The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-08-11
Religious Column.


grwIP. ROENG, - Editor.
e. Nntnu'~ Govern F,
mems ever tiae sout.
u5aasad .aet thar many immortal
soui. are in boudage 90 Satan. Our
object ~ present is 70 show ne ehsf
actor 81 tie government which he oy I
daring usurpalion has acquired over
the soul
Trw prsrorlc.-satan himself is
lviso aesnot more exatting than the
Fpgptian taskmasteTs, and he wants
~ MA every power Of man in bond
ace One secret OF his power is that
bs persuades his vassals that they /
are free while they are in his calling /
chains II we should speak TO them /
about their bondage, their offending |
and boastiul language would be 1--WE |
arc Abraham's seed and were never /
1 h bondaee While speaking such |
/ language they have on the badge Of
sin ami are led captive By the "devil |
/ ut his will" II we conceive Of the
race existing without Christ we must
conceive Of it as being under one
whose only desire is our destruction
land whose only effort is to Cypress
as.
THE BONDAGE OF THE RACE IS DE
4 eRAD1NG.-Slavery is connected With
The degradation Of the slave audinthis
case degradation amounts to . moral
/ eebasement which sin mournful con
I trast with man primitive magnanim-
itv. The very essence Of moral dig
nitv is assimilation to the image OF
God. aud whatever recedes from that
image necessarily debases the soul
Servitudeto the devil is an ever-in-
creasine recession from God aud pre-
: sents a spectacle Of moral degrade
ton which il lameniable to behold.
The understanding is darkened and
knows only what is low and contemp
tible the passions are in state otin-
sarrection against principle; the i'm
agination revels in fondest ddlianet
with sin as tie paramour; and con-
science intoxicated with moral opiate'
gazes hopelessly upon the desolation
Northumberland was changed ant
II made to eat grass az an OK. 80 TN
heart of man is often taken out by tn
devil and the heart Of q beast put in
and the process Of transformation
0. goes on until the "earthily, sensua
ana devilish soul-eyery featur
n, bearing Satans obscene and loath
mt some likeness--looks more Ike on
of the beasts from perdition, than a
immortal spirit made In the image q
its Creator Men in the service OF th
devil forget God, and become the no
y who "never looks up to him VII
a thrashes down the aeorns," Will
q they waits and hurrah and laugh an
lest. they forget their latter end an
the account TO be rendered at the bs
of God. while oTchestras peal fort
their cxhilarating strains Of delightil
music in the theatre and men shot
A and clap their hands and the house
N "brought down" in confusion, the
forget he woes Of hell and the stitllir
N smoke which ascends forever
4 While the ball Of Bacchus is owe
flowed and men drink and yell al
cheat, ard fortunes are won and 10
in a few minutes, they forget the und
inc worm and the gloom which stanC
az a friend to woe to meet them
they pass below. In blind degrad
ton they live and forget the tragedi
of life and will never be aroused INT
The footliehts are extinguished by i
? fernal hands and the curtain Of doc
5 drcps around them forever. I'll
/; thousands of wretched, debilita' e
/, worn out constitutions seen daI
! uDon the thoroughfares OF life are c
DEVILS slaves whose sins liquid
would make river broad enough
aoat this world to perdilion. See t
DEGRADED sinner coming from /
bauuis Of vice, bis eye bleared vi
frequent carousals, bis check bruis
in the grogshop 6ght, and bis i
swollen with evil indulgences. 9
any one look on him and say the gC
eminent Of Satan is not degradin
This government is destructf
He that sinneth against me wrongs
D his own souI and "The soul that 9
meth it shall die" are truths viii
hsze from the pages Of Holy W
: Nav God pity him who is the sla
of sin. for a fearful cyclone has be
hurled from hell to earth and {
man will be sbIvered to moral alto
on the rocks of perdition unless
J, gets out of the paths Of sin. WI
2 the curtain of existence shall dr
!. around him who is forced by Satan
play the last act in the tragedy Of
J. there NAV be heard the pitil
], SCI cams ofunutterahle distress. w
z all the groaus of sins victims nj
gled in one great vail q chorus
D, wild and SO loud would rumble NJ
D. the ear OF the universe as to wake
s. 2 sleeping dead and dissolve The clos
ties Of the wondrous fabric Of Great
i wrecking the systems Of wor
q q and crushing to atoms the garge'
: organizations Of suns and planets
the profound depths of space.
y A soul which is delighted with
y J. praises Of God and possessed wit
\ lively sense Of his goodness can
: no evil, is cut Of the reach of soil
> Gus cares is contented in every c
- diton allotted him by God; nay
patient under suferings lhemsel
which are the corrections or dil
pllne of kind father be consid
TIT how much good he receives Fl
Fl God and hos far it exceeds all
evil he suffers Sherlock
Life is make up of little thin
and be who does bis duty each
a Of will work out the sum Of human
istenee, and get the answer in bic
40 ings when God comes to say, ~
+. !. donen-Thou hast been faithful
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