The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-03

pecial cases The right is everIastingly
right, and the wrong is everlastingll
wrong. If.any man nominated for any
Nfice in this city or state differs from
tSse Decalogue, do not fix up the Dec
a,,gue, but fix him up. The: law must
stand whatever else may fall s .s 49,,
: l. call your attention also to the fact
that you are all aware of, that. the
breaking Of one commandment makes
it fSsae more easy to break all of them,
and Nc philosophy is plain. Any kind
of sil, l,weakcns the conscience, and if
the coA4cience is weakened that opens
the door for all kinds of transgression
II, for instance, a man go into this po-
itical campaign welding scurrility as
his chief weapon, and he believes
everything bad about a man and be-
lieves nothing good, how long before
that man himself will get over the
e}ernitd %erni dep5tssi0n? Ps Neither in time nor
If utter a falsehood in regard to a
man, may damage him, but I get
for myself tenfold more damage That
is Il gun that kicks. If, for instance,
a man be profane, under provocation
he will commit any crime. I say under
provocation. For if a man will NAL
treat the Almighty, would he not NAL
treat his fellow man? If man be
guilty of malfeasance in Office, he will,
under prOyOcatiOn, commit any sin.
He who will steal will lie, and he who
Will lie will steal.
Ii, Tor instance, a man be impure, it
opens the door for all other iniquity,
for in that one iniquity he commits
theft Of the worst kind, and covetous-
ness Of the worst kind, and .falsehood
pretending to be decent when he is
not-and maltreats his parents by dis
gracing 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 dis
gusting prOpensities, with all rotten
ness.
A hbertine is a beast lower than the
vermin that crawl over q 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 a mathematical demonstra-
ton is doubtful as compared with it.
And then, when you investigate q
man on such subjects you must go to
the whole length Of investigation and
find out whether Or not he has repent
ed. He may have been on his knees
before God and implored the divine
forgiveness, and he may have implored
the forgiveness Of society and the for
giveness Of the world. Although if a
man commit that sin at thirty or thir-
ty-five years of age, there is not one
case out Of a thousand where he ever
repents. You must in your investiga-
ton see if it is possible that the one
case investigated may not have been
ithe exception. But do not chop off the
seventh commandment n to suit the case.
do. not chan gessss ess Fairbanks scales 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 never tamper with it,
Some Of these political campaign ora
tors, as [ have seen them reported in
other years, and as I have heard it in
regard to them, bombarding the sr1f-
ferng candidates all the week, vet
tossing the name Of God from their
lips recklessly, guilty Of profanity
what are they doing with the third
commandment? Is not the third COM
mandment, which says, Thou shalt
not take the name Of the Lord thy God
III vain, for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain"
is not the third commandment as i'm
portant as the other seven? Oh, YES,
we find in all departments men arc
hurting their indignation against sins
perhaps to which they are not es-
pecially tempted-hurling it against in
lquity toward which they are not par
ticularly drawn.
l have this book for my authority
when say that the man who swears
or the man who breaks the Sabbath
is as culpable before God as those can
didates who break other command
ments. What right have you
and L to select which COM
mandment we will keep and which
we will break? Better not try to
measure the thunderbolts of the AL
mighty, saying this has less blaze, this
has less momentum. Better not handle
the guns, better not experiment much
With the divine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the ''Iliad" written
on nutshell, and you and I have seen
the Lords prayer written on q five-cent
piece, but the whole tendency of these
tAl1eS IS 10 write the Ten Command
Dents so small robody 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 cracking Of the rocks,
and the paroxysm Of the mountain of
Arabia Petraea.
bring up the candidates for ward
and township and city and state office.
l bring them up, and I try them by
this decalogue. OF course they are
imperfect. We all are 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 shall find out one of the
candidates who comes, in my estima-
ton, nearest, to obedience Of the Ten
Commandments, and, I will vote for
him unless you love God less than
your party-then you will not.
You and I 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 re-
ligious interests of this country cannot
afford to have bad officials, and if YOU,