St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-26

taught even that there will come time in
the other life when parents will be so lifted
up into admiration and glorification of the
divine nature that they shall be able to look
down into hell and see their children
damned there, and rejoice and glorify God;
so brutaliZed may man become, for If any
man standing in heaven can find anything
in the character of God that shall enable
him to look upon
WIFE DAMNED
and children damned in hell, he ought to
go to hell himself and be damned. But
where is the whole economy of divine gov
ernment? AS made manifest in the Scrip
ture is there anything that justifies such a
thought of God, even when looking upon
men that are sinful and lost in their sinful
ness? The verse of the Old Testament is:
Il have no pleasure in the death of him
that dieth."
''Why will We die?"
''Let the unrighteous forget his unright-
eousness, and let him come to Me. Though
your sins were as scarlet, they shall be
made white as snow" Only repent; only
take yourself out Of the stream of cense-
quences which inevitably bears men down
step by step to fate and death. We have
the better reading of the divine nature in
the example of Christ, when He drew near
to Jerusalem and wept, and said: ooh, if
thou hadst known the things which be-
longed to thy peace!" 1t was yearning,
from thine eyes," It is not far to see that
the divine nature is one that yearns over
men that have destroyed themselves and
whose destruction is irredeemable. What
ever
MAY BE THE FUTURE,
whether men may drop into annihilation
and there are large numbers and learned
men of the Church of Christ in our day who
believe that immortality is the gift of God
through faith in Jesus Christ and not the
natural economy Of the world, and that
men unsustained by the power of grace in
them die as the animals die, or if you re-
gard the other life as one in which we enter
upon a probationary period again, and
through spiritual evolution, work their way
up by and by to a higher standard and to
! admission to glory-in whichever way you
look upon the condition of the future, one
thing is certain, there is no revenge there;
no wrath, no smoke of Indignation and no
heartless hating, nor rejoicing over the suf-
| ferings of any creature. A being that can look
upon intense suffering which has no re-
mediable power in it, suffering without any
other end than that they shall suffer, be-
ing that could look upon that and snuff il
up as sweet incense, ought never to be
called God. 1t is cruelty, it is the embodi-
n.ent of the very hatred and bitterness
which is forbidden by the whole
TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE,
and calling such character and such conduct
by the divine name does not make it divine
1t is abhOrrent to every element and every
conception of the divine nature, for as
| Christ wept over Jerusalem when there was
no chance for it, you may very well under
| stand that God looks upon men, too. anC
sorrows for them when there is no remedy
If you will take notice. there is not in the
whole history of Christs miracles one single
instance in which he wrought miracle tt
change a mans mind. He had control o+
the physical laws by which he changed
! their bodily condition, but in no single in
| stance did he work miracle that should
change the will or the purpose of mems
hearts. That he never invaded or touched
| SO we are not to suppose that at any
| time on earth there will be sucf
an Intervention of the divine will as will
| prevent the legitimate consequences of the
violation of the great spiritual and natura
laws of the moral kingdom. We can O.
| our experiences come into some comprehen
sion OF this state Of the divine mind. We
mourn for and have compassion for friend;
whose every step is downward. Wher
friendship, household love,
BUSINESS PROSPERITY,
nor any motive of pride or self respect car
hold back, have you never felt such com
passion for one that you knew to b.
doomed? And what must be the feeling O
compassion in the divine mind when thai
process of destruction is going on il
many, and for generations, and cen
turies? There is no mercy that il
imperative and absolute in God t.
change men. The tears of Chris
had no power, the sorrow of Christ had NJ
power over corrupt Jerusalem. She wa
made heap of desolatlon. and knowing
their, still Christ fingered over her an,
wept. Are there no persons among yol
over whom Christ might not weep? Wh'
have given themselves up to sin and hate
l think sometimes l almost hear God say
ing to the angels of mercy, ''Cease you
benefcence; it is wasted. Why shoult
there be dew falling on the rock, it canno
make it sprout and grow" But even il
this perishing Gods heart is grieved, ant
God is sorry, not only for sinners at larg
but for those that are doomed irrevecably
Behold the tender mercy of your God ma
give you grace, to be wise in time. flo
the wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth
fools pass on and are punished.