Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-11-04

NIT any sin. He who will steal will
lie. and he who will lie will steal.
If, for instance, u man be impure 1t
opens the door for all other iniquity,
for in that one iniquity he commits
theft of the worst kind, and covetous-
ness of the worst kind, and falsehood-
pretending to be decent when he is not
and maltreats his parents by disgrace
ing their name, il they were good. Be
careful, therefore, how you charge that
sin against any man either in high
place or low place, either in Office or
out of office, because when you make
that charge against man you charge
him with all villanies, with all disgust
ing propensities, with all rottenness.
And, then, when you investigate q
man on such subjects, You must go to
the whole length of the Investigation
and find out whether or not he has re-
pented. He may have been on his
knees before God and implored the
divine forgiveness, and he may have
implored the forgiveness of society and
the forgiveness of the world; although
if man commit sin ut 20 or 35 years OF
age there is not one case out of thou
sand where he ever repents. You must
in your investigation see II it is posi-
BILE that the one case investigated may
not have been the exception. But do
not chop off the seventh command
ment to suit the case. Do not change
Fairbanks scale to suit what you are
weighing with it. Do not cut off yard
stick to suit the dry goods You are
measuring. Let the law stand, and
never tamper with it.
Above all. charge you, do not join
in the cry that have heard-for fifteen,
twenty years l have heard it-that
there is no such thing us purity. If
You make that charge you are foul
mouthed scandaler of the human race.
You are leper. Make room for that
leper! When man by pen or type or
tongue utters such a Islander on the
human race, that there is no such thing
as purity, know right away that that
man himself is walking lazaretto,
reeiing ulcer, and is fit for no society
better than that of devils damned.
The committing of one sin opens-the
door for the commission of other sins
You see it every day. Those embezzlers,
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 bad company, they nearly all
gambled, they all went to places where
they ought not Why? The commits
sion of one sin opened the gate for all
the other sins. Sins go in flocks, in
droves and in herds. You open the
door for one sin, that invites in all the
miserable congregation.
Some of the campaign orators this
autumn, some of them, bombarding the
suffering candidates all the week, will
think no wrong in Sabbath breaking.
All the week hurting the eighth COM
mandment at one candidate, the sew
enth commandment at another candi-
date, and the ninth commandment at
still another, what are they doing with
the fourth commandment, Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy?"
Breaking it. Is not the fourth COM
mandment as important as the eighth,
as the seventh, as the ninth? Some of
these political campaign orators, as
have seen them reported in other years,
and as I have heard it in regard to
them, bombarding the suffering can
didates 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 COM
mandment, 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 i'm
portant as the other seven?
have this book for my authority
when say that the man who swears or
the man who breaks the Sabbath is as
culpable before God as those candidates
who break other commandments.
What right have you and to select
which commandment we will keep and
which we will break? Better not try
to measure the thunderbolts of the AL
mighty, saying this has less blaze, this
has less momentum. Better not han
die the guns, better not experiment
much with the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the Iliad written on
q nut shell, and You and have seen
the Lords prayer written on scent
piece; but the whole tendency OF these
times is to write the Ten Command
ments so small that nobody can see
them.
Herodotus said that Nitocris, the
daughter of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, was so
fascinated with her beautiful village
of Ardericca that she had the river
above Babylon changed soft wound this
way and wound that, and curved this
way and curved that and though you
salad IN II for three DAYS every day