Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-03-05

sorely pressed for an answer 10 assert this
If God had swallowed them up by an
earthquake, or rolled the waves of the
Mediterranean over their hahilalions, or
raned upon them the fires OF heaven. de-
stroying age and infancy together, all OBJ
lection would be senced. 1t seems then
the only difficulty is that God should have
made use of the fundamentally OF man in
executing his judgments.
(5.) Why then, the inidel asks, admit.
ting tina, i. was right that they should be
exierminated, was i. not done in some
other way! Why not send pes,lence or
famine, rather than excite the passions of
man, and deliver them over TO the fury of
the swordl Even here God has so unfol
ded 10 us the circumstance, as 10 furnish
us with a conclusive answer.
The great object God had in view, in
his dealings with sihe children Of Israel,
was to preserve them from the sin Of
idolalry, and to confirm them in the trLe
religion. This object is TO be seen in
many of the otherwise nnmeaDing cere
monies of The Mosaic law. Now what
could produce upon the mind of the Jew
such deep conviction of Gods utter alb
horrence Of idolatry, as to be himself the
commissioned executor Of the divine judg-
men,! God did not send The pessilence or
the famine or The food. They would have
produced but comparatively lrifling i'm
preston. He said TO the Israelies, Go
and extermnate that abandoned nation,
Spare neither age nor sex. Purify the
earth from the polluted race Of idolaters
with which il IS deformed' Can the
! ingenuity of man devise measure more
effectually calculated to produce the i'm
preston desired! Think you that the Is
raeli,e, as he passed through these awful
scenes of fiery judgment. did no, feel more
deeply than he ever felt before, the dan
4 ger of mourning the displeasure of God?
AS he saw the armies of God prosecuting
their work Of exlerminalion from village
f to village, destroying root and branch,
and every ves,ige Of idola,ry, think you
: he could easily be guilty of the same sin,
and expose himself to the same awful
! Judgment! The very measure adopted,
, bears the impress Of the hand of that God
/ who is wise in council, and fearful in judg-
: men,. In fact, no one can look al the
|
ing that il was dictated by infinite wisdom.
I The objection of the deisl then is SIM
, ply this, either;
/. God has no right to eXterminate an
! abandoned nation, in any way, either by
4 food pesiience, or famine, or sword. Or
: 2. He has no right to extermns,e them
: in that way which will produce the deep
: est i'm preston of the enormity of sin npon
e the minds of those that remain.
/. The man who will attempt TO defend
either of these positions, is beyond the
J reach OF argument. The man who has
n sufficient candor TO admit that neither Of
Il them is defensible. mus, also admit thai
d this much Wanted objection of the dclsl
J. is completely overthrown.
II VIII any one say, that il God can wage
= extermnating war with his enemies, ano
II deliver them over to the sword, man may
n do the same. and, uucommissioned OF God
r take the sword into his hand!
: And is il so? May man do what Goo
ID does! God sends disease, and takes a
N way my neighbours life. May therefore
y poison my neighbour! God sends th'
le lightning and burns my neighbor's dwell
ar ling. May | therefore kindle the fam,
is Of midnight conhagra,ion! These are ,h
ID frivolous cayils tia, the deis,s Of the pres
n en-, day are putting forth as argumen
III which demand refntation. And they ar,
e. received as arguments only by the gdd,
,e who are welded 10 worldly pleasure, b,
as the ignorant who are sunk in degraded si
a and the uureflecling who are in chase o
,f al,
g Our rulers have authority from Go
or under certain circumstance To take ava
" life, aud leave family in situation wors
than death. They are thus, as Nose
e, was, the executors Of the divine will, an
to are they therefore murderers! Does
e. mpeach the divine goodness! Why the
p was Moses murderer! Why did hi
G. conduct impeach the divine goodness.
~ The destruction Of the Canaanie
b. showed the Jews how powerless wer
re the gods on whom the heather relied, an
Of impressed upon their minds the power
N Jehovah, The God Of Israel.
n. Women in Banle-I, appears from III
he account Of the defence of the Paran;
or which we publish to-day, that the AM
odd IONS of South America sustained the al
he Glen, glory and renown Of their coun'r
he women. Many of them fell dead
defending the Republic against The allie
n English and French forces. Hero
he women. Their deeds will live in hlsior,
he and The defence Of the Parana, at who
hey Tough, so bravely, will be one of Il
watchwords of liberty while Republican
" ism exists. And this is the country tn
~ England and France hope to suhdue!
W country in which even the women al
=. soldiers! Vain hope. But if the poi
a., a. Areentines can do such execution wi
- light ar,llery--if their little forts can su
:" tain con,es. Of nne hours-35 llg
~ sans against ll3 heavy pieces-"h
~ could North Americans do!-N. Iol