The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-11-16

break all OF them-and the pnilosophy IS
plain. ANY kind OF sin weakens the con-
! science. and if the conscience is weakened
that opens the door for all kinds OF trans
aression. If. for instance, man 90 into TINS
nolitfoaI campaign welding scurrillty as MS
chief vernon and he believes everything bad
about man and believes nothing good, now
long teiore that man himself VIII GET over
the nnoral depression. Neither in time nor
eternity.
III utter faisehood in regard to man,
roey damage him but / get for myself ten
fold more damage That is q gun tnat KICKS.
IT, for instance a man eproiane, uhder pro-
vocation he will commit any crime. l say
under'proyocatiou. For, If a man Will mai
treat the Lord Almighty. would he not mall
treat his fellow man? II a man be guilty OF
ualfeasancs IN Office, he will under proYo2a-
ton commit any SIN. He who will steal VIII
lie, and be who yill lie will steal
If. for instance, man be impure, it opens
the door Tor all other iniquity for in that
one iniouity he commits theft OF the worst
fj-a and oyet0usEess Of the worst K1nd
and MISUNDERSTANDING to be decent
when he IL not--and maltreats his parents by
disgracing their name Ii they were soou
Pc caraful therefore. h0v ven charge tha'
sin against any man either IN high place or
low Mace. either in office or out OF Office
because when YOU make that charge against
a man YOU charge him With all yillainies.
with ali disgusting propensities, with all
rottennes-.
A libertine is beast, lower than the YER
min that crawl over a summer carcass
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 certain that mathematical
demonstration is doubtful as compared with
II.
And then, when you investigate man on
90 n 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 ard he may have i'm
plOred the forgiveness OF society and the for
giyeness OF the world. Although il man
commit that sin at thirty or thirty-fye years
OF age. there is not one case out OF thou
sand where he ever repents. You must in
your inyas, igation see if it is possible that
the one case Investigated may not have been
the exception. But do not chop Off the
seventh commandment to suit the case. DO
not change Fairbanks scale to suit what
you are Weighing with it. Do not cut Off
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
crv that / have heard-for fifteen, twenty
years | have heard itthat there is no such
thing as purity. If you make that charge
YOU are q iOGl-lnOutneu Scduutioi VI Inv
human race. You are leper. MAKE room
Tor unau leper Wnen a man, by pen or type
or tongue, utters such a SANDER on the hu-
man race that there is no such thing US
purity | know right away thatthat man NM
self is waking lazaretto. a reeking ulcer.
and is fit for no society better than that OF
devils damned. We may enlarge our char
tiles in such case, but in no SUCH case let
US shave off the Ten Commandments. Let
them stand as the everlasting defense OF So
ciety and the church OF 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 rs 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 gambed, they all went TO
places where they ought not. WhyE Inc
commission of the one sin opened the gate
for all the other sins Sins go in focks, in
droyes and 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-bombarding the suffering
candidates all the week, will think no wrong
in Sabbath breaking. All the week hurting
the eighth commandment Mt one candidate,
the seventh commandment at another can
didate and the ninth commandment at still
another. what are they doing with the fourth
commandment, Remember the Sabbath day
to keep il holy?' Breaking it. Is not the ,
fourth commandment as important as the
eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth!
Some of these political campaign orators,
as | have seen them reported in other years,
and as / have heard it in regard to them,
bombarding the suffering candidates all the
week, vet tossing the name OF God from their
lips recklessly 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, Tor the Lord will not hold
him guiltess that taketh his name In vain
is not the third commandment as impor-
tant rs the other seven? Oh. yes we ind in
all departments men are hurting the irindig-
nation against sins perhaps TO which they are
not especially pted-huriing 1t against
inquity toward which they are not particu-
larry drawn.
have this book for my authority when
say that the man who swears or the man VINO
breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God
as these candidates who break other COM
mandments What right have you and 10
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-
mentum. Better not handle the guns, better
not experiment much with the divine ammu-
milton.
a nutshell, and you and | have seen the
Lords Prayer written on a five cent piece,
but the whole tendency of these times is to
| write the Ten Commandments so small no.
| body can see them. protest this day against
| the attempt to revise the Decaogue 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
| Petr@a.
/ bring up the candidates for ward and
| township and city and State Office. | bring
them up, and try them by this Decalogue
OF course they are imperfect. We are all
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 shall find out one of the can
| didates who comes, in my estimation, nearest
to obedience OF the Ten Commandments, and
| will vote for him, and you will vote for
| Him unless you love God less than your
party-then you will net.
HerOdotus said that Nitocris the daughter