in one day, because he “restrained (or prohibited) not his sons in the iniquity which he knew.”  Moses, although the meekest of all men, he said to Pharaoh, “There shall not a hoof be left behind.”  True to the uncompromising spirit of a great leader.  When in the Mount, seeing the idolatry, smashed the two tables of stone.  Why?  He would not deliver the holy laws to a people who were insulting God.  This smashing was a demonstration of Moses jealousy for his God.  After this I can see him striding down to the place of this “ball” or “hugging”.  The round dance of the present day is but a repetition of those lascivious plays, and with his ax or hatchet he hacked up that malicious property, shaped into a golden calf.  This did not belong to Moses.  It was very valuable but he smashed it and ground it to powder and then to further humiliate these rebels, he made them drink the dust mixed with water, then to absolutely destroy and stamp with a vengeance this insult to God, he divided the people and those who were “on the Lord’s side” fought with these rebels and slew (smashed) three thousand men.  In one of the canonical books of the Catholic Bible we have the story of the holy woman Judeth who cut off the head of Hollifernese to save God’s people.  Esther the gentle loving queen had the wicked sons of Haman hanged.  Our supremest idea of justice is a reward for the good and a punishment for the wicked.  We amputate the arm to save the body.  David says:  “I will not know a wicked person; he that telleth lies shall not dwell in my sight.”

The devil has his agents in the churches, and among those who are doing his work the best, are a class of professors who testify that you must not speak ill of any one, not even the devil.  They are the “non-resistives”.  The devil is delighted to be respected, and not fought.  He gets his work in just as he wants to and he can imitate true conversion, if he can place in the church those who hinder a warfare against sin.  Paul said:  “I tell you even weeping they are enemies of the cross of Christ.”  They are the devils in light.  “But there must needs be heresies among you that they who are approved may be manifest.”  Persons often propose to do something.  I may not see the advisability, but because there is action in it, I never object.  Oh! for somebody to “do with their might what their hands find to do.”  “Well done” is the best commendation.  Faith is like the wind, we cannot see it, but by the quantity of motion and commotion.  There are workers “jerkers” and “shirkers”; but through much tribulation and temptation must we enter into the kingdom of heaven.  The counterfeit proves the genuine dollar; counterfeits are not counterfeited.  So hypocrites prove the genuine Christians.  If there were not a genuine there would not be a hypocrite.  Our mother and grandmothers who went into saloons praying and spilling the poisoned slop of these houses of crime and tears were blessed in their deeds.