Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30


no more TO be excused than small sim
ner Do not charge illustrious detection
| to eccentricity or chop off the Ten Com
mandments to suit especial cases. The
right is everlastingly right, and the
wrong is everlastingly wrong. If any
man nominated for any office in this city
or state differs from the Decalogue, do
not fix up the Decalogue, but fix him up.
/ The law must stand whatever else may
fall.
I call your attention also to the fact
that you are all aware of, that the break
ing Of one commandment makes it the
more easy to break all of them, and the
philosophy is plain. Any kind of sin
weakens the conscience and if the con-
science is weakened that opens the door
Scr all kinds of transgression. IF, for in
stance, & man go into-t1lis political cam
paign welding scurrility as his chief
weapon, and he believes everything bad
about man and believes nothing good,
how long before that man himself will
get over the moral depression? Neither
in time nor eternity.
If [ utter a falsehood in regard to a
man, may damage him, but get for
myself tenfold more damage. That is
gun that kicks. If, for instance, man
be profane, under provocation he will
commit any crime. I say under provo
cation. For if a man will maltreat the
Lord Almighty, would he not maltreat
his fellow man? If man be guilty OF
malfeasance in Office, he will, under
provocation, commit any sin. He who
will steal will lie, and he who will lie
will steal.
IT, for instance, a man be impure, it
opens the door for all other iniquity, for
in that one iniquity he commits theft of
the worse kind, and covetousness Of the
worst kind, and falsehood- pretending
to be decent when he is not-and NAL
treats his parents by disgracing their
name if they were good. Be 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 make that charge
against a man you charge him with all
villainies, with all disgusting propensi-
ties, with all rottenness.
A libertine is a beast lower than the
vermin that crawl over a summer car
cass-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 GER
tain that q mathematical demonstration
is doubtful as compared with it.
NO TAMPERING WITH THE LAW.
And then, when you investigate a man
on such subjects you must go to the
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,
and he may have implored the forgive
ness of society and the forgiveness Of the
world. Although if q man commit that
sin at 80 or 80 years of age, there is not
one case out Of a thousand where he ever
repentS. You must in your investigation
see if it is possible that the one case in
vestigated may not have been the excep-
| ton. 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 new
er tamper with it.
Above ALL I charge you do not join in
the cry that have heard-for 10, 20years
[ have heard it-that there is no such
thing as purity. If you make that charge,
you are foul mOuthed scandaler of the
human race. You are a leper. Make
room for that leper! When q man, by
pen or type or tongue utters such a
SANDER on the human race that there is
no such thing as purity, know right
away that that man himself is walking
| lazaretto. a reeking ulcer, and is fit for
no society better than that of devils
damned. We may enlarge our charities
in such q case, but in no such case let us
shave off the Ten Commandments. Let
them stand as the everlasting defense of
! society and of the church Of God.
The committing Of one sin opens the
door for the commission Of other sins.
You sae it every day. Those embezzlers,
those bank cashiers absconding as soon
IS 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 gam
bled; they all went to places where they
ought not. Why? The commission Of
She one sin opened the gate for all the
other sins. Sins go in focks, in droves
and in herds. You open the door for one
sin--that invites in all the miserable seq
regation.
Some of the campaign orators this au-
tumn, some of misunderstanding the
suffering candidates all the week, will
think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All
the week hurting the eighth command
ment at one candidate, the seventh COM
mandment at another candidate, and the
ninth commandment at still another
what are they doing with the fourth
commandment Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy?" Breaking it.
Is not the fourth commandment as i'm
portant as the eighth, as the seventh,
as the ninth?