Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1863-11-24

his father by Staying his seventy brethren and all the of the
men Of Shechem did God render upon their heads
In the annals Of the heahen eonqueor Nebuchadneza who
sacked Jerusalem the city Of God and burnt the temple built
under His direction for His earthly court and consecrated with
His special acceptance to His praise (Which catastrophe Gibbons
would have silly aduced argument dsproving His word
od in the Bible says 90 Assyran, the rod of my anger and
the staff in their hand is my Indignation against the people of
wrath will give him charge, take the spoil take the
prey like the re of the Howbe
he meaneth but in his heart destroy and off
not few He saith by the strength my hand and
my wisdom have it Shall the boast itself against
him that heweth herewith Or shall the magnify itself
against him that hakeh il the rod should shake itself
against them that lift up, and if the staff should lift up
itself Wherefore shall come to pass that when the Lord
hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and Jeru
salem VIII punish the fruit OF the stout heart Of the King of
Asyra and tho glory Of his high looks Indeed, Bible history
bzes with the truth, that while man, in his free moral agency
works the wickedness of his pervee corrupt and cruel heart
God in counsel and mighty work whose eyes open
all the ways the Of give every according to
his ways and according the fruit of his dongs with eonsum-
wisdom goodness and almighty power overues the
whole Nor the presence and power the infinitely and
GooD less in the events Of prone history than those of Bible
history We have historian privileged to His voice. and
lose sight of Ills wonderful working because only the
actions of But whoever reads history with philosophy
acquired by the study of the Bible mbung his mind derives
equanimy and full assurance of hope and consolation to aay
every alarm
The Bible emphaticay the book of tho legislator and
urist There will be found the principle and spirit that should
be in all law both in the making and the administering that
should guide criticism the discharge of the high functions
of justice and and prescribe the qualifications
which all in official trusts from highest to lowest shond sedu
ousy cultivate We have heard said even by man of emf
in the christian ministry, that the aees in the wilder
babarous people just escaped from the degradation
Of slavery and that the laws found in the books Of Moses
made for such people Listen of these laws -: Thou
blind but fear thy God" Thou shalt afc any widow
or atheress child Thou shalt not oppress hired
that poor and needy Thou shalt not eve the magistrates
the ruler of thy people, When thou shalt besegea
city for long time in making against take it, thou shalt
not destroy the trees thereof and thou shall them down
employ them in the siege only which thou knowes that
for
meat fruit trees the law is therefore imperative that
shall be cut down unless known not to be fruit tree
"Thou shalt hate thy neghbor in thy heart thou shalt in
wise ebuke thy neghbor and not suffer sin upon him.
These specimens and in what code of laws ancient or
modern, you find principles noby refined Duse the
spirit Of the Bible throughout any community few numerous
and you have happiness prosperity not by law exacng
and compelling obedience but through indweng principle
alive to its purpose leading every one to look only his
things but also the things of Others seek sngy his
profit but also the profit of many-desderaa of free in
stutions
We distribute Bibles and leave them to ncucate the truths
they contain aud they lie neglected. if unread unfe in
their lite giving power-for should much mediate on our
Sovours instruction. "Ihe words that speak you they
spirit and they life " Of every word that poceedeth
the mouth God" The is that men should use
the Bible for the improvement of themselves aud their neghbors
joining together in social arrangements exercise themselves and
help each other in reading it, meditatng upon its nstruc-
ons and enjoying the enlghening and ennobing privileges
vouchsafed to them rational and immortal which, is
der that beings immortal and accountable should neglect or
conentedly neglected.
CAS- TRULY l LIVE, WHOLE EARTH SHALL BE FILLED
WITH THE GLORY LORD the voice of the Almgh
has spoken and it fail The prediction will be
fulfilled through the agency Of but WHEN known only
Him who has the times and his power OF
the there plain indication in Jeremiah xxxI 81
And they shall teach every his neighbor and
every his BROTHER saying Know the LoRD; for they shall
all know from the least of them the greatest of them
saith the Lord for will forgive their niquy and remember
their sins moe Therefore, every his neigh
Dor and every his BROTHER saying Know the LORD the
way according His word of filling the earth with His glory
needs remark shew how the above suggested
corresponds to this way nor how eeacous this would be
elevate the intellectual and moral character of the people.
will exat them to the demands of the Bible
Thou shalt the love the LORD thy God with all thy heart
all thy soul and with all thy mind and thou shalt love thy
neghbor thyself
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