Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-11-04

viii vote for him, ana you will vote for
him unless you love God less than your
party-thcn you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitocris, the
daughter of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, was so fas-
cinated 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 within sight of this beau
-tiful group of divine commandments.
Although they may sometimes seem to
be 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 DO shipwrecked. Society needs
toning up on al these subjects.
tell you there is nothing worse to
fight than the 10 regiments, with bay
onets and sabcrs of FIRE, marching down
the side of Mount Sinai. They always
gain the victory, and those who fight
against them 80 under. There are thou
sands and tens Of thousands of men be-
ing slain by The -Decalogue What is
the matter with that young man of
whom read. dying In his designations?
In his dying deiiriun he said: "Now
fetch on tho dice. 1t is mine! No, no!
It is gone; all is gone! Bring on more
winel Bring on more winel Oh, how
they rattle their chainsl Fiends, fends,
fendsl 1 say you cheat! The cards are
markell Oh, death! oh, death! oh, DEATH
Fiends, fends, fendsp 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
rs 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-
ligious interests of this country cannot
afford to have bad officials, and if you,
on looking over theswhole field, cannot
find men who, in your estimation, come
within reasonable distance of obedience
Of the Decalogue, stay at home and do
not vote at all.
GOOD CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.
I 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. Isuppose if
there came q crisis in the politics of
Babylon, where Daniel did not believe
in any of the candidates, he staid at
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 I have to say to
you today that the moral character of
rulers always affects the ruled, and APP
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? 1t
is because she has the best ruler in all
Europe-all the attempts to scandalize
her name failure. The political power
of Talleyrand brooded all the political
tricksters of the last 90 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 the
worse is his power for evil. The great
fabulist says that the pigeons were in
fright at kite flying In the air, and so
these pigeons lowered near the dovecot
But one day the kite said: why areyou
30 afraid? Why do you pass your life in
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 a pigeon day.
And while one of the victims was wait
ing for its turn to come it said, Served
us right" The malaria of swamps rises
from the plain to the height. but moral
malaria descends from the mountain to
the plain. Be careful therefore howyou
elevate into any style of authority men
who are i'll any wise antagonistic to the
Ten Commandments.
As near as I can tell the most impor-
tant thing now to be done is to have
about 100000 copies of the Sinaitic
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 1000 baths for the citizens of Alex
andria. It was very expensive heat.
But without any harm to the Decalogue,
you could with it heat hundred thou
sand baths of moral publication for the
American people.
say we want tonic-a mighty tonic,
corrective, an all powerful correct
ive-and Moses in the text, with steady
hand, Notwithstanding the Earring noun
tains and the full orchestra of the tenn
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
conyalescence.
TEE GOSPEL IN POLITICS.
But T 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