Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-13

ever. Finally, to the progenitor of no other
nation had God ever said: 81 will make of thee
a great nation. And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed" God had new
er in all the history OF the world dealt thus with
any other nation.
But as / will now endeavor to show. there is
4 sense in which the Supreme Being deals with
all men and all nations in all times and in all
places precisely alike. In the Divine admins
tration. the weight of responsibility placed up
on people. is in exact proportion TO the bless
ings and privileges conferred. "Where much is
given. much is required" Upon this principle
God then dealt with the Jew. Upon this prIn-
ciple be will now deal with us.
The Jewish nation, under the fostering care
and protecting hand of COG. became one of the
most powerful and prosperous Kingdoms at one
time in the world. But failing to meet ber re-
sponsibililies, was ultimately in the providence
of God. peeled, and scatheG. and scattered to
| the four winds of heaven, and became kissing,
byword. and areproach among all the nations
of the earth.
| But before all these terrible judgments were
sent upon that devoted nation by the Almighty.
he gave her ample and sufficient warning by the
mouth of his prophets, saying TO her: "Ifye will
not be reformed will scatter you among the hea-
then. and will draw out sword after you; And
your land shall be desoate. and your cities waste.
l will destroy your high places. and bring your
sanctuaries into desolaiion. The palaces shall
shall be forsaken. will destroy the remnant
| of the sea-coast will make your cities waste;
the multitude of the city shall be left; the hab-
ifation forsakeR. The land shall be utterly
spoiled. 1 will make the land more desolate
than the wilderness"
But do you ask, has God ever carried all these
fearful threatenings into execution? The Bible,
and history both affirm that he has TO the very
letter. But let these two witnesses give way,
that an infdel may now testify upon this SUBJ
jeet. Volney, the enemy of God, the hater Of
the Bible, the malignant reviler of prophesy,
while surveying the desolate ruins of Palestine,
uses the following language: "The temples are
thrown down; the palaces demolished; the ports
filled up; the towns destroyed; and the earth,
stripped of inhabitants, seems dreary burying
place" "Good Goo" he exclaims, from whence
proceed such melancholy revolutions? Fer what
cause is The fortune ofthese countries so striking
iy ehdneeds"
| That YOU may see more clearly how God
sometimes makes the wrath of man to praise
Him. will here quote another prophesy, by
which you will discover that Volney confirms
the truth of Holy-writ in what he says, as well
as in describing what he saw. 1.-The generation
to come of Your children that shall rise up after
you, and the stranger that shall come from a far
land Shal. sag, when they see the plaques of that
land, and the sickness which the Lord hath
laid upon it. Wherefore hath the Lord done this
unto tie land? What meaneth the heat of this
great anger!"
When this great skeptie (himself the object
of prophesy. rs appears from the quotation just
inadc,) conies from a far land, and wanders over
that once fertile aud populous CO niry, now
laid waste and in desolate ruihs, in aeonsh.
ment exclaims wherefore this widespread des-
i'll N,l. hoa,,
the foot prints OF Deity in the history of nations
as he was to malgn the Word OF God, he would
have known wherefore
But once more: You are aware that Egypt
was at one time the most powerful and prosper
Gus empire on the earth. So noted for her
strange and eventful history, running through
period of time embracing thousands of years.
So ancient in her origin that it is supposed her
first king was the grandson of Noah. So no.
ted for having been the nursery of science, from
which the Greeks obtained their first rudiments
of learning.
So noted for her Catacombs-her Labyrinth
her hundred gated Thebes-her everlasting
Pyramids, and her art of embalming, by which
dead bodies have been preserved with limbs
and features all distinct for more than three
Thousand years.
But great and powerful as ancient Egypt was,
when she went about 10 measure arms with
OmnIpotence. God said to her-"I will lay Thy
land waste, and all that is therein by the hands
of strangers. l, the Lord, have spoken it.
And there shall be no more prince of the land
of Egypt. The seePter of Egypt shall depart
away. 1t shall be the basest of the kingdoms
And what has been the issue? Has the AL
mighty been true to his word in dealing with
this impious nation? Gibbon, though ignorant
of the. prophesy l have just quoted, and de-
claiming against the. very existence of God,
bears the following important testimony in con-
frmation of the fact that God has done with
Egypt just what (more than two thousand years
ago he said he would do.
In setting forth the abject and miserable con-
dition Of the Egyptians. this enemy of God
says: "a more unjust, and absurd constitution
cannot be devised, than that which condemns
the natives of a country to perpetual servitude,
under the arbitrary domination of strangers
and slaves" "And yet" he continues, "such
has been the Stale of Egypt for above tive hun
dred years." And l nigh; add, such is the
state OF Egypt at this hour. alt is sou the
hasest of The Kingdoms.
But must let The foregoing examples of the
dealings of God with nations in the past suffice.
Many others equally striking and impressive
might be presented, gathered from the melan-
choly fate OF Idnmaa, Tyre. Ninevab. Babylon,
Medo- Persia, DC. All going to demonstrate
the important fact, that it is not safe for any
city, state, nation, however powerful. to tram
Pile upon the laws and authority OF God. But,
do you reply that that might all be true of those
ancient nations, but it is not SO now. 'Since the
fathers fell asleep. all things continue as they
were from the beginning" God does not SO
deal with nations now.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for
whatsoever nation soweth, that may it also ex-
poet to reap, now, surely as two or three thou
sand years ago.
God is no less dealing with us-the citizens
of Ohio-to day, than he was with the inhab-
itants of the great Jewish metropolis, when his
Incarnate Son stood weeping upon an adjacent
mountain, exclaiming-"O Jerusaleml Jerusa.
lem!" DC.
God, the Interchangeable, is no less dealing
with us as nation this day. than he was with
Egypt when he commissioned Moses and Aaron
TO go to the obdurate Pharaoh, to say TO him
"Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, let my peo-
pie CO." The Lord of Hosts is Just rs certainly
reigning and ruling over all the nations of the
earth now. rs when he buried the Antediluvians
in a watery grave, or turned the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah into ashes.
But suppose The Almighty should abandon
the government of the world, what would be |
the result? "Were God to let the world alone,
man would become fend; angels would flee |
from it as from another Gomorrah, and cease TO
minister to it; Satan, wearing his burning cor |
onet of sin, and holding the black regalia OF hell,
would lord it over sea and land; and time COM |
meucing with paradise, would close with pan
dem0nium." @
Yea, verify. And who but the widest skep- |
tic, could for a moment doubt that such would |
ha tI., inavifoblo -oau1t nd cbould ,bo ,xo,. |