The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-05-30

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great principle in the case Of King David.
How was he punished for his conduct to.
wards Uriah and his wife?
Q. Samuel, Chap. -, Fr. IA, The
Prophet Nathan tells him, "Howbeit, be-
cause by this deed thou hast given great
occasion to the enemies of the Lord to
blaspheme, the child that is born unto
thee, shall sureh die." Here, the inno-
cent infant suffers and dies, to punish its
criminal father.
|, Chionicies, Chap. 81, we are told,
that David in his pride, was tempted to
number the Children of Israel, which
was offensive to Heaven.
II. $50 Cad came to David and said
unto him, thus saith the Lord choose
thee,
l2. either three years famine; or
three months to be destroyed before thy
foes, while that the sword of thine enc
mics overtaketh thee; or else three days
the sword of the Lord, even the pcstiencc
in the land, and the Angel of the Lord
destroying throughout all the coasts oils
rael. Now, therefore, advise thyself
what word | shall bring again TO him that
sent me.
10, "And David said unto Cad, | am
In a great strait; let Inc fall now into the
hand of the Lord; for very great are his
mercies; but let me not fall into the hand
ofman
II. $50 the Lord sent pestlencc upon
Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy
thousand men,"
Thus, in three days, S + V + n TI
THOUSAND MEN were sent from time
to eternity, for the crime of one man,
while that man was permitted to live!
The Decalogue tells us, that 'the sins
of the fathers" are visited "upon the
children unto the third and fourth gcncr-
atom" and the Book is full OF instances
in which families were punished for the
sins of their head, and nations for those
of their rulers.
In fine, it is an essential item in the
creed of every Christian, not that the
myrads of Adams race alone die for his
sin, but that it also produced the death
of God himself in human form upon the
cross, on which occasion, darkness COW
cred the land, the earth quaked and the
rocks were rent.
Does not the same relation exist be.
tween God and man now, that did in the
ages OF Pharaoh and of David? Do not
mans trangrcssions now, have the same
effect that they did then, on earth, air,
and sea, beast, fish, and fowl, the fate
of families and the destiny of natlons;-
We have no Prophets like Moses, or Ma
than, or Cad, to point out the precise
connection between cause and effect, be-
tween the moral conduct of man and the
sign that warns him to reform, or the ca
tastrophe that falls on him as punish.
ment. But the history of the past, rea-
son and experience, should be a popht
to as. When we find extraordinary de-
viations from the regularity Of natures
laws, always or frequently following extra
ordinary violations of the moral la'r, we
ought to see a connection between them as
clearly as il pointed out by the voice Of in
spiralon,
We need not recaptulac the scenes Of
1910, when the Log Cabin took the place
of the Church, Temperance turned back
ward; Religion became silent; and drink.
ing, and shouting, and riot, and lying, and
SANDER, deluged the land, and left it strew-
ed with moral wrecks. BY such means a
great political rictory was won, No mar.
row field was covered with the bodies Of
the slam; but moral death covered our
whole land with its victims. No victory
of Alexander, of Tameflane or Of Napo-
leon, ever sent so many souls to perditon.
What followed! No Moses called down
the thunder which rent the flag and shat
tered its staff at GAINESVILLE in the presence
of the Chief of the carousal, or warned
him of the messengers approach which
brought him news Of the death of his be-
loved son. No rod of Aaron broke the
arm of Iustc on the front of the Capitol,
struck the motto Of the Union from the
Eagles beak in the Senate chamber, DASH
ed TO the floor the picture oilhe President
elect in the Library of Congress, rent the
flags that noated or cracked the bells that
rung, in the midst of his triumph. No
prophet ioretoId the fires and the storms
that heralded his coming and attended hs
entry into the Capital; the death Of the
Editor and of Ogle who had suggested,
or been among the foremost, in carrying
out the scheme of conceament, fraud and
which had raised him to power,
Or shadowed forth the sinking Of the steam
err President, bearing to Europe the first
news of his Inauguration; nor did any Mes.
'enger from the Most High, annouce 10
him, that "inasmuch thou disregardest all
hese warnings, hoa too shat Sr,iy die"
Still no prophet appeared; but Tic warm
ngs were not suspended.
Fire seized the residence Of the deceas-
I'd President and the walls Of his tomb
e!l in, crushing the man who was plaster
ng it, The gallant McComb who had led
his Funeral Escort, struck down amos, in
III instant, was in few days himself es.
,orted to the same dread abode. President
Tyler stepped forward into the place which
leath had vacated, and death struck down
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