The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-02

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OF age. there is not one case ont of thou.
sand where he ever repents. Won must in
YOUR investigation see u II Is possible tha,
Inc one case Investigated may not have been
| the exception. Rut 10 not chop OF the
seventh commandment to suit the case. 10
no: change Fairbanks scale TO suit what
you are weighing with Il. DO not cut OF n
yardstick TO suit the dry goods you are
measuring. Est the law stand and never
tamper with H.
Above all | charge you do not Join in tNp
cry that | have heard for iteen, twenty
years haze heard it-that there IL no such
thing ~ purity. II you make that charge
you are y foul-mouthed scandaIer OF the
human race. You are leper. Make room
FOR that leper, When man, by pen or typa
or tongue, uttsrs such slander ON the hu.
man race that there is no such thing as
purity know right away that that man him
sell Is ~ Walking lazaretto. = reeking ulcer.
aud Is NJ for no society better than thst OF
devils damned. We may enlarge our char
tiles In such ease. but in no such case let
us shave on tho Ten Commandments. Let
thsm stand rs 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
II svery day. Those embezzlers, those BAN X
cashiers absconding as soon as they ara
brought To justice. develop thu fact that
they were In all kinds OF sin. No exception
TO the rule. They all Kept had company,
they nearly all gambled they all went 10
places where they ought not. Why? The
commission of tue one sin opened the gate
for all the other sins. Sins 40 in nocks In
droyes and IN herds. You open the door Tor
one sin that Invites in all the miserable
segregation.
some tthe 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 at one candidate.
the seventh commandment nt another can
didate and the ninth commitment at still
another. what are they doing with the fourth
commandment. "Remsn nber the Sabbath day
TO keep II holyy" Breaking II. II not tho
fourth commandment as important rs the
eighth. n the seventh ~ the ninth?
Some Of these political campaign orators
as have seen them reported In other years
and as have heard Il in regard to them
bombarding the suffering candidates all the
week. yet tossing the name OF God from their
lips recklessly. guilty profanity what are
they doing with the third commandment?
Is not the third commandment, witch SAYS
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vatn, for the Lord will not hold
him gutltless that taketh his name in vain
is not the third commandment ~ impor-
tant ~ the other seycn? oh. yes, We Ind IN
all depart ments men are hurting the irindig-
nation against aims perhaps to which they ara
not especially tempted hurting q against
iniquity toward whtrh they arr not particu-
larly drawn.
/ have this book for NY authority when
say that the man who swears or ths man who
breaks the sabbath Is n culpable befors God
rs these candidates who break other com
mandmen,s. What right have you aud | 20
select which commandment we will keep aud
which we viii break; Better not try 10
measurs the tbunderboits OF the Almighty
SAYING this has less blaze, thi. mas less mo.
msntum. Better not handle the guns better
not experiment muth with the divine ammu-
milton.
Cicero said he saw the "Iliad" written on
"A nutshell, and you aud 1 have seen the
Lords Prayer written on five cent piece,
but the whole tendency OF these times Il 20
write ths Ten Commandments 50 smaIi no.
body can sea them. | protest Ibis iay against
the attempt to revise the Decalogus 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
Petr1a.
bring up the candidates for ward and
township and city and State oflice. 1 bring
them mp. aud l try them by this Dscalogue.
or course they are imperfect We are all
imperfect. We say things we ought not tn
say we DO things we ought not TO do. We
wrong. But shall fiud out one OF the can
dtdates who comes. in my estimation nearest
10 obedience OF the Ten Commandments and
VIII vote for him, and YOU will vots for
Him unless you love God less than your
party--then you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitocris. the dau yh,er
OF Nebuchadnezzar, was so fascinated with
her beautiful village Of Ardercca that She
had the river above Babylon changed 50 il
wound this way and wound that. and curved
this way and curved that. and though you
sailed on II for three days every day you
would be in sight OF that exquisite village.
Now. | do not care which way you sii in
morals or which way you sail in life IT you
only sail In sight of this beautiful group of
divine commandments. Although they may
sometimes seem to be IA little angular. do
not care which way you sail. IL you sail In
sight OF them you will never run aground.
and you will never be shipwreGked. Society
needs tonlng up on all these subjects.
| tell you there IL nothing worse 10 fight
than the ten regiments. with bayonets aud
sabres Of arc, marching down the side o,
Mount Sinai. They always gain the victory,
and those who fight against them 10 under.
There ara thousands and tens OF thousands
Of men being slain by the Decalogus. What
IL the matter with that young man OF whom
read. dying in his designations? Ia his dy-
Ing delirium hs said, Now fetch on the
dice. Il "a mine No. no Il IL gone. all IL
gone Bring on more wine Bring on NOR.
wine Oh, how they rattle their chains
Fieuds tends. ilends l say you cheat The
cards ars marked oh. death oh, dsath
oh. death Fiends. iiends. hends! !" And he
gasped his last ED was gone. Th. Zen
slew him.
Let not ladies and gentlemen In this nine
teenth century revise the Ten Command
ments. but let them in society aud ut the
polls put 20 the front those who coma tho
nearest 10 this God-lifted standard. On the
first Tuesday morning Of November read the
twentieth chapter OF Exodus at family
prayers. The moral or immoral character OF
tue officers elected will add seventy-iys psr
cent. unto or subtract seyenty-hve per cent.
from the public morals.
You aud cannot afford 10 have bad OFF,
cials. The Young men of thIs country can
not Afford to have bad officials. Tho com
rnercial. the moral. the artistic. the agr.cul-
tural. the manufacturing, the religious in
terests OF this country canuot AFFORD 10 have
had ofiicials. and II you, ON looking over the
whole Held, cannot dnd men who in your
come within reasonable distance
OF obedience OF the Decslogus stay at hons
aud do not vote at all.
suppose whsn in the city OF Sodom there