Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-06-12

EDITOR KENrucKIAN:

preachers throug the State
would warn the people about the
large and increasing number o.
crimes in Kentucky.
This lamentable state OF affairs
is due. chiefly. to our unwise ano
insufficient laws. Our laws per
tanning to wolnding aud killing are
not strict enough The ablest and
most conscientious lawyers, with
whom l have talked for years, agree
fully with me in thinking that only
criminals and criminal lawyers are
benefited, by so many loop.holes
for escape. One of the greatest
things God ever did for mankind
was 20 give code of laws. When
He gave it, he pronounced it per
feet and Perpetual; and forbade
that It should be added to or di-
unfinished or changed. God
considers the law so very import
ant that it is referred TO more than
Eve hundred times in the Scriptures.
II your space would permit, / could
give more than one hundred quota
tions from the Bible, showing how
DESTROYS God was that people
should study His law, and should
continue to obey it; and how Jesus
and his apostles taught that the law
recorded by Moses should be dill
igently taught, and go hand in
hand with the gospel. BY a care
ful study of the law, we can learn
what Gods views are on almost
every imaginable point. Ps. 1887,
''God made known His ways unto
Moses. " Adam Clarke, the great
est commentator the world ever
produced, says of Gods laws, re-
corded by Moses, mo wisdom of
man has ever yet been able to in
vent such a code of laws" How
true is that word, the law of the
Lord is PERFECT,
10 a small compass, and in a
most minute detail, it comprises
everything that is calculated to in
struct, direct, convince, correct and
foTtify the mind Of man. Whatever
has tendency to corrupt or injure
man, that it forbids. Whatever is
calculated to comfort him, promote
or secure his best interest, that it
cSmmeDds. 1t takes him in all
possible states, views him in all
and provides for his
present and eternal happiness. 1t
IS a revelation of Gods wisdom,
wonderfully we'll calculated to di.
rect the hearts of men into the
truth, to guide their feet into the
path OF life, aud to make straight,
even and plain, that way which
leads to God; and in which the soul
must walk, in order to arrive at
eternal life. 1t is the fountain
whence every correct notion relative
10 God, His projections, providence,
grace, justice, holiness, omnlscience
aud omnipotence has been derived.
A7d it has been THE ORIGIN whence
all the true principles of law and
Rustice have been deduced The
.pious study of it was the grand
means of producing the greatest
kings, the most enlightened states
men, and the most accomplished
poets, and the most holy and useful
men that ever adorned the world.
AS a system of teaching or instruc-
ton, it is the most sovereign and |
most effectual. Who can absolutely |
ascertain the exact quantum of OBJ
iiQWity in crooked line without the
7pPllcation of straig bit one? And
could sin, in all its twistings, wind
Jugs and varied involutions have
ever been ascertained, had not God |
given to man this PERFECT RULE to
Judge by? The nations which ac-
knowledge this revelation of God |
have, as far as they attained to It's
dictates, the wisest, purest, most
equal, and most beneficial laws. !
The nations that do not receive it, |
have laws at once extravagantly |
severe and extravagantly iudulg- |
cut
In this country man will usual
Iy be punished more for stealing a
pug, than for killing some one. But
God s law says, "life for life" "He
that kilierh any man shall surely
be put to death "Whoso she'd
'deth man S blood, by man shall his
blood be shed: for in the image of
God made he man" How perfectly
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