Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-04-12


vine nature-the law Of Interchangeable
love. Truth is Fixed, because invariably
and eisrnally the sumo. God is without
variableness, because eternally true.
Hatred, wrath, revenge, forgiveness.
reconciliation. or any other term implying
change in God, in reference to his conduct
towards mabkind, are never rightly appli.
cable to him. Men transgress the law of
Truth and Love. and tortured by pain and
remorse. as necessary consequence, they
attribute The change in themselves TO God,
and call him angry. While the truth is,
their very discomfort is but the voice of
Gods love. speaking through the broken
law. forewarniug them Of the rain to
which their course will lead and enlreat.
ing them in accents of agony TO return to
the gem paved pathway Of Truth. But
man drives onward in his mad career ,un.
I'll complete dislrrangement, and dishar.
mony OF his being whelm him under a
mountain-slide OF miseries, which the arm
Of omnpotence, nerved by ir6nite bencvo.
lence could not hold back And now add.
Tag insult TO injury, he calls the catasiro.
phe OF his own bIinduess'and perverseness
the vengeance Of God.
But suppose mankind. IN obedience tc
the voice Of wisdom, return 10 the guidance
Of truth and love. the peace and happines:
which necessarily accrue-the change il
themselves, from sorrow TO gladness o
heart, they attribute to God, and say. lha
he has Jorgiven them. Yet there ha
been no change in The Divine Mind. Got
does not forgive. but loves even from eler
nifty TO everlasting. The change is all il
man. He ceases to transgress the immui
able laws OF mind by acting in harmon,
with them and the effect Of this renewa
truthiulness on his part, is ascribed to
remission Of wrath on the part of Cod
Because mankind have regarded God a
being like themselves, nurturing in hi
bose n, wrath and sullcn revenge, the
have conjuIed- up. for HIM the horribl
character, which made him require {
them the murder Of his Son; and 10 of1e
up his blood, as the only act CT sufficel
eloquence 10 move him TO pity and recon
cilaiion. 90 fools ond blind"l Ever
one knows that present obedience bring
present peace. whatever may be the score
| which God has against him, for past dis
obedience and therefore. q cont;nuanc
in the right, will give continued salvation
Obedience 10 principle, is the rainbow I
promise, which spans the heavens of man
existence For God is true. Therefor
Il mankind would make less account
their formal vocal prayers, the unnatur
. posture of their bodies, and their selfish
selfwrought bitterness Of soul, to mo-
God 10 torgire them-ifrhey would con
mence truthful loving life. by bringit
their souls iuto oneness with the. DivIl
: Mind, they would fnl that Doom viii,
) they cannot otherwise obtain-they wou
: lind tha, God canno! forgive them wltho
i They obey the Truth, and that their bus
g ness is TO obey, before asking 10 be forgi
Q en-. Cod shall remain the same gu
o changed through times all devastati
e flight" aud man TO be what his natu
IS ioreshadows he should be, musllurn frc
n all the Iabyrinlhs Of bis wande!ings, a
Il males ically walk By the directness of
lie lernal principle. With what unvaryi
or certainty do men look for the actualn
Or Of w0at depends upon Godl Let tn
III then be as changeless in fidelity 10
be Right as He. JoHN DAVIS
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