The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-10-31
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
PREACHED IN THE TARERNACLE
LAST SUNDAY.
He Takes HIS Text from Exodus 90: IS:
and breaches IL Interesting Sermon
on the Coming Elections.

Brooklyn. October 29.-(Special. Key.
DR.. Talmage's subject for today Is OF ulii-
versal application, and at il time "heia
north, south, east and west the risht oi
suffrage is about to be exercised. The
theme is patriotic and NATIONAL ana from
a Christian standpoint. The text Is, IN
| oduS. 20: IS: And al the people saw thc
thunderings and the lightnnSs ana the
| noise Of the trumpet and the mountain
! smoking.
| On the eve of elections in the sixty conn'
| ties of this state. and in all the counties
| in most of the United States, while there
are many hundreds of nominees to Office,
il IS appropriate and important that preach
| this before election sermon.
NV text informs You that the lightn!ngs
! and earthquakes united their forces to
wreck Il mountain of Arabia Pctrca in old
en- time and travellers today find heaps OF
! porphyry and greensboro rocks, b0Wjder
against bowller. the remains Of the first
! law library, written, not on parchment
| or papyrus but on shattered slabs of gran
| ite The corner stones of all morality Of
! all wise law, of all righteous Jurisprudence.
of all good government, are the two
tablets of stone on which were written the
ten commandments. All Roman law. all
French law, all English law, all American
law that is worth anything, Ill common
law, civil law. criminal law, martial law.
law of nations were rocked i'll the cradle of
the twentieth chapter Of Exodus. And it
would be well in these times of great pot-
zeal agitation if the newspapers would print
the decalogue some day in place of the able
editorial. The fact is that some
people suppose that The law has
passed our of existence and
some are not aware of some OF the
passages of That law. ana others say tnls
or that is Of the more impurlance, when
no one has amy right TO make such an as
Scftlol These laws are tnc pillars of
SoclciN, and II you remove one pillar You
damage the WhOie structure. | have MOTTO
eli men who are particularly vehement
against SINS 10 Whch they are NOT particll-
larry tempted. and find no especial wrath
against SINS III which they themselves in
uulS" Iney take out one gun from this
battery OF ten guns, and load that. and
unllhber that, and fire that. They say,
Tins Is an Armstrong gun. and Tins is a
hrupp gun, and this is Il Nortlcnfcldt five
harrtIed gun, and this is Il Calling tcn-bar-
r'cd gun, and this is Il Martigny thirty
ScFch-parrcled gun But | have to tell
then that they are all of the same calbcr,
ana tlat they shoot from eternity To ctnrni-
~. Many questions are before the pco-
PIE, IN The coming elections all over his
lahd bur l shall try to show YOU that the
most important thing To be Se1tlcI about
an 'iese candidates is their personal NOR
III chafaclei. The decalogur forbidS idol
"uS, , ie'i'Se lliakhG profanity maltreat-
nieht OF parents. sabbath Dissertation. mur-
DER fhcfi lncontnence. lying. and coyrt-
BUSINESS. That is the decalocu.. bv which yn,,
ana VIII have 10 be tried. and hv The
Gtine u'|lIo&uc You and / must try capdi-
dates for office
OF pCurSp wa shan ,. e,
Hh@ perfection. II we do not vote until W..
NM an immaculate nominee we win unvar
vote at all We have SO many faults nf nnr
own we ought not il be crnSorious or nal
tf'iIIt"fE or hNpcrcritjcal in regard to the
I30itS 81 others. The ChristIy rulc j. ~
! appropriate for November as any othnr
Hoh!h IN IN" year: Judge NOT that vc be
n'l JhG@ru, Tor with what measure We metc
II shiii be measured to YOU again
hoSt certainly are we NOT TO tlkn tha
statement Of rcd-not parti>anshin AZ th.
rSIi character OF any man. From nearly
al the great cities Of this land | receive.
daliy or weekly newspapers sent to me
regularly and in compliment. so | see both
SIdrS- see al SidcS-and it is most en-
ieflaIhln& aud my regular amusement to
read opposite statements The one state
mcnt says the man is an angel and th,
other says he is 4 devil and | split The
G!ilerence and find him halfway between
There never has been an honest or rrsnprt-
presidency. or for a judgeship or for the
. nayoralty, or for the shrcyatv since th,.
foundation OF the American government
II We way believe the cid files of news
papers IN the museums What mercy il
Is 'hat they were not all hung before they
were inaIguratcd, Ii man believes one
halt OF what he sccS in the newspapers
IN these times his career will be very short
outside al Bl0ominglalc insane asylum.
| was absent two or three wears ago dur
% u,,ii .,y,I
| was dependent entirely upon what ] read
Ill r"&Iri 10 what had occurred in these
cities aud | read there was i procession in
/ New A0rl; Of five thousand patriots and Il
/ minute after | read in another sheet that
t1"r" were seventeen thousand, and then
read in regard 10 another procession
that there were ten thousand. and then
| r"ad III another paper that thcrc were six
+ T. thousand. y campaign orator in the
/ rink or the .Aca Il nay of Music receive !
4 very cold reccptiou-a very chilling re
ccPtion->aid one statement. The other
! statement said the audience rose at him:
81 great was the enthusiasm that for L
long time the orator could not be heard,
/ and it WAS only after lifting his hand that
the moderation began to SubSide, One
| statement will twist an interview one way
| and another statement will twist an inter
| view another way. You must admit II is
very difficult thing i'll times like these 10
! get Il very accurate estimate OF Il man
! character and / charg" YOU us your re
IigiOuS teacher. | charge you to caution ana
| 10 nlyrciIuneSS and 10 prayer.
! I warn You also -ijinSt lhe mistake winch
/ niuy are making. and always do make. OF
| applviug a different standard Of character
| fel those in prominent position from the
| standard they apply for ordlnary persons.
! However, much Il man may have. or how
| ever high the position he gets, he mas no
| especial liberty given him IN the inter
| probation Of The ten commandments. A
| great sinner Is no more to be excused than
| Il small sinner. De uoj charge llluStrlouS
| detection to ccceulricity or chop oil the
! ten commandments II suit especial cases.
The right is eyerlastngly right and the
wrong is everlastin%ly wrong. If any man
nominated for any office i'll this city or
state differs from the deca'o@lIc do not
| fix un the decaloguc. but fix him up. The
| law must stand whatever else may fail.
| call your attention also to tn" fact
that YOU are all aware of. that the breaking
| Of one com mandmcnt makes it The more
| easy 10 break all Of them and the philosophy
is plain Any kind of sin Wcakens the
conscience. and if the conscience j. weak
cncd that opens the door for all kinds Of
tranSgressiou. If, Tor instance. = man
into this political camgsign welding sour
riltv as his chief weapon and h" believes
everything bad abou. Il man and believes
nothing good, how long before that man
himself will set over the moral d"pr"s,