Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-16


has less momentum. Better not ham
die the guns better not experiment
much with the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the Iliad written Oh
nut shell, and you and | have seen
the Lords PRAYER written on a five
cent piece: but the whole tendency OF
these times is 70 write the Ten Com
mandments 50 small nobody can see
them. 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 ami the paroxysm of the
mountain of Arabia Petrea.
bring up the candidates for ward
and township, ana city and state
Office; bring them up. and try them
bv this decalogue. OF course they are
imperfect. 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. Blu. ! slail lind out one of the
candidates who comes, in my estiina-
ton, nearest TO the obedience of tn
Ten Commandments and ! will vote
for him, ana you .vill vote for him nm
less You lore God less than your party:
then You will not
Herodotns SAID that Mitocris, the
aau~hter OF Nebuchadnezzar, was SO
fascinated with her beautiful village o
Ardericca, that she had the ,iverabove
Babylon changed 50 il wound this way
and wound that and curved this way
and curved that. and thoughyou sailed
ON it for three days every day you
would be in sight OF that exquisite
village. Now. do not care which way
,ou will sal. in morals, or which way
sou viii sail in life. if you only sail
within sight OF this beautiful group OF
divine commandments. Although they
may sometimes seem to be little an
gular, / do not care which way you
sail. if YOU sail in sight OF them you
will never run aground and you VIII
never be shipwrecked. Society needs
toning no on all these subjects. tell
YOU there is nothing worse to night
than the ten regiments. with bayonets
and sabers of fire marching down the
side of Mount Sinai They always gain
the victory, and those who fight against
them go under. There are thousands
and tens of thousands of men being
slain by the Decalogue. What is the
matter with that young man of whom
read. dying in his designations? In
his dying delirium he said: Nov.
fetch on the dice. II is minel No, no.
II is gone, all is gone! Bring ON more
wine! Bring on more winel O. how
they rattle their chains! Fiends, tiends,
tends. say YOU cheat! The cards are
marked. @, death! oh, DEATH oh, death!
Fiendsl fiendsl fiendsr' And he gasped
his last and was gone. The Ten Com
nandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this
nineteenth century revise the Ten
Commandments, but let them in So
,ietv and at the polls put to the front
those who come the nearest to this
iod-lifted standard On the first Tues
lay morning in November read to-
twentieth chapter of Exodus at family
prayers. The moral or immoral char
actcr of the officers elected will add -
per cent. unto or substract IS per cent
from the public morals. You and
cannot afford t. have bad officials; the
Young men OF this country cannot az
ford TO have had officials, the CONNER
eial the moral. the artistic, the ayr
cultural the maIu aeturing, the re-
ligious interests OF this count Y cannot
afford to have bad officials: aud If yon.
IN looking over 4e whole field. cannot
lind men, who in your estimation, come
within reasoaab distance Of obeli-
ence Of the De.a loruc. stay at home and
do not vote at alt
suppose when IN the city of Sodom
there were foar candidates put up 70.
Office. and Lot dill not believe any o.
them. he did not register. J suppose II
there came n crisis in the politics o
Babylon. where Daniel did not believe
in any of the candidates, he stayed at
home on election day. praying with his
ace toward Jerusalem. But we have
no such crisis we have no such ex-
igency. THANK God. But | have to say
to YOU to-day that the moral character
Of rulers always affects the ruled; and
appeal to history. Wicked King Ma
nasseh depressed the moral tone of al
into idolatrv. Good King Josiah lifted
up the whole nation by his excellent
example. Why is it that to-day En-
gland is higher up in morals than nj
any point in her national history? 1t i
because she has the best ruler in ali
Europe. all the attempts to scandali1o
her name a failure. The political
power of Talleyrand brooded all the
political triclxst RS of the last ninety
years. The dishonest vice presidency
Of Aaron Burr blasted this nation I'M
til important letters were written in
cipher. because the people could no;
trust the United States mail. And lei
the court circles of Louis Nv and Henri,
VIII. march out followed by the de-
bauched nations.
The higher up You put a bad man
the worse is his power for evil. The
great fabulist says that the pigeons
were in fright at a kite flying in the
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