The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-01

for in that one iniquity he commits
theft of the worst kind, and covetOus-
ness Of the worst kind, and falsehood-
pretending TO be decent when he is not
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 or
out Of Office, because when you make
that charge against a man you charge
him with all villainies, with all disgust
ing prOpensities, with all rottenness.
A libertine is a beast, lower than the
vermin that crawl over a summer car
eass-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 a mathematical demonstration
is doubtful as compared with il.
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 forgiveness
Of society and the forgiveness of the
world. Although II a man commit that
sin at thirty or thirty-five years Of age,
there is not one case out of a thousand
where he ever repents. You must in
our investigation see if il is possible
that the one case investigated may not
chop of the seventh commandment 10
suit the case. Do not change Fairbanks
scale to suit what you are weighing
with it. Do not cut off a yardstick to
suit the dry goods you are measuring.
Let the law stand and never tamper
with it.
Above all, charge you do not join in
the cry that / have heard-foT fifteen,
twenty years I have heard it. If you
make that charge, you are foul
mOuthed scandaler Of the human race
You are a leper. Make room for that
! leperi When a man, by pen or type or
| tongue, utters such SANDER on the hui
man race that there is no such thing
as purity, / know right away that that
man himself is "a walking lazaretto,
reeking ulcer, and is MT for no society
| better than that of devils damned. We
may enlarge our charities in such q case,
/ but in no such case let US shave off the
/ ten commandments. Let them stand as
/ the everlasting defense Of society and Of
/ the church or God
The committing of one sin opens the
| door for the commission of other sins.
/ You see it every day. Those embezzlers,
/ those bank cashiers absconding 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 gam
/ bled, 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
sin. that invites in all the miserable
! segregation.
The Letter OF the DecaIOgue.
Some of the campaign orators this au-
tumn-some Of Mountaineering the
suffering candidates all the week, will
think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All
/ I,
at one candidate, the seventh command
ment at another candidate and the ninth
| commandment at still another. what are
they doing with the fourth command
ment. Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it hOly?" Breaking it. Is not the
| fourth commandment as important as
| the eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth?
Some of these political campaign ora
| tors, as / have seen them reported In
| other years, and as / have heard it in
| regard to them, bOmbarding the suffer
| ing candidates all the week, yet tossing
/ the name Of God from their lips reck-
| lessly, guilty of profanity-what are they
/ doing with the third commandment? Is
| not the third commandment, 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 COM
| mandment as important as the other
| seven? oh, yes, we find in all depart
| mentS men are hurting their indignation
| against sins perhaps to which they are
| not especially tempted-hurling it against
| inquiry toward which they are not par
! ticularly drawn.
| have this book for my authority
| when l say that the man who swears
| or the man who breaks the Sabbath is
| as culpable before God as those candi-
! dates who break other commandments.
| What right have you and / TO select
| which commandment we will keep and
| which we will break2 Better not try to
| measure the thunderbOlts of the AL
/ mighty, saying this has less blaze, his
| has less momentum. Better not handle
| the guns, better not experiment much
/ with the divine ammunition.
! Cicero said he saw the "Iiiad" written
| on a nutshell, and you and | have see.
/ the Lords prayer written on n five-cent
piece, but the whole tendency of these
| times is to write the ten commandments
so small nobody can see them. l 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
| Petraea.
/ bring up the candidates for ward and
township and city and state office. 1
| bring them up, and 1 try them by this
| decalogue. OF course they are imper-
/ IecI- we are ali 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 I
| shall find out one of the candidates who
| comes, in my estimation, nearest to ODE
| dience 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 NebuchadneZzar, was so fas-
| cinated with her beautiful village of Ar
| dericca that she had the river above
| Babylon changed so il wound this way
| and wound that, and curved this way
| and curved that, and though you sailed
| on it for three days every day you would
| be in sight of that exquisite village.
| Now, do not care which way you sail in
morals or which way you sail in life if
| you only sail in sight of this beautiful
! group Of divine commandments. Al
| though they may sometimes seem to be a
| little angular, do not care which way
| you sail, if 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.
| l tell you there is nothing worse to
/ fight than the ten regiments, with bayou
| cts and sabers Of fire, marching down
the side of Mt. 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 1 read
/ dying in his designations? In his dying
/ delirium he said. NOW fetch On the