Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-11-10

Tor tnar Iepor! Wnen 4 man. by pen or type
or tongue, u:ters such sIander on the hu-
man race that there is no such thing US
purity know right away thatthat man him
self Is a walking lazarettO. n reeking ulcer,
and is fit for society better than that of
devils damned. We may enlarge our char
tiles in such case. but in no such case let
US shave off the Ten Commandments. Let
them stand as the everlasting defense of So
ciety and the church Of God.
Tho committing of one sin opens the door
for tho commission Of other sins. You see
it every day. Those embpzzlers, those bank
cashiers absconding as soon as they are
brought TO justice. develop the fact that
they were in all kinds of sin. No exception
to the rule. They all kept bal company,
they nearly all gambled, they all went TO
places where they ought not. Why? The
commission ofthe one sin opened the gate
Tor all th" other sins. Sins go in fiocks, in
droVeC . in herds. You open the door for
on' 7 that invites in all the miserable
5, rJgation.
Some OF the campaign orators this autumn
some Of them-bOmbardng the suffering
candidates all the week, will think no wrong
III Sabbath breaking. All the week hurting
the eighth commandment at one candidate,
the seventh commandment at another can
dfdate and the ninth commandment at still
another, what are they doing with the fourth
commandment, Creme nber the Sabbath day
to keep it holy?" Breaking it. Is not the
fourth commandment as important as the
eighth, as the seventh as the ninth?
Some of these political campaign orators
rs have seen them reported in other years,
and as have heard it in regard to them
bOmbarding the suffering 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 commandment, 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"
is not the third commandment as impOr-
tant as the other seven? Oh, yes, we find in
all departments men are hurlin1 the irindig-
nation against sins perhaps to which theyare
not especially mptei-hurling it against
iniquity toward which they are not particu-
lary drawn
have this book Tor my authority when [
say that the man who swears or the man who
breaks the Sabbath is as culpaDle before God
as these candidates who break other COM
mandments. What right have you ana to
select which commandment we will keep aud
which we will breqk2 Better not try to
measure the thunderbots of the Almighty
saying Un1s mas less blaze, this has less mo-
mentum. Better not handle the guns. better
not experiment much with the divine ammu.
nitiOn.
Cicero said he saw the "Iliad" written on
a nutshell. and you and l have seen the
Lords Prayer written on five cent piece,
but the whole tendency OF the sc times is to
write the Ten Commandments SO small no
body 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 paroSysm of the mountain of Arabia
PetrBa.
I bring up the candidates for ward and
township and city and State Office. | brinG
them up, and [ try them by this Decalogu9.
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. But | shall find out one of the can
didates who comes, iii my estimation, nearest
to obedience of the Ten Commandments, AMI
| will vote for him, and you will vote for
Him unless you love God less than your
party-then you will not.
HerOdOtus said that NtOcris, the daughter
of NebuGhadneZzlr, was so fascinated with
her beautiful village of Ardericca that she
had the river above Babylon changed 80 it
wound this way and wound that, and curved
this way and curved that, and though you
sailed on it for three days every day you
would be in sight Of that exquisite village.
Now, [ do not care which way you sail in
morals or which way you sail in life it you
only sail in sight Of this beautiful group OF
divine commandments. Although they may
sometimes seem to be little angular, | do
not care which way you sail if you sail i'll
sight of them you will never run aground,
and you will never be shipwrecked. Society
needs toning up on all these subjects.
| tell you there is nothing worse to fight
than the ten regiments with bayOnets and
sabres 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 Decaloguc. What
is the matter with that young man Of whom
T Jx,ir, u RI In HI
ing deIirium ne said, Now fetch on the
dice. It is mine. No, no! It is gone, all is
gone! Bring on more wine! Bring on more
wine! Oh, how they rattle their chains
Fiends, fiends. flends l say you cheat The
cards are marked. Oh, death oh, death
OH death Fiends, flends, fiends - AMI he
gasped his last and was gone. The Ten
Commandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nine
teenth century revise the Ten Command
ments but LET them in society and at the
polls put to the front those who come the
nearest to this GOd-lifted standard. Gil the
first Tuesday morning of November read the
twentieth chapter Of Exodus at family
prayers. The moral or immoral character OF
the officers elected will add seventy-live per
cent unto or subtract seventy-tive per cent.
from the public morals.
You and cannot afford to have bad Off
cials. The young men of this country can
not afford to have bad officials. The com
mercial, the moral, the artistic, the agricul-
tural, the manufacturing, the religious in
terests of this country cannot afford to have
pad omciaIs, and II you, on looking over the
whole field, cannot find men who i'll your
estimation come within reasonable distance
of obedience of the Decalogue stay at home
and do not vote at all.
7 suppose when in the city of So1om there
were four candidates put up for office, and
Lot did not believe in any of them, he did
crisis in the politics of Babylon. where
Daniel did not believe in any of the candi-
dates, he stad at home on election day,
praying with his face toward Jerusalem.
But we have no such crisis. We nave no
such exigeucy, thank God. But | have to
say to YOU to-day that the moral character Of
rulers always affects the ruled, AMI appeal
to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the moral
tone of all the Nation of Judah and threw
them into idOlatry Good King Josiah lifted
un the whole Nation by his excellent example.
WHY is it that to-day England is higher up
in morals than at any point in her National
history? 1t is because she has the best ruter
in all EurOpe-ali the attempts to S'andh'zo
her name q failure. The political power Of
Talleyrand brOoded all the political trickster5
of the last ninety years. The dishonest vice
presidency of Aaron Burr blasted this Nation
until important letters were written in cipher,
because the people could nottr the United
States mall And let the court clFcleS Oh
Louis XIV and Henry VIII march out. fol-
lowed by the debauched Nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil The great fab
ulst saws that the DioeOnS were in fright at
n kite flying IN the air. and SO these pigeons
hOvered near the dOvecO:e. but one day the
kite said why ara you so afraid? 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 day. And while one of his victims
was waiting for its turn to come it said =.
Served us right = The malaria of swamps
rises from the plain TO the height. but moral
malaria descends from the mountain to the
plain. Be careful. therefore. how you ele-
vate into any style oil authority men who are
in any wise antagonistic TO the Ten Com
mandments.
AS near as 1 can tell. the most important
thing now to be done is to have about 40.
000, 900 copies of the Sinaitic Decalogue
printed and scattered throughout the land.
1t was terrible waste when the AieXandrian
library was DESTROYED and the books were