Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-03
SUNDAY READING.
YuE EXIsTENCE Of GOD DEDUCED
FROM THE CONs1D RATION OF
THE PHYSICAL. AND MORAL. MAN.
NO. IL
The Moral Man.

The moral man is the soul whose eye is
conscience and thus if "his conscience
be clear the whole man shall be lightsome. "
Conscience furnishes second proof of the
existence of God. What the brain is to
the body, conscience is to the soul. When
the brain is in order, the laws of physical
nature are obeyed. When in the soul con-
science sits enthroned. God is seen and
His voice obeyed.
Conscience God Reader How one
echoes the other in the deep mysterious
caverns of the soul. Each individual has
within his heart q tribunal where he sits
i'll judgment on himself till the Supreme
Arbiter shall confirm the sentence. If vice
is but physical consequence of our Or
ganization, whence arises this dread which
embitters the days of prosperous guilt p
! Why is remorse so terrible that many
would choose rather to submit to poverty
and all the rigors Of virtue than enrich
themselves with ill-gotten goods? What
is that gives voice to the blood
and speech to stones The tiger
devours his prey and SAUNDERS quietly !;
man takes the life of his fellow crea-
ture and keeps ii fearful vigil! He
seeks some desert place, and yet this soil
tude at1rights him he skulks about the
tombs, and yet the tombs fill him with
horrors. His eyes are wild and restless ::
he dares not fix them on the. wall of the
banqueting-room, for fear he should dis
cover tn ere some dreadful signs. All his
senses seem to become more acute in order
to torment him he perceives at night
threatening cOrruscatlOns he is always
surrounded by the smell of carnage he
suspects the taste Of poison in the food
which he has himself prepared his ear
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| where for others there is profound silence:
and when embracing his friend, he fancies
t hat he feels under his garments hidden
dagger.
Conscience is 1t possible that thou
canst be but phantom of the magma
ton, or the fear of the punishment Of
men L ask my own heart, | put to
myself this question eff thou couldst,
by mere wish, kill a fellow-creature in
China, and inherit his fortune in Europe,
with the supernatural conviction that the
fact would never be known, wouldst thou
consent to form such a wish ?" In vain
do exaggerate my Indulgence in vain Go
l attempt to extenuate the murder, by sup.
posing that through the effect of my wish,
the Chinese expires instantaneously and
without pain that, had he even died
natural death, his property, from 1.-THE sit
uation of his affairs, would have been lost
to the state in vain do I figure to myself
this stranger overwhelmed with disease
and atliction in vain do I urge that to
him death is blessing, that he himself
desires it. that he has but moment longer
to live : in spite of all my useless subter-
fuges, l hear voice in the recesses of my
soul, protesting so loudly against the mere
idea of such supposition, that I cannot
for one moment doubt the reality of con-
science.
It is deplorable necessity, then, that
|compels man to deny remorse, that he
may deny the Immortality of the soul, and
the existence or an ayenging Diety. Full