Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-01-12
AN EVIL EYE.

J. i'iSN aoSuidhCe WHICH leaQS the Zee
astray.
In like manner Christ teacher
men their entreme danger wher
that faculty of the soul which
rightly receiving the illumination
Of truth, gives correct moral per.
ception is disorganized and perver.
ted by sinful thoughts and habits
IF thine eye be eyil,' says our
: Saviour, thy whole body shall be
full of darkness. If, therefore
the light that is in thee be dark.
ness, how great is that darkness"
The nature of sin is such that il
cannot be cherished in the mind
without destroying the right IN.
derstanding of truth, as surely as
colorblindness, the capacity for
approaching the merits of an ele-
gantpiece tapestry. That young
man, before he entered the way
that leads down to a drunkard's
grave, would have started back
with trembling at the thought Of
ever being where he now is. In
diligence Of appetite has produced
perversion Of intellect and con-
science He laughs at your words
of warning. Others may bein dan
ger; not he. Sneering at the
efforts made to rescue men from
the power of the Intoxicating cup,
his mouth is full of maudlin argu-
ments about freedom and ability to
control his appetite.
What strange hallucinations
have haunted the waking and Sleep
ing hours of many who, in binding
every energy to the mere accumula-
tion of wealth, have been willing
to crush and destroy all noble and
generous feelings. How many
consciences are perverted by gold.
Blinded by the force of covetous
habits, they fail to see the want
which is crying out even unto
Heaven against them. Without
going back to the centuries past,
what striking instances do we find
of the national infatuation which
comes through moral Obliquity.
What strange arguments once
sounded through our land in behalf
of slavery Vast numbers of men
looked npon the matter with SO
EVIL an eye that they professed to
believe that the buying and selling
of human beings was sanctioned
bS3he Book that bears to us the
of Him who came to pro-
claim Nberty and justice throughout
the earth. They who hold such
strange views of human freedom
could hardly be expected to frater-
nize with a government whose
cornerstone was that of the equal
rights of all men. Tearing out
those words, which had borne
sweet tidings of hope to the op-
in every land, they faunted
forth a banner upon which was
"We build a nation
whose corner stone is sIaveryr ~
Into what depths of darkness had
they at last been led! Look at
proud, imperial France, stricken
to the dust in day. AS disaster
follows disaster, and every rising
sun is but the harbinger of defeat
to the French arms, we mnst look
further than at those mighty hosts
3ontending on the battle field to
the cause of this weak
ness. Gay and frivolous, France
las been a nation lacking a true
From the evil-eyed
nan who had usurped his imperial
)ower, down through all the rauks
IF society, there was wanting the
,ower of rightly distinguishing
good and evil. History
'ecords no lie more wretched than
he coup detat by which the later
Napoleon nipped the ill fated Re-
public in its budding, and seized
he reins of regal power. Deceiv-
ng others, he in his turn is de-
:eived, until the moment should
.ome, in Gods time, when the
hrone which he had so indus
riously built up in iniquity should
in an hour. Thus are we
aught, both by individual and
examples, how fearful a
hing it is to allow appetite, covet-
BUSINESS, ambition, or any other in
luence to so distract our minds
hat we cannot look upon duty,
,ur relations to others and to our
Sod, with single eye that receives
he illumination of truth only to
ollow where it may lead.-New
FORK Independent.