The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-09-24

Our Creator has made strong the ties Of family
in tho human heart He has encircled ii and
bound it together with peculiar affections, respOn-
sibilities and interests. He works out in IL
love, life, aud history OF its own. He has
planted in il family feeling, a family pride,
family spirit. and there is such thing as family
ortuue, family reproaches, and visitations Of
Judgment, the iuiquities Of the father upon the
children being visited sometimes unto the third
and fourth generation.
Very much in the same way the powers that
be are ordained Of God. He made US to live IN
der civil government, and gave Us natures that
necesstate It, aud has organized the race 10 that
way. He has put men in nations, and has put
national feeling and spirit 10 their hearts, aud has
planted there an obligation Of allegiance. The duty
of submission to law and legitimate civil authori-
ty as something that is sacred and not merely
polite, is feeling deeply implanted in the hu-
man breast. No nation or state ever originated
IN any mere mutual agreement Of men, nor ever
derived its authority from that source. Men 6nd
themselves, and ever have from the beginning
found themselves in nations. 4 part Of the na-
tional body and life, without any agency Of their
own They are born into the community. part
of it, and with its responsibilities and privileges
The nation always has its birth in the providence
Of God and it has its distinct growth, organic
unity and development, under circumstances OF
dis overrulings aud ordering. God has thus
placed men everywhere under sacred binding gov
eminent, without Ary choice Of their own, aud lie
has made this one Of the unavoidable conditions
Of our earthly life. This Of course, has no refer.
ence to any particular kind or form Of govern.
ment, but only TO the fact itself Of sacred civil
authority. A people may change their form Of
government they may come into new relations
with other powers national lives may intermar
ry as family lives do, and yet government itself
not lose lis sacredness, nor law its authority.
They may become corrupt they may fall under
management for selfish and personal interests and
ambitions; they may grow wicked and need re-
forming, aud God may bring them to account.
He may do it, because they have prosti,uted the
sacred sovereignty with which he has clothed
them, and yet the civil authority as pure and
sacred thing is ordained by him.
1t is He even who has determined the times
before appointed and the bounds Of every peo-
pies habilatIon. He gives to each distinct in
dvduallly, and he has planted in the human
heart love Of people and country that is among
the most earnest and devoted affections Of the
human breast. He has put there an emotion OF
patriotism that has often sacrificed riches. aud
kindred aud life itself for the national existence
and well being How often in tbs worlds his
tory have fathers given up their sous to save
their country, aud made their dearest friends to
be their own enemies when those friends became
the enemies Of their government We have seen
this in America and in Europe Nations have
been wont 10 pour out their blood aud treasure,
even to nvenge blow upon their authority aud
TO maintain its inviolabeness. God has bound
men together 50 closely in national organizations
that they have counted nothing too dear to give
up TO preserve sacred their national right.
To be concluded next week.