The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-04
st from eternity2 If not. who created


ton of what the Doctor calls mighty |
mystery. 1T is mighty mystery to
me how an intelligent mind can for |
moment believe that it (the soul) can |
suffer punishment" Wonderful myste-
ry, indeed Have you, in your judg- |
ment, ever done wrong? I would rather |
suppose you have. After you have done !
wrong are you not conscious of feeling
of remorse? OF course you are. Now
what is remorse, is it bodily torture, or is
it soul trouble? l have heard Doctors
sometimes say that their medicines did
not have the desired effect, on account of
mental troubles. The power and author
ity of conscience is acknowledged even
by the most abandoned of men. Guilt
ness will speak though tongues were out
of use
You say further, "As we'll might we
as to believe that part of the Deity can
be punished Your reasoning is right,
but your premises are wrong. The as
sumption that the soul is part of God is
palpable fallacy
OF course if we are part of God there is
no sin, for God cannot offend against
himself. But is not the awful fact that
we know the right and do the wrong
and are conscious of it, conclusive proof
that we are not only distinct from God,
but separate from Him-that we oppose
our will against His, etc. Is not the
| Al,
strife, murder and war, sure evidence that
only human will is opposed to the other?
The theory that denies sin, judge judg-
ment punishment, and accountability is
hostile to civilization, and to all that
constitute the glory of man. And any
man that advocates such demoralizing
doctrines Is an enemy to God, his coun-
try and humanity. Erase the idea of ac-
eountableness and of future life from
every mind, and how quick will the
whole social fabric sink to hopeless ruin.
Oaths are only idle superstition. There
is no judge, no judgment, no punishment
for the false swearer; the weak have no
guardian, and the injured no avenger; /;
there is no recompense for sacrifices to
uprightness and the public good; virtue
has no incentive, vice no restraint; oath
is unheard in heaven; secret crimes have
no witness but the peFpetrator. Let men
thoroughly believe such doctrines and
who can describe the extent of the desc
lation which would follow? Take away
the moral sanction of law, and the sa-
you left for any government save the
point of the bayonet. l wish my readers
that are inclined to believe the dogmas
of Pantheism to read its Obstructive eff
fects, in letters of blood, as it flows in
torrents along the streets of Paris His
tory tells US that about three millions of
human beings were massacred during the
short reign of infdelity in France
Do you court disintegration and death ?
Would you revive and make universal
the second siege of Paris 1 am nc
alarmist, but from the depth of my soul
fear the manifested tendency to get rid
of Supreme Being.
I would not have decided to refer tc
the sophistries of 1. T. NJ, but hear the
same echo coming to my ears from vari
; Gus quarters. what is sin?'' There i:
e no SIM it is all an old story" II am
what I am, 1 cannot alter my will, or be
7 other than what I am, and cannot de
serve either reward or punishment etc.
(Atkinson letters, p 1907.
Shall follow them Shall dance tt
the music they have piped unto us? No
:. no! l cannot follow them. l canno
dance to that music. cry out for God
and 1 will have Him. All! if the faitF
in personal God dies, the universe is a
once orphaned.
d This story of sin and punishment sayi
our Restorationist. should be classec
h with the stories of hobgoblins and ghosts
l. gotten up to frighten children and The
ignorant portion of mankind. Shame OF
them. Let all lovers of peace and orde
}, cry out, shame! SHAME SHAME!!! NJ
punishment! no, steal and plunder, roll
- and murder, if you can eyade the law
: there is no judgment nor judge nor pun
4 ishment. Go to your neighbors granar!
y and steal away his grain, if you avoid de
y lection, your soul cannot suffer for it, no
Il your body if you do not carry too big
! load.
Rejoice, o, young man, in thy youth
f and let thy heart cheer thee in the day
of thy youth, and walk in the ways o
o thine heart and in the sight of thin
O eyes; but know thou. that for all thes
a things God will bring thee to judgment.
;. Eccl xi. 9. No, says 1. 7. NJ, cut off tn
q latter clause and cast it into the dung
. with the stories of hobgoblins and ghosts
II Man cannot be judge, nor punished, fo
J. one part of God cannot punish the 9th
! er." Man, though in brothels or Jail, o
q on the gibbet, is on his way to all that i
good and true.
O Let them that fear no God, but VIII,
i have lives, and wives, and property t.
I lose, look well to it, and see if they ac
f wisely in giving their influence to a sys
/ tenn which leads to such consequences
e Let them devise some religion for tn
r people which will preserve the rights o
|, men, while giving license to trample OF
# the rights of God; or, failing in this ei
n fort, let them acknowledge that the enc
It my of God is, and of necessity must be
n the foe of all that constitutes the happi
O ness of man.
a We humbly hope and pray that er
d long, the glorious light of the Sun o