The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03
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no00mentS AltnOO8n tney may
sometimes seem to be little singular.
do not care which way you sail, 1t
you sail in sight of them you will never
run aground and you will never De
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 sabres OF
fire, marching down the side Of Mount
Sinai. They always gain the victory,
and those who fight against them go
under
Let not ladies and gentlemen in this
nineteenth century revise the Ten Com
; manGments, but let them in society
and at the polls put to the front those
who come the nearest to this God-lift-
ed standard. On the first Tuesday
morning in November read the twenti-
eth cha pter of Exodus at family prayers.
The moral or immoral character
of the officers elected will add IS per
cent unto or subtract p 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 religious inter-
ests of this country. cannot afford to
have bad officials; and If you, on look
ing over the whole field. cannot lind
men who. in your estimation. come
within reasona BILE distance of obedi-
| ence of the Decalogue, stay at home
and do not vote at all.
suppose when in the city of Seldom
there were four candidates put up
for Office. and Lot did not believe in
any of them, he did not register.
suppose if there came crisis in the
politics of Babylon. where Da 1;el aid
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
exigency, thank God. But ! have TO
say to you to-day that the moral char
acter of rulers always q fleets the ruled:
| and l appeal TO history. Wicked King
| Mannasseh 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 that
| to-day England is higher up IN morals
than at any time in her national his
tory? 1t is because she has the best
ruler in all Europe, all the attempts TO
| scandalize her name a failure. The
| political power of Talleyrand brooded
all the political tricksters of the last
ninety years. The dishonest vice pres
| idency of Aaron Burr blasted this ma
| ton until important letters Were writ
| ten in cipher. because the people could
| not trust the United States mail. And
| let the court circles of Louis Nv. and
| Henry VIII. march out. followed by
| the debauched nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
| worse is his power for evil. Be care
| full. therefore, how you elevate into any
style of authority men who are in any
| wise antagonistic to the Ten Command
| ments.
l say we want tonic-a mighty
tonic-a corrective-ar all-powerful
corrective-and Moses in the text, with
steady hand. notwithstanding the jar
| ring mountains and the full orchestra
of the tempest and the blazing OF the
air, pours out ten dropS-no more, nc
less-which our people need 70 take TO,
their moral convalescence.
But I shall not leave you under the
Encouragement OF the Ten Command
ments. because we have ali offended.
There is another mountain in sight,
and while one mountain thunders the
other answers in thunder: and while
irh
doom. the other mountain. with light.
| ming, writes mercy. The only way you
| will ever spike the guns of the Deca.
logue is by the spikes Of the cross.
| The only rock that will ever stop the
| Sinaitic 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
1900 feet high and another 5000 and
another 9,OCo feet high, and travellers
| tell us that Mount Calvary is only
bluff outside of the wall Of Jerusalem:
but Calvary in neral significance over.
| tops and overshadows all the mount.
aims of the hemisphe-es. and Mount
Washington and Mount Blanc and
the Himalayas are hiliocks compared
| with It. You know that sometimes oce
| fortress VIII silence another fortress.
Moultr;e silenced Sumter: and agains.
the mountain of the Law ! put the
mountain of the Cross The soul that
sinneth. It shall de-" bocus one. until
the earth jars under the cannonade.
'Save them from going down to the
pit. ! 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.
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys or wa
ter courses - Alleyat and Aielah -
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 &c
take US off from under the shadows
into the calm sunlight of Gods pardon
and into the land Of peace. Oh. if you