Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-02-07

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The crucifixion Of Christ stands as per-
petual compromise between the Almighty
and degenerate man.-Ptain Dealer.
Does it, indeed! Will yon please point
out at what time the Almighty comprom'
ised with the rebellious angels, and drove
them out of Heaven, ''transfxed with thun-
derbolts?" The analogy of this example
is more pertinent If either is to be applied
to the Shareholders revolt.-Cincinnai Com
p,ercial.
The sentence that The Commercial credits
to The Plain Dealer originated with The
ONO STATESMAN; hence we undertake its
defense against the present assailant. The
accepted opinion is, that the angels who
became rebellious in Heaven, and whom it
is said the Almighty drove out and ''trans-
fixed with thunderbolts" did not at any
time, bear to him the relation Of co-equals,
nor did they on the dawn of eternity, in
grave deliberation lay the foundations of a
Heaven capable of indefinite enlargement
and of inconceivable beauteousness, and
then create the Almighty In that creation
there were no conflicting interests or-feel-
ings to be concilated; there was no COM
promise necessary whereby the understand
ing was at least implied that throughout
Heaven there were matters in which the
respective angels should be permitted to
exercise absolute free-agvncy, and that the
federation of this free-agency was essential
to the creation and perpetuation of Heaven;
nor, after the expectations of theangels were
being more than realized in the growing
greatness and grandeur of Heaven, did one
party OF angels begin inveighing against
the other party of angels for non-con-
formity to their mode of angelic life; and
that thus the ground work for crimina-
tion and recrimination was laid; that the
party who first fndaIgea in this crimina-
tfon alleged that the other party was tax
and burthen upon them and that if they
could be cut off from them by partition of
Heaven, it would be blessing that would
be magnified as eternity rolled on; that
there wasa party that sought to allay these
discordant feelings by pointing to the ne
cessity of observing the compact that gave
being to Heaven, which were soundly bera-
ted by the aggressive party; that the ag-
gressive party grew to such power that the
party subject to their elimination, in a ia
tai moment, threw themselves into the atti-
tude of Rebellion, and undertook to set up
and maintain an independent Heaven with
in the limits of the original Heaven; that
the aggressive party, thereupon accepted
the wager Of battle, and avowed that the OBJ
ject that fmpelled them to do so was simply
toamaintain Heaven intact and make them
yield obedience to the just authority of that
kingdom, and not to interfere with any
right they enjoyed as guaranteed them in
the stipulation of free-agency; that after
the contest had thus progressed awhile, the
stronger party threw off the mask, and,
under the pretense that it was "War
measure" and essential to the Peace and
perpetuation of Heaven, abolished, by proc
lamation first, and by amendment of the
fundamentallaw of Heaven afterwards, the |
doctrine Of free-agency, and then entered |
on more vigorous campaign to enforce
their views and bring the rebellious angels |
back to their duty. ea
The alleged Rebellionin Heaven was bot
toned on no circumstance like this. The |
Almighty alone created Heaven, and after
having done SO, He created the angels,
They had no voice in the act of creation;
theywere not consulted; they were as much |
the offspring Of His will as things that
move and have their being in what is
denominated the world. AS the Rebellion
In Heaven is represented, the rebellious
angels did not seek to partition that king
dom and set up for themselves; but they
aspired to supreme power; they sought to
be greater than the creator. Thereupon
they are said to have been driven out-no
particular amount Of time was consumed in
the effort to bring them back, and to con-
ciliate them, and make them contented and
obedient-and ''transfixed with thunder
bolts" According to our apprehension,
then, Of the Rebellion in Heaven and OF the
treatment Of the rebellious angels, it furn-
ishes no pertinent" analogy to the present
Rebellion. The driving out of Heaven Of
''the rebellious angels" does not appear to
have ended the contest between the leading
spirit Of that Rebellion and the Almighty;
for, no sooner did the Almighty create
man, as the masterpiece of his earthly work.
manship, than he was seduced by that lead
ing rebellious spirit, and from that day
forth until this hour, he seems to have won
to his cause more followers in this world
than the Almighty. There has been con-
stant, unceasing strife in the world from
the hour Of mans apostacy untilnow. The
sword has been used; fire has been used;
water has been used, and lastly one Of
the God-head--the Son-co-equal with
the Almighty-who, after having suf-
fsred humiliation and reproach, submit
led to the torture Of crucifxion, that
the influence of the chief banished rebel
from Heaven might be rendered unavail-
Ing over man. Since this last effort to re-
claim man, nearly nineteen hundred years
have been rolled away in the tomb Of Time,
and yet that rebels influence Ia expressed
In the one word, immense. Hour after hour,
rom one years end 10 the other, man fol-
ows the lead Of this CHIEF rebel; and, yet
" that Is asked of him by his creator--He
who gives him life and being-is to re-
aounce that leadership and be shall be re-
,eived into the bosom Of Heaven, to partic-