The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-02-11
Published
Resist Not Evil.

BY A. Z. CHILD.
THE following discourse IS copied from the
Bdi.aer Of Lights report Of the late conven
ton in Boston.
Millions of sermons and lectures have been
preached and printed for the suppression and
abolition of evil. y vast amount of time
treasure, and effort, has been consumed to
lessen and avert the danger of evil by resist
ing it. An awful sum of punishment has
been dealt out to poor human beings, by hu
man hands. to crush and destroy this monster
called evil.
In the school-bousc, in the Westinghouse
in the courthouse IN the state-hCuse. in the
senate chamber. and on the social hearth the
precepts to resist evil have been taught and
enforced And after all these efforts after al
the persistent and uucca-iug Wars that man
has fought with evil. today evil stalks up and
down the earth IN :. sort OF supreme majesty
triumphant over all lis opposing armies.
What IS calIcI evil i hateful in its conSc-
quenc-s u every one. and all men woul. Ike
to have It ies>cucd and abolished. If il were
possible. Ma. may preach and write. .e-Is-
late and talk against evil. till the hairs OF his
head shall AL. be numbered. and the amount
of evil in the world shall in uowise be les
sened thereby Man may iul.ict punishment
laws and III every act resist evil, and still
evil i not les-eued OF abolished But all
preaching. writing. legislative aud executive
acts. and all individual. and social. and roliji-
cal efforts for the bauishueur of evil by force.
iuhamc auI intensity It, real existence: all
that clmbats and resists evil. strengthens and
supports II.
Enough time. effort. and moueg have been
spent in ,:trryiu, OH this ygar With evil. tp
warrant tEe affirmation that ,rU Gu. u.r.. b.
Ls,yeus,{ L.l a.. resistance. IL. who blows
a,rai,,,- the wind Cd ~rop IL, flowing. al,
hiow, himself. L. ,uIyrr..If.,..s The. thin D..
tries Z, ,ton. So he who wars with sin. make.
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te,ce of three ,y,-I. fi,t contains IN ,,errn -
whole code. Of law .,r. the. uart,,t Government
of all men. and t,rtIe rrrt,cr abolition Of all
the iuLarrn,r.i.s in The world. These three
words were uttered bv Christ on a mountain
near Jerusalem. nineteen hundred wear. ar.
and contain more originality that NAV be
turned to r.r,,,ti,aI r,,. fFu ali the, ri,iu:Iiry
that man has since rrnpouuIcd. viz. Pe<id
nat erjI,
So oririaaI +, the r5-terauce that nobody
has ever vet acceutrd and :.,lolr.I il a. =
rule OF action WHEN the time comes. rre-
cept shall dissolve the present governments
of the world. al. OF them. a:.d sci uf ,uour;s-
neouslv a new government In tie earth that
needs no human legislature OF executive. no
state-houseS. no pri>ou-lou-r~. no churches
to keep sinners from being sinners. and To-
keep those who are miraculousIv without sin
out of IT. dangers.
Tbi. prcc.,f the Church has east aside As
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dangerous. and men have. -LruuIl before lis
awful crauleur in the biudue,, Of ignorance.
Commentators have tried all w;lvs 20 solve
the enigma Iufdclity has sworn that II WAS
4 pIa1n but efupiG lie
All who fee! suuerior to the cI.lrrit. have
nushcd aside these words of Chris -, Euto-
nian. unsafe. euipnatic;,I. IIrsouud. wild nm
meaninr. daugerous. and deyilish for practi-
cal ADOPTION. GototEe dccue.t dcoradariou.
which is the stauche,f humility. and this pre.
cent untolds il awful grandeur first: and ON
the summit Of earthly olorv il shall be last
recoguizcd.
This preccpt has Within it 2 comule;e code
5f law for the new government a he whole
world. winch the present sad revoi, ton NAV
institute. Bat one on earth has vet tried and
practically lived under this government. and
that was Christ. He meellly bowed to the ,d-
ministration Of this government, and. in con
seoUcucr. haboII ICnk and see the nowcrby
which he moves the world.
All other men orea1 and E,tIe--aU GOVERN
nents. oraat and Ii,,Ia- -Lava ostu1.Iy Jefad
evil whereby tLcy Laya dcfaJ i and tL.ir
nower for fIiI,ra ;,.. and ,rnndn.s5 has h.nr.
ihereby shortened emf of and t,,r,,,t', Hn
who wars with sin, leaves uotbing lovely in
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