The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-09-28

no part in the cver-changing, titful, diSsolT-
ing scenes of moral and physical life.
We meet with disappointment where We
had looked for hope; grief where we expect
ed JOY; the flower beside our path with its
wealth of hue and odor, is cropped by the
| browsing OK, or parched By the burning sun;
the gi!dcd insect OF the morning. as the
chilly, creeping shadows of night-fall come,
closes up its Leautiful wings as shroud
the winds, which to day arc tempered into
gentle zephvrs, and softly fan tho brow Of
the tender babe, Tomorrow gather their
forces into tho raging tempest and sweep
with demoniac fury, ard as with the De-
som of destruction over land and over
sca-b!asting the fair fields Of the hus-
bandman, and driving the beautiful barquc
with its precious freight of human life down
to the dark cavcrns Of the great deep. The
cumcly youth whose eye of enterprise sweeps
heaven and earth, and wrcstlcS with high ar
gumcnts, is cut off in the first flush Of eN-
pandins manhood; the man of maturcd pow
or, fa.-rcaclling scheme and generous zeal
dispensing the fruits of his wisdom and
labor on all around him, in moment is
stricken down, and exchanges the broad do
main and clustering honorS for the narrow
est of homes and poor "hic jacet.'
Reference was made to the ingenious theo>
rics cf eastern nations 10 solve this problem
Of anarchy ard order. war and peace, dark
ness and light, death and life, &c. But the
humble, praycrfal student Of revealed truth,
finds mysterious Disclosure Of the Origin Of
Evil. Long before the drama of humanity
began, prelude occurred l.uclfer, Son Of
the Morning first of created in;clligeucicS,
revoked in the courts of heaven and broke
the harmony Of moral law; a period Of pro-
baton WAS granted, but rcpcntinS not, Luci-
fer and those who followed him into rebellion
from their high estate, were hurled from the
splendor of heaven to the horrors OF hell
Delial, siraigL;way coming from the crypts
OF darkness, with subtle art, enters beautiful
eden, clothed in q carpet of. green, and an
atmosphere Of transparent loveliness, laden
with perfume, and agow with life and the
MELODY Of the spheres. Man, the second be-
ing in the order Of creation is seduced into
rebellion and into an infraction of moral law,
And then, when tho will Of man came in
conflict with the divine will, transformation
eusucL. Eve, who crstwhile stood in the
beauty and pride and plenitadc Of graceful
womGnhood, gaZiug with awe and reverence
out of the depths Of her pure and guileless soul
upon TIC g!orics above, beyond and abour
her, with the birds Of the air hovcring DER
her head and the beasts cf the field suppi-
antly at her feet il driven forth in company
Of Adm at the point Of flaming sword; the
lghtnings rcnd, the beasts are at war, the
fruiliess thorn and proGtle$s thistle come
forth, the earth reluctantly yields. her fruits,
and anarchy succeeds 10 peace, and growth
is followed b. decay and death. N ms own
nature was at war and no longer at unity
Union with God WAS life, and truly did man
feel in tears and bitterness that severance
was death.
Evil was no part Of Gods creation, but in>
finite wisdom made both orders Of beings free
agents, and, by the same benign will, de-
creed that such beings could only serve him
by free and wiling service.
As observed, b. the appointment of DI-
vine wisdom, 4 period of probation was ex-
tended, but some rcpcntcd not, and man
mex. fell But tha: same awful Jehovah who
sees the end from the beginning, and fore
knowing mans fall, in the counsels Of Etcr-
nitv, determined that he should live.
1t must be observed however, that God
never 1iolates the Divine order Of things
and death being the legitimate fruit ofman's
departure, lie would not set aside the conse-
qrcnt penalty of transgression, so the earth
in common with its master, must suffer ira.
vail But the Almighty, whose love over
shadows Us, dccroed that the dispensation Of
grief, tears, pain and death, should glorious
ly result in publication, joy and life.
The Divine economy us it is beautifully
shcwn iu The lessons of nature, reveals the
fact that God deals with US through all the
potent agencies Of life, not as aliens but as
sons. When assaiIed, ne must not be SUI
prised as though some strange thing hap
pcncd unto US. The Affections Of the pre-
sent 20 keith ont eternal glory. Sutfcrings
anI ,ols braYeIy and patiently borne yield
the fruits Of the spirit-vic,or's palms
and crowns, and the frution Of m enduring
inheritance Of immortal gorics, ut the right
hand Of The Father.
The heroic and faith-trumphant Paul
went from patience to hope sc. ,nnd felt that
compared TO the tranaccnding joys Of the
brgl: hereafter.
From tie awful distance with which We
view the exalted divinity Of the Savior, we
lose sight Of the prcc;oasncss Of his humans
irv, and tho benefit o! his example and sym
pathy. The beautiful thought is presented,
that lie who sticI;rth closer than 4 brother
&C., is truly and entirely Il NAN. and know>
ing no DETECTION from the puth Of duty, puri
II and holiness, stoops in tender love to The
!owlicSt and most abandoned in the scale Of
humanity: and 10 all whose life i>an Imitn>
ton Of His, the same means will he used for
their spiritual growth.
Now it follows that, if sorrow WAS the
best means Of cxal:iug the sin!css humanity
Of Christ mo sonShip with God, thc'I, rs
pal takers of tlla. son,hip, it must ni-o be for
man. The affections laid upon the Savior
were no, solely penal and iclrbu'lvc, but
also disciplinary. chrft, aS perfect man,
vas truIv son Of his Father in Heaven, yet
in the plan of redemption. his human will
was TO he brought by suffering into entire
sul;ectinn to tue will of God; and it was OF
the very essence Of Christ's offering himself
as Il vicarious sacrifice and full atoncment,
!ila, nc should he perfect.
Bur tic ,yondrous part OF Gods wcrk j.
that Christ, by his vica:ious death, BECAME
The author OF eternal salvation 70 rs many
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