Connecticut western news., 1893-11-02

Lord Almighty, would he not maltreat his fellow man? If man be guilty of malfeasance in office, he will, under provocation, commit any sin. He who will steal will lie, and he who will lie will steal.
 If, for instance, man be impure, it opens the door for all other iniquity, for in that one iniquity he commits theft of the worse kind, and covetousness of the worst kind. and falsehood-pretending to be decent when he is not-and mal- treats his parents by disgracing their name if they were good. Be careful, therefore, how you charge that sin against any man either in high place or low place, either in office or out of office, because when you make that charge against man you charge him with all villainies, with all disgusting propensi- ties, with all rottenness.
 A libertine is a beast lower than the vermin that crawl over summer car cass-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 so cer- tain that mathematical demonstration is doubtful as compared with it.
 NO TAMrERING WITH THE LAW. And then, when you investigate 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 implored the divine forgiveness, and he may have implored the forgive ness of societyand the forgiveness of the world. Although if a man commit that sin at 30 or B years of age, there is not onecase out of thousand where he ever repents. You must in your investigation see if it is possible that the one case in- vestigated may not have been the excep- tion. But do not chop off the seventh commandment to suit the case. Do not change Fairbanks scale to suit what you are weighing with 1t. Do not cut off yardstick to suit the dry goods you are measuring. Let the law stand and nev- CT tamper with it.
 Above all, I charge you do not join in the cry that Ihave heard-for 15, 20years I have heard it-that there is no such thing as purity. If you make that charge, you are foul mouthed scandaler of the human race. You are a leper. Make room for that leper! When man, by pen or type or tongue utters such islander on the human race that there is no such thing as purity, know right away that that man himself is walking lazaretto, reeking ulcer, and is fit for no society better than that of devils damned. We may enlarge our charities in such 8 case, but in no such case let us shave off the Ten Commandments. Let them stand as the everlasting defense 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 were in all kinds of sin. No exception to the rule. They all kept bad company; they nearly all gam bled; they all went to places where they ought not Why? The commission of the one sin opened the gate for all the other sins. Sins go in focks, in droves and in herds. You open the door for one sin-that invites in all the miserable seg- regation.
 Some of the campaign orators this au- tumn, some of them-bomb barding the suffering candidates all the week, will think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All the week hurling the eighth command ment at one candidate, the seventh com mandment at another candidate, and the ninth commandment at still another, what are they doing with the fourth commandment-"Re the Sab bath day to keep it holy?" Breaking it. Is not the fourth commandment as i'm portant as the eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth?
 Some of these political campaign or ators, as I have seen them reported in other years, and as l. have heard it in regard to them, bombarding the suffer ing candidates all the week, yet tossing the name of God from their lips reck- lessly, guilty of profanity-what are they doing with the third command ment? 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 guilt less that taketh his name in vain"- is not the third commandment as inn portant as the other seven2 Oh, yes, we find in all departments men are hurling their indignation against sins perhaps to which they are not especially tempted hurling it against iniquity toward which they are not particularly drawn.
 TRIED BY THE DECALoGUE.
 I have this book for my authority when I say that the man who swears or the man who breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God as those candidates who break other commandments. What right have you and to select which commandment we will keep and which we will break? Better not try to meas ure the thunderbolts of the Almighty, saying this has less blaze, this has less momentum. Better not handle the guns, better not experiment much with the di- vine ammunition.
 Cicero said he saw the ssIliad" written on nutshell, and you and I have seen the Lords Prayer written on a 5 cent piece, but the whole tendency of these times is to write the Ten Commandments so small nobody can see them. protest this day against the attempt to revise the Dccalogue which was given on Mount Sinai amid the blast of trumpets, and r the cracking of the rocks, and the par oxysm of the mountain of Arabia Petr8a I bring up the candidates for ward and township and city and state office
 bring them up, and I 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 I shall find out one of the candidates who comes, in my estimation, nearest to obe- dience of the Ten Commandments, and I will vote for him, and you will vote for him unless you love God less than your party-then you will not.
 Herodotus said that Nitocris, the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so fas- cinated with her beautiful village of Ardericca that she had the river ahove