The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-29
COMING ELECTIONS.
REV. DR.. TbLMAGE'S VIEWS ON A
TIMELY SUBJECT.

The Politics of Popular Pastor Charac-
ter as a Test Of Fitness Tor Omcc-N
Plea For the Sacredness of the Ten Com
mandments.
BRooKLYN. Oct. % The text of Rev DR.
Taimagey ante-eleotion sermon was Exc
dus k IS And all the people saw the
5hunderings and the iEhtninEs ami the
noise Of Ihe trumpet ana che mountain
smoking He said.
On the eve ot elections I'M the go counties
Of this state. and w all the counties of
most Of the United States while there are
many hundreds OF nominees 20 Office, 10 i-
! appropriate and important that ! preach
this before election sermon.
( My text informs you that the lightBings
! and earthquakes united their forces p
b yvieck mOi'l.aiH uf Arabia pgtuu8 iu old
/ en- time, and travellers today finds heaps Of
/ porphyry and greensboro rocks. bowldcr
/ against bowlder the remains of the first
law library written, not ON parchment or
papyrus hut on shattered slabs Of granite
/ The corncrstones 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 Eng
lish law, all American law that is worth
anything, all common law, civil law, Grim
inal law, martial law, law Of nations were
rocked i'm the cradle OF the twentieth chap
/ ter Of Exodus And il would he well in
/ these times Of great political agitation II
I 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 out Of existence and
/ some are not aware Of some Of the pas~ages
/ Of that law, and Others say this or that is
Of the more importance, when no one has
any right to make such an assertion. These
laws are the pillars OF society, and if you
remove one pillar you damage the whole
structure.
l have noticed that men are particularly
vehement against sins TO which they are not
particularly tempted and find no espccial
/ wrath against sins in which they them
selves indulge. They take out one gun
from this battery of 10 guns, and load that,
and uulimber that and fire that They
say, This is an Armstrong gun, and this
I is Il krupp gun. and this j. n Norienfcldt
barreled gun. and this is a Gatling ~
barreled gun. aud this is Il Martini 81
barreled gun But | have to tell them
that they are all of the same caliber, and
that they shoot from eternity TO eternity
Many questions are before IN, people iu
the coming elections all over this land. bu,
| shall try 10 show YOU that the most i'm.
portant thing to be settled about all thesc
candidates is their personal, moral charac
ter. The Decaloguc forbids idulatry, i'm
age making, profanity, maltrogtmrnt Of
parents, sabbath desccratiou, murder
theft, incontjneuce, lying and C0yetouS-
ness. That is the Decalogue by which you
and viii have to bc tried, and.by tbes same
Decaiogue you ana | must Try candidates
for Office.
SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE
OF course we shall not find anything like
J perfection. If we do not vote until we find
an immaculate nominee, we will never vote
at all. We have so many faults of our own
we ought not to be censorious or maledic-
tory or hypercritical in regard to the faults
of others. The Christly rule is as appropri-
ate for November as any other month in
the year. Judge not that ye be not judged,
for with what measure ye mete it shall he
measured to you again
Most certainly are we not to take the
statement of redhot partisanship as the
real character of any man. From nearly
all the great cities of this land ! receive
daily or weekly newspapers, sent to me
regularly and in compliment, 50 see both
sides-I see all sidcs-and it is most enter
tanning and my regular amusement to read
the opposite statements The one state
ment says the man Is an angel, and the
other says he is a devil; and split the dit
ference and find him half way between
There never has been au honest or re
spectacle man running for the United
States presidency, or for a iudgeship. or
for the mayoralty, or for the shrievalty
since the foundation of the American gov
ernment, if we may believe the old files Of
newspapers in the museums. What mercy
it is that they were not all hung before they
. were inauguratedl II a man believe one
half of what he sees in the newspapers ia
these times, his career will be very short
outside of Bloomingdale insane asylum
was absent two or three years ago dur
ing one week of a political canvass and
was dependent entirely upon what | read
in regard to what had occurred in these
cities, and read there was procession in
New York of 5000 patriots, and a minute
after | read in another sheet that there.
were 1900, and then | read in regard to
another procession that there were 10000.
and then read in another paper that there
were GO0OO
A campaign orator in the Rink ar the
Academy of Music received very cold re-
ception-a very chilling reception said one
, statement The other statement said the
audience rose at him. So great was the en-.
thusiasm that for IA long while the orator
could not be heard and il was only after
lifting his hand that the vociferat ion began
TO subsidel One statement will twist an
: interview one way, and another statement
will twist an interview another way. You
must admit it is a very difficult thing in
times like these to get a very accurate esti-
mate Of mans character, and ! charge
YOU, AS your religious teacher | charge you
toCaution and dtomercifulness aud to PRAYER
| warn you also against the mistake
. which many are making and always dc
make of applying a different standard OF
character for those in prominent position
Al from the standard they apply for ordinary
persons. However much "A man may have
y or however high the position he gets he ha,
le no especial liberty given him in the inter
probation of the Ten Commandments. \
great sinner is no more to be excused thar
a small sinner. Do not charge illustriou,
detection To eccentricity or chop off tn,
Ten Commandments TO suit especial cases
II The right is everlastingly right aud IA,
wrong Is everlastugly wrong II any mar
- nominated for any Office in this city ul
state differs from the Decalogue, do not fN
up the Decalogue, hut fix him up The law
must stand, whatever else must fall.
COMMANDMENT BREAKING.
call your attention also to the fact tha
y,,, ora an uNprp nf-tbat tho hraa Eipl, a,