The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-28

NOT 20 weaken Ia ia force al statement the New Tesla
ments declarations aBy nature prone TO eFiii
"there is In good thing when We you'd 90 gooo
sVa is present with US" The carnal mind or our spif
in its natural condition does not love Gods not con-
troed by desire TO please Him. IL lis not subject 70 his
law acknowledged by be "hoy, and just and good
and designed for happiness did We keep NJ nor IN
deed can we be subjec1 10 that law
Here the teachings Of James and Paul aid minds TO
view which prepares TO appreciate the gospel provision
OF remedy. whence come wars and hghungS among
You p asks James referring to individual and national
conflicts of opinion feeling, and Of acts Come they not
he adds seven from your usts which in your mem
bers" How instructive this suggestion! "lust is an
dsre-an excitement Of desire right in itself
Ye lust and desire have that ye may consume it on
your usts says the apostle To desire wealth right
and TO desire the comforts it will afford right To resist
evil is right protect ourse either an individual
or member Of society from violence and injury is right
But universally our of a desire passion OF our
nature runs into an abuse We soon, if thoughtful and
watch detect ourselves in going too far stepping over
the line of proprey becoming guilty OF the very thing we
blame in opponent And this is an inherent evil OF our
nature
Bu, again; OR lusts war in our own nembrsa A
man has war in himself before he begins to against
another The evil in him is not aloaei it finds another
nature that struggles to it there is law in the
mind warning against the law Of the members And our
deprayity is that long dwell on EARTH aside rom
The saving power of Christ the luss Of nature triumph
and leading conscience and reason as unhappy, pinng
capve they rush uneerei from their fortress IN our
breasts and go raging forth to attack others Ali yes
wars and rumors of wars must come Our evil nature
prevails and gaining sway there is limit to which II
will not carry u.s. Here is the nature OF this evil OF
which Christ speaks and its consideration leads us on 10
the more truth Jesus has in his mind when Son
Of Gods love he was he could calmly and cheertuly
portray all the Of evil that to overwhem his dis
Lsu ~ m tha and tn he
accomplished by them
Secondly. The end God has 10 accomplish in the evil nc
aUops and the means BY phich he aOiH secure IT.
1t is easy 10 see the evils which open and manifest
among mem though only the revealed truth Of Gods
Word might direct TO Its source IL is more dlfhcult
impossible, find in ourselves and Others corrcc-
1--WE for some of-sbot which may prune away from
he evil tree make the nature the life OF the
elf new TO cause evil tree 10 become IA good one
his we must look up to Creator to devise way of
accomplishing.
When Jesus showed such calmness and spoke cheer
fully amid impending evils speedily to come IT was
oot indifference evil it his knowledge OF the end
his Heavenly Father sought and the certainty that It
would be secured which made Him say "when these
bpcs be not troubled" He knew fully the evil; for He
vas the Father Of the spirits Of all men but He had
known and foreappointed its only that he
| might in applying the remedy, greater good
Here again let recall the point of the evil as the Gospel
states it remarkng its special application to the evils Of
| which Christ is here speaking.
The spirit Of evil ia human nature has two features FIRST
is innate under The excitement of temptation trial il
starts naturally to life and power in every soul This
spirit innate within, observe is wrong tendency OF our
nature; for, the birth, the man in Christ is
not the mpantng of being in in place Of the old
and evil one but it is the giving Of new direction TO the
affections of nature the remonldng OF our spirit SO
the deprayty Of which the New Testament speaks ia the
Of natu THERE n
example that when violence and wrong meet US we shall
be awakened not simply Just and right resistance but
Ia wrans fseng and CONDUCT We shall baye an undue
impression what wrong IN another and we shan our
syes carried away by spirit the counterpart OF that
which va condemn in another. Sefdeence, legitimate
selfdefence Is right saa duty both among nations and
individuals so reason and tas yerd of God teach But
easay do experience and the lips Of Jesus teach that when
aroused to feeling TO go beyond the law; and
sjp is Il ransgressou sf" the going beyond 'he law
The Asoa feature Of the evil in is that when thus ex-
cited and rushing into wrong, put aay limit
TO the e11enf which it may carry him The SECRET
| fault the updeveoped spirit Of evil when awakened
plunges its captive poSsessor into presumptuous sin"
Thss CLrist teaches that just the Old Testament
Ia that he wn murders In danger Of the Judgment
so true Is the statement OF ms lips he that angry
With his brother is in danger of the Judgment anger
may lead to harsh words and they blows and they
again murder tLusL" over-exced feeling, "when 1t
conceived brngeth forth sin and sin when IL Is finish
ed bngeh forth DEATH il stops not short Of ruin to IL
self and Others Now when the Gospel of Christ has thus
fully dsseced and laid bare the real Of evil within
US Il points out and applies the Divide remedy Is II Hby
nature we thus 20 astrsy from birth Then He who
formed our spirits alone the evil since Il
in their very And He does by His Spirit
reforming remouding newly directing all the affections
OF souls He makes "new in Christ Jesus ha-
ting that which once loved and loving supremely Him
whon before ct more.
has been no limit excited and unbrided wrong feeling
within us so there has been limit the sacrifice to
which our Divine Reconcer has submitted tina, he might
consistently before angels meet and reconcile God
and bis law and reconcile too, Heaven TO admission
again as sons our offended Father For the Apropia-
ton and the aege eratonn which the Gospel describes
as the vok OF Christ us what they but the
Of the whole soul OF Him who made us In &C
tive positive effort reconcile all fow-men
and 10 the common Father, whose all are7
And now behold how this moral power Is certainly
accompshyes fully 10 bring sbout-its end The Spirit
Of God moving spirits gives bias It changes
SON Judgment and conscience their throne and them
Il gives tbe balance Of power" Nor when excited TO
evil this patnre though lust still RACES and strives
for the mastery the in Christ Jesus controls
and while u justly opposes the wrong In another it keeps
within the limit right checked and held back by
power mighty in ITSELF inyiucibe by the Divine control
added TO II.
And nov, who shall say that this power Of the religion
OF Chris spreading from heart heart and from land
land gruyfup CONSTANTLY too n r1perienre and hstoy