The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-06-01
DIVINE JUSTICE,


justice, and will not probably receive any
definite information on the subject until
we shall have become qualified by the
loss of breath TO be an angel and with the
angels stand: but we know ~ much
about the will of the Lord as our friend of
the Gazette does, and therefore ventured.
in response 10 an attack he had made
upon the peculiar belief of certain diyines,
to make few suggestions to him.
Certain divincs, probably with rolled
up eyes and long-drawn abs at the end
of every sentence, had said:
These hoppersah. have been sent
upon usah. and these fires have afflicted
usah, because of the flilureah of the peo-
pie to recognize Christ n the savior Of
the worldah.''
TO which Mr.. Uarrell responded:
"These diyiues are fools. \ jnst God
will not punish the innocent for the
shortcomings of the guilty. The God
who would !. monster a liitlr worse
than the master of the region. said to be
below"
To which We replied:
"Let II. see. The divine SAYS: God
permits the innocent to he burned by
fire. their substance to he cstcn by grass
hoppers. the pe.tilcnce L. Nil them.
| The Iniidel say.; Cod don't 10 this.
| 1t i all done under the operations 81
well-lnow natural laws. ENSctly; ami
| since the iunoccnt should not W pam
ished. the Laws that permit sU,h pun
ishment are a. monstrcns n the God
vino dcspot;cally deals cut such punish
ments. - your God-your Laws Of M
iIre-arc ~ mon.;rous - The Christian :
God. and therefore before you abuse his
God you should educate your own Cod
your Laws OF Na,ure-to be- = genlle di-
vinity who viii scorl to permit the hop
pes TO eats the crop, Of the earth, iinc 10
burn the innocent or pe.tllencc to Xii
them.
But" says Ilarre,l. THAI i not the
point. assert, that If there is = God
who could, because of belief or uubcliei,
send consuming fire upon a whole city
and the plauge OF grasshoppcr, upon q
whole State. aud then smile while he wit
messed the agony and misery OF hi. help.
less mortals. he would. II there wer, a
single spark of compassion in his nature.
hide his face from the gaze oi hi, tor
| turcd Victims
Slow, now. Answer Us:
Didn't fire fall upon Chicago - didn't
the hoppers descend upoa the fields Of a
| whole State =
Yes: but the fire fell and the grass
hoppers descended in compliance with
Well Understood Causes
"Then let us 90 little farther. II in
nocent people were burned by fire that
fell, or the fields Of innocent people were
devoured by grasshopper. that descend
ed, in compliance with Well Understood
Causes. are not the Well Understood
Causes monstrous: Fire hurts rs n'ucil
Understood a IL Ss9mpiMlsm e w'l lal . Sv
the direction of God. and the innocent
who suffer from the hoppers have as
much reason to swear at the Well Under.
stood Causes that sent them rs Mt III,
God the Christian declares ordered then
10 dc-our the land. The limo.
cent suffer every day because
of the wickedness Of the sinners OF the
world. A slnner-a yiolator OF the Laws
| Of Nature. or in other words. disobeyer
of the Word Of God--sets fire to his own
house in city TO obtain insurance. lie
escapes, but the fire spreading burns the
property of his nelghbors and cremates
them. The laws that permitted these i'll
nocent neighbors TO be cremated are
just as monst-ous as the God that would
permit such thing. In short. whatever
Mr.. Harrell says against the justice of the
Christians God who INDUCES in fires.
grasshoppers, pestilences and other AZ.
ilictions that carry death and dismay 10
human beings guiltlcss of oiiense, he say.
against his own God-his Well Under.
stood Causes.
But. really, although the great rellg.
ious organ OF this part OF the State, the
BULLETIN takes no, pleasure in such dis.
cussions Ms this. 1t prefers politics, sci.
ence and even poetry. Divine justice a,
, manifested in the hopper plague and tn,
heat OF the Chicago fire il too much foi
US, and therefore with hot haste, and IN,
permission of Harrell we here and now