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

his face toward Jerusalem. But we
have no such crisis, we have no such 4
exigency, thank God. But have to say /
to you to-day that the moral character
Of the rulers always affects the ruled,
and I appeal to history. ,. s3
Be careful, therefore, how you ele-
vate into any style of authority men !
who are in any wise antagonistic t.
the Ten Commandments. =.
AS near as can tell the most impor-
tant thing now to be done is to- have
about 100000 copies Of the Sinaitic
Decalougue printed and scattered
throughout the land. It was terrible
waste when the Alexandrian library
was destroyed, and the books were
taken to heat 1000 baths for the citi-
zens OF Alexandria. It was very ex-
pensive heat. But without any harm to
the Decalogue, you could with it heat
"a hundred thousand baths of moral
publication for the American people,
| say we want a tonic-a mighty
tonic, corrective. an all powerful cor
rective-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 the ten drops-no more,
no less-which our people need to take
for their moral convalescence.
But I shall not leave you under the
discoura cement of the Ten Command
ments, because we have all offended
There is another mountain in sight,
and while one mountain thunders the
other answers in thunder, and while
Mount Sinai, with lightning, writes
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
1000 feet high and another 5000 and
another 5000 feet high, and travellers
tel us that Mount Calvary is only a
bluff outside of the wall Of Jerusalem,
But calvary IN moral significance over
tops and overshadoWs all the mountains
OF the hemispheres, and Mount Wash
lngton and Mount Blanc and the Him.
alayas are hilocks compared with it.
You know that sometimes one fortress
SAANAANN
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against
the mountain Of the law I put the
mountain of the cross. '"The soul that
sinneth, it shall die'' booms one until
the earth jars under the cannonade.
Save them from going down to the
pit, L have found ransom,'> pleads
the other until earth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverberation.
And Moses, who commads the one.
surrenders to Christ, who commands
the other
once by the law our hopes We're slain,
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna er,1pt-
*ed one day and poured torrents of
scofla upon tie villages at the base
out that the mountain divided it's fame
ana MADE q lane of safety for all those
VINO came to rescue their aged parents
And this volcanic Sinai divides it's fury
Tor all those whom Christ has come
TO rescue from the red ruin on both
SIDES. Standing as I do to-day. half
way between the two mountains
mountain OF the exodus and the noun
tain OF the nineteenth of John-all nv
terror comes into supernatural calm.
TOT the uproar Of the one mountain
subsidies into quiet and comes down
into SO deep silence that I can hear
the other mountain speak-ay, I can
hear it whisper, 1.-THE blood, the blood,
the blood that cleanseth from all sin -
lhe survey expedition says that the
Slnaltlc mountains have wadys or wa.
ter courses-Alleyat and Ajelah-emp,y-
ing into Feiran. But those streams are
not naTlgable No boat put into those
rocky streams could sail. But I have
TO tell you this day that the boat of
gospel rescue comes right up amid the
Water-courses of Sinaihc gloom and
threat ready to take us off from under
the shadows into the calm sunlight OF
Gods pardon and into the land of
peace.
On. if you could see that boat of Cos
pei rescue coming this day, you would
feel as John Gilmore in his book, '"The
Storm Warriors" says that a ships
crew felt on the Kentish knock sands.
or the coast of England, when they
We're being beaten to pieces, and thew
all felt they must die. They had given
up all hope, and every moment washed
OH another plank from the wreck, and
tney said: I'VE must die; we must
ule! But after while they saw a
kamsgate hfeboat coming through the
~ NN'N>A9 AoA CAC1u, iiuu TIE man stand
ing highest upon the wreck said: "Can
1t De? Can it be? 1t is, it is, it is, it
IS! Thank God! It is the Ramsgate
hfeboat! It is, it is, it is, it is!'
And the old Jack Tar, describing that
1feboat to his comrades after he cot
ashore, said: "Oh, my lads what a
beauty it did seem coming through the
breakers that awful day!' May God,
through the mercy in Jesus Christ
take us all off the miserable wreck Of
our sin into the beautiful lifeboat Of the
gospel.
Ihe French Idea of Education for
Girls. -,
The French always make this distinc-
ton between instructor and "educa-
ton" Instruction means what the
girls study, while education includes
manners, breeding, customs, conduct
habits, ideas, and any amount of learn
ing without this education, in their
sense of the word means nothing to
them at all. ,- rE<5r%