Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-02
HIGH AUTHORITY.
A FALSE BALANCE AND A JUST
WEIGHT.
A Political Sermon OH the AbOmi-
nations OF These Degenerate
Days Some AdmOnitiOns The
GOldbugs should Heed.

| GOldbugs should Heed.
A false balance is an ahomination t,
/ the Lord; but a just weight is His de
lisht.-Proverbs, NI-l.
All through the Bible one is strucl
with the emphatic and repeated de
nunciations OF all that is wrong, un
just, and that which savors, even re
motely of robbery and oppression
The weak are commended to the con
sideration of the strong and the judg'
Is required to temper justice will
! mercy.
In this day and generation wher
men, forget!ul of Bible precepts care
more for personal gain and selfish ad
vancement, than for that which ii
right; when the power of money i.
paramount to everything else; wher
the press is muZzled, if not actually
controlled; when even the pulpit il
invaded to accomplish the purposes
of greed at the sacrifice of every
teaching laid down by the Mosaic Law
giver, or the Man of Nazareth it may
be excusable to use the papers, open
to those who are on the peoples side
read q sermon against such practices
and to direct attention against such
wrongs.
There is no desire to disguise the
fact that the intention OF the writer is
to preach political sermon, and in
SO doing his excuse is that he is moi
a preacher of the gospel, for no more
pitiful object presents itself to human
view than the professional political
preacher. who prostitutes his minis
terial cloth to the use of politics. 1t
is not matter which side is advocated
or which cause is defended, the man
who is licensed to preach "Chrisl
Jesus and him crucified" who uses his
pulpit to rant on politics is so far de-
generate as to be unworthy OF his
cloth.
"It is written that My House shall
be a House of prayer, but ye have
made it a den of thieves" So rang
out the voice of the Master as He
overturned the tables of the MONEY
CHANGERS and scourged from the
temple those that bought and sold
doves.
How men can reconcile the teach.
ings of Jesus to making political
harangues in chnrch is hard to ex'
plain, but not half so hard as to see
this class of Christian teachers God
save the namely declaim from theil
pulpits against an humble Christian
gentleman, a firm believer in every
principle that they SHOULD teach, one
of Gods noblest handiworks, an hon.
est man-and declare him to be dis
honest, anarchistic and unreliable as
certain have recently been reported at
doing in our great cities.
Do these men remember that in
their hands are held the scales, and
that the prophet hath said, ga false
balance is an abomination to the
Lord"
They should remember that in
another part of the Holy Writ it il
told that accursed is he who increaseth
the weight OF the sheckle and lessenetl
the size of the epoch. Let them pom.
der we'll upon the fact that to carry
out the Republican platform means to
increase the size of the epoch (the
measure) of all grain and products and
to decrease the size OF the sheckle
(money), for by making money dearer
and increasing its power to purchase,
its size is lessened and the bushel
measure and the quart cup, and the
pint cup and the gill are all doubled
in size, and yet false balance and an
enlarged measure are abominable in
Jehovah's sight.
Oh! Scribes and Pharaisees; hyp-
ocrits-it is justice, truth and love
you are commanded to preach in His
name, instead, during the Masters
absence, ye, like Aaron, are making a
golden calf and calling on the people
to bow down and worship it.
Remember the hour or the minute
OF the Lords return is not known, but
when he comes beware! for your
golden calf will be ground TO powder
and its dust scattered to the four
winds of heaven and ye false prophets
like your idol, will be crushed in the
grinding.
How we'll those olden fathers un-
derstOOd humanity ana now little uoes
man of to-day differ from those OF the
Seniaic period.
A golden calf!
What better type OF the worship o
Mammon could have been presented
and what is more honored, reveret
and worshiped to-day than this sam'
golden calf.
"The abomination to the lord is
false balance" What greater bomi
nation is there to him who decreet
that in every seventh year all debt
should be forgiven, all slaves emanci
pated, all homes returned. Wha
greater abomination 10 Him can ther