The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30

. reasonable distance OF obedience of the
Dacaogue, stay at home and do not vote
at all.
I suppose when in the city Of Sodom
. there were four candi iates put up for
. once AMI Lot did not believe in any of
I them, he did not register | suppose If
. there came crisis in the politics OF
. Babylon, where Daniel did not believe in
any Of the candidates he STAYED at home
on election day, praying, with his face
1 towards Jerusalem. But we have no such
. crisis, we have no such cXigency thank
| God. But ! have to say 20 you to-day
that the moral character of rulers always
affects the ruled and appeal to history.
/ Wicked King Manasseh depressed the
moral tone Of all Of the nation of Judah
and threw them into idolatry. Good King
| Josiah lifted up the whole nation by his
/ excellent example. Why is it thai to-day
! England is higher up in morals than at
/ any point in her national history 1t is
! because she has the best ruler in all
| Europe, all the attempts to scandaliZe
! her name failure. The political power
/ of Talleyrand brOodcd all the political
! trickstcrs of the last ninety years. The
| dishonest Vice Presidency of Aaron Burr
! blasted this nation until important letters
| were written in cipher because the pco-
/ pie could not trust the United States
| mail. And let the court circles of Louis
| XIV and Henry VIII march out, followed
! by the debauched nation.
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 a. a kite flying in the air, and SO
| these pigeons lowered near the dovecote:
| but one day the kite said: WIZ are you
so afraidl 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 "a pigeon a day. And
while one of the victims was waiting for
its turn to come. it said Served US
right!' The malaria of swamps rises
| from the plain to the hight. but moral
malaria descends from the mountain to
! the plain. Be careful therefore, how you
| elevate into any style of authority men
| who are in any wise antagOnistic to the
| Ten Commandments.
! AS near as | can tell, the most impor-
| taut thing now to be done is to have about
! forty million copies of the Sinaitic Deca-
| logue printed and scattered throughout
! the land. 1t was a terrible waste when
| the Alexandrian library was destroyed,
| and the books were taken to heat four
| thousand baths for the citizens of Alex
andria. 1t was very expensive heat. But
| without any harm to the DecalOgue, you
! could with il heat a hundred thousand
| baths Of moral publication for the Ameri
! can people
a cOrrective-an all-powerful corrective
| and Moses in the text, with steady hand,
! Notwithstanding the Earring mountains
! aud the full orchestra of the tempest and
the blazing Of the air, pOurs out the ten
! drops-no more, no less-which our peo-
pie need to take for their moral conva-
| lescCnce.
But / shall not leave you under the dis
! enlargement Of the Ten Commandments,
| because we have all offended. There is
another mountain in sight, and while one
mountain thuuders the other answers in
thunder: and while Mount Sinai, with
lightning, writes doom, the other mount
tain, with lightning, writes mercy. The
only way you will ever spike the guns of
| theDecalOgue is byt hespikes 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,
! know say that one Sinaitic peak is 900
feet high, and another 5000 and another
us that Mount Calvary is only
bluff outside of the wall of
Jerusalem; but Calvary in moral signiti-
! canoe overtops and overShadOws all the
mountains Of the hemispheres and Mount
Washington and Mont Blanc and the
| Himalayas are hillOcks compared with it.
| You know that sometimes one fortress
| will silence another fortress. Moultrie
! siIenced Sumter; and against the noun
| tain of the law | put the mountain of the
| cross. The soul that sinneth, it shall
| die boOms one, until the earth jars
| under the cannOnade. Save them from
! going down to the pit, have found a ran
! SON. pleads the other, until earth and
| heaven and hell tremble under the re-
| verberation. And Moses, who commands
! the one, surrenders TO Christ, who COM
| mands the other.
once by the law our hopes were slain,
| But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted
one day and poured torrents of scoria
| upon the villages at the base, but that
the mountain divided It's fame and made
a lane of safety for all those who came to
rescue their aged parents. And this vol
canic Sinai divides its fury for all those
| whom Christ has come to rescue from the
red ruin on both sides. Standing as / do
| to-day, half way between the two noun
/ tainS-the mountain of the Exodus and
the mountain OF the 18th of John-all my
| terror comes into supernatural calm, for
| the uprOar Of the one mountain subsidies
! into quiet, and comes down into so deep
| a silence that ! can hear the other noun
tain speak-ay, can hear it whisper:
The blood, the blood, the blood that
! cleauSeth from all sin "
The Survey Expedition SAYS that the
! Sinaitic mountains have wadys or water
! CourSeS-AllcNaJ and Aielah-emptying
! into toirln. But those streams are not
/ navigable. No boat put into those rocky
streams could sail. But | have 10 tell YOU
this day that the boat of gospel-lescue
comes right up amid the water-courses of
| Sinaitic gloom and threat, ready to take
us o from under the shadows into the
/ calm sunlight of Gods pardon and into
the lani Of Ielce. On, if You could
see that boat of gospel-rescuC coming this
! day, Nou would feel AS John Gilmore in
his bCo6, The Storm Warriors. saws
that a ships crew felt on the kentish
/ Knock Sands, OF the coast of England,
when they were being beaten TO pieces
and they all 1elt they must die They
had given up all hope. and every mo
/, meut washed OF ano her plank from the
wreck, and they sail. We must die. we
must die" But after a while they saw a
Ramsgate lifeboat coming through the
breakers for them, and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said Can it
be! Can it Gc3 1t is, il is, il is, il is
! Thank God II is the Ramsgate lifeboat!
IL is, it is, il is, il is :" And thcold Jack
tar, describing THAI lifehoat to his COM
rldes after he &c. ashore, said: oh,
| my lads, what beauty it did seem, COM
/ ing thrOlgh the bre lkers that awful
day" May God through the mercy in
Jesus Christ, take us all OF the miserabl
wreck of our sin into the beautiful life