Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-12
BISHOP IRELAND AND RECTOR
IhOMAS.
Papacy, EpiscOpaey and Prohibition and
Exciusiveness Universally.

Papacy, EpiScOpacy and Prohibition and
Exciusiveness Universally.
Principles of whatever kind are good
and true and are equally 30 with Catho-
lie, Episcopalian. a Prohibitionist, or
any other sect, party or ring; but no par
tial, or exclusive view, or view of special
fananitism to any man, or men, sect, par
ty, or ring, can make any principle more
than good and true; nor can they as to
what is good and true principles in them
selves, vary them or make any principle
of what is evil and false good and true.
Now can any of them at all make a God
that is only good and true, and without
any favoritism, partiality, injustice, IN
righteousness or exclusiveness toward any
of his universal children partial exclusive
and unjust to any one.
If a Catholic, Episcopal, Prohibitionist
or exclusionist, of equal rights, equal free
dom, and the equal exercise of individual
reason; has partial God or God of fav-
oritism in exclusiveness to them specially
then they are not really in the acknwIedg-
ment and worship of the only one God of
dUSO1ueO SOOQAOSb dnO tlQbns 0OOOAOon
treats every one universally, without respect
of person according to their
works. If any one has GOD
that does not, his God is
but devil and is but
TIE creature of the fabrication of their
partisan cause. If any Catholic, Episco-
palian, or Prohibitionist or other man of
exclusiveness thinks that he for merely
being Catholic, Episcopalian, Prohi-
bitionist, sectarian, or eXclusionist, or par
tisan with his God, or in himself, or with
men, therein he is but a worshiper of, a
devel, however blindly he may do it, and a
devel OF corrupt council of men. In our
| country we have 100000 of souls. Must
not just, good and true God regard each
one for his own good and happiness equal
ly and impartially and according to each
ones true desert, and must not such God
regard the 5O,OOO00O of souls just
| 100000 of times above that of one soul.
| No partisan or sectarian principle or prin-
ciples of selfish exclusiveness of others can
affect divine, universal and eternal ECU al
| Justice to all and to each one alike. A
devil only is the God of all this universal
exclusiveness of the men who are above
equal justice to all men. The God of
heaven has no exclusive prohibition toward
the use of any thing in existence. Every
poison may be of negative or lower use
as medicine, and every good thing may
be used innocently with divine approba-
ton. Sin is all that hurts. And sin is
abusing anything in it's use, that is, using
it in opposition to the divine command
ments. All just government is the prohi-
L: - mic e. hot in
themselves sins.
All prohibition and all exclusiveness
then are not divine, and are in principle
ungodly, for there is no prohibition with
God in his divine government; but that
of SHINING against the divine ten com
mandments in abusing first, our individ-
uaI freedom and reason in the wrong and
irrational use of everything that exists.
The most essential two things to guard We
have then, is our individual freedom and
reason against all enemies and opposers.
For the whole responsibility is limited
first, and above all, to their use with every
one of as. Every one must use them
alone for themselves, and every one must
realize this before he will, or can, begin a
real reform. Second-He must not think
that prohibitionists, with their straight
jacket device, merely will reform anyone.
If this is the best prohibitionists know,
then they can only do their best. Others
can do better by not assuming to improve
the divine order of mercy and govern
ment. God regulates and governs all
beings, good and bad, and leaves them
ever in Individual freedom, without sim
gle exception, in heaven, earth and hell
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