Year: 1871

ceremony, all who possessed Christ's nature ware


His and all who had not His spirits were not His


Subjects. Christ is also an absolute king. Tnis @


u DOT the Wisest or best form of human


soysrnnmenS ns,,dI No man lives SO noble u hls


Just In his Judgment that would be best to invest
him with absolute power. All history proved that
departments or the government in one man was
perlous TO the liberties Of an enlightened people
well a. unfavorable to tine most


RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIAL RESOURCES


and to the highest prosperity in civil liberty intel


s anu admr oa But UmrS1 Is an a. aDsoue Kng


he sways an absolute sovereignty not only the
bodies, but the souls OF men; He demands ODE.


dience only IN word and act but in thought and
feeling. The entire loyalty OF the whole man, fr6m
the crown Of the head to the sole OF the foot is de-
panded to secure citizenship In Its highest and
DR.. Chapman then recited the vision OF Daniel,
which synbollzed four earthly kingdoms ana said
that the teaching OF that and similar Visions was
this-Whatever springs out OF the earth, though it
may assume royal shape and proportion is destined
to be defeated and destroyed by tnat which has Its
brign In heaven Gamalfel acknowledged this prin-
ciple when he told the Jewish Court TO desist from
prosecuting Christ saying to them "f this work be
pf man 1t will come to naught; but II 1t be OF God
you cannot destroy it.n Here Is a principle as
chrome OF God, upon which every lover OF humanity
and Of God may STANG amid the revolutions OF Time
and eternity. that whatever Is OF heavenly origin
will sooner or later command


THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THIS WORLD.
The governments, laws and institutions which
existed then II they possessed not the Divine ele-
ments OF endurance and perpetuity, would pass
away. The cause OF wars ana commOtiOns and the
men supposed, and were raceable to the fact that
Christ's kingdom was coming. II was unsettling
false principles and ESTABLISHING the right the fact
alter the greater fact Of their existence. II man
wished to be child OF the same FANNY with the
have his will; but he must be kind
enough TO- connne his reasoning to him:
alter the facts, and such facts were involved In
che Bible would have the best Of it In the long rum
xor they were immortal. God might seem SLOW to
US in evolving HIS plans, but He was working surely
Tor His mighty power was destined to right the
world and, In righting it, the world must OF neces
and blindness and determination to do wrong
Christ's kingdom must come sometimes with wars
ana desolailon: Tyrants do not quietly and volun-
driven by the sword Of Divine Providence. Wrong
institutions Will not easily disappear. but must be
IN TINS world that Is worth having that Is not based
upon justice.


The preacher continued to speak in this strain for
some time. and proceeded TO say, IN conclusion, that
che foundation OF Christs Kingdom was not in laws
or institutions, but In human hearts. Men were
were formed upon some fauitess model that


PEACE, PROSPERITY AND JUSTICE


would universally prevail; but no substantial pro-
heart OF the people was made right Any law that
was too far In advance OF public sentiment Of the
bty to remain a dead letter upon the statute book.
Rency to secure its own repeal from Its impractical
Hence the true field for the activities OF phIlan.
thr0plstS and Christians is the elevation ana de-
Velopment OF the mtelligencee and morality OF the
people. and then laws ana institutions would con-
form to them. If such public sentiment existed
against rum-sellIng, Sabbath breaking and other
wees, as was shown in the North In the dark days OF
the rebellion, these vices would soon be driven from
our midst with universal eXecration. The kingdom
OF God had is foundation In the heart, and worked
there transforming human nature into the Divine
established in human hearts men would then be
qualified to successfully aid In It's propagation.