Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-03

breaking of one commandment makes
it the more easy To break all of them,
and the phi oSophy is plai Any
kind of sin weaSens the conscienc ,
and If the conscience is weaken d,
that opens the door for all kinds OF
ira sgre sion. II, for instance, IA man @
into this polit'c cal campa On welding
scurril ty as his chief wea on, and he
believes every thing bad about man,
and believes nothing good, how long
before that IN himself will get over
the moral depression? Neither in
time nor etern w. Ii utter a false
h cd in regard TO man | may dam
age him, but | get for myself ten fol
more dana G. That is n gun that
Iii ks. If, for inst nee, man be pro-
fame, under provocation ne Will com
NIT any or me. ] say under provoca
ton. For if a man will maltreat the
Lord Almighty, would he not maltreat
his fellow-man? If n man be guilty
Of malfeasance in office, he will, under
provocation. commit any sin. lie vino
will steal will lie, and he who will lie
will steal.
Il, for instance, a man can be i'm
pure il opens the door for all other in
ia nifty, for in that one iniquity he com
mits theft of the worst kind, and
covetous ess of the worst k nd, and
falseho pretending to be decent
when he is not-and maltreats his
parents, by disgracing their name If
they were good. Re 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 MAX that charge against
man you charge him with all villainies,
with all disgusting propensitles, with
all rottenDess.
A libertine is a beast, lower than the
vermin that crawl overa summer ear
cass-iower than the swine, for
swine has no intelligence To
against. BE careful then how 20
charge that against any man. II
must be so certain that a mathemati-
cal Demon tration is doubtful as com
pared with ii.
And, then, when you investigate -
man on such subjects, you must so To
the whole length of the investigation
and lind out whether not he has re
rented. lie may have been on his
knees before q d and lmplored the
divine forgive ess, and he may nave
implored the forgiveness of society and
the forgiveness of the world; although
If a man commit that sin At 20 or ..
years of age there is not one case on
of a thou aid ~ here he eyer repentS.
You must in your Investigation see II
1t is possible that the one case iuvesti-
gate may not have been the exception.
But do not chop off the seventh COM
mandment to suit the case. Do no
change Fairbanks scale to sui wha
you are weighing with it. DO not cut
of a yardstick to suit the dry goods
you are measuring. Let the law
stand and never tamper with it.
Above all, l charge you do not join
in the cry that l have heard-for tif-
teen, twenty years | have heard it
that tn re is no such thing as purity.
II you ma. e that charge you are a
foul-m othed scandaler of tue humnn
race. You are a leper. Make room
for that l. p r. When man, by en- or
type or tongue, uttel such a SANDER
on the human race that there is no
such thing as purity, / know right
away that that man himself rs wa X
ing la,aretto, a reeking ulcer, and is
iii for no ciety better than that o.
devils damned. We may enlarge our
charities in such a case. but in no su h
case let u, sh We off the ten com
mandments. Let them stand as tne
everlasting defence Of soci ty and oil
the church of God.
The committing of one sin opens the
door for the commission of other sins
! 70 Sc it every day. Those embelz-
! lers, those bank cashiers abs ondinG
F., soon as they arr brought to justice,
! develop the fact that they were in al
Ii. - -. 20 h.
! rule. ! hev all kept bad company
they nearly all gam bled, they all went
| TO places where they olght not Why
| The commission of the one sin opened
! the gate for all the OF er sins. Sins
! go in tocks, in droves and in herds
on open the door for one sin, that in
vites in all the miserab c segregation
Some OF the campaign orators this
autumn, some of them, bonn harding
the suffering candidates all the week
will think no wrong in sabbath break
ing. All the week hurting the eighth
commandment at one candidate, the
seventh commandment at another
candidate and the ninth command
ment at still another. what are they
doing with the fourth command
ment, "Remem Der the Sabbath day Il
keep it holy?" Breaking it. is no
the fourth commandment as impor
tant as the eighth, as the seventh, a
the ninth? Some of these politica
campaign orators, as have seen en-
reported in other years, and as hav,
heard it in regard to them, bonn bard
in he suffering ca didates all thu
week, vet tossing the name of Go
from their lips reck essly. guilty o
! profanity. What are they doing will
the third commandment? Is not tn
third commandment which says
Thou shalt not take The name of th
Lord thy God in vain, for the Lor,
will not hold h IN guiltles, that taketl
his name n vain"--is not the thir,
commandment as important as ID,
other seven? Oh, yes, we find in al
departments men are hurting their in
dignation against the sins perhaps t.
: which they are not espe tally TEN tie,
hurling it agai 81 iniqui towar,
VIII h they are not particular.
avn.
have this book for my authority
when ! say that the man who swear
or the man who bceaks the sabbath il
as cul pable before God as those candi
dates who break other commandments
VIII ri ut have you and ] to selec
which commit dment we VIII keel
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