The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

In his dying dellrlum ne SAID: NOV
fetch ON the dice. 1t is minel No, no!
1t is gone; all is gonel Bring ON more
winei Bring on more winel Oh, how
they rattle their chains! Fiends, fiends,
fiendsl say you cheat! The cards are
markell Oh, death! oh, death! oh, death!
Fiends, fiends, fiendsw And he gasped
his last and was gone. The Ten Com
mandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this
nineteenth century revise the Ten Com
mandments, but let them in society and
at the polls put to the front those who
come the nearest to this God lifted stand
ard. On the first Tuesday morning in
November read the twentieth chapter of
Exodus at family prayers. The moral
or immoral character of the officers elect
ed will add rs per cent unto or subtract
10 per cent from the public morals,
You and cannot afford to have bad
officials. The young men of this country
cannot afford to have bad officials. The
commercial, the moral, the artistic, the
agricultural, the manufacturing, the re-
Ggious interests of this country cannot
afford to have bad officials, and if you,
on looking over the whole field, cannot
find men who, in vow estimation, come
within reasonable distance of obedience
of the Decalogue, stay at home and do
not vote at all.
A GOOD CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT
l suppose 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. suppose if
there came crisis in the politics of
Babylon, where Daniel did not believe
in any of the candidates, he staid al
home on election day, praying with his
face toward Jerusalem. But we have
no such crisis, we have no such ext
gency, thank God But have to say to
you today that the moral character Of
rulers always affects the ruled, and ap-
peal to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the
moral tone of all the nation of Judah
and threw them into idolatry. Good
King Josiah lifted up the whole nation
by his excellent example. Why is it to
day England is higher up in morals than
at any point in her national history? II
is because she has the best ruler i'll all
Europe-all the attempts to scandalize
her name failure. The political power
of Talleyrand brooded all the political
tricksters of the last 80 years. The dis!
honest vice presidency of Aaron Burr
blasted this nation until important let
tiers were written in cipher, because the
people could not trust the United States
mail. And let the court circles of Louis
XIV and Henry VIII march out, followed
by the debauched nations.
The higher up you put bad man tn.
worse is his power for evil. The great
fabulist says that the pigeons were in
fright at kite flying in the air, and SD
these pigeons lowered near the dovecot
But one day the kite said: "Why areyou
10 afraid? Why do you pass your life ID
terror? 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 the victims was wait
ing for its turn to come it said, Served
us rightr The malaria of swamps rises
from the plain to the height, but moral
malaria descends from Nle mountain to
the plain. Be careful therefore how yol
elevate into any style of authority men
who are i'll any wise antagonistic to the
| Ten Commandments.
AS near as | can tell the most impor-
| tant thing now to be done is to have
about 10000, 900 copies of the Sinaitit
Decalogue printed and scattered through
out the land. 1t was terrible waste
when the Alexandrian library was de-
stroyed, and the books were taken to
heat 4 1000 baths for the citizens of Alex
andria. 1t was very expensive heat
But without any harm to the Decalogue,
you could with it heat a hundred thou
sand baths of moral publication for the
American people.
/ say we want a tonic-a mighty tonic,
corrective, an all powerful correct
ive-and Moses in the text, with steady
hand, Notwithstanding the jarring noun.
tains and the full orchestra of the TEN.
pest, 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 GOSPEL IN POLITICS.
But 1 shall not leave you under the
| encouragement of the Ten Command
ments, 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 mountain, 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 Sinaitic upheavals is
the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is
higher than Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, know,
say that one Sinaitic peak is 1000 feet
high and another 5000 and another 5000
feet high, and travellers tell us that
Mount Calvary is only bluff outside of
the wall of Jerusalem. But Calvary in
moral significance overtops and over
shadows all the mountains of the hemi-
spheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hill
locks compared with it. You know that
sometimes one fortress will silence an
other fortress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against
the mountain of the law l put the
mountain 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 un-
der the reverberation. And Moses, who
commands the one, surrenders to Christ,
who commands the other.
Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupt-
ed one day and poured torrents of scoria
upon the villages at the base, but that
the mountain 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