Nevada County picayune., 1889-07-24
RELIGIOUS COLUMN.
Edited by GEO. A. GARDNER.
IMPARTIALITY OF GOD.

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 However favoritism may prevail Tn human affairs, it finds no place Tn the Divine administration. Justice with even hand dispenscs gifts and blessings upon all: "The sun rises on the evil and the good, and the rain falls on the just and the unjust. "
 The unity of the universe, while 1t proclams the unity of God, at the same time guarantees absolute lm- partiality in the administration Of Its affairs. 1; is instructive to note the wonderful diversity and infinite va ricty displayed on every hand in all the departments of nature. The soil of the earth is marked by endless diyersities of color, ingredients and fertility; the surface of nature IS variegatcd with plains and mountains, hills and valleys, land and water, trees and flowers, herbs and grass, in profuse and endless variety but, amid all this diversity of manifesto tions, we can distinctly trace the care and supervision of one Almighty Power. directing the revolutions of the seasons, experimenting the growth and decay of vegetation, and regulating the manifold operations of universal nature with the most consummate skill and wisdom. The starry heavens, in their jewelled splendor and solemn march through the voids of space, witness the same wonderful variety in magnitude and movement, as they perform thelr appointed rounds, in obedience to the supreme and irresistible power of Him who sits on the throne of the universe.
 When we enter the realm of organic life and contemplate it's mysterious phenomena, from the growth, repro duction and decay of the tiniest vegetable to the huge monarch of the forest; from the smallest insect that nutters in the breeze to the un- wicldy elephant that tramps the jungle embracing, too, all the vari- cities of the human race, which con- stitute the highest type of animal life of which we have any knowledge we discover the same universal re- gard for the well-being of his creat- urcs which characterize the provi- dcntial administration of the benet- cient All-father in every department of his works. His mercy IS over all of His works not a sparrow falleth to the ground without the notice of our Heavenly Father. He respect eth not the persons of kinds, or of the mighty; distributes His favors to all alike, without reference to the in- equalitics of rank, endowment or fortune.
 Hence we find that men are not happy in proportion to talent, rank, or earthly fortune; for in these re- spccts the poor, the weak and the illiteratc are as happy as the rich, the strong and the learned but hap piness consists ill a proper regulation of all our faculties, and the subjec- ton of ourselves to the revealed will of God
 The impartiality of God finds it's highest and grandest expression in the free and universal tender of spiritual and eternal blessings to all upon the simple terms of the gospel, It must be remembered however, l that these blessings in order to their enjoyment, afford occasion for the scope and exercise of moral agency, and hence mark the introduction of new and potential element in the further distribution of Divine bles- sings and while absolute impartiali- ty and equality characterize the Divine procedure, yet on the human side, by virtue of the moral responsibility with which all men are endowed, different and opposite results are reached in the actual bestowmcnt of gifts and blessings.
 The same is true under the opera tion of the same principle in human society and governments the lawless and vicious elements being restrained and punished, while the abiding and worthy are protected and re- wardcd for submission and fidelity to the laws of state and society. At this point we notice a remarkable divergence in the Divine administra- tion, the further and permanent blessings of God being restricted to the good, while the bad are not only