The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-08-19

up prescription, persecution and
prescription, adopt the Connecticut
"Blue Laws" the Massachusetts POI
iitical and religious intolerance, or
shall We be forever free? Shall we, the
opponents and defenders of pure
Democracy. aid in making intemper-
ance political question to build up a
political party, when il is only social,
moral and religious matter?
But, what is truth, and what is
error :: The truth is equity itself Yea,
verify, it Is God himself, in all things,
peryading all things. God is love,
because he il kindness and mercy.
God IL truth, for he Is the Word, is i'm
Heaven, on earth, in nature, and in
mind, matter and spirit everywhere.
He is truth, for he is omniIresent, and
truth j. omnipresent. IL he were not
present everywhere, there would be no
God. II truth were not present every
where, here would be no truth--neither
would there be error. Again, love is
God, and truth IL God; for love il
kindness and mercy, and truth Is the
word, which is righteousness and the
law-which is God himself.
What il error? Riches and poverty
are alike crimes for they are errors
opposed to natural right and truth, as
found in nature and existent in God.
Not only are they crimes, but they
produce crime. Error is doomed to
ignominious shame and endless pun
ishment, whenever the powers Of dark
ness shall have been overcome and
destroyed.
Riches, poverty and ignorance are
the agents of Satan, who is the absolute
sovereign and the awful majesty OF
darkness itself, and they and he cons
titute untruth, or error.
But, blessed be the Lord our God,
truth is justifiable, and shall finally be
justified when she shall pervsie uni
versal space and dwell i'm all minds
(save the precincts of hell and the
minds OF the tortured and damned);
and then. clear, serene, she shall I'LL
the countless cycles of eternity.
Civilization has been but "a progress
sion, co>extensive with the range Of
human thought, and only eo-existent
with that accepted state Of things. that
received theory, that made right by
majority and universally, that believed
as truth. "Whether we have civiliZa-
ton, or not ~ is a mooted question.
Theocracy was, Aristocracy has been,
in juxtaposition with Despotism, and
Monarchy, and Democracy but the
first is now no more, while the others
are-but, O, how changed and changing.
Yet, from all have we learned lessons
and made gains-lessons of experience
and gains in thought. Yet human
government Is not perfected for, full
equality Is not given, nor eternal
equity extended to all things and per-
Sons; because the truth, rs it exists in
God and nature, is unacknowledged and
Impractical. Why, indeed? Simply
because, were there full equality, eter-
nal equity and the truth rs it exists in
God and nature acknowledged and
practiced there would be but one creed
and one government. All would have
the same faith and receive the same
baptism CRIME would end and war
cease !; both riches and poverty would
be unknown; we would live the truth
as it exists in God and nature, both in
Church and State die to immortality !;
ascend to glory, aud become rs 'just
men made perfect"
From Feudalism, to say nothing of
other forms of government OF other
kinds of civilization, and which was in
itself wrong, We have learned and
gained family. government, personal
liberty and the rights of property-yea,
more, local self-government ITSELF Yet,
how hateful is the very name of
Feudalism how suggestive Of vassal-
age and the engrossment of land. labor
and power.
Conscience il natural information !;
it is that knowledge of self which con-
stitutes In man the instinct of God
and of the existence of soul in man.
Yea, verify, it (conscieucel is an at
tribute of soul, and soul is an attribute
of God. Did we have no soul, were we
not immortal, we would not be created
Gin the image of God" Then, II con-
science is self-knowledge, and eonsti-
tutes the truth of God in man, we know
that all mankind fell heirs to equality
in heritage on the earth, that they
should obey the truth, worship God and
become, with Christ, jointheirs in
Heaven. Do we not feel the truth, and
does not conscience tell us, that all the
human race should be equal in birth,
i'm land-and all other natural things
and, If We accept, obey and live the
truth, equal IN heaven!
/ haye spoken of Feudalism, now
dead but yet, though persisted its body,
its spirit lives. Entail and prirnogen-
iture exist In Europe; land-grabbing
and land-monopoly, false-finanee and
money aristocracy are in America.
This spirit of Feudalism contravenes
the truth and denies equity, and is
more gigantic and terrible than ever
was the body of Feudalism. The
spirit of Feudalism, embodied in mo-
nopoly and money power, has gotten
more and more power TO control legis-
lation and pauperize labor, il proper,
ton as the aggregate of wealth in-
creased, as the individuality of it de.
creased, and AS the Capitalization of il
was effected. Therefore, We see few
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