Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-08-24
Religious.
DIVINE JUDGMENTS


Judge not, that We be not Judged" is divine
caution never to be forgotten. There is. no doubt
much SIN committed in uniustly thinking our af
ficted brethren and neighbors to be under the
marked Judgments of heaven when they are but
receiving tatherly correction. Jobs three
irlehns insisted that some great sin was the spe-
ciai cause OF his sufferings. Those on whom
tne a tower IN Sloan fell, and these whose blood
Fua -e mingled with their sacrifices were by their
contemporaries thought TO have suffered as thew
dlu because they were more wicked than their
nelghbors. This was not so, as Christ taupht.
| When Gilbert Tennent's house was struck. and
himself stunned by lightning. he found MANY su.
persttlous people who believed that il was q
Judgment upon him. He felt called to preach a
discourse to correct this prejudice. Let MS be
/ SLOW In Judging another mans servant. Let lis
remember, that we may show a censorious and
wicked spirit In this as we'll as in any other wav.
Al the same time it is impossible to refuse all
Dehei oil divine judgments upon wicked men,
Does any plous man doubt that the miserable
end OF Achan, of korah, of Nadab and Abihu. OF
saul, OF Absalom, of the three Herods. of Ana.
mas and Sapphra, were designed by God as
ness!
OF thirty Roman emperors, or high officers
VINO WI were conspicuous In prosecuting the early
Christians, one became speedily d,ranoed after
an atroclous act oil cruelty; one was killed bv
MS own son; the eyes of one started from their
sockets; one was drowned: one was stranoIed
one died in miserable captivity; one fell dead
IN manner that will not bear recital; one died
OF so lolthsome disease that several of his phv-
slcldnS were put to death because they could not
, remain with him; two committed suicide; third
attempted it but had to call for aid to complete
! the work; hive were assasSinated by their own
! people or servants; five others died in the most
| horrible anguish, having complication of Ioath-
some diseases, and eight were killed in battle. or
after beng taken prisoners. Lucian barked like
dog at religion, and was devoured by docs.
bloody and decctlul men shall not live out hall
! their days"
/ In more modern times, we have many instan-
ces OF men waxing bold in sin, and called in a
very sudden and terrible manner into the pres
ence OF God. There are several instances of
men under oath swearing falsely, growing pale,
/ trembling, and falling dead. One man cnrsed;tbc
dee, and SAID, II he ever touched them AGAIN. he
wished his Maker might strike him dead. Not
lollg alter, he went 10 play again, but fell dead.
some years ago "a young man in pleasure boat
on the Sabbath, was advised to come on shore,
as cloud was rising. Defying his Maker, he
{ than
an hour he found watery grave A father and
son quarreng, the latter dragged the former
by the HAIR to the door. Stop stop now" said
the old man, THAT is as far as / pulled my father
by the hair" Soest thou that poor IelDless
man who can no longer walk or crawl? That
man was once the strongest in his county He
was great III wrestling. He once boosted that
he could throw Jesus Christ. That very dav he
ceased TO walk. Some events are so strange. so
sudden, 50 marked by condolences that charity
and skeptlcsm alike admit, that verify there is a
God that judgoth in the earth
4 Ii IS true indeed, and very gladly and thank
| fully should we acknowledge the truth, that
mercy triumphS over Judgment in the ordinary
administration OF Gods government over the
world Judgment is indeed his strange work.
lie dclightcth not in it, If he did. we should all
be consumed, and that without DELAY and without
remedy. There Is mercy with God that he NAV
be feared. Bulifmen will not be restrained and
kept in awe by mercy, let them know that God
has vast magazines OF storms and plaques, which
he will at his pleasure let loose upon them. Let
the potsherds strive, if they will, with one an
other; but woe unto him that striveth with his
Maker 'Who hath hardened himself against
God and prospered?' He shall have Judgment
without mercy, who hath showed no mercy. >
AAC 'ou'; OlliS ottH icpIONtu. HdTucIlcIU his
neck, shall suddenly be DESTROYED, and that with
out remedy. What means these awful words
OF Scripture, if they do not teach that there is
point beyond which mercy will not follow the
guilty, but when he is delivered over, as Sodom
was, to the just and terrible uyengings of him
whose nam9 Is Jehovah?
The right use of such judgments as God may
visit on others, is To learn from them to be wise
when the Judgments of God are abroad in the
earth, the inhabitants thereof shall learn right
eousness. Who is wise, but he that studies
with a docile temper Gods word and Gods Pro-
violence? The latter is an eXhaustless treasure
of wisdom, especially as claimed by the former
He that will observe the wonderful provdenCes
of God to observe. The volume of providence
is vast a new leaf is turned over every day.
Blessed is he whose eyes are turned toward the
hand of God as the eyes of lis servant are to the
hand of his master.