Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-11-15

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| or tongue, u;ters such a SANDER on the bn-
| nan race that there is no sucn thine "a
/ purify know right away thatthat man him
sell Is walking laZGretto. a reeking uIcer
| Slu Is III 'or no society better than that OF
| deNiis damned We NAV enlarge our cb,r-
| itIeS IN such case, but in no such casa Ia,
| us shave OF the Ten Commandments. Tot
| siem stand as the everlasting de.ense of So
| c!ety ami the church of God
| Inc committing of one sin ooens tba door
| for the commission OF other aims Yo,1 500
II every day. Those embezzlers. those hank
| cashiers absconding as soon rs they are
! brought to justice, develop the fact that
! they were in all kinds OF sin No exception
70. 20 Ihe rule They a!l kept bal company,
| tney nearly all can1lsi, they all went 10
| places where they ought not Why? The
| 'omm'sSion or the ons sin opened the gate
| 'or all the other sins. Sins go in fiocks in
| troves ana IN herds. You open the door for
one sin that invites in all the miserable
| segregation.
| Some of the campaign orators this autumn
some OF them-bomba-ding the suffering
| candidates all the week. will think no wronf,
N Sabbath breaking. All the week hurlins
| me eighth commandment at one candidate.
4 the seventh commandment at another cam
| didate ani the ninth commandment at still
| another. what are they doing with the fourth
| commandment, "Rsme nber the sabbath dav
| % keep 1t holy!' Breaking II. Is not the
| jourth commandment important as the
II.
Some of these political campaign orators
rs have seen them reported in other years
| and as have heard 1t in regard to them
oom5ardins the suffering capdidate. all ths
week, yet tossing the namo OF God from their
| lips recSlessly, guilty of profanity-what are
| they doing with the third COMMANDMENT
| ts not the third commandment, which saws
Thou shalt not take the name OF the Lord
| :hy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold
| hin gulltless that taketh his name in vain"
is not the third commandment as irnpor-
[ ant as the other seven? Oh. yes, we ftd in
| Ill departments men are hurting the irlndfC-
nation against sins perhaps TO which they are
| lot especially pted-hurling it against
niquity toward which they are not particu-
| a-ly drawn.
| have this book for my authority when 1
say that the man who sMears or the man who
| breaks the Sabbath is as cGipable before God
I Is these candidates who break other COM
nandments 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 Almighty,
| saying this has less blaze, this has less mo-
ura;un. Better not handle the guns. better
lOt experiment much with the divine ammu-
alton.
Gle. ID said he saw the 'Ttiad" written on
nutshell. and you and 1 have seen the
LCrfs Prayer written on five cent piece,
5Ut the whole tendency OF these times is to
write the Ten Commandments so small no.
JOdy can see them. protest this day against
The attempt to revise the Decalogue which
vas given on Mount Sinai amid the blast Of
,rImpets. and the cracking OF the rocks, and
the parCxysn OF the mountain of Arabia
PetrleI.
l BRING up the candidates for ward and
! township and city and State Office. bring
.as n up, aui try them by this Deca!ogus.
Di course they are imperfect. We are all
imp RECT. We say things we ought not to
'1y; We do things we ought not to do. We
have all been wrong; we have all done
wrong. But shall find out one of the can
tidates who comes, is my estimation, nearest
10 obedience OF the Ten COMMITMENTS, and
VIII vote fer-hin, end you viii vote for
Him unless you love God less than YOUR
party-then you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitocris, the daughter
Of Nebuchasinezzar, was so fascinated with
her beautiful village of Ardericca that she
had the river above Babylon changed SO it
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. Although 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 a2round,
and you will never be shipwrecked. Society
tell you there Is nothing worse to ight
Than the ten regiments, with bayonets and
sabres of fire, marching down the side ot
Mount Sinai. They always gain the victory,
and those who fight against them 20 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
| read, dying in his designations? In his dy-
Ing delirium he said, ''Now fetch on the
dice. 1t is nine No, no! 1t is gone, all is
gone! Bring on more wtnei Bring ON more
winel Oh, how they rattle their chains
Flends, fends, fends ! say you cheat The
cards are marked Oh, death oh, death
oh, death! Fiends, fiends, flendsp' And no
gasped his last and was gone. The Ten
Commandments slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nine
teenth century revise the Ten Command
ments. but let them IN society and at the
polls put to the front those who come the
nearest to this Gol-lifted standard. On the
lr5t Tuesday morning of November read the
twentieth chapter of Exodus at family
the officers elected will add seventy-five per
cent. unto or subtract seventy-ive per cent.
from the public morals.
You and cannot afford to have bad on
cials. The young men OF this country can
not afford to have bad officials. The COM
mercial, the moral, the artistic, the agrichl-
tural, the manufacturing, the religious in
terests of this country cannot afford to have
bad officials, and if you, on looking overthe
whole field, cannot find men who in your
estimation come within reasonable distance
Of obedience OF the Decalogue stay at home
md do not vote at all.
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 I suppose II there came
,rlsis in the politics of Babylon, whore
Daniel did not believe in any Of the candi-
dates, he staid at home on election day,
praying with his face toward Jerusa!em.
BUT we have no such crisis. We have no
such extgeucy, thank COD BUT nave 20
say to you to-day that the moral character OF
rulers always affects the ruled, and L appeal
to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the moral
tone of all the Nation OF judah ana threw
them into idolatry. Good King Josiah liftei
up the whole Nation by his excellent example!
WHY is it that to-day England Is higher up
in morals than at any point in her National
history? 1t is because she has the best ruiei
In all Europe-all the attempts to scandalzi
her name failure. The political power o.
TalIeyrand brooded all the political tricksteH
presidency of Aaron Burr blasted this Natior
until important letters were written in cipher
because the people could not trust the United
States mail. And let the court circles o.
Louis XIV and Henry VII march out' lof
lowed by the debauched Nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil. The great fab.
1list saya that the pigeons were In fright ~
a kite flying in the air, ana 50 these pigeons
hovered near the dovecote, but one Gay Ino
kite said "why are you so afraidf why
do YOU pass your life in terror niaK1 t9o
Linz and ri destroy all your enemies" 80
the pigeons made the kite king, and as soon
as he got the throne his regular diet was q
pigeon a day. And while one OF MS Nctlms
was waiting for its turn to come sa,u
rises from the plain to the height, but moral
malaria descends from the mountain TO me
niain Re careful, therefore, how you eie-
yate into any style of authority men VINO care are
in any wise autagonistic to the len ooin-
IL 7. 90 as ran tell, the most important