Connecticut western news., 1893-11-02

LcL uOt idulcS anu ScuIleuucu HI JIllS nineteenth century revise the Ten Com mandments, but let them in society and at the polls put to the front those who come the nearest to this God lifted stand ard. On the first Tuesday morning in November read the twentieth chapter of Exodus at family prayers. The moral or immoral character of the officers elect ed will add 75 per cent unto or subtract 75 per cent from the public morals.
 You and 1 cannot afford to have bad officials. The young men of this country cannot afford to have bad officials. The commercial, the moral, the artistic, the agricultural, the manufacturing, the re- igious interests of this country cannot afford to have bad officials, and if you, 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.
 GOOD CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.
 I 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. Isuppose if there came a crisis in the politics of Babylon, where Daniel did not believe in any of the candidates, he staid at home on election day, praying with his face toward Jerusalem. But we have no such crisis, we have no such exi- gency, thank God. But have to say to you today that the moral character of rulers always affects the ruled, and ap- peal to history.
 Wicked King Manasseh 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 it to- day 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 90 years. The dis honest vice presidency of Aaron Burr blasted this nation until important let ters were written in cipher, because the people could not trust the United States mail. And let the court circles of Louis A dhd F11A Oh OaU3 Ao1Ao WNo 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 kite flying in the air, and so these pigeons lowered near tte dovecot 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 kite king, and as soon as he got the throne his regular diet was pigeon day. And while one of the victims was wait ing for its turn to come it said, Served us srightp The malaria of swamps rises from the plain to the height, but moral malaria descends from the mountain to the plain. Be careful therefore how you elevate into any style of authority men who are ill any wise antagonistic to the Ten Commandments.
 As near as can tell the most impor- tant thing now to be done is to have about 40,000,000 copies of the Sinaitic Decalogue printed and scattered through out the land. It was terrible waste when the Alexandrian library was de- suroyed, and the books were taken to heat 1, 900 baths for the citizens of Alex andria. It was very expensive heat. But without any harm to the Decalogue, you could with it heat a hundred thou sand baths of moral purifcation for the American people.
 say we want a tonic-a mighty tonic, 8 corrective, an all powerful correct ive-and Moses in the text, with steady hand, notwithstanding the jarring noun tains and the full orchestra of the tenn pest. and the blazing of the air, pours out the 10 drops-no more, no less-which our people need to take for their moral convalescence.
 THE GOSPEL IN POLITICS.
 But I shall not leave you under the Encouragement of the Ten Command ments, because we have all offended. There is another mountain in sight, and while one mountain thunders the other answers 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 will ever stop the Sinaitic upheavals is the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai.
 The English survey expedition, I know, say that one Sinaitic peak is 1000 feet high and another 5000 and another 5000 feet high, and travellers tell us that Mount Calvary is only bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem. But Calvary in moral significance overtops and over shadows all the mountains of the hemi- spheres, and Mount Washington and Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hil- locks compared with it. You know that sometimes one fortress will silence an- other fortress.
 Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the mountain of the law I put the mountain of the cross. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die, " booms one until the earth jars under the cannonads. "Save them from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom" pleads the other until earth and heaven and hell tremble un- der the reverberation. And Moses, who commands 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 erupt- ed 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 to rescue from the red ruin on both sides. Stand ing as do today, half way between the two mountains-the mountain of the Exodus and the mountain of the nine teenth of John-all my terror comes in- to supernatural calm, for the uproar of the one mountain subsidies into quiet and comes down into so deep a silence that I can hear the other mountain speak-ay, can hear it whisper, 1.-The blO0d fha h1o01 tha bIoOd fbof ,1aopoatb