The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-10

eternity. If | utter a falsehood in re
gard to man l may damage him. bu
l get for myself ten-fold more damage
II a man be guilty of malfeasance il
Office, he will, under provocation, com
NIT any sin. He who will steal vii
lie, and he who will lie will steal
If, for instance. man be impure i
opens the door for all other iniquity
for in that one iniGuity he commit.
theft of the worst kind, and covetous
ness of the worst kind, and falsehood-
pretending to be decent wnen he is mo-
and maltreats his parents by disgrac-
ing 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 OF
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
A Ebertine is beast lower than the
vermin that crawl over 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
And, then. when You investigate a
man on such subjects. You must 60 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 NAV have
| implOred the forgiveness of society and
! the forgiveness of the world: although
| if a man commit sin at 80 or 81 wears of
! age there is not one case out of thou
! sand where he ever repents. You must
| in your investigation see if it is posi-
| bic that the one case investigated NAV
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 a ward
stick to suit the dry goods You are
measuring. Let the law stand, and
never tamper with it.
Above all, I charge you. do not Join
in the cry that have heard-for fifteen.
twenty years | have heard it-that
there is no such thing as purity. II
you make that charge you are foul
mouthed scandaler of the human race.
You are a leper Make room for that
leper. When man by pen or type or
tongue utters such a SANDER on the
human race, that there is no such thing
as purity, | know right away that that
man himself is a walking lazaretto, a
reeking 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 ASCENDING, 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
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 wears. |
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 |
Is not the third COM
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 inn
portant as the other seven?
have this book for nv authority
when l 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 Had written on
/ nut she'll and you and 1 have seen
the Lords prayer written on a scent
piece; but the whole tendency of these
times is to write the Ten Command
nents so small that nobody can see
hem
l bring up the candidates for ward,
md township. and city, and state Of
ice; l bring them Up, and l try them
" this D ecalogue- OF course. they are
imperfect We are all imperfect We
ay things we ought not to say. we do
hings we ought not to do. We have
II been wrong. we have all done
wrong. But I shall find out one OF
he candidates who comes. in nv esti-
nation. nearest to obedience to
he Ten Commandments. and l will |
ote for him. and YOU Will vote for him
Inless you love God less than your
'arty: then you will not
Herodotus said that Nitocris. the
aughter of Nebuchadnezzar. was so ,
ascinaied with her beautiful village
I Ardericca that she had the river ,
bove Babylon changed soft wound this {
Tay and wound that. and curved this ,
Eay and curved that and though you
allied on it for three days every day '
on would be in sight Of that EXQUISITE =