Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-06

manner; they we're plainly the work Of
God; be must have been q hvpOCrite.
10 Is a visitation from Heaven; he
has been made an example Of
by God for his crimes. It Is thus
we interpret the law for our neiphbors.
A French philosopher says that We take
a secret delight N the m~isfOrtunes Ofsven
OuE most intimate friends. This was OK
emplided in the conduct Of Jobs friends.
These speeches OF theirs, which we and
recorded in this wonderful book, resolve
themselves with much the same sort OF
talk we hear every day. 1t is the COM
mon cant Of society. The friends come
in our misfortune and look in upon las
with the conventional long face and
~hackneyed word Of coincidence. When
they pass out the door they whisper in
each others ear: 81 always thought 81
would be so; it could not be otherwise
he was working for it; he could not
escape it it was bound 20 come, sooner
or later" Jobs friends told him that he
deserved everything You we're decelV-
ing US, but you could not deceive Him.
God sees things not as men sees them.
He was not blinded. Repent; make your
peace with heaven; appeass the Divine
wrath. These are the sort of expressions
we hear now People are so Kind and
~cOnsidsFats. They tell US we deserve all.
Their clear and psnetrative vision enables
theua, as they think, TO see into the
workings OF Providence, and to know
whence Our misfortune proceeds, and
their friendly expressions Of COmmissrs-
ton take this form, that God is Furnishing
as. Lest Ishall be misunderstood On this
point, and az holding that God may not
punish where 10 is deserved, let me tell
you once for ell that the WAGES or SIN
rs DEATH" No man can do wrong and
escape r5tributiOn. You cOnuot do wrong
-HH -nA- ALM. 80
with your will, memory, heart, speech,
or any part Of the soul, for which there IL
not a law OF retributiOn. We live under
a law which is self executive. Al pun
ishmenJ is not put OF 70 the day Of
judgment. There is q punishment for
every act which repentance cannot avert.
Repentance viii not repair a frame shat
tered by evil living, nOF bind up q head
broken IN 2 quarrel. Every wrong ever
done has IS proper punishment instantly
dscresd by divine law. 1t is a fallacy 10
think that judgment is postponed.
Crimes bring their own punishment, just
as violations of uaturs'slaWs are avenged
by nature with memorable certainly.
But all our misiOrtuues are not the re-
suits of misdeeds. There is where the
friends of Job we're mistaken, The very
eloquent divine went on to give a
deeply interesting picture of the sort
Of comfort those friends offered Job.
But he triumphed. He would not
acknowledge that be had done wrong.
for that would be a confession Of
no faith in Gods law. an acknowledge
ment that Job did not know how TO serve
God, did not know, that man did not
know, what was the Lord, and that God
had been deceiviug aim. He Ovsreame
this temptation. The preacher showed
She parallel between Christ and Job, gave
q long and beautiful exposition Of the re-
demptiOn of man by the death of Jesus
Christ, his triumph over pain and sorrow
and all his enemies, and his final glorious
ascension into heaven, when everything
had been accomplished. This latter part
of the sermon we are reluctantly com
PEELED to pass over, in consequence Of a
pressure on our space.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
II is not our province to define the
proper sphere Of pulpit elOquence and
usefulness, but the sermOn of DR.. Walk
last night, for which we have not space
this morning, was one Of the most ssnsi-
bic, and practically the most useful. that
has been pronounced in this city for many
a day. He, like all those in charge OF
churches, is C0guizant of the extent OF
suffering to which poor women and
youths are subjected, because there is no
''hCme of Industry wherein the labor
of such people is required and re-
warded. Therefore, the number of
helpless beggars, and therefore the num-
Der OF vicious boys who constitute an or
gauiz5d band Of petty thieves and va
grants, known Is "mackerels." DR.. Walk
would have the good people of the city, as
a means of moral reform, build a cotton
mill. His discourse last evening was lis
tened 10 by a great crowd, with earnest
interest. In most instances the pulpit
DEGREES a separation OF the church from
affairs; but in this matter there is
perfect unity Of interest and prOpriety in
the proposed combination of capital de-
posted on Madison street with that on
the Christian draws 40 sight when
eyes grow sightless and he loses his
hold on the vauities of the world.