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they would have a right TO do II
There is nothing in the nature OF
things that makes parking on the
north side Of Main Street wrong
/ and nothing that nsskes three dol
: lars the exact amount TO charge
the offender, practical though IL
/ may be
Some Laws Cannot Dc Broken
There are other laws which are
( not on the statute books but are
( much more rigid. and rigidsy en-.
( forced, than regulations about
parking or school attendance We
! ture; but they are really laws Of
/ God There is no Law printed in q
{ book anywhere that says that II
7 person neglects the care Of his
teeth he will get toothache but
that is a law nevertheless It is
so to speak. written into the physi-
cal constitution Of every man
| There is higher sort Of law still.
called Moral Law, which is like
wise rooted in the nature OF Things
Examples OF moral laws To every
man belongs his due, whatever a
man soweth, that shall he also
reap; hate and you will be hated,
love and you will be loved. Such
laws can be disregarded. they are
disregarded every day; but they
cannot be broken They are not at
all like arbitrary laws There is a
ghost town where parking spaces
can still be seen marked on the
pavement But you can leave your
car there now for a month and
never get ticket The town gov
eminent has just folded up and
gone away But God never folds
up nor goes away. There is a
corner in a city where once left
turn was permitted, now il is
against the law The traffic de-
partment changed It's mind. But
God does not change his mind.
How Nations Break Laws
Now, every nation. every com
/ munity, every club ar organization
OF people, has the right to make
up its own constitution and by
laws, its rules, ordinances, regula-
tons. laws and statues And IL has
the right to change these Most
nations. however, do not like 10
admit that there are laws which
bind them. They do not like to feel
that there are unchsnsing and I'M
change able laws which govern
them and all nations Nevertheless
there are such laws, laws Of God,
and nations have been broken for
trying 10 break then. Consider the
case of the country OF Judah
Prophets had been warning that
country, its leaders and its people,
for years. that disohedience would
bring disaster Ezekiel. whose book
makes fascinating though often
puzNing reading. did make one
thing quite plain. that Judah's sins
had reached the breaking point,
that Gods axe veuld fall. that
Jerusalem would be destroyed
Scarcely any one believed him
But when jerusalem actually and
finally fell, then they knew that
prophet had been among them .
Crime and Punishment
What were some 81 the divine
laws, rooted in the nature Of things
which Judah as = nation had been
breaking We can name the two
most important: Love and Justice.
The nation lived BY hate, fear,
distrust and selfshness As ma
ton. they hated other nations
They tried 10 build little iron
curtain around themselves They
would not trust other nations ard
they would not keep treaties they
had made themselves They let
down their moral standards 70 the
point where the typical Judah-ite
! Ito Judge from the pictures the
prophets paint was loose in his
relations with wor3en undepend
( able and dishonest IN his business
/ dealings. irreliglous even In his
/ religious acts, irresponsible in
1 his civic duties you car I'll
out the discouraging litt'fror2 the
/ pages Of Ezekiel or other pfoph
cts You cannot buid good eoun-
/ try with bad citizens, tina, is an
/ other Law that cansot be broken,
I though Judah tried hard enough to
I break IT, When disaster finally
I struck, the citizens were sston-
t i.hed; but God s prophets we're rot
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