Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 November 1893 — Page 6

, TALMAGE’S SERMON. ▲ Discourse on the Decalogue for Voters to Consider. the Need of Pure Men In OIBce—The Breaking of One Commandment as Had as Breaking Any of the Others. Rev? T. DeWitt Talmage delivered tlie following discourse on the duties of the citizen in the Brooklyn tabernacle, taking for his text: And all the people saw tbe thunderings and the lightnings and the noiso of the trumpet •n<! the mountain smoking —Exodus xx., 1# On the eve of elections in the sixty counties of this state, and s in all the counties of some of the other states, while there are many hundreds of nominees to office, it is appropriate and important that I preach this before-elec-tion sermon.

My text informs you that the lijrhtuiugs and earthquakes united their forces to wreck a mountain of Arabia Petrea in olden time, and travelers today And heaps of porphyry and greenstone rocks, bowlder against bowlder, the remains of the first law library, written, not on parchment or papyrus, but on shattered slabs of granite. The corner-stones of all morality, of all wise law, of all righteous jurisprudence, of all good government, are the two tablets of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments. All Koinan law, all French law’, all English law, all American- law that is worth anything, all common law, civil law, criminal law, martial law. law of nations were rocked in the cradle of the twentieth chapter of Exodus. And it would be well in these times o? great political agitation if the newspapers would print the Decalogue some day in place of the able editorial. The fact is that some people suppose that the law has passed out of existence, and some are not aware of some of the passages of that law and others say this or that is of the more importance, when no one has any right to make such an assertion. These laws are the pillars of society, and if you remove one pillar you damage the structure. I have noticed that men are particularly vehement against sins to which they are not particularly tempted, and find no especial wrath against sins in which they themselves indulge. They take out one gun from •(his battery of ten guns, and load that, and unlimber that, and fire that. They say: “This is au Armstrong gun, and this is a Krupp gun, and this is a Nordenfeldt five-barreled gun, and this is a Catling ten-barreled gun, and this is a Martigny thirty-seven-barreled gun.” But I have to tell them that they are all of the same caliber, and that they shoot from eternity to eternity. Many questions are before the people in the coming elections all over this land, but I shall try to show you that the most important thing to be settled about all these candidates is their personal, moral character. The Decalogue -forbids idolatry, imagemaking, profanity, maltreatment of parents. Sabbath desecration, murder, theft, incontinence, lying and covetousness. That is the • Decalogue by which you and I will have to be tried, and by the same Decalogue you and I must try candidates for office. Of course we shall not find anything like perfection. If we do not vote until we find an immaculate nominee we will never vote at all. IVe have so many faults of our own we ought not to be censorious or maledictory or hypercritical in regard to the faults of others. The Ch ristly rule is as appropriate for November as any other month in the year: “Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.” Most certainly are we not to take the statement of red-hot partisanship as the real character of any man. From nearly all the great cities of this land I receive daily or weekly newspapers, sent to me regularly and in compliment, so I see both sides—1 see all sides—and it is most entertaining and my regular amusement to read the opposite statements. The one statement 8aysthe man is an angel, and the other says he is a devil; and I split the difference, and I find him halfway between. There never has been an honest or respectable man running for the United States Residency, or for a judgeship,

or tor me mayoralty, or ior me snnevalty, since the foundation of the American government, if we may believe the old flies of newspapers in the museums. What a mercy it is that they were not all hanged before they were inaugurated! If a man believe one-half of what he sees in the newspapers in these times his career will be very short outside of Bloomingdale insane asylum. I was absent two or three years ago during one week of a political canvass, and I was dependent ■nntirely upon what I read in regard to what had occurred in these cities, and I read there was a procession in New York of five thousand patriots, and a minute after I read in another sheet that there were seventeen thousand; and then I read in regard to another procession, that there were ten thousand, and then I read in another paper that there were sixty thousand. A campaign orator in the rink or at the academy or music received a very cold reception—a very chilling reception—said one statement. The other statement said that the audience rose at him, so great was the enthusiasm that for a long while the orator could not be heard, and it was only after lifting his hand that the vociferation begun to subside. One statement will twist an interview one way, and another statement will twist an interview another way. You must admit' it is a very difficult thing in times like these to get a very accurate estimate of a man’s character, and 1 charge you, as your religious teacher, I charge you to caution and to mercifulness, and to prayer. 1 warn you also against the mistake which many are making, and always do make, of applying a different standard of 'Character for those in promi

nent position from the standard they apply for ordinary persona However much a man may have, or however high the position he gets, he has no especial liberty given him in the inter* pretation of the ten commandments, A great sinner is no more to be excused than a small sinner. Do not charge illustrious defection to eccentricity or chop off the ten commandments to suit especial casea 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,' decalogue, do not fix up the Decalogue, but fix him up. The law must stand whatever else'may fall. I call your attention also to the fact that you are 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 weakens the conscience, and if

the conscience is weakened, that opens the door to all kinds of transgression. If, for instance, a man go into this political campaign wielding scurrility as his chief weapon, and he believes everything bad about a man, and he believes nothing good, how long before that man himself -will get over the moral depression?, Neither in time nor eternity. If I utter a falsehood in regard to a man, I may damage him, but I do myself ten-fold more damage. That is a 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 maltreat the Lord Almighty, would he not maltreat his fellow-man? If a man be guilty of malfeasance in office, he will, under provocation, commit any sin. He who will steal will lie, and he who will lie will steal. If, for instance, a man be impure it opens the door for all other iniquity, for iu that one iniquity he commits theft of the worst kind, and covetousness of the worst kind, and falsehood —pretending to be decent when he is not—and maltreats his parents by disgracing their name, if they were good.' lie careful, therefore, how you charge that sin against any man either in high place or in 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 disgusting propensities, with all rottenness. A libertine is a beast lower than the vermin that crawl over a summer carcass—lower than the swine, for the swine has no intcll igence to sin against, lie careful, then, how you charge that against any man. You must be so certain that a mathematical demonstration is doubtful as compared with it. And, then, when you investigate a man on such subjec ts. you must go to the whole length of the investigation and find out whether or not he has repented. He may have been on his knees before God and implored the Divine forgiveness, and (he may have implored tire forgiveness of society and the forgiveness of the world; although

ir a man commit sm at tnirty or tmntyfiveyyears of age there is not one case out of a thousand where he ever repents. You must in your investigation see if it is possible that the one case investigated may not have been the exception. But do not chop off the seventh commandment to suit the case. Do not change Fairbanks’ scale to suit what you are weighing with it. Do not cut off a yardstick to suit the dry goods you are measuring. Let the law stand, and never tamper with it. Above all, 1 charge you, do not join in the cry that I have heard—for fifteen, twenty years I have heard it— that there is no such thing as purity. If you make that charge you are a foul-mouthed scandaler of the human race. You are a leper. Make room for that leper! When a man by pen or type or tongue utters such a slander on the human race', that there is no such thing as purity, I know right away that that man nimself is a walking lazaretto, a reeking ulcer, and is fit for no society better than that of devils damned. We may enlarge our charities in. such a case, but in no such case .let us shave* off the ten commandments. Jbet them stand as the everlasting defense of society and of the Church of God. The committing of one sin opens the door for the commission of other sins. Those embezzlers, those bank cashiers absconding as soon as they are brought to justice develop the fact that they were in all kinds of sin. No exception to the rule. They all kept bad company, they nearly all gambled, they all went to places where they ought not. ’Why? The commission of the one sin opened the gate for all the other sins,, Sins go in flocks, in droves and in herds. You open the door for one sin, that invites in all the miserable congregation.

Some of the campaign orators this autumn, some of them, bombarding' the suffering candidates all the week, will think no wrong in Sabbath-break-ing. AH the week hurling the eighth commandment at one candidate, the seventh commandment at another candidate, and the ninth commandment at still another, what are they doing with th© fourth commandment: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy?” Breaking it. Is not the fourth commandment as important as the eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth? Some of these political campaign orators, as I have seen them reported in other years, and as I have heard it in regard to them, bombarding the suffering candidates all the week, yet tossing the name of God from their lips recklessly, guilty of profanity. What are they doing with the third commandment? Is not the third commandment, which says; “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord'will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain”—is not the third commandment as important as the other seven? Oh, yes, we find in all departments men are hurling their indignation against sins perhaps to which they are not specially tempted —hurling it against iniquity towards which they are not particularly drawn. I have this book for my authority

when I any that the man who swears or the man who breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God as those candidates who break other commandments. What right have you, and I to select which commandment we will keep and which we will break? Better not try to measure the thunderbolt 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 a nutshell, and you and I have seen the Lord's prayer written on a five-cent piece; but the whole tendency of these times is to write the ten commandments so small nobody can see them. I protest this day against the attempt to revise the decalogue wljjich was given on Mount Sinai amid the blast of trumpets and the cracking of the rocks and the paroxysm of the mountain of Arabia Petrea. I bring up the candidates for ward, and township, and city, and state office; I bring them up, and I try them by this Decalogue. Of course, they are imperfect. We are all 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 I shall find out one of the candidates who comes, in my estimation, nearest to obedience to the ten commandments, and I will vote for him, and you will vote for him unless you love God less than your party; then you will not Herodotus said that Nitrocris, the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so fascinated with her beautiful village of Ardericca that she had the river above Babylon changed so it wound this way and wound that, and curved this way and curved that, and though you sailed on it for three days every day you would be in sight of this exquisite village. Now, I do not care which way you sail in morals, or which way you sail in life, if you only sail within sight of this beautiful group of divine commandments. Although

they may sometimes seem to be a little angular, I do not care which way you sail, if you sail in sight of them j-ou will never run aground and you will never be shipwrecked. Society needs toning up on all these subjects. I tell you there is nothing worse to fight than the ten regiments, with bayonets and sabers of fire, marching down the side of Mount Sinai. They always gain the victory, and those who fight against them go under. There are thousands and tens of thousands of men being slain by the Decalogue. What is the matter with the young man of whom I read, dying in his dissipations? In his dying delirium he said: “Now. fetch on the dice. It is time! No, no! Bring on more wine! Oh, how they rattle their chains! Fiends, fiends, fiends! I say you cheat! The cards are marked! Oh, death! oh, death! Fiends, fiends, fiends!” And he gasped his last and was gone. The ten commandments slew him. But I shall not leave you under the discouragement of the ten commandments, 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 lightning, writes mercy. The only way you will ever spike the guns of the Decalogue is by the spikes of the cross. The only rock that will ever stop the Sinaitic upheavals is the Kock of Ages. Mount Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai. The English survey expedition, I know, say that one Sinaitic peak is seven thousand feet high and another eight thousand and another nine thousand feet high, and travelers tell us that Mount Calvary is only a bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem; but Calvary in moral significance overtops and overshadows all the mountains of the hemispheres, and Mount Washington and Mount Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks compared with it. You know that sometimes one fortress will silence another fortress. 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, I have found a ransom,” pleads the other, until earth and Heaven and hell tremble under the reverberation. And Moses, who commands the one, surrenders to Christ, who commands the other.

Once by the law our hopes were slaln.i But now lu Christ we lire again.. The survey expedition says that the Sinaitic mountains have wadys, or water courses—Alleyat and Ajelah— emptying into Feiran. But those streams are not navigable. 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 Sinaitic gloom and threat, ready to take us off from under the shadows into the calm sunlight of God’s pardon and into the land of peace. Oh, if you could see that boat of Gospel rescue coming this day, you would feel as John Gilmore, in his book. The Storm Warriors. says that a ship’s crew left on the Kentish Knock Sands, off the coast of England, when they were being beaten to pieces and they all felt they must die! They had given up all hope, and every moment washed off another plank from the wreck, and they said: “We must die, we must die!” But after awhile they saw a. Ramsgate lifeboat coming through the breakers for them, and the man standing highest up on the wreck said: “Can it be? Can it be? It is, it is, it is, it is! Thank God! It is the Ramsgate lifeboat! It is, it is, it is, it is!” And the old Jack tar, describing that lifeboat to his comrades after he got 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. —It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half hour insignificant

A TREACHEROUS EMPLOYE. The Rain water-Bred ford Hat Co., a Well* Known St. LonU Home, Wrecked by an Kmbenllnf Cashier—Taken la aa an Office Hoy at Three Dollars a Week, Elevated Step by 8tep to Cashier and Secretary, Treated, and Then Robs and Rnlna HU Friends and Benefactors. St. Louis, Oct. 37.— Louis J. Silva, the trusted cashier and secretary of the Rain water-Bradford Hat Co., is a defaulter to an extent exceeding *100,000, and detective's are searching for him.

The Rainwater-Bradford Hat Co. ha» failed in business as a result of this gigantic embezzlement, and its affairs have been turned over to Christopher P. Ellerbee as assignee. Behind these proceedings there is a story that will be more than a nine days’ sensation in the commercial world. C. C. Rainwater, the head of the firm bankrupted by an arch embezzler, is known wherever St. Louis commerce has spread. Further than that his reputation %s a pushing, active, enterprising citizen is known throughout the financial and railroad world. It is to the multiplicity of Maj. Rainwater’s engagements outside of his hat business, which had grown to $500,000 a year, and the demands upon his time consequent upon their importance that his present misfortune may be attributed. Merchants' Bridge and Merchants’ Terminal affairs not only required close application, but necessitated frequent absences from the city. lie has always been considered a close and secretive man, given to strong likes and dislikes, as men of positive character always are. To this trust he owes his ruin and impoverishment at the end of a half century of ceaseless toil. He trusted Louis J. Silva as he would have trusted himself. He . had reared him in business, and elevated him step by step from an office boy |at $8 per week to cashier and secretary: of a concern doing $500,000 business annually.. Strange as it may seem, Mr. Rainwater was the last man in St Louis to learn that his handsome, popular cashier was known to all the touts and gamblers at the fair grounds and East St,

Louis race tracks,, as a Ingh roller, and to several brokers on Third street as a daring and dashing speculator in cereals and stocks. He led, to a certain extent, a double life.^ Inveterate gambler as he was down town, out at his lovely home bn Cates avenue, in Cabanne place, he was a leader in society and a model domestic man. All money coming into the firm was received by him. He duly entered the receipts into the cash book, but appropriated the funds and gave no credit on the ledgers to the customers It was in May that Mr. Rainwater began to notice that collections were unusually slow. He spoke to Silva, who explained that times were a little dull in the country. Then he would add: “These people say that they have no money. I will enter suit if you say so.” — Mr. Rainwater said “no.” Then the financial stringency set in in earnest. Eastern manufacturers who looked on Rainwater-Bradford as gilt-edged, were pressed for money, and they wrote to demand it. Country collections were reported slower than ever. In despair Mr. Rainwater would order suits entered in certain cases. Strangely enough before the attorney could act. Mr. Silva would notify Mr. Rainwater that the delinquent creditor had suddenly come forward and made a settlement. It was not until late in August or early in September that Mr. Rainwater's suspicions were aroused. One day while in New York city with a St. Louis gentleman on business of mutual interest he received a couple of telegrams which, contrary to his custom, he did not pass over to be read. He seemed much worried. The next day he received another. The news was bad. He turned to his friend and said: “I’m afraid that my bookkeeper has been robbing me.” “You are afraid? Do you believe it?" “I don’t want tcf. I would have trusted that man to the end of the world. Experts at work on the books report things in a bad way.” The next day the two friends came home. Last'Tuesday morning he met his friend, and said in a despairing tone: 9 "That scoundrel has robbed me of over 1100,000. How much more I can't tell. It may be 1139,000 or $150,000, or it may be $175,000—there is no telling." He then admitted that over three weeks ago he charged Silva with his embezzlement The cashier broke down and pleaded miserably for merey, and offered to turn over everything he had. He made transfers of all the property he owns. “He seems to have it all over town, said Mr. Rainwater,” but investigation shows that every foot 'and every brick of it is heavily encumbered, and our equities in it, all told, will not exceed $1,000.” The transfers had been made out and signed by him, but lacked his wife’s signature. They were sent out

to her, but she knew nothing of his affairs, and refused to append her name to the paper that made her a pauper. On Tuesday night last Attorney Overall, with a notary, met Silva, in the presence of his wife. He had told her some story that the firm was in trouble, and that her signature to the deeds was necessary, as a matter of form, to tide them over, or some story like that. At any rate, she signed the documents. Simon L. Boogher, one of the members of the firm, about a year ago withdrew from the firm under peculiar circumstances. “Major,” he is reported to have said, “you are not giving this company enough of your time. You ought to be here looking after the men instead of mixing up in outside schemes.” “What do you want for your stock?” Rainwater is said to have replied. Boogher as promptly fixed a figure. The interview did not last over five 'minutes, and at the end of that time Boogher ceased to be a member of the firm. Boogher, however, within half a year had bought back'J^* stock.

SOCIETY SHOCKED Gy the Suicide of Mica Dalxy Garland. Daughter of Ex- Attorney General Garland—Her Late Mysterious Dlsappearanee from Her Home Explained—N • Cause Assigned. Washington, Oct 28.—The death by her own hand of Miss Daisy Garland, snly daughter of ex-Attorney General Garland, shocked all Washington. Attractive in appearance and manners in m marked degree the young lady, bemuse of her prominence during her father's’occupancy of a cabinet position • luring Mr. Cleveland’s prior administration, ami because of her own personal charms was a tvell-known and very popular figure in society. She lived with her father and brother in the handsome residence Gen. Garland had recently purchased on Rhode Island avenue. On the 10th of last August she mysteriously disappeared from home, and after the lapse of three days, during which time no news had been received of her, the police were requested to join in the search. This description was then sent out from police headquarters: Rook out for Miss Daisy Garland, aged 23, tall, stout, dark eyes aud hair. Wore a dark dress and several diamonds. Carried a small satchel when last seen. She is a daughter of ex-Attorney-General Garland. Notify 913 Rhode Island avenue. Soon afterward£.the tidings were received that the young lady was in Baltimore, and Representative John P. Fellows, an old-time Arkansas friend of her father, went over to that city, ac

compameu by ner Drotner, ana orougni her back. The explanation then given was that she had left word with a young lady friend that she intended to visit llaltimore, and by some means the message failed of delivery. Her brother made public a statement that he went over to Jlaltimore with Col. Fellows to the address given (which was that of a Catholic family on Madison avenue), and there found his sister who would have returned in a day or two anyway. He added: “She thought it was strange that we had come for her, and when she reached homo- found a number of people waiting for us in the house and learned the publicity' that had been given her absence and the alarm it had created she was prostrated and we thought that we would have to call in a physician. If the message she sent us had been delivered there would have been no trouble.”*]" Miss Garland, it is asserted, has referred to this episode, and said she supposed her friends would want some explanation. Yesterday morning she went down to breakfast apparently in her accustomed health and spirits. She devoted part of the morning to arranging details for a theater party, but when called for luncheon about noon was found dead in her bedroom, shot through the heart by her father’s pistol, fired by her own hand. The body was still warm, but no one had heard the shot fired. Gen. Qarland had gone to his law office immediately after breakfast, and first heard of his daughter’s tragic death by telephone. Yesterday afternoon the coroner viewed the remains, but did not consider ap inquest necessary. A PRINCELY GIFT. Marshal Field, the Chicago Merchant Prince, Gives a Million Dollars to the Columbian Memorial Musenm, on Con. ditlon that 8500,000 Cash be Subscribed and 8-1,000,000 of the Exposition Stock be Transferred to the Projected Institution. World’s Fair Grounds, Chicago, Oct, 28.—Director James W. Ellsworth, of the exposition,came to the administration offices yesterday with the welcome information that Marshal Field, the dry goods prince of Chicago, had given 81,000,000 to the Columbian memorial museum under certain conditions. These conditions were that $500,000 in cash should be subscribed to the endowment fund of the museum, and that $2,000,000 of the exposition stock should be transferred to the trustees of the projected museum. One hundred thousand dollars of the additional cash fund has already been subscribed by George M. Pullman, the palace car magnate, and the directors who have interested themselves in the museum are confident that the remaining $400,000 will be raised in a few

aays. It is not known definitely what amount will he raised from the subscription stock of the exposition, bnt the directors think that SO per cent of the capital stock at least will be returned to the subscribers. The sum realized from the subscription stock donated to the museum is not to be included in the $600,000 cash subscription. Director Ellsworth is confident that a majority of the $5,000,000 subscription stock will be given to the museum fund. Directors John C. Black and Edward E. Ayer are the members of the finance committee who, with Mr. Ellsworth have secured nearly $3,000,000 to the museum fund in less than three weeks. An informal understanding has been reached between the directors and the South Park commissioners for the retention of the Fine Arts palace as the museum building to remain permanently as an ornament to Jackson park. The chiefs of-the exposition departments have been al yfork in a systematic way for the past two months obtaining the promise of valuable exhibits to their museum. Their success has given an impetus to the memorial enterprise and assured its success. Chief Buchanan has obtained all the exhibits in the Forestry building and Chieff Skiff has done equally as well in the Mining departmentsettled with Justice. • Fresno, Cal., Oct 28.—Dr. F. 0. Vincent, who was eonvicted of murder in 1891, was hanged in the county jail court yard at noon yesterday. On December 13, 1890, Vincent while under the influence of liquor, shot and killed his wife who had commenced proceedings for a divorce on jaccount of his cruelty. It was a cold-blooded murder and Vincent narrowly eseaped being lynched by the infuriated citizens. Vincent’s case had been appealed to the state and the United States supreme court judgszont being affirmed in both oases.

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