Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-11-09

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his chief weapon. and ne believes
everything bad cbout a man and be-
lieves nothing good, how long before
that man himself will get I'VE the
moral depression? Neither In time nor
eternity.
Il / utter q falsehood In regard to a
man, / may damage him, but / get
for myself tenfold more damage That
is a gun that kicks. If, for instance.
n man be prOfane, under pr0vocation
he will commit any crime. / say under
provOcation. For IL a man VIII NAL
treat the Almighty, would he not mai
treat his fellow man? Ii a man be
guilty of m~alfeasance In Office, he will,
under prOvocation, commit any sin.
He who will steal will lie, and he who
viii ne will steal.
IL, for instance, a man be impure, 1t
opens the door for all other in'~Hity,
for in that one iniquity he &C naits
theft of the worst kind, and covetous-
ness Of the worst kind, and falsehood
pretending to be decent when he Is
not-and maltreats his parents by dis
grazing their name IL 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 u man you charge
him with oil viilainies, with all dis
gushing propensities, with all rotten
ness.
A libertine Is a beast lower than the
vermin that crawl over a 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 GER
tain that d mathematical demonstra-
ton Is doubtful as compared with II.
And then, when you investigate a
man OF such subjects you must go to
the whole length of investigation aud
find out whether or not he has repent
ed. He may have been on his knees
before God and impiOred the divine
forgiveness, and he may have implored
the forgiveness of society and the for
giveness of the world. Although IL a
man commit that sin at thirty or thir-
ty-five years of age, there Ia not one
case out Of a thousand where he ever
repents. You must In your investiga-
tlon e IL 1t Is possible that the one
case investigated may not have been
the exception. But do not chop Off the
seventh commandment to eolit the case.
DO not change Fairbanks scales to
suit what you are weighing with 1t.
DO not cut off a yardstick to suit the
dry goods you are measuring. Let the
law stand and never tamper with 1t.
Some of these political campaign ora
tors, a / have seer them reported In
other years, and as I have heard it in
regard to them, bombarding the suf.
fering candidates all the week, yet
tossing the name of God from their
lips recklessly, guilty of profanity
what are they doing with the third
commandment? Is not the third COM
mandment, 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 i'm.
portant as the other seven? Oh, yes,
we find in all departments men are
hurting their indignation against sins
perhaps to which they are not es-
pecialiy tempted-hurling it against in,
EQUITY toward which they are not par
ticularly drawn.
l have this book FOR my authority
when I say that the man who swears
or the man who breaks the Sabbath
Is as cuipable before God as those can.
didates who break other command.
ments. What right have ycu
and to select which com
m~andIlent we VIII keep and which
we will break? Better not try tC
measure the t~hunderbolts OF the Al
mighty, saying this has less blaze, this
has less momentum. Better not handle
the gums, better bot experiment. much
with the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the ''Iliad" writer
on a nutshell, and you and I have seer
the Lords prayer written on q fve-ceni
piece, but the whole tendency OF thsSt
times is to write 4he Ter Command
nents SO small robody can see then,
| protest 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 o,
Arabia Petraea. q
I bring Up the candidates for ward
and township and city and state office
III bring them up, and l try them by
this decalogue. OF course they are
imperfect We all are imperfect W.
A soy thAhSS we Vb6hN hOt w Cay ' We w
things we ought not to 10. We have
all been wrong; we have all done
wrong. But / shall find out one of the
candidates who comes, In my estima
ton, nearest to obedience of the Ter
Commandments, and l win vote fol
him unless you love God less thar
your party-then you will not
You and l 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
liglous interests OF this country canno,
afford to have bad officials, and If you
on looking oyer the whole field. cannot
find men who, in your estimation, come
within reasonable distance of obedienc5
of the Decalogue, stay at home ans
do not vote at all.
1 suppose when in the city Of Sodon
there were four candidates put up fol
office, and Lot did not believe In u q
them, he did not register. l suppose il
there came a crisis In the politics o.
Babylon, where Daniel did not believt
In any of the candidates. he staid n
home ON election day, praying witt
his face toward Jerusalem. But W,
have no such crisis, we have no suci