The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-02

ford Co have bad officials, and IL YOU on
looking over the whole field, cannot lind
men who IN your estimation come within
distanceo Ut obedience of the Deca-
loguc stay 1T home and do not vote at ALL
| suppose when in the city of Sodom
there were four candidates put up for Of
fee aud Lot did not believe in any of them,
he did not register. | suppose If there
came crisis in the politics OF Babylon,
where Daniel did not believe in any of the
candidates, be staid at home on election
day, praying with his face toward Jerusa-
lem. But we have no such crisis. We have
no such eXigeucy, thank God. But | have
to say to you today that the moral charac-
ter of rulers always affects the ruled, and !
appeal to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the
moral tone of all the nation of Judah and
threw them into idolatry. Good King Jo-
siah lifted up the whole nation by his ex-
cellent example. Why is it that today
England is higher up in morals than at any
point in her national history? II is because
she has the best ruler in all Europe-all the
attempts to scandalize her name failure
The political power of Talleyrand brooded
all the political trcksters of the last 80
years The dishonest vice presidency of
Aaron Burr blasted this nation until inn
portant letters were written in cipher, be-
cause the people could not trust the United
States mail And let the court circles of
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
fabulist says that the pigeons were m
fright at kite flying in the air, and so
these pigeons lowered near the dovecote,
but one day the kite said: why are you SO
afraid? Why do you pass your life in ter
ror? 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 pigeon day. And while
one of his victims was waiting for its turn to
come it said: SERVED us rightl' The ma.
laria of swamps rises from the plain to the
height, but moral malaria descends from
the mountain to the plain. Be careful
therefore how you elevate into any style OF
authority men who are in any wise antag-
onistic to the Ten Commandments.
AS near as | can tell, the most important
thing now to be done is to have about 40
100000 copies of the Sinaitic Decalogue
printed and scattered throughout the land.
1t was terrible waste when the Alexan-
drian library was destroyed, and the books
were taken to heat 1000 baths for the citi-
zens of Alexandria. 1t was very expensive
heat But without any harm to the Deca-
logue you could with it beat 100000 baths
of moral publication for the american peo-
Pile.
| say we want u tonic-a mighty tonic,
a corrective, an all powerful corrective
and Moses in the text, with steady hand,
Notwithstanding the Earring mountains, and
the full orchestra of the tempest, and the
blazing of the air, pours out the 10 drops
no more, no less-which our people need to
take for their moral convalescence.
THE CLOSING INJUNCTIoNS.
But shall not leave you under the dis
couragement of the Ten Commandments,
because we have all offended. There Is
another mountain in sight, and while one
mountain thunders the other answers in
thunder, and while Mount Sinai, with
lightning, writes doom, the other noun
tain, with lightning, writes mercy. The
only way you will ever spike the guns of
the Decalogue is by the spikes of the cross.
The only rock that will ever stop the Sin
attic upheavals is the Rock of Ages. Mount
| Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, know say
that one Snaitic peak is 1000 feet high, and
another 5000, and another 1900 feet high,
and travellers tell us that Mount Cavalry is
only bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains of the
! Iemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks
compared with it.. You know that some
| times one fortress will silence another for
| tress.
Moultre silenced Sumter, and against
the mountain of the law | put the noun
tain of the cross. 1.-The soul that sinneth
| it shall die" booms one until the earth
| jars under the cannonade. Save them
from going down to the pit. | have found
a ransom,' pleads the other, until earth
and heaven and hell tremble under the re-
verbation. And Moses, who commands
the one, surrenders to Christ who com
mands the other.
Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted
one day and poured torrents of scoria upon
the villages at the base, but that the noun
tain divided its fame and made lane OF
safety for all those who came to rescue
their aged parents. And this volcanic
Sinai divides its fury for all those whom
Christ has come to rescue frcm the red
ruin on both sides. Standing as / do to
| day, half way between the two mountains
| the mountain of the Exodus and the
| mountain of the nineteenth of John-all my
terror comes into supernatural calm, for the
| uproar of the one mountain subsidies into
| quiet and comes down into so deep silence
that can hear the other mountain speak
aye, can hear it whisper, 1.-The blood, the
! blood, the blood that cleanseth from al
sim"
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys or water
courses-Alleyat and Ajelah- emptyina
into Feiran. But those streams are moi
navigable No boat put into those rocky
streams could sail But l have to tell yol
this day that the boat of gospel rescu,
comes right up amid the watercourses O
Sinaitic gloom and threat, ready to take III
off from under the shadows into the cain
sunlight of Gods pardon and into the lane
of peace
Oh, if you could see that boat of gospe
rescue coming this day you would feel d
John Gilmore in his book, '"rhe Storm
Warriors" says that a ships crew felt ON
the Kentish Knock sands, off the coast of
England when they were being beaten to
pieces and they all felt they must die! They
had given up all hope, and every moment
washed off another plank from the wreck,
and they said, I'VE must die; we must
dier' But after awhile they saw Rams
gate lifeboat coming through the breakers
for them, and the man standing highest ur
on the wreck said "Can it be? 1t is, it is
1t is, it is! Thank God 1t is the Rams
gate lifeboat 1t il, it is, it Is, 1t isl'
And the old Jack Tar, describing that
lifeboat TO his comrades after he got ashore