The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30

! II. for instance, man be impure III
opens the door for all other ihiquity, for
in that one iuiquity he commits theft OF
the worst kind and covctousuess Of the
worst kind, and alsehoo1-prctcnding 10
1 be decent when he is uOt-aud maltrCai s
his parents by disgracinC their name if
they were good. BE careful, therefore,
how you charge that sin agaiu5tauE man.
either in high place or low place. either IN
once or out of office, because when You
make that charge against q man yOu
charge him with all vilIaiHiCs with all
disgusting propcnsities, with all rotten
ness.
A libertine is a beast, lower than the
vermin that crawl over summer carcass
lower than the swine, for the swine has
no intelligence TO sin against. Be careful,
then, how you charge that against any
man You must be 50 certain that a
mathematical demonstration is doubtful
as compared with it,
And. then, when YOU investigate a man
on such subjects, you must go TO the
whole length of investigation, and find
out whether or not he has repented. He
may have been on his knees before God
| and implorcd the divine forgiveness, and
he may have implOred the forgiveness Of
. society and the forgiveness of the world :;
| although If man commit that sin at 30
or 30 years of age there is not one case
| out of 1000 where he ever repents You
must in your investigation see if it is pos
sible that the one case investigated may
not have been the exception. But do not
chop off the seventh commandment to
suit the case. Do not change Fairbanks
scales to suit what you are weighing with
it. Do not cut off a yardstict to suit the
| dry goods you are measuring. Let the
| law stand, and never tamper with it,
Above all | charge you, DO not join in
| the cry that [ have heard-fOr fifteen
] ,fNr b.,
! is no such thing as purity. If you make
| that charge you are fOul-mouthed scan
| daler Of the human race. You are a leper.
Make room for that lcper! When a man,
/ by pen or type or tongue, utters such a
! SANDER on the human race that there is
| no such thing as purity, l know right
away that that man himself is a walking
lazarettO, reeking ulcer, and is fit for no
/ society better than that of devils damned.
| We may enlarge our charities in such n
/ case, but in no such case let us shave off
! the Ten Commandments. Let them stand
as the everlasting defence of society and
| of the Church of God.
The committing of one sin opens the
door for the commission of other sins.
! You see it every day. Those embezzlers
! those bank cashiers abscOnding as soon as
| they are brought to Justice develop the
! fact that they We're in all kinds of sin. No
| exception to the rule. They all kept bad
! company, they nearly all gambled, they
/ all went to places where they ought not
| WhytIhe commission the one sin opened
| the gate for all the other sins. Sins so in
| focks, in droves, and in herds. You open
| the door for one sin, that invites in all the
miserable segregation.
Some of the campaign orators this au-
| tumn, some of them, mbarding the suf-
ferlng candidates all the week, will think
no wrong i'll sabbath breaking. All the
week hurting the eighth commandment
at one candidate, the seventh command
ment at another candidate, and the ninth
! commandment at still another. what are
they doing with the fourth command
ment, Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it hOlyI' Breaking it. Is not the
fourth commandment as important as
the eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth
Some OF these political campaign orators,
as | have seen them reported in other
| years, and as l have heard it in regard
to them, bombarding the suffering can
didates all the week. yet tossing the
name of God from their lips recklessly
| guilty of profanity. What are they doing
| with the third commandments Is not the
| third commandment, which says. Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy
God in vain, for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless that taketh his name in
vain lis not the third commandment as
we find in all departments men are hurl-
ing their indignation against sins, per
hapS, TO which they are not especially
| tempted - hurting it against iuiquity
toward which they are not particula rly
drawn.
have this book for my authority when
| say that the man who swears or the
man who breaks the Sabbath is as cul-
pable before God as those candidates who
I hppalT n hon, n md ,f,rl,f
have you and to select which command
ment we will keep and which we will
breakf Better not try to measure the
thunderbOlts of the Almighty, saying this
has less blaze, this has less momentum
Better not handle the guns, better not ex-
| pertinent much with the divine ammuni-
tion. Cicero said he saw the Had
written on nutshell, and you and have
seen the Lord prayer written on a five
cent piece; but the whole tendency of
| these times is to write the ten command
ments so small nobody can see them. |
| protest this day against the attempt to re
! wise the Decal0gue which was given on
Mount Sinai amid the blast of trumpets
! and the cracking Of the rocks and the
! paroXysil 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 imper-
! feet. 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, III my estimation, nearest TO obc.
/ dience OF the Ten 70 nmandments, and
/ WI vote for him, and YOU will vote for
him unless YOU 10 e Goa less than your
/ party; tnen you will not.
Herodotus said that NitOcris, the
| daughter Of NebUchadnezzar was so fas-
cinated with her beautiful village of Ar
dericca, that she bad the river above
| Babylon changed so il wound this way
and wound that, and curved this way and
curved that, and though YOU sailed on il
for three days every day you would be in
sight of that exquisite village Now. /
do not care which way you sail in morals,
or which way you sail in lite, if you only
sail within sight of this beautiful group
( of divine commandments. Although they
may sometimes seem to be n little
angular, l 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
tonlng up on all these sub Ccts | tell
YOU there is nothing worse to fight than
the ten regiments, with bayouets and
sabres of fire, marching down the side OF
Mount Sinai. Taey ALWAYS gain the vi =
( tory, and those who hight against them
go under There are thousands and tens