The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-11-01

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iaan may have, or however high the
position he gets, he has no especial lib
erty given him in the Interpretation OF
the Ten Commandments. A great sim
ner is no more to be excused than a
small sinner. Do not charge illustrious
detection to eccentricity, or chop of
the Ten Commandments 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 Deca-
logue, do not tx up the Decalogue, but
fix him up. The law must stand what
ever else may fail.
! Gu II your attention also to the fact
that you are all aware of, that the
breaking of one commandment makes
it the more easy to break all Of them,
and the philosophy is plain. Any kind
of sin weakcns the conscience, and II
the conscience is weakened that opens
the door for all kinds of trangression.
If, for instance, man go into this po-
litical campaign welding scurrility as
his chief weapon, and he believes every.
thing bad about a man and nothing
good, how long before that man him
self will get over the moral depression?
Neither in time nor eternity. If utter
a falsehood in regard to man may
damage him, but / get for myself ten
fold more damage. This is gun that
kicks. II, for instance, man be pro-
fame, under provocation he will COM
nit any crime. say under provoca-
tion. For If man will maltreat the
Lord Almighty would he not maltreat
his fellow man? If man be guilty OF
malfcasance in Office he will, under
provocution, commit any sin. He who
will steal will lie AMI he who will lie
will steal.
/ II, for instance. ;aln be impure 1t
opens the door for all other iniquity, for
in that one iniquity he commits theft
of the worst kind, and covetousness
Of the worst kind, and falsehood-pre-
tending to be decent when he is not
and maltrcats his parents by disgracing
their name, IL they were good. BE care.
ful, 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 man you charge him
with all villainies, with all disgusting
! pro pensities, with all rottenness.
/ A libertine is beast, lower than the
vermin that crawl over 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 mathematical demonstra.
tion is doubtful as compared with 1t.
And, then, when you investigate a
man on such subjects, you must go Ia
the whole length of investigation, and
find out whether or not he has re-
pented. He may have been on his
knees before God and implored the
Divine forgiveness, and he may have i'm.
plored the forgiveness of society and the
forgiveness of the world; although if a
man commit that sin at thirty OF
thirty-fve years of age there is not one
case out OF thousand where he ever
repents. You must in your investiga
tion see II it is possible that the one
case Investigated may not have beer
the exception. But do not chop off the
seven tn commandment to suit the case
Do not change Fairbanks scale to suit
what you are weighing with it Dc
not cut Off a yardstick TO suit the dry
goods you are measuring. Let the law
stand, and never tamper with It.
Above all, charge you do not joir
in the cry that 1 have heard-for fif
teen, twenty years l have heard it.
that there is no such thing as purity.
II you make that charge you are foul.
mouth scandalea Of the human race.
You are leper. Make room for that
leper! When man by pen or type oi
tongue, utters such SANDER on the
human race that there is no such thing
as purity, know right away that thai
man himself is walk ing lazaretto, @
reelsing ulcer, and is fit for no societo
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 then
stand as the everlasting defense of so
ciety and of the church of God.
The co mmitting of one sin opens the
door for the commission of other sins
You see it every day. Those embez
zlers, those bank cashiers abscondina
as soon as they are brought to justice
develop the fact that they were Ia al
kinds Of sin. No exception to the rule
They all kept bad company they near
ly all gambled, they all went TO placer
where they ought not Why2 TIL,
commission Of the one sin opened tn,
gate for all the other sins Sins 20 in
hocks, in droves and in herds. Yor
open the door for one sin, that invitel
in all the miserable segregation.
Some Of the campaign orators, thii
autumn, some of them, bombarding tn,
suffering candidates all the week, will
think no wrong in Sa Sabbath-breaking
All the week hurling the eighth com
man dment at one candidate, and th,
ninth commandment at still another
what are they doing with the fourth
commandment, "Re member the Sab
bath day to keep 1t holy?' Breaking
it. Is not the fourth commandment AZ
important as the eighth, as the seventh
as the ninth? So me of these political
campaign orators, as have seen them
reported in other yea RS, and as hav,
heard II In regard TO othem, bombarding
the suffering candidates all the week,
yet tossing the name Of God from theii
lips recklessly, guilty of profanity
What are they doing with the third