Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-03

we do things we ought not to do. We
have all been wrong. we have al done
wrong. But l shall find out one of
the candidates who comes. in my esti-
ma ion, nearest TO obedience of the
ten amendments. and | will vote
4, for him. and you will vote for him un-
ess you love God less than your party;
then you will not
/ lie otus said thai Nitocris the
dau liter OF Ne uchednezzar, was 20
fascinated wi h her beautiful village
of Arderic a that she had G river
above Babylon changed SO it wound
his way and wound hat, and curved
his way and curved tn I. and though
you sailed on Il for three Gays every
lay 70 would be in sight of that
exquisite VILLAGE. Now. | do no care
/ which way you sail in morals, or
which way you sail in liz. if you only
ali within sight of this beauti-
ful group of divine commandments.
Although they may sometimes seem
to be lite gular. | do not are
which way yol sail, if you sail in
sight of hem you will never run
aground and you will never he ship
wrecked. Society needs toning up on
Ill these subjects | tel you there is
moth ng worse TO fight than the ten
regiments, with bayonets AMI sabres
of fire. marching down the side of
Mount Sinai. They always gain the
victory, and those who fight against
them go under 7 here are thousands
and tens of thousandS of men being
slain uy the decalogue. What is the
matter with that young man of whom
/ rea diving in his dissipations' In
his dying delirium he said: I'm wv.
fetch on he dice. 1t is NINE! No. no!
is gone, all gone! Bring on more
wine! Bring on IN re wine! Oh, how
they rattle their chains! Fiends,
lends, fiends! | say you cheat! The
cards are marked! Oh, DEATH oh
deaf oh, death! Fiends, fiends
dends!" And he gasped his last and
was gone, he ten commandments
lew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this
nineteenth century revise the TIN
commandments, bat let them in society
and at the polls put to the front those
who come the nearest to this God
lifted tandard. On the first Tuesday
IN rning in November, read the TWEEN
tieth chapter of Exodus at family
ayers. The moral or immoral chlr-
acter of officers elected will add
seventy-five per crut unto or subtract
,eventy-five per cent from the publ Z
morals You and l cannot affor 70
ave b1d officials the young men OF
this country cannot afford 10 bave bad
officials; the com percial, the moral,
the artistic, the agricultural, the man
ufacturing, the religious interests of
this country, cannot afford to have bad
OIL ials; and if you. on look ng over
the whole field, cannot find men who,
in your estimation. come within rea-
sonable distance of be fence of the
drcalogue, stay at hons 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 in any
OF them, he did not register. ! sup
pose If there came "a crisis in tn p IL
ties of Babylon, where Daniel did MT
believe n any of the candidates, he
stayed at home on election day, pra =
ing with his face toward Jerus lem.
But we have no such crisis, we have
no such eNigcncy, thank 60 }. But
have to say to you to-day that the
moral chara ter of rulers always eff
tects the ruled; and | appeal To his
| tory. Wicked King Manasseh de-
| pressed the moral tone o. all the ma
on of judah, and threw tn III into
! idolatry. Good hi e Josiah Ii ted no
| tie VIII nation ly his excellent eX-
ample Why it that 10 day England
is higher up in morals than at any
point in her national h story? 1t $
because she has the best ruler in all
| Europe, all he attempt TO scandal e
her name a failure. The political
| power OF Tai eNrand ironded ali the
] political tricksters OF the last ninety
years. The dish mes Vice Presidency
of Aaron Burr blasted this ma ion un-
til portant letters were written in
cipher, because the people could not
trust the United tates mail. And let
the court circles OF Louis XIV. and
Henry Will march out, followed by
The debauched atoms
he higher up you PIT bad man
the worse is his power TO evil he
great fabuli>t says that the pigeons
were in fright at a kite flying in the
air, and so these pigeons lowered p--r
the dovecote; but one day The Kat
said, why are You so afraid? why do
you pass your ife in terror? make me
king, and III de,troy all your enc
mics" So the pigeo made the kite
king. and as soon as he got the throne,
his regular diet was n pigeon day.
| And while one of the victims was
waiting for s turn to come it said:
"Served us ria ht?" The malaria OF
swamps rises from the plain TO the
height, but moral ma aria descend~
from the mountain to the plain. lie
careful, therefore, how YOU elevate
into any style of authority men who
are in any wise antagonistic to the
ten commandments.
AS near s | can tell, the m st i'm.
portant thing now to be done is tC
have about 100000 pies of the
Sinaitic decalogue printed an scat
tered throughout the land. 1t was q
terrible vast when the AlevandriaI
library was destroyed. and the book:
were taken to heat \, J0O baths for the
citizens of Alexandria. 1t was very
expensive he t. But without any
harm 10 the decalogue, you could witt
it heat 10000 ba h of moral purIfica
tion for the American people.
| say we want a mic a mighty
tonic-a corrective-an all-powerfu
CORE tive and Moses in he tent
WITH steady hand, notwithsiandin
he Earring mountains and the ful
orch stra OF tue mpVst and tue blaz
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