Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-04-26

timatcly 20 every crime and wickedness
Of hell. Sin against God leads to all
manner Of crime against our fellow-mcn, i
and in the other world 10 all manner Of !,
crime against the lost spirits Of hell. ,
We begin disobcying God, we end in the :
ever increasing crime and wickedness Of
demons. IL not the sinners future
enough to make him shudlcr Should IL
not induce him TO pause and consider?
But this is not all. II is not the future
alone that the sinner has to dread. 1t is
not the awful depths of crime and wick
to plunge, that alone should lead lin to
turn to God for help. lie has the past
to dread rs much as the future. II is
hard to believe III the future-we can
but believe in the past. If future crime
and sin are predicted Of the sinner, he
will say, "What, is thy servant dog,
that he should lo these things?' lie
cannot believe that such wickcdness is
before him, any more than lIazael could
believe that he would ever bc guilty Of
the awful crime of which the prophet
spake. The sinner has reason to dread
what is behind him as well ns what is
before him, and besides, he is more lilAly
to dread it, for he does not know the fll-
turc and does the past. lie not only
knows the past, hut has abundant reason
to dread it, for every wrong, every sin,
every crime, has a tongue given il with
which to cry out with God against him
The wrongs we do we leave not behind
us in our way, never more to hear of
them, or know Of them again. If the
decls of Yesterday were doomed to per-
rctual silence, if they lifted up 10 voice
against us, if they were forever forgot
teiI-Iever more to lc heard Of, if the
future, only was to bc dreaded, if we
only had to run the gauntlet of iniJuity
stun" l,y sin and guilt only in passing
thenl--if or sins had no power to follow
us viii, their loud cries for conlemla-
ton, then our imiGuity would not be so
great ruin; then hell would not bc 50
dreadful. But our sins are not dumb !;
our WRONGS are not silent. They lift up
their voice with God. Tlcy cry for ven
gcance. ''rhc voice "f thy brothers
blood crictl unto ne FROM the ground, >
says Gnl
l,l""l hes always been wonderful
wilnc>, Il mnrlcr. II has often borne
testimony against the murderer AMI Sc
cured his conviction when there WIS no
other witness. 1t speaks with loud
v'ice. 1t is difficult, almost impossible to
drown it with the voice of other testi-
mony. The cvi.lcnces which blood
gives of guilt are har.l to conceal. The
blood-staincd hatcltct may he washed in
apparent t.inrmwlnic>s, yet if the ten
thnusan,lth part "f Il drop remains
las most asSurcdly it will, for l'l""l-
stains are not easil Y washed put) il lifts
up its voice uf condemnation. Ii ever
bears true witness, for human blood,
even in ten tl.uSandtl, part of Il drop,
cali under the microscope lic recognized
from a,lv ether. once read of II mnr-
der c:s" where conviction turned upon
the question whether II single blood
stain, that was scarcely visible, was
caused by human blood or by the blood
of Il chicken. What loud tongue was
in that little spot of blood, and how ii
crir.l out against the murderer. Every
,lrol, If human blood that has been shed
upon the earth, has lifted np its cry un.
t. G"d. The earth has been leluged
with blood, hut every drop of it is filled
with ten thousand tongues that cry unto
God for vengeance. Blood -guiltiuess is
upon the world and the cry Of it goes W
to God. The world has been pcrsccu
tor of the church from the beginning
Cain was of that wicked one. Abel wa,
an accepted child of God. One was o.
the seed of the Serpent and the othc
the seed of the woman, and a type o
Chris In one WAS the Kingdom of Sa
tall--thc other the Kingdom of God
There was cmnity between them rs Go,
had said, 81 will pht enmity between til,
seed and his seed, and thou shall bruis,
/ his heel, and he shall lruisc thy head.
) Though Cain slew his brother, the rea
. hd1m to him was as only the hr,lising o
, his heel for his soul went to hi
God in peace while the crime rcacte'
{ upon Cain crushing ont his very life Il
t though his brothers heel ground hi
' head into the dust of earth, for he sal
. ''niy punishment is greater than L ca
. bear" The real victory was with .\b'
/, and not with Cain. So the pcrsccutio
{ of the people of God, has only rcsulte
c in the br,ising Of their heel. The stak
t and the faggot have only kindled
G ''clariot of fire to their victor souls" i
n which they have gone up to God, Will
;. the head of the prosecutor has bee
c ground to powder. The bloum of I'll
7. righteous have not cried to God iii vail
y God will bring upon people all I'll
II righteous blood they have shed "upo
o you" says Christ to the Jews, "wi
q come all the righteous blood shed upo
a the earth from the blood of rightcor
l. Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son {
? Barachias whom We slew bctwecn III
t. porcl, and the altar" They were act,
s ally guilty of the blood of previous gel
Il erations, because they allowed the dee'
C of their fathers and consented to then
i "Woc unto you" says Christ "for ye bui
l. the sepulchres of the prophets, and yo1
q fathers killed them. Truly yo be
II witness that we allow the deeds of yo
It fathers for they killed them and ye bui
t. tleir scpulcrcs." SO God will requi
? of this generation all the blood of ma
I, tyrs shed on the earth from the blood
is righteous Abel to the blood of Abraha
m Lincoln. The blood of other gener
n, tions is upon us, if we consent to the
in deeds. How the earth is filling up wi
,e blood that is lifting up its cry to G(