Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-30
From The Nev Hampshire Patriot.
" InScrutablC DiSpGnSaliOnS."

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We were struck the other day, in reading
the proceedings ola mess OF " doctors ABOUT
one of their number who had just been borne
to the dark and narrow house, at the quiet
ness with which the decease Of their associ-
ate was laid at the door of Providence, and
! left there like a newborn infant at the gate
Of a founding hospital. Not that the lam
ruago employed by them differed in any es-
sential way from that usually employed on
such occasions. The spirit of it certainly is
widespread ia the community. Whereas,
by an inscrutable dispensation Of Divine Pro-
vidence,'' &c. We know nothing whatever
about the particular case referred to, not even
the name The faculty gave to the form OF dis
case which gathered the professor OF The
healing art to his fathers. But we do know
that men have no right TO roll over on The
shoulders of their Creator the responsibility
Of their W law breakages. Men do not die
by inscrutable dispensatisns Of Providence
men die through the natural and inevitable
operation of the laws. against which they
find themselves arrayed. or against which
they sin. All over Gods government, in
the sphere of physical, as well as moral law,
it is true, that the soul that s%inneth, it shall
die. The man who breaks his laws here,
shall as inevitably meet the penalty of his
disobedience, as there and he who brings
himself into harmony with the law anywhere
shall reap the reward. There is nothing
4" inscrutable" about it. If you 20 on, year
after year, SHINING against your own natures,
: whether you eat or drink, or whatever you
do,' in the house and by the way, in your
devastating and in your uprising-if you 60
to your feather bed late at night in your close
room tumble out IN the morning, hurry your
o1o.b,g ~ vour upNvoCbod hadias. Jrirl, NOM
tea and coffee, your wine and your beer eat
your greasy g%ravies, your fat and high sea-
soned food neglect systematic, regular en-
ercise; and when, in one way and another,
abused nature begins to protest, you fly for
salvation to the drug vender and throw more
D poison into a system already struggling with
: tiff these are your habits, no wonder that
an "jnscrutable dlspensation" gets along in
Y good season and another mysterious provi-
dence" lays you in the coffin. So men may
name the puhishments violated law brings on
> the offenders head but so men have no right
: to name them. Nothing in the arrangements
n of the wise and good government we live
under, comes or goes by chance. The very
O hair on your head is registered yon poor
r sparrow does not fall TO the ground idly
S The Creators laws are all pervading and
v every where unbending and unacceptable.
@ How much better for all Of MS it would be
= if, instead of canting about 9 inscrutaOle dis
pensations and "mysteriours visitations,'
we would set ourselves at work to lay hold
n of and conform ourselves to the laws through
o which alone health is possible! The law
; that destroys you when working against yor
shall save you when you work with it,
There is no partiality and no hypocrisy here
The true soul will rejoice with a solemn
gladness, when he sees men, as the reward
k of their folly, in this way and that, perish
e For it assures him that the universe is no
n carried on by blind chance; that there is
Y living SOUL at the centre of it all. If A. b
breaks law and escapes, how can G.. d. hop
ID by oJeying law to be the gamer? If me
may triile with it, we are all ahoat and tn,
n universe is the DEVILS. The time may com
1t when we shall be called to account for tn
I'd use we have made of our powers of body an
n mind. We may be asked what right we ha
to reduce our strength and ruin our powers
by following the misguidance of our ow
lusts, and refusing the waters of Jordan
We And we shall have to answer the question i
nj one way or another. Cant and catchword
of wont help us then. 1t was but the other da
en- that an acquaintance told us that men an
IN women did not die only because they brok
il laws; and that water-cure was a humbug-
he or, as he called it, potash Alas, Prov
dence, not an "inscrutable" one, has sine
as laid its heavy hand on his family and take
or away ttOO. He trusted in drugs and the
no priests; the law ceased not its operations :
yo and his dear ones are in the grave! Nothin
Ie, {" mysterious ~ here; it would be mysteriou
of if it were not so! Why should we lay o
God the consequence of Our own errors an
be crimes?