The Penn's Grove record., 1893-11-03

nuuldH race. lou are o lepef. MAKE room
for that leperl When q man, by pen or type
or tongue, utters such a SANDER on, the hui
man race that there Is nc such thing as
purity l now right away that that man i'm
self is a walking lazaretto, n reeking ulcer.
and is fit for no society better b that OF
devils damned. We may enlarge our char
tiles in such r case, but In no such case let
us shave off the Ten Commandments. Let
Hlem stand as the everlasting defense of So
ciety and the church of God.
The committing of one sin opens the door
for the commission OF other sins. You see
it every day. Those embezzlers, those bank
cas- absconding as soon US 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
commission of the one sin opened the gate
for all the other sins. Sins go in hocks, In
droves and in lords. You open the door for
one sin that invites in all the miserable
segregation.
Some of the campaign orators this autumn
some of Misunderstanding the suffering
! candidates all the week, will think no wrong
In Sabbath breaking. All the week hurting
the eighth commandment at one candidate,
the seventh commandment at another can
1idate and the ninth commandment at still
another, what are they doing with the fourth
commandment, Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy?" Breaking 1t. Is not the
fourth commandment as important as the
eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth?
Some of these political campaign orators,
as l have seen them reported in other years,
and as 1 have heard 1t 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
ia mot tha third ommondnhan whioh aava
"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-
ant as the other seven? Oh, yes, we find In
all departments men are hurting the irindig-
nation against sins perhaps to which theyare
lot especially tempted-hurling 1t against
lniquity toward which they are not particu-
.arly drawn.
l nave this book for my authority when I
| Say that the man who swears or the man who
breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God
IS these candidates who break other COM
mandments. What right have you and I to
| select which commandment we will keep and
! which we will break? Better not try to
measure tho thunderbolts OF the Almighty,
| saying this has 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
1 nutshell, and you n 1 have seen the
| Lords Prayer written on q five cent piece,
but the whole tendency of these times Is to
| write the Ten Commandments so small no.
body can see them. I 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, and
the paroxysm Of the mountain Of Arabia
Petrea.
1 bring up the candidates for ward and
township and city and State office. 1 bring
them up, an TRY them by this Decalogue.
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 1 shall find out one of the can
didates who comes, in my estimation, nearest
to obedience of the Ten Commandments, and
I 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 Nitocris, the daughter
of Nebu~chadnezzar, was SO fascinated with
her beautiful village of Ardericca that she
had the river above Babylon changed so it
wound this way and wound that, n curved
this way and curved that, n though you
sailed on it for three days every day you
| would be in sight Of that exquisite village
| Now, 1 do not care which way you sail I'M
morals or which way you sail in life II YOU
only sail in sight of this beautiful group of
Irvine commandments. Although they may
| sometimes seem to be a little angular, / do
not care which way you sail, II you sail in
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 Oh
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 Decalogue. What
is the matter with that young man Of whom
Tread, diving in his designations? In his dy-
Ing delirium he said, ''Now fetch on the
dice. 1t is mine. No, no! 1t Is gone, all is
gone! Bring on more winel Bring on more
wine! oh, how they rattle their chains
| Fiends, fends, fiendsl I say you cheat The
cards are markell Oh, DEATH oh, death
oh, death! Fiends, flends, f1ends p And he
gasped his last and was gone. The Ten
| Commandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nine
tenth 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-hfted standard. On 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-five per
cent. unto or subtract s~eventy-flve per cent.
from the public morals.
You and cannot afford to nave bad off,
eials. 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
bad officials, and II you, on looking oyerthe
whole field, cannot find men who in your
estimation come within reasonable distance
of obedience of the Decalogue stay at home
and do not vote at all.
I.uppos when in the city of Sodom there
were four candidates put up for office, and
Lot did not believe in any Of them, he did
not register. 1 suppose II there came a
crisis In the politics of Babylon, where
Daniel did not believe in any Of the candi-
dates. he stald at home on election day,
PRAYING with his face toward Jerusalem.
Bar We have no such crisis. We have no
SUCH exigeney, thank God. Blu l have to
say to you to-day that the moral character OF
rulers always Affects the ruled, and l appeal
to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressedthe moral
tone % all the Nation of Judah and threw
them into idolatry. Good King Josiah lifted
up the whole Nation by his excellent example!
WAY is it that to-day England is higher up
in morals than at any point in her National
history2 1t is because she has the best rule{
In all Europe-all the attempts to scandaltzl
her name q failure. The political power Of
Talleyrand brooded all the political trieksters
of the last ninety years. The dishonest vice
presidency Of Aaron Burr blasted this Natior
until important letters were written In cipher
because the people could not trust the United
States mail. And let the court circles oil
Louis XIV and Henry VIII march out, fol-
lowed by the debauched Nations.
The higher up you put a bad maj the
worse is his power for evil. The great fab.
ulist says that the pigeons were In fright al
a kite flying In the air, and &c these pigeons
lowered near the dovecote, but n day the
kite said "Why are you so AFRAID? Why
do you pass your life in terror? Make me
king. and I'll destroy all your enemies" 30
the pigeons made the kite king, and as soon
4 as he got the throne his regular diet was q
pigeon a day. And while n OF his victims
! was waiting for its turn to come 1t said
aServed US right p The malaria Of swamps
| rises from the plain to the height, but moral
malaria desoends from tho mountain to the
plain. Be careful, therefore, how you Gle
| vate into any style of 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 lone is to have about 40,
600, 900 copies of the sinaitic Decalogus