Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-03-04

which we mark the evolution of evil, what
is it that we see ? Simply this In one
man we see sef-love in the seed merely,
and that carefully kept down by external
pressure. In anotherc il has been warmed
to greater vigor, by the heat Of mighty
temptation, to which he yielded, and it
has sprouted above the surface. In
another, still more regardless, it has been
nurtured with care and has assumed
gigantic dimensions, becoming deadly
Upas, breathing its poisons upon the
social, the religious, or the political at
mosphere. In another, it has produced
its fruit has lived It's permitted time, and
has commenced the frightful process OF
decomposition That is the way in which
the vailed truth appears to us. But to
the eye which has Divine wisdom in its
lens, all was visible-all the growth and
fruit complete in the very seed.
We see the Galileans at last suffer or
perish, and suppose them to be sinners
''above all the Galileans.' But the Di
vine Teacher says, 81 tell you, nay 2 the
seed that bore this deadly fruit has been
planted by the enemy in your own bosom,
anu unlBSS lDu uuNt luuAtd ~ ouNi thh oV
permitted Me to implant the love of me
in its place, it will, sooner OF later, bear
just the same fruit except ye repent, ye
shall all Hkewise perish We see the
towers of Babel or Sloan rising about us
daily-perhaps we aid to build them-we
see tliem fall upon their mangled victims
at length, wien they have reached more
dangerous altitude. Here ayarice puts
on the fitting garb of greed gloats in
the eye from which u humane glance is
never caught and makes its dwelling
place-the body-haggard with the pow
erty and fears of the miserable soul,
Taere the dishonest purpose is full grown,
and Gagged in the felon's prison. There
again hate has brought forth murder, and
paid the penalty of life for life Or we
see again how an insane ambition, or love
of dominion, ripens into rebellion, and
strikes cruelty at the peace, the liberties,
the very life, Of great and prosperous
nation. These are examples of the men
of whom the Apostle speaks, whose "sins
are open beforehand, going before them to
Judgment" while "some men" Chose who
have not in this life reached the full
standard of internal manhood) "they fol-
low after' 1t is so likewise, the Apostle
adds, with the good. and their rewards.
Now we are apt to assume that these men
upon whom their self constructed towers
have fallen, are "sinners above all men,"
But again the wisest, best of Teachers
says, II tell you, Nay but except ye re-
pent, ye shall all likewise perish" The
peculiar force of the word "likewise" is
worthy of special notice, meaning, as it
does, that if the seeds Of the same loves
are not expelled from our own lives, we
shall suffer consequences eguaty severe.
Except the love Of self he eradicated from
the BOSOM and the love of God and the
neighbor enthroned instead, the hate that
is murder, and 'has committedh murder
"already in the heart - is yet to grow to
full proportions in every lineament of the
man: is yet to come out armed with the
naked dagger and to smite the neighbor
in deadly combat, and to succumb at last
to the bondage of violated law Unless
the love of serving the neighhor be i'm
} planted in the breast, and shall grow be-
meath angelic culture to Divine ends, the
t love of riding the neighbor will, sooner OF
later, break out in forms of treason, re-
bellion, tyranny, and open warfare against
0 God and man. Though evil affections
pass the boundary of this life invisible to
: mortal eye, it matters not; the world oi
S spirits, with its greater freedom, its DARK
f revealings, and the rapid evolution of its
$ more decisive life is still to come. There
( at least, if not sooner, the life finds q con
5 genial soil, and unhallowed passions com
5 plete their growth. There, "nothing is
r secret that shall not be made manifest
p neither anything hid that shall not be
Q made known and come abroad"
r This teaching has for every one {
B most terribly practical aspect. For az
j science teaches us that by our corporea
i organism we are brothers to the worm, 81
J., does our text teach us that, by our natu
S raj and unregenerate dispositions, we arr
}, brothers to the worst of men and unless
: we repent, and be baptized with the re
J, newing spirit of Christ and His Divinl
G Love, we shall yet in our full, unfoldet
It life, acknowledge those ties of kindred
: The selfish man is proud, if you will onl.
5 permit him to possess the least thing upol
', which pride can feed and grow; he /
g p-oud anyway the naked and tattooet
savage equally with the robed and jewellet
= courtier And it is not enough for Oh
n salvation that that pride should be hall
y subdued, kept back from the eye Of SENSE
n but secretly cherished. 1t must be eradi
e Gated from the very soul, and q postttg
,, humility nurtured in its place, or it wi
e yet bind us to the household of Lucife
d himself and fix our eternal RELATIONSHIP
lie with the concentrated pride Of hell.
u No man, who was not thoroughly hun
II BILE, and esteemed himself less than moth
= inc, ever yet entered heaven as a permt
Sc nent dweller How marvellously th
u u Lord interpreted the ancient laws of a
u u external church, and filled their wore
~ ~ with spirit and life They "of old time
It had long said "Thou shalt not kill, an
" = whosoever shall kill shall be in danger
=, the Judgment" But the Divine ma
~ traced killing to its birthplace in Il
y dark caves of every natural heart, al
ls said, "Whosoever shall be angry t0iM h
no brother ,cittom cause, shall be in dang
y" u of the judgment and whosoever sha
lo say to his brother Raea Ga term e
aS pressive of contemptl, shall he in dang
VI of the council but whosoever shall 81
le thou fool shall be in danger of he
". fire." The whole tenor OF His teachin
'll upon such subjects is that unless Il
y Righteousness of men "shal exceed th
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