Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-03-06

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churches. Everything must minister
to pride and lust without regard to
means or the fitness of things. And
upon this depraved public sentiment
vice lays her hand, and by means
of it tempts and corrupts her victims
in every profession, in every depart
ment of business, and in every class
of society. No business obligations,
no professional engagements, no oaths
of Office, no social relations, no duties
to church or State, are sufficient to
resist her influence. "With her much
fair speech" " this public sentiment
with her love of display. causes her
victims to yield; with the fiattering
of her lips she forces them" By
the law Of fashion "they go after her
straightway, as an OK gOeth TO the
slaughter, or as q fool to the correction
of the stocks" She has cast down
many wounded yea, many strong
men have been slain 10y her.
When we look at these facts, with
what emphasis may we repeat the
statement, that the power OF sin in
the mind of man is greater than the
influence of oaths, or than any OF the
most solemn compacts between man
and man, ard between man and his
God
". Again. The power of sin is
greater than the ties Of natural GBec-
tion. IL
These ties are numerous, and thelr
power is great. They constitute the
golden chain of heavenl mould Win
which panions, families, ana
communities are bound togeIner'
Over the polished links OF this enaln
are constantly flowing the electrical
strokes of cOnjugal, parental, hilai
fraternal and social loves. Through
these ties we learn to weep with those
who weep, and to rejoice with those
who rejoice. These bind families
together as one body, so that all the
members have the same care one Tor
another: so that il one member suffer
ali the members suffer with it: and
| n one member be honOred all the
members rejoice with it.
Yet notwithstanding the number,
beauty, power and effect OF these ties,
sin overpowers them all. For men
are continually forming habits and
pursuing gindulgenceswhen they know
! that their conduct will disgrace them
| selves, and occasion shame, moTti1ca-
I ton, sorrow and suffering to all their
relatives. How many husbands sac
rifiee the love, the respect, the entire
! bappiuess of their wives, and their
own solemn vows of tenderness, care,
and affection, to the foul spirit
of gambling, intemperance, and
/ im51rity. How many fathers, aye,
! and mothers too, offer to this same
! SENSUAL Moloch whatever of love
provision and protection they owe
| their children. How many son
/ and daughter trample on the tenderesl
and purest affections of father, mother
sister, brother and friend that they
may enjoy the forbidden pleasures
! of sin.
Wives pine away and die of broken
] hearts, mothers and children suffer
main and sickness, without medical
attention, OF food, or fuel, or raiment
or decent shelter from the cold blasts
of winter. The gray hairs of dOating
parents are brought down with sorroV
| of the grave; and all this because
husbands ana parents and children
| will Weld TO these unholy indulgences
rather than to the pure ties Of natura
\ affection. - a-r--
/ How fearful is the power of sin al
contemplated in view of these wrecks
of family and social ties which every
where arrest our attention.
Ignorance. poverty and wretehed
ness rise up and proclaim with myriad
voices that sin is more powerful thar
| the ties of natural affection.
V. Again. Sin is more powerful
than all those elements of the sou
which make up the law of humanity
This law embraces not only tn,
loved ones of the home circle, thi
favored few of personal acquaintance
but it stretches forth its mighty arm
until it grasps in all the race OF man
In every descendant of Adam, IL
whatever country born, or whateve
be the complexion he wears, this Law
! finds subject on which to exercis
its healing, comforting and eleyatinl
power. It is this law that binds tn
nations and the individuals of thi
earth into one vast brotherhood-int
a family for the exercise of ever.
noble and generous impulse of ou
common nature. It arouses the ten
derest sympathies OF the heart AIT
saws unto them, " All things whAtso
eYeA We would that men should d
to YOU, do We even so 10 them" Tn
beauty and power of this law of hu
, M anity are seen and felt as we con
template the labors of a Howard or
:. Miss Dix in behalf Of the guilt,
;. and the unfortunate in prisons an
, asylums or of other noble spirits Il
behalf of the miserable Outeasts OF ou
large cities.
Yet all these beautiful and powerful
sympathies are crushed before th
| giant power of sin, manifestine itsel
, in pride, in ambition, in covetousnes:
lin every form of lust, sensuality an
r selfshness. These sins give rise
, wars, to civil and religious intolerance
+ to inquisitions, to slavery, to frauc
to expressions of the poor and veal
! to cold neglect, and to unfeeling IN
: difference in TieRof suffering. Histor
I is little else than an account OF th
various ways aud occasions in Whic
I nations and individuals have violate
: the principles OF humanity under tn
! influence Of some one OF more sinfI
passion. The envious and jealou
I, feelings that shed a brothers bloc
: hard by the gates of Eden, have II
a produced themselves and their wor
. of death in every succeeding gener'
q ton. And as that first violation (
! the law of humanity sought justiiici
! ton in the impldeHt question: " a
7 my brothers. keeper ?" so now q
cold, unfeeling, selfish heart justiti'
n its inhumRnity by heartless rejectio
e of the law of humanity. D what 4
g awful voice Of blood, like the soun
n of many waters, is crying day an
s night from every part of our cart
proclaiming that sin is more powerfl
. than all those elements of the so
2 which ma ke Up lhe iaT OF hnmapit.
u This voice cries but against the run
II seller OF every grade and name, 81
Is against the man or woman who pa
: ders to vice; and against eorruptel
J. of every name, declaring that tht
s are responsible to God for the victim
L which are sla;n on the altars OF the
o coyetousness and loye Of gain.
, will be more tolerable for Cam In Il
lls day of judgment than for such.
q vi. Again. Sin is more powerf
/ than the JeGraf fnes, or mlPr7soHDae
n or death.
q No human government has yet su
q ceeded in originating a penal code 8
, equate to the suppression OF all Grim
~ There has never yet been punis
= ment so severe but that it has be'
! INCURRED. Men will steal, rob, defrau
4 cofdlniL adultery, sell Igm, keep gar