Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-05-23
Calamhiu Dtmutrut.
LEVI Il. TATE, EDITOR.
Bloomsbury, May %, 1857.
Written for tic Democrat
Effects of Love to God and to
Man.
BY GEORGE HUNTER.

Were this divine principle in iull opera
ton among the intelligcnccs that people
| our globe, this world would be trans
formed into paradise, the moral desert
would be changed into q fruitful field,
and "bl ssom as the rose" and Eden
would again appear in all its beauty and
delight. Fraud, deceit and artifce, with |
all their concomitant train of evils, would !
no longer walk rampant in every land
Resolutions, law suits, and all the innu-
mer ,ble vexatious litigation which now
disturb the peace Of society, would cease
from among men. Every debt would he
punctually paid; every promise faithfully
performed; every dispute amicably adjust
ed every maus character held in estima-
ton; every rogue and cheat banished from
society; and every Jail, bridewell, and
house of correction would either be swept !
away, or transformed into the abodes OF
honesty, industry and peace. The haunts
of riot and debauchery would be forsakeu,
and their inmates Kissed fir r,m the abodes
of men. The victims of seduction would
no longer crowd cur streets at the dead
hour Of night to entice the simple ones"
into the paths Of vice and destruction; but
purely, righteousness and peace would run
down our streets like river, distributing |
safety, happiness and repose.
The tongue of the slanderer, and the
whisperings of the backbiter, would no
longer be heard in their malicious attempts
to SOW the seeds of discord and contention
among brethren. Falsehood, in all its
ramifcations, with the numerous trains Of
evils it now produces: would :be banished
from socio y, "The lips of lru would
be established forever" and the liar and
deceiver would be hissed to the shades Of
hell. Our prosperity would remain sacred
and secure from the thief and midnight
robber, and our persons from the attacks
of the mu derer and assassin. We should
no longer hesitate to prosecute our jour
ncys by day or by night for fear of the
footpad or the highwayman, but should
recognize every passenger as friend AMI
protector. Plunder and devastation would
cease from. the earth. Pride, which now
stalks with stately steps and lofty looks,
SURVIVING surrounding intclligences with
feelings of contempt, would be forever
banished from the world. Ambition would
> DO longer wade through Slaughter to a
throne, nor trample on the rights Of an
injured people, Wars would cease to the
ends of the earth, and the instruments of
human destruction would be leaten into
plough-shares and pruning hooks. That
{ scourse which has dreuched the earth with
I human gore--which has convulsed every
nation under heaven--which has produced
tenfold more misery 'than.all the dcstruc-
!, tive clements of nature, and which has
swept from existence SO many millions Of
mankind--would be regarded as the eter-
y nal disgrace of the human character, and
d the most shocking display of depravity in
If the annals of our race. No longer should
/. we behold the fires blazing on the noun
ID tain tops, to spread the alarm of invading
S armies; nor the city, which was once full
y Of inhabitants, sitting solitary, without q
voice being heard Within its dwellings, but
the sighs of the disconsolate and the groan:
10 of the dying. Nation would not lift up
e sword against nation, neither would they
iG& learn war any mere. These, and a thou
sand other evils, which now render thi;
i. world a vast wilderness Of perturbation
,5 wretcheduoss and sorrow, would be com
i pletely cradicated were the principle o
holy love in incessant operation; and il
~ their place scene of loveliness and mora
beauty would burst upon the view, whicl
would diffuse joy and ecstatic delgh
- through every bosom. Every family woulC
IT, become mansion of peace and love-
temple consecrated to the God of Heaven
ioiiGd from which the incense OF prayer, ant
lS h' praise, and pious aspirations, would dali,
,sg ascend in sweet memorial to the thron
Nm above. From every such mansion, tn
I'D radiations of love would fly from family t
ing family, frou. one hamlet and village I
J. another, from one town and city to another
49, from one nation to another, and from on
continent TO another, till all the familc
al. Of the earth were connected into 18th
t. / dwellings of the God Of Jacob"
/ Hogers'oten. May sth, 1851.