The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-07

Cod" He talks OF health and OF harvests.
peace, order, fraternal feeling, intelligence
and learning and of civil and religious lib
erty, etc. This he does, as if God had Sc
lected the people of the United States as his
special favorites upon whom to lavish His
boundless benedictions, such are not the
facts The laws which the Infinite Lawgiver
made and set in operation are the same in
all zones and lands and climes. God is no
respecter of persons His rain falls alike
upon the just and the unjust The promise
and the covenant bow upon the
cloud speakes the same language
to all. The spotted adder in the grass, the
tiger in the Jungle the eagle in its aere and
the sparrow on the house top. the robed
priest at the altar, the wild Apache in his
mountain cave, the crushed slave in his hut,
the crowned monarch on his throne, live and
move and perish under the same immutable
laws. There are no miracles wrought nova
days. 1t does no good tor persons, dressed
in a little brief authority. to weave pretty
words into chaplets with which to compli-
ment Jehovah. He gives neither more nor
less because of toploftical panegyric. If
people are healthy it is because they obey
sanitary laws. If there are abundant
harvests, it is because the people plowed
and sowed. If there is peace and order, it
is because good laws have been enacted and
the people are obediant If there is intell-
gence and education, it is because OF schools
and books and newspapers. If there is civil
and religious liberty, it is because the pen
and the sword have removed the obstacles
which despotism, ignorance and superstition
have set up to enthrone error and beat back
the advancing columns of truth tellers. God
helps those who help themselves. A being
of infinite love sends forth no scourge, mel
ther sickness nor famine as an evidence of
II sdispleasure. Cyclones and earthquakes are
expression OF His anger or vengeance. God
creates neither monarchs nor slaves. He
neither leads up nor leads down. There is
no class legislation in Heaven. He does not
create standing armies or hurl them against
each other on fields of carnage to support
dynasty or acquire territory. He takes no
part in the Councils of Nations. 1t is well
worth while to say that the moral laws are as
in their shining orbits. Why, then, Nation
al Thanksgiving Days? Certainly not for
rain and sunshine. the emerald grass or
gorgeOusly-robed forests; not for the
seasons in their regular order;
such things neither come nor remain away
by anything men can or may do. God
builds neither school houses nor Churches
God made laws, and God be thanked that
man can not revoke them. We do not sup
pose that God is to be thanked for railroads,
cana's, telegraphs and telephones, nor for
the ten thousand inventions which help the
various enterprises of civilized men. But,
if in the wide world humanity is gaining
trumphs over inhumanity thanksgiving is
in order. If despots are anywhere getting
weak in the knees, ii their thrones are
tottering, let shouts of triumph go heaven
ward until the disenthralled inhabitants
OF celestial lands join in the acclaim.
If anywhere on Gods round earth slaves are
rising from their PROSTATE condition and are
asserting their birthright, let every day in
the year be thanksgiving day. If the eter
nal principle OF right embodied in the dec
laration, Gas We would that others should do
unto you. do We even so unto Them" is gain
ing victories then it is in order for human
ity 10 robe itself in holiday attire, and for
every heart throb to be a drum beat of
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