The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-08-14

30. Sand Pharoh rose up in the night, he and
all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there
was great cry in Egypt; for there was not
house where there was not one dead"
What had ''the captive in the dungeon" the
newborn infant or the mother that bore it, 10 do
with Pharaoh's transgression which brought on
them this awful calamity? Nothing whatsoever.
| 1t S all directly imputed TO the disobedience and
obauracy ofthe Ruler Of the nation. His moral
ddinquencieS operating through the will or law
| of God, upon the meterial world around him, tur-
ned the river into blood, made it vomit forth frogs,
changed dust into lice, bred swarms of flies, and
clouds of locusts. Pharaoh's heart was corrupt,
and it corrupted nature around him. His de-
pravity affected the elements, and produced thun-
derings and lightnings, fire and hail. 1t brought
destruction and death upon herb and tree, rep
tile and fish, man and beast; nor did the effects
of one mans crimes cease, until "there 1caS not
q house in Wbich there leGS not one dead"
We have further Illustrations ofthis great prin-
ciple in the case Of King David. How was he
punished for his conduct towards Uriah and his
! wfe9
2. Samnel Chap. II. Yer IA, The Prophet
Nathan tells him, "Howbeit, because by this deed
thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of
the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born
unto thee, shalt stmely de- Here, the inno-
cent infant suffers and dies, to punishits criminal
father.
l. Chronicles Chapter 81, we are told, that
David in his pride, was tempted 10 number the
/ Children of Israel, which was offensive to Hea-
ven.
II. $50 Cad came to David and said unto him
4 thus saith The Lord, choose thee,
10 "Either three years famine or three
months to be destroyed before thy foes, while
that the sword of thine enemies oyertakeh thee;
or else three days the sword of the Lord, even
the pestilence in the land, and the angel Of the
Lord destroying throughout all the coasts OF lsra-
eI. Now, therefore, advise thysef what word
shall bring again to him that sent me.
49, 'sAnd David said unto Cad, am in great
strait; let me fall now into the hand fthe Lord
for very great are his mercies; but let me not fa
into the hand of man.
; Il. $50 the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel
and thore fell of Israel seventy thousand men,
Thus, in three days, SEVENTY THOUSAND
MEN were sent from time 10 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
children unto the third and fourth generation; :
? and the Book is full of instances in which famil
les 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 o
I every Christian, not that the myriads of Adam
race alone die for his sin. but that also produces
the death of God himself in human form upol
the cross ON which occasion, darkness covere
the land, earth quaked and the rocks were rent
Does not the same relation exist between Co
:, and man now, that did in the ages of Pharaoh AM
!, of David? Do not mans transgressons now
! have the same effect that they did then, on earl
air and sea, beast, fish and fowl, the fate of FAM
lies and the destiny Of nations? We have n
> Prophets like Moses, or Nathan, or Cad, to pon
!, the precise connection between cause and effect
> between the moral conduct of man and the sig
, that warns him to reform, or the catastrophe tina
falls on him as punishment. But the hstor
' of the past, reason and experience, should be
:, prophet to as. When we find extraordinary de
= vations from the regularity Of natures laws, a
q ways or frequently following extraordinary viola
= tions of the moral tau, NC ought to see connec
r ton between them as clearly asst pointed out b
4 the voice of inspiration.
n We need not recapitulate the scenes of lS4(
+ when the Log Cabin took the place of the Church
r Temperance turned backward; Religion becam
e silent; and drinking, and shouting, and riot, an
S lying, and SANDER, deluged the land, and left
+ srowed with moral wrecks. BY such means
t. great political victory was won. No narro'
G field was covered with the bodies of the slair
Ibut moral death covered our whole land with il
d victims. No victory of Alexander, of Tame
h lane, or of Napoleon, ever sent so many souls
perdition.
g What followed? No Moses called down tn
N thunder which rent the flag and shattered its sta
e at Zanesvlle in the presence of the Chief of tn
II Icarousal, or warned him Of the messengers az
proach which brought him news of the death
s. Ibis beloved son. No rod of Aaron broke tn
!, arm of Justice on the front of the Capitol, struc
$, the motto of the Union from the Eagles beak
s. 1.-THE Senate Chamber, dashed to the floor the piC
d ture Of the President elect in the Library Of Coz
gress rent the flags that floated, or cracked th
is bells that rung, in the midst of his triumph. N
e prophet ioretold the fires and the storms that he
or aided his coming and attended his entry into tn
&c CAPITAL: the death of the Editor and of Oge wh
,e had suggested, or been among the foremost,
ID carrying out the scheme of concealment, frau
er and talsehood, which had raised him to powe
IS or shadowed forth the sinking of the steam'
le President, bearing to Europe the first news ofh
Mt Inauguration; nor did any Messenger from II
is Most High, announced TO him, that "inasmuc
g as thou dsregardest all these warnings, thou Il
shaLSmely die"
Still no prophet appeared; but the warning
he Iwere not suspended.
C. Fire seized the residence of the decease
of President and the walsof his tomb fell in,
he ing the man who was plasterng it. The gala
If McComb who had led his Funeral escort, struc
D. down almost in an instant, wasin few days hir
ST, self escorted TO the same dread abode. Pres
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