The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-03-01


continues Carlyle. their only employ
ment is TO sit there and look out into the
smokiest. dreariest, most undecipherablr
sort Of universe; only once in seven days
they do retIember that they once bad
souls. Hast thou never. % traveller. fal
len in with parties Of this tribe1 NJ.
thinks they have grown somewhat nu.
merou. in our day Laughter and ap.
plause
The old Greek proverb was. that the
avenging deities are shod with wool. but
the wool grows on the eyelids that refuse
the light. Whom the Gods would de.
stroy they first make mad :" but the In.
sanity arises from judicial blindness.
Jeremy Taylor says that whoever sins
against light kisses the lips Of n blazing
cannon.
never saw dare devil face that had
not in Il something Of both the sneak
aud the fool The sorcery of sin is that
u changes a man into n sneak aud a fool
but the fool does not know that he IL n
sneak, and the sneak does not know that
he Is fool If ! were n sculptor
should represent sin with two faces. like
those OF J~nus. looking in opposite direc.
tions; one should be idiotic. the other
Machiavellian But the two faces could
not see the other. The idiot would not
know he was Machiayellian the Machia.
velli would not know he was idiotic
The sneak would not know that be IL
fool. nor the fool that he is a sneak
SELF FRoFAGATING POWER ~ sIx.
2 Under irrrversible natural Law there
Is a sclfpropagating power In Sin.
OF course this self propagating power
depends upon the law OF jrdicial blind.
ness very largely, but by no .Aeans ex.
clusively. So are we made that every
eff-ct in the growth Of our characters be
comes n cause. and every good effect no
less than every bad one
The laws OF the self propaeating power
OF habit bless the righteous As much as
they curse the wicked The laws by
which we attain supreme bliss are the
laws by which we descend TO supretIe
woe In the ladder up aud the ladder
down in the universe, the rungs A.e In
the same side pieces. The self propa.
eating power Of sin and the self-p opa.
eating power of holiness are one lsw
The law OF judicial blindness is one with
that by which the pure in heart see God.
and they who walk toward the EAST hnd
the morning brighter and brighter to the
perfect day.
or course / shall Offend many IL NJ.
-ert that there may be penalty tn has
no remedial tendency. But, gentlsmsa.
! ask you to be- clear. and TO remember
that an unwelcoLic truth y really not
destroyed by shutting the eyes Co 10
There are three kind. OF natural laws.
the physical. the organic aud the moral
affirm that never too late TO mead j.
not a doctrine Of science in the domain
nf the physical laws, nor Is IL in that OF
the or-anic.
Undrr tie physical laws OF gravitation
q ship may carrrn n the right or left and
pnly a remedial eil-ct b- producsd Th.
danger may teach the crew sea iaaship
q makes men bold aud wise ThL. the
p-nalty Of violating up to a certain point
The physical law u remedial in IT, ten
irncy. But. let the ship careen beyond
a certain line and u capsizes. ~ u b. oi
ron II remains nc the bottom Of the sen
and hundreds Of years of suffer
Iug OF that penalty mas no tendency o.
bring IL back Under the physical natr. |
Ial laws. plainly there j. such n thing . |
IL being too late 20 mend ia their i'm |
domain there Is a distinction |
between penalty that has no remedial /
Iendencv aud penalty that has no rene. /
lial tendency at all So. under the or. /
sanic law. your tropical tree, gashed at = /
'-rtain point. may throw forth il gums. /
n ! even have greater strength than be i
0rei but gasbed beyond the center. cut /
through the organic law IL so Tar violated /
hat the tree tails: aud after a tho, sand |
years, you do not exIrct TO see the tree |
-scape from the dominion Of the Law |
which Is forcing upon IL penalty. do you /
There . no tenC@icy ia that penalty 1
oward remedial Effect; none at all end 4
fou know n. Sea~ation Therefore Il
under the organic laws there IL such q
hing ~ its being too late to msl
Now, gentlemen, keep your eyes fas
Iened upon the great principle Of analo /
sy, which Newton aud Butler call the "a
Dreme rule in science. aud ask yourselves
whether II you were TO find some strangr
animal in geological stratum. and II you
we're TO know, by having one Of il hand. Il
rec, that IL bad three fingers, and IL you
we're TO find two fingers on the Other
land free from the rock and both shu.
ling towards the palm. would you no.
MIR that the third finger. II you could
oo-en IL from the rock, would also b.
ound closing toward tie palm Just 90.
ask. whether. IL we find that under two
ets OF natural laws which are all inelu Z.
ID under tdree classes there l. incontro
'rrtibly such a thing as penalty withoui
effect. may there not be th.
anne under the third srt7 The finger.
hut towa.d the palm ! cannot quit.
race the whole range Of the moral law
/, II ] know by analogy that. u two hn
GERS shut toward the palm. the thir,i
probably does. II there Is such a thint
Is its being forever too late 10 mend un.
Ter the organic and the physical natural
sw, probably. aud more than probably
here u such n thing under the mora
natural law. lApplausr
Yes; but you say the will is free. aud
therefore,. that IL cannot be supposed
hat . man will fall into final di.simiiar
~ Of feeling with God or can 90 ln..
he de,irr TO be holy that h~ will not
,boo-e the right when great..r hsi
,omes. You affirm that the sel '-prupa
Eating power OF SIN may place nscss-it,
ipou the disordrred nature. You -,
hat the denial that I'll moral penalty !.
requires us TO deny that th.
viii OF lost souls continues free I b..
'our pardon again. aud that Ia the nam,
II rfc,rnce. Gentleman. there may d.
ertainty where there 10 no Necessity.
l. John Milton putting together 4 self
when he pictures Satan 70.
making evil bis good. aud ~ yet retain
ne free willi l. be utt-iing self con
radctiOn when lac shows us hrnd sh
character which retains yet some slr
nents OF it, original brightness Has
Millions Satan lost Tree wiil2
Origrn used TO teach that the prince OF
lends might return to a glad allegiance
o God, aud 80 did Robert Burns. whom
Emerson eommends for using these
yOrds. originally written TO attack the
/ am now defending. but. /
liter all. containing most subtle confir. /
nation OF IL:
Aud Nickic Ben
An would ~ TAX - thought aud mend.
diuna ken
Ne hibiiua might,
L.