The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-23
JUSTICE.

Rev. J. o. Alderman, and reported for
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
"Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judg-
ment and do Justice" Isaiah SOL.
Here is a direct command on a def
mite subject, viz doing justice.
There is no uncertainty or ambiguity
in it. No lawyer is needed to tell US
what it means.
The command comes from the high
est court in the universe, from which
court there is no appeal.
1t is directed to us and applied to our
6oing-!'Do Justice"
lam hidden, Cry aloud, spare not,
lift up thy voice like a trumpet and
show my people their transgressions
and the house of Jacob their SINS"
Dare I hold my peace, then, when
the enemy approaches u very doors
and rejoices in our own s~treets9 Not
so, lest my skirts be bloody and I per
ish for my failure.
We are hidden to keep judgment or
equity and to do Justice. Yet Justice
is driven from our very doors. She
hardly dares to show her head. Her
fair skirts are blackened by our daily
assaults upon her. She is almost dead
in our midst.
Our best men, set to defend her, stab
her and leave her to die in disgrace,
while u fair women rejoice in her
overthrow.
Keep judgment and do Justice"
This means not merely protesting jus
tice and theorizing aboutit. But keep
justice"-let it not go. "Do Justice" in
all your affairs and actions.
Not every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king
dom of Heaven, but he that doeth the
will of my Father, is in Heaven"
"But be ye doors of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves.
1t would be a fine thing to have a
nice beautiful garment to put on-a
garment that would entitle US to enter
Heaven and enjoy the peace that re-
maineth for the people of God. But
religion is not a garment that can be
put on during dress parade, and then
laid aside during active life.
Religion must go with US into active
life, into business, into politics even, or
we shall go with it into Heaven.
BE not deceived; God is not Knocked;
for whatsoever a man soWeth, that
shall he also reap. For he that soweth
to the flesh shall of the flesh reap cor,
ruption."
keep judgment and do Justice"
There is no such thing as laying them
aside in love and war and business and
politics and yet being sons of God and
heirs of Heaven.
If we would stand justified before the
great and eternal Justice of the uni
verse, from whose decision there is no
appeal, let US remember that religion
is a matter Of active life, and not a
mere Sunday sentiment.
There is not a small spot Of church
soil on which we must say brother and
do justice, but from which we must go
forth into life to say fool and knave
and TO rob and defraud and treat spite
fully.
Keep judgment and do justice"
1. Do Justice IN Home Life.
Here the parents constitute the legis-
lative, the executive, the judicial de-
partments, all for che children. Hence
it is especially binding on them to do
Justice to their children. They lay
ownIawsf for the children, they execute
these laws upon the children, and they
make decisions from which the chill
dren may not appeal.
Therefore, parents, provoke not
you children to anger, lest they be dis.
couraged." Treat them as having
rights and possibilities.
Within the last few days the papers
have reported a fearful case of cruel
injustice perpetrated in California.
Two little girls were whipped, cufed
and abused until one of them died with
brain trouble, and the other bore scars
upon her person, even on her face, that
would go with her to her grave. So
cruel did the father and stepmother
become that they we're both, according
to report, lodged in Jail to await trial
for murder. Fearful indeedl
But cruel injustice may be practiced
without going to such lengths as this.
A child is brought up to hard work.
which is all right; to ignorance, which
is not all right; to profanity and sin,
which is all wrong.
Often the children are exposed to
hardships and privations, while the