Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-12-08

Gentlemen If my humble production shall in any way
subserve the great of TRUTH Is your command
With the highest regards,
Your humble servant,
ROBERT KELLEN.
weaverville, Nov 80 1860.
" Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a re
proach to any people. '--PRovERps XIV : 81.
Absolute Righteousness, in either individual
or nation, is not Heavens rcquisition God &
righteousness is absolute, and is the essential
perfection Of his nature; sometimes it designates
his justice. Christs Righteousness, besides being
absolute, designates at the same time the suffer
ing of the aw-penalty in mans stead, and his
perfect obedience to his death of ignominy.
Absolute obedience to Gods law, and the JUS
tifcation which is by faith, constitutes the right
eousness of these both. This last is the sense
required, and the duty enjoined by the righteous
ness in the text.
An old English author has thus rendered it
"Right-wise ness,' which approaches the COM
parative idea of the moral excellence intended
in the text. The Hebrew nation under the lead
erShip of Gods mouth piece-Moses-so cOmpre-
hended it that they record the following reeapt-
ulation of all the statues of the Almighty -
ness, if we observe to do all these commandments
before the Lord our God, as be hath commanded
us,' and it will richly compensate the reader of
the seven chapters of Deuteronomy, commencing
with the fourth; the covenants and blessings
related in the eleventh we quote
49, Therefore shall We keep all the comma ndments
which command you this day that ye may be strong,
and in and the Land whittier to
Ind hat 70 m. UDlr In in he land
which the Lord unto your fathers to give unto them
their seed land that noweth with milk and honey.
"12. land which the Lord thy God careth for the
of the Lord thy God always it, from the be-
ginning of the year unto the end of the year.
"13. And it shall come to pass if shall hearhen dill
gently unto my commandments which command you
this day love the Lord God aud to serve him with
all your heart and with all your soul,
"14 That will give you the rain OF your land in his
due season. the first rain and the latter rain that thou
mayest gather in thy and thy wine and thine oil
l5 And will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle,
that thou mayest eat and be full
16 Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not
deceived and turn aside and serve other gods and
worship them
and lie shut the heaven that there be no rain and that
the land yield not her fruit and lest ye perish quickly
from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
1S Therefore shall We lay up my words IN your
heart and in your soul and bind them for sign upon
hand that they may be as rontles between your
''I9 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking
of them when thou test in thine house and when thou
wakest by the way when thou et down and when thou
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of
thine house and upon thy gates:
..21 That your days may be multiplied and the days
of your children the land which the Lord unto
fathers to give them the days of heaven upon the
earth.
We shall diligently keep all these command
mens which command you to do them to love the Lord
YOUR God walk in all his ways, and to ceave unto him.
% Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from
before you and shall greater nations and might
ier than yourselves.
2l Every place whereon the oles of your feet shall
tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon,
Eppbrat mt he utt
most shall your coast be-
'25. There shall man be able to stand before you
for Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the
dread you upon all the land that shall tread upon
as he hath said unto you.
"26. Behold set before you this day blessing and
o27. blessing if ye obey the commandments of the
Lord your God which command you this day:
's2S And a curse if ye will not obey the commandments
of the Lord your God but turn aside out of the which
command you this day. to go after other gods which ye
have not known"
Here, in this long quotation, is perfect coun-
terpart of our text, a complete digest of what
constitutes the righteousness" which "exalteth
a nation" Indeed, so much is this portion OF
inspiration like christian Governors Thanks
giving proclamation, that verbatim, it would do
greater credit to our chief executors of constitu
tional laws, than we too often receive from them
Nay, more than this a striking similarity is
here portraitured to our blest land. Canaan and
America have remarkable resemblances, especial
ly commencing at the twenty second verse, where
the former inhabitants of cruelty and oppression
were driven out and unbounded possessions were
promised How like the spread, and march, and
span of civil and religious freedom. Liberty OF
conscience, religious tolerance and human rights
divinely guaranteed BY the heroic zeal OF the
living missionary army, and the open scriptures
carried world wide, and preached, expounded
and vndicated even at the peril of suffering,
torture aud death, the exutant trump is sounded
earth over. The vast empire of China, oppressed
by the horrd supersttions Of Confucius India,
the victim of Brahmin and Buddhist; Italy, that
sun-lit land OF magnicenoe, is being resurrected
from the grave of thousand years ia the dismal
swamps of papal intolerance and bigotry. Glass
ic Greece has King-(Rev. DR.. King, of the
American Foreign Missionary Society
missioned in her proud city, Athens and there,
in that land of New Testament language, and
literature, and made hallowed and sacred by
Apostolic labors, is rekindling pentecostal fires.
Russia, the eye and center of serfdom and autoc-
racy, feels the ponderous aspirations and heart
throbbings In fact papal Europe, heather Afri
ca, pagan Asia, all feel the upheavings of truth
and right. How explain, on any other hypothesis,
the waking the millions from the slumber OF
ages? Through Vatican, Congress, and Diyan,