Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-30

no more to be excused than a small sin
ner. Do not charge illustrious defectio,
to eccentricity or chop off the Ten Com
mandments to suit especial cases. Tn,
right is everlastingly right, and tn,
wrong is everlastingly wrong. If an,
man nominated for any Office in this elf,
or state differs from the Decalogue d.
not fix Up the Decalogue, but fix him up
The law must stand whatever else NAV
fall.
call your attention also to the fact
that you are all aware of, that the break
ing of one commandment makes it the
more easy to break all of them, and the
philosophy is plain. Any kind of sir
weakens the conscience, and il the con.
science is weakened that opens the door
for all kinds of transgression. If. for in.
stance, man go into this political cam.
paign welding scurrility as his chief
weapon, and he believes everything bad
about man and believes nothing good,
how long before that man himself will
get over the moral depressionH Neither
In time nor eternity.
II l utter falsehood in regard to a
man, / may damage him, but get for
myself tenfold more damage. That is a
gun that kicks. If, for instance, man
be profane, under provocation he will
commit any crime. l say under provo
cation. For if man will maltreat the
Lord Almighty, would he not maltreat
his fellow manp II a man be guilty of
malfeasance in Office, he will, under
provocation, commit any sin. He who
will steal will lie, and he who will lie
will steal.
If, for instance, man be impure, it
opens the door for all other iniquity, for
in that one iniquity he commits theft of
the worse kind, and eovetousness of the
worst kind, and falsehood-pretending
to be decent when he is not-and NAL
treats his parents by disgracing their
name if 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
villainies, with all disgusting propensi-
ties, with all rottenness.
A libertine is a beast lower than the
vermin that crawl over a summer car
cass-lower than the swine, for the swine
has no intelligence to sin against. Be
careful, then, how you charge that
against any man. You must be so GER
tain that mathematical demonstration
is doubtful as compared with it.
n NO TAMPERlNG WITH THE LAW.
And then, when you investigate man
on such subjects you must go to the
whole length of investigation and find
out whether or not he has repented. He
may have been on his knees before God
and implored the divine forgiveness,
and he may have implored the forgive
ness of society and the forgiveness of the
world. Although if man commit that
sin at 80 or 35 years of age, there is not
one case out of thousand where he ever
repents. You must in your investigation
see if it is possible that the one case in
may not have been the excep-
lion. But do not chop off the seventh
to suit the case. Do not
,hange Fairbanks scale to suit what you
re weighing with it. Do not cut off
,ardstick to suit the dry goods you are
Measuring. Let the law stand and ney-
II tamper with it.
Above all, / charge you do not join in
he cry that have heard is, 20years
have heard ,it-that there is no such
hing as purity. If you make that charge,
you are foul mouthed scandaler of the
human race. You are a leper. Make
'oom for that leperl When man, by
zen or type or tongue utters such
lander on the human race that there is
10 such thing as purity, know right
Iway that that man himself is a walking
azaretto, reeking ulcer, and is fit for
10 society better than that of devils
lamned. We may enlarge our charities
n such case, but in no such case let us
have off the Ten Commandments. Let
hem stand as the everlasting defense OF
iociety and Of the church of God.
The committing of one sin opens the
loor for the commission of other sins.
You see it every day. Those embezzlers,
hose bank cashiers absconding as soon
IS they are brought to justice, develop
he fact that they were in all kinds OF
in. No exception to the rule. They all
rept bad company; they nearly all gam
oled; 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 fiocks, in droVes
and in herds. You open the door for one
invites in all the miserable seq
regation.
Some of the campaign orators this au-
tumn. some of them-bombarding the
suffering candidates all the week, WIZ
think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All
the week hurting the eighth command
ment at one candidate, the seventh com
mandment at another candidate, and the
ninth commandment at still another
what are they doing with the fourth
the Sab
bath day TO keep it holyT Breaking H.
Is not the fourth commandment as I'M
portant as the eighth. as the seventh
as the ninthl
Some of these political campaign or
ators, as have seen them reported IN
other wears, and as have heard u IN
regard TO them, bombarding the sufler-
ing candidates all the week, YET tossing