Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

from Jehovah «ut of heaven.” These pare exact descriptions of what would take place in case a slight earthquake had released and ignited some of the reservoirs of gas and oil which we know have been imprisoned in that region. It Is only in recent, years that we have come to know much about such reservoirs. At the present time they are frequently penetrated in the Russian oil field at Baku on the Caspian sea. Occasionally there a reservoir is Btruck in which spouts forth 100,000 barrels of oil a day. Sometimes three such wells have taken fire and been burning at once, the ignited material rising in a column hundreds of feet in height and the burning Bpray being carried to points several miles distant, the sulphurous particles falling down upon ships and bouses five miles away. —— ; —- On telling the great oil expert, Mr. L C. White, these factß on my return from Siberia a few years ago, he said that he could ‘‘go me one betr tcr,“ for he had supervised the drilling of a well in Mexico that spouted out 160,000 barrels a day. It is almost incredible that such forces are imprisoned beneath us, but the late Prof. Edward Orton, one of our most distinguished scientists, told me that he had seen the pressure gauge on a gas well in central New York •register 2,600 pounds to the square inch, whereas the pressure of the piston of a / locomotive 'engine rarely rises above 150 pounds. The forces at the Lord's command for the production of a “miracle” are limitless.

THE SUBLIMEST MORAL CODE OF THE AGES. (Bq THEODORE KEMP, LL. D., President of Illinois Wesley University.) “It is a belief In tire Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life."—Ooethe. —7- ; The law of Sinai has not been repealed nor the Sermon on the Mount superseded. Who is audacious enough to add to the Ten Commandments or who dares to remove a single “Thou shalt not?” Every vital virtue to herd implied and every cardinal sin M here condemned. With all our progress in education and morals, men cannot improve upon these commandments. Men may continue to break them, but we may question any man’s right to amend thefn. It 1b remarkable that this code of morals has stood the test of over 3,000 years. There are those today who under a mistaken sense of freedom seek to ignore and often endeavor to have others ignore them, but the very stability of government and home, as well as the rights of all individuals, are bound up in their observance. Man’s attitude toward God and his relations to men are set forth here with amazing wisdom and with unsurpassed authority.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness.” "Thou shalt not steal.” "Thou shalt not murder.” “Thou shalt not commit adultery." “Thou shalt not covet.” How these strike at the very heart of modern Bins. To omit even one from the category is to bring ruin down upon home and heart; and yet today in much of our literature, in popular plays, and in the utterances of would-be prophets of the new day, we hear and see bo much at variance with these fundamental laws. Never has there been a greater need in this country for men and women to hark back to these utterances thundered from Sinai and graven on tables of stone. The light regard for human life, the disregard for rights of property, the preaching of easy virtue, the lessening of the sanctity of the marriage bond, and the feverish greed of covetous men, all proclaim that the redemption of society, the purification of the home, the sanctity of property and person, must be obtained through the observance of the ethics of the Ten Commandments and their wider application as expressed in the Sermon on the Mount. In the light of these great commandments which constitute the world’s greatest authority in the realm of morals, all attempts to condone and extenuate the sins here condemned fchpuld be met with a storm of protest by those who love the nation and the home.