Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-01

SO that IN reallty JneTG is no evil OF
good to be reckoned with.
"Pantheism afIirms that the mind is
God in the mode of thought and matter
is God in the mode of extension. In a
word, God is everything and every
thing is God in the mode of extension.
In word, God is everything and ev-
erything is God. hence there is no
room for evil. Optimists assert that
whatever is. is best. That evil il it
exists, is educational, that it is part
of what we call good and God is it's
author. Panthestic optimism located
evil in matter. Plato thought that it
was inherent in matter. That God
would have created everything good
but for the stubbornness of matter and
God created matter and therefore Gre
theory exists that sin is a negative,
power is virtue, weakness is evil. The
victor is right the vanquished is wrong.
Might is right-The fittest survives.
"a fair common sense demands that
some solution of the true character of
evil be reached. Evil wrecks charac-
ter, blights hopes, ruins souls, de-
bauches and degrades beings, breaks
hearts, brutalizes humanity and drags
down on it's way to hell all that is
noble and pure. And this is just as
much of a potent fact as it's existence.
'There is strong rational evidence
| that sin is an exotic, that it came into
this world as a poison, that is it may
| be Satanic. And We here assert that
evil cannot be created principle for it
has strong moral tone and carries
| with it character and destiny. AS all
great power are simple. 1t is not an
| inert principle but a living activity, it
| simply perverts good. 1t perverts
truth into lie, obedience into disobe-
dience, virtue into vice, goodness into
wickedness and so on through the
whole structure of Gods government
| IF We are right here, it is patent
that free agent has in himself the
power to create action and we have
found the origin of evil If so, no
matter how far we go back in the
existence of created free agents, this
is the fountain and only fountain of
evil in the universe.
The guilty soul cannot keep it's own
secret. 1t must be confessed 1t will
be confessed. There is no refuge from
confession but suicide, and suicide is
confession.
I'VE observe that which gives con
science its indestructible moral char
acter is remorse, which is the eternal
sense of conditions made up of sorrow
for wilful deeds coupled with conscious
dread of their felt penalties. This
is recognition of free yolitionary &C
ton. They might not have been,
ought not to have been and are with
out an apology.
He'll is Remorse of the Soul.
'Ingersoll said mankind got it's idea
of hell from the volcano, hut the
| thought of Shakespeare located hell in
remorse OF the soul. So did Milton
4 when he introduced Satan to his last
abode He made him say, Where ere
4 look tits hell, myself am hell Sc
/ was it the sequel of the Danish
4 prince who murdered his father anG
1 reigned IN his stead for thirty years
j No enc knew the crime, but he dream
ed OF death and after he had gone ouI
from earth. his moral tarnish forbade
his entrance into heaven. He went to 9
A mountain of snow and carved him ou
a pure white shroud and when he haf
clothed himself therein, something fel
from heaven. He looked, and 10 it wa.
a drop of blood that stained his shroud
He held out his hand and another droI
fell and another and it rained blood I'm
til his shroud was melted out and HI
was left awake to his inward life. Ant
thus poets and logicians have located
i hell in remorse of the soul.
\ Is the Action of a Free moral Agent.
i THUS we have traced the more en-
lightened train of thought IN pure ra
!. tionalistic and philosophical grounds
II purposely avoiding all direct theolog
j, ical arguments and have found tina
4 evil exists and that all material expla
nations fail to give any reasonable eS
PLANTATION and all purely scientifi
efforts fail to account for causatiol
I. sufficient to produce the effects of 81,
as known to exist That the source 0
origin of sin is the action of fire.
moral agent and as such sin is mora
and spiritual in origin and that it's Ell
fects are probably eternal"
GALLAGHER FARM SOLD.