, 1876-06-17

H. Nh1'ocvcr therefore shall brea,
one Of these least commandments ..I
shall teach men so, he shall he cnIlrI ,l
least in the kingdom of heaven. r,,,
whoever shall do and teach them n',
slme shall be called great in the kim,
dom Of heaven,
20. For | say unto you, that cyccr.
your righteousness Of the Scribcs pnd
pharisccs, yc Shall in no case enter h,,
the kingdom OF heaven.
In his great inspired vision St J,,,
saw this Founder OF the Christian ro,i
gion revisit earth for the last time, Iro
uttered the final words the deepest tru,h
of his church, truth was to peryade all
the centuries to come between Betbrh.,r.
and the final judgment. What u,ro.
these words Were they full of ntaism
or injustice, OF caprice Oh, no tbcv
hold in their solemn depths a heaven and
n hell which command reason to bow "a
in the presence Of n thrilling truth,
TO- And he saith unto me, Seal no.
the sayings of the prophecy of this book
for the time is at hand.
II. lie that is unjust, let him he I'M.
just still and he which is filthy, let him
he filthy still; and lie that is righteous
let him be righteous still and he that is
holy, let him be holy still.
,12. And behold I come quickly
aud my reward is with me, TO give every
man according as his work shall be-
13. am Alpha and Omega, the be.
ginning and the end, the first and the
last.
Il. Bl sscd Arc they that do His
commandments, that they may have right
to tho tree Of life, and may enter in
through thel gates into the city.
Thus the holy book was closed and
we want no Roman church, and no
Dante, andno Milton, and no Purtanism.
no Calyinism to come with the brain
wild with figures and fiitSand injustice,
with the hCalt not with passion toward
enemies or timd with sclf.congratula-
tion, and reopen this book and insert II
future world whose gates admit the dis
honest to paradise and Consigu the moral
to eternal tormcnts.
Neithor dare ro welcome n religion of
unboundcd love and permit it to tear
open the sealed book and erase the NV.
ful destiny of the unjust. This wicked
world and good world cannot part with
the religion that rewards here and here
after the faithful and Furnishes here and
hereafter the wicked. We need u hcav-
en- easy of access to those who seek 1t by
The oil edecc of God, and We need sor.
row OF wide open gates for those who
tramplc un,ler foot that jewel of earth
and heaven called the right Out Of the
right every state draws its value, each
nan his honor, each child its protection,
each home its peace; and hence over
hose who tramplc the right under foot
here must be seen rising II storm Of pun
shmcnt, The great ruins sin has
in the world of government
point out what it is doing in the individ
lal soul. A nation 10 only soul so en.
argcd that its life covers centuries, its
,radlc becomes NOT little bed which u
mother can rock with her foot, but
peninsula like Greece, or vast domain
ike Asia or old Rome. A nation is II
nan thousand years old, whose cradle
md grave cover continent. In the fate
# nations read the destiny of the wick
'd soul. All the tottering ruins where
iSxarns sleep and owls hoot only tell US
What sorrows overlook the Herods, the
'ilatces, the Aspssias, ana Borgias when
he blaze of their sin had burnt out the
uel ofthese brief years. all history oI
lations and individuals, tho written his
ory of the past, the unwritten memoirs
# men and women, Of many just dead or
lying, tell US that the angel of love and
Dy does not fly across the universe any
more surely than flies the dark figure oI
Nemesis, that daughter of night, carry
ng in one hand scourge, in the other
he balances Of justice. But this Meme
is is not an angel OF revenge or blind
niger, but according to the Oldest poets
vas the emblem of conscience after the
oul had sinned. 1t was painted asa