So
,ciety and at the polls put to the front
those who come the nearest to this
God-lifted standard. On the first Tues
day morning in November read thu
twentieth chapter of Exodus at family
prayers. The moral or immoral char
acter of the officers elected will add 75
per cent unto or substract 10 per cent.
from the public morals You and
cannot afford TO have bad officials; the
young men of this country cannot af-
ford to have bad officials; the CONNER
cial, the moral, the artistic, the agri-
cultural, the manufacturing, the re-
ligious interests of this country cannot
afford TO have bad officials; and II you,
on looking over the whole field, cannot
find men, who in your estimation, come
within reasonable distance of obedi.
ence Of the Decalogue. stay at home and
do not vote at all
suppose when in the city of Sodom
there were four candidates put up for
office, and Lot did not believe any OF
them, he did not register. suppose II
there came crisis in the politics of
Babylon, where Daniel did not believe
in any Of the candidates, he stayed at
home on election day praying with his
face toward Jerusalem. But we have
no such crisis, we have no such ex-
igency, thank God. But have to say
to you to-day that the moral character
of rulers always affects the ruled; and
appeal to history. Wicked King Ma
nasseh 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 1t that to-day En-
gland is higher up in morals than at
any point in her national history 1t 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 un.
til important letters 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 de.
bauched nations. ...' Co.,.
The higher up you put q bad man,
the worse Is his power for evil. The
great fabulist says that the pigeons
were In fright at kite flying in the
air, and so these pig cons hovered 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 enemies" So
the pigeons made the k ite king, and aa
soon as he got the throne, his regular
diet was pigeon day. And while
one OF the victims was waiting for It's
turn 10 come, II said: Served us right"