Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-06

also viii laugh a. Your calamity Will mock
when your fear comcth as desolatIon and your des-
truction cOineth as a Thriwindi when darkness and
anguish coIneth upon you.
Then shall they call upon me, but win not an
sWer they shall seek nie early but they shall not find
For that they hstcd knowledge and did not choose
the fear Of the Lord.
They would none Of my counsel. They dcspised
T1;rGj5ye shall ney sat of iEs fruit Of u.eir Olva
'cay and Ge ilIcd icint then oiCH dsriess.
In what consists this awful destruction
What is this fearful calamity, anguish and
distress Has God armed himself with all
his thunderbolts? Has he winged with
vengeance all the arrows in his quiver :?
Not at all. 1t is only granting to these
persons their own desires-it is only taking
them on their own terms-it is only letting
the springs of their own actions have thtir
full play-it is giving them the fruit Of
their own way-6Iling them with their
own devices. Aud this, my brethren, is
hell. And the awful thought is, they,
themselves. made it what it is.
Now ] remark again. that, in his provi-
dence God puts this theory into practice,
Abimelech slew seventy of his own broth
ers vpOn one stone. There Is the emphasis,
upon one stone. He was afterwards in
gloriously slain by a stone cast from the
hand of woman. And we are told that
it WAS n rstribution from God upon the
heartle5s fratricide. Haman hung high
upon the gallows he prepared for Morde-
cal. Jacob deceived his old blind father,
and he is again and again deceived by his
intriguing father-in-law. Ishmael laughs
at Isaac, the son of promise, and in the
subsequent history the descendants of
Ishmael are scarcely mentioned. From
that hour God seems to have put slight
upon the scoffer. UzziGh lightly esteemed
Gods institutions, and he was despised.
Seventy kings having their thumbs aud
great toes cut Off gathered their meat un
der the table of AdonibeZek. His vic
torious enemies retaliate-scrYc him in the
same way, and he is forced to acknowl-
edge that as he had done So Cod requited
him. Ahab gained possession of Naboth's
vineyard. As retribution, the dogs were
to lick his blood on the spot where his
victim bled. And they did, and dogs ate
the flesh of Jezebel, who suggested the
great crime.
We find examples of the same law in
proinne history. Herod slew the little
children 10 make sure of the blood of the
infant Christ. He left IL large circle of
children and grandchildren, but in less
than century the ftmily was extinct
gone from the earth-vanishcd forever
from the page of history. The ice in a
certain river severed rs with q guillotine-
blade the head of Salome, the daughter of
Herodias, who asked for the head OF John
the Baptist. Paul, in the spirit of proph-
ccy, said TO Annanias, God shall smite
thee, thou whited wall, ," and God did smite
that whitcd wall.
After making these citations, the rever-
cud gentleman went on to ask whether we
now live under different government
Iivcd g,s C;od cLs1ged9 bc ,sLed THO
same law qovcrns ms 0he conteudedl that
oovcrncd 3bimcIrrh Hamon and Icrod
ar,l ,,.o cor,,;,,I,. rsor iln rrrit or
onr sovvirc "a tLev reone6 the fuit of
tbcirs
Rpt said Tho lecturer. VIC will shut I'M
the RibIc and tho book or history and we
will r,o ont int tho common ,vaiks oF ev-
s,, -do,, Iifa No ,vn NOT fpd tho Same
princinIes actively at work there? Can
Won wall, n souare in any direction in this
city without secirg it written in great
o,I1rinp letter.. .sWhotsoevrr a man SOW
9th that shall he also reaDqr God has
Inscribed tba great law evcrTyvbere on the
broad snrface of society. Is il not patent
10 orr evcs and tho cves of ali men7 Hu-
man life can he made a very pleasant and
bnortifrI tbirr IFS rorrb material ran
bn wrought mn into sometbipp that is re-
oII,, bn1HtifpJ tn bcboJd orr ljvcs may
he r,adc snbIin,o Rnt how many there
.,rc ,,.I,o r,aI-o a ,yre,cbed foiInre of II and
r,nr".ro 70 rot rotbing ont of II bnt sounI-
;dnass ;li,, ond ,vrstcbe5roEs2 Wcu whose
f,mIt Is - Manfrcstlv tbeir own There
arc re- eycen,ionable cases to be sure. hut as
s.snersf rrIo II is trrn that If men are
miser"ole al 49,: - l,sro, them
selves TO Diane 1or H. feGP 'lG. enc, 'SH.',
are sou. Is II expected tnat tns SiHgs'ru
Will reap plenty ana prosperity w, NO one ne
expects TINS; Is II e1pee!eu tuas S .ns
drunkard VII! reap G1ulestic pe"eT anu
success IN business No one e1psJsS I,Ii r",s u
is IL e1PeCtea tna' tae snlLn-et -, su'il up