Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-05
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1860.

guage-the unlawfulness, in any given con
juncture, Of obeying it. "Submit your
selves to every ordinance of man" Il Pc
ter, 2: l3.) This, literally, is an uncondi-
tional command. But if we were to obey
it unconditionally, we should sometimes
comply with human, in opposition to Divine
laws. In such cases then the obligation is
clearly suspended and this distinction the
first teachers of Christianity recognized in
their practice. When an ordinance of
man required them to forbear the promul-
cation OF the doctrines OF the New Testa-
ment, they refused obedience, and urged
the bctitting postulation-' Whether it
be right in the sight Of God to hearken un-
to you more than unto God, Judge ye.
(Acts, t: 19) They accordingly entered
into the temple early in the morning and
taught" and when, subsequently, they were
again brought before the council and inter
rogated, they replied, " We ought TO obey
God rather than men; and Notwithstanding
the renewed command Of the council, daily
in the temple and in every house, they
ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
{ Acts, 5: %, A So, too, with the flial
relationship: "Children, obey your parents
in all things" (Col. 3: 20.) But parent
may require his child to 90 to the rumshop
for liquor, to lie, steal, or 90 with him to
an infdel meeting, the theatre, dance-house,
or some other place of debauchery, and
therefore when parent requires obedience
IN such things his authority ceases, and the
obligation to obedience Is taken away by the
moral law itself. The precept is virtually
TINS: Obey your parents in all things, un-
less dlsobedlence is required by the will Of
God. Or the subject might be illustrated
thus: Christ reprobates those who love IA
ther or mother more than himself. The
paramount love to God is to be manifested
by obedience. "If ye love me, ye will
keep my commandments" John, ii: 15.)
So, then, We are to obey the commands of
God in preference to those of our parents.
All human authority ceases at the point
where obedience becomes criminal.
i
The boy who is too big" to obey his
mother is in a most dangerous state of mind.
Think Of Christ, the g King of kings and
Lord Of lords" When He sat with the
learned doctors in the temple at Jerusalem,
He was not too old and wise to obey His
mother Heaven will never forsake a du-
tifui child Heaven, | know" said a
dying mother to her only son, " will bless
80 good son as you have been to me. You
will have that consolation, my son, which
visits but few-you will be able to look
back upon your past conduct to me, not
without pain only, but with holy Joy.
Do not be so afflicted, my son,
at the loss Of me. We are not to part for
ever"
A family where all the members of it
live in love and peace, is like little heaven
below. Love and kindness are the tempers
which Jesus delights to see us cultivate;
and these are the tcmpers, too, which the
Holy Spirit produces in all those who truly
believe in Jesus, come to Him, and love
Him. "Thus saith the Lord, Let not the
wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let
the mighty man glory in his might, let not
the rich man glory in his riches but let
him that glorieth glory in this, that he un-
derstandeth and knoweth Me, that am the
Lord which exercise loving kindness, iudg-
ment, and righteousness, in the earth: for
in these things l delight, saith the Lord"
DER 8: %, "a; Eph. 3 17-19 Rev.
5: II, 49,
" o wisdom whose unfliia- power
Beside the Eternal stood.