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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 break? Better not try
to measure the thunderbolt Of the AL
mighCy, saying this has less blaze,
| this has less momentum. Better not
| handle the guns, better not eXperl-
ment much with the Divine ammuni-
tion. Cicero said he saw the Had
written on nutshell, and you and
have seen the Lords prayer written on
tive-cent piece; but the whole tend
cncy of these times is to write the ten
! commandments so small nobody can
see them. protest this day against
the attempt to revise the decalogue
which was given on Mount Sinai amid
the blast of trumpets and the crack
ing of the rocks and the paroXysm of
the mountain of Ara bia Petrea.
bring up the candidates for ward,
and township, and city, and state Of
fee: l bring them up, and l 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 l shall find out one of the
candidates who comes, in my estima-
| ton, nearest to obedience to the ten
| commandments, and l 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 Nitrocris, the
daughter of NebuchadneZZar, 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 this eX-
quisite village. Now, l do not care
which way you sail in morals, or which
way you sail in life, if you only sail
within sight of this beautiful 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 be shipwrecked. Society
needs toning up on all these subjects.
l tell you there is nothing worse to
! fight than the ten regiments, with
bayonets and sabers of fire, marching
down the side of Mount Sinai. They
always gain the victory, and those
who fight against them go under.
There are thousands and tens of thou
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Decalogue. What is the matter with the
young man of whom 1 read, dying in
his dissipations? In his dying delirium
he said: Now. fetch on the dice. 1t
is time! No, no! Bring on more wine!
Oh, how they rattle their chains!
Fiends, fiends, fends! Isayyou cheat!
The cards are marked! Oh, death! oh,
death! Fiends. fiends, fends!" And
he gasped his last and was gone. The
ten commandments slew him.
But l 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 Sinai, with lightning, writes
doom, the other mountain, with
lightning, writes mercy. The only
way you will ever spike the guns
of the Decalogue is by the spikes
of the cross. The only rock that will
ever stop the Slnaitic upheavals is the
Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is
higher than Mount Sinai. The English
survey expedition, I know, say that
one Sinaitic peak is seven thousand feet
high and another eight thousand and
another nine thousand feet high, and
travellers tell us that Mount Calvary
is only bluff outside of the wall of
Jerusalem; but Calvary in moral sig
nifcance overtops and overshadows
all the mountains of the hemispheres,
and Mount Washington and Mount
Blanc and the Himalayas are hill
locks compared with it. You know
that metimes one fortress will silence
another fortress. Moultrie silenced
Sumter; and against the mountain of
the law l put the mountain of the
cross. ''The soul that sinneth, it shall
die," booms one, until the earth jars
under the cannonade. "Save them
from going down to the pit, 1 have
found ransom," pleads the other,
until earth and Heaven and hell
tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses, who commands the one, sur
renders to Christ, who commands the
other.
Once by the law our hopes were slain,i
But now in Christ we live again,
The survey expedition says tina; the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys, or
water courses-Alleyat and Ajelah-
emptying into Feiran. But those
streams are not navigable. No boat
put into those rocky streams could sail
But have to tell you this day that
the boat of Gospel rescue comes right
up amid the water courses of Sinaitic
gloom and threat, ready to take us
off from under the shadows into the
calm sunlight Of Gods pardon and into
the land of peace. Oh, if you could
see that boat of Gospel rescue coming
this day, you would feel as John Gil
more, in his book. The Storm War
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