Show 0 op peiwen A mound philosophical view 91 ot ibe the bevils of aber only cure care to we superficial observed vei these may seem avri synonymous terms tout but th they y are not punishment implies buffer og g inflicted by acme individual or alon on some other individual or individuals vi which punishment may maybe be just juat or unjust kuust penalty r considered apart from human enactments Is 3 tha th just a s V and unavoidable result of of we the infract natural t la Y TVS the first may do be capricious capr c owr partial al a evadable evadia e the second is unchangeable universal 41 inexorable the ot bf individuals or nations aye p the consequent OK of violat edlaw allt elther h r b by thease themselves ves or by others so 80 11 1 ingils they boig continue e t to 0 violate I 1 gods laws so long dust mey 0 continue o 4 to ps suffer uffer it 1 it be to co all 6 erdly this phase of the doctrine 41 of ernal is a necessary and self evident truth truth but bito in the oi dmary low ilow 1 hili human fiAn 1 vengeful sense god doeuf does not burti puni 4 11 if he did there gere might be ba vine some ground tor lor hope hone to escape the punishment by pl thin the punt sher this was 0 the idea aided of 09 paganism it has been the he idea of most so called allbe christians hencer presents and sacrifices to ana self mortification before th the ideal deity have been supposed to ib be in ib turning I 1 sway his hig wrath so 80 that I 1 nave felt that they could spend abl their air lives ih ift cruelle cruel lv oppression and aad vice and at a tait last fly some shrewd bargain bir ain or cozening cozening 71 1 evade t the he punishment the chev felt they ale deserved id view is a as insulting and to god as as it Is demoralizing izing to TO man hitau but when we d realize the grand truth that gd has ad constituted the unI or as the disbeliever in fa god prefers s to put out it thi the universe I 1 is so go c chati its whole sweep and ana pow power ee aln and d very essence are on the side ot of ri righteous ness that the very conditions 6 ons as sit it were of its own existence tai very laws to which all nature is subject arp rp those of unswerving justice truth and purity and that no being beingman can neglect or violate violat ethem them without suffering the consequence I 1 i e the penalty thon man reali realizes zes the sacred sacredly I 1 y imperative nece necessity deity of conforming tj gaind and with the tad will of god whether r manifested ia 14 his word or his works this is as true of coclet society as of andl are certain logical laws which govern the human organism obedience ao to which will p produce rod uce health and bampi happiness ness and d dis is obedience to which will produce disease ano and death so there are certain conditions upon which alone oan society be peaceful prosperous pe rouss and nd happy and the neglect beglen and I 1 violation of which will as inevitably produce decay and so or consequence does not depend on OB the flat of any individual intelligence however exalted but is the result of the operation of eternal and unchangeable law it is true trpe that the penalties fel following lowing the violation of moral laws are not always so 80 swiftly apparent as in the infraction of physical laws as for instance the pain caused by putting the hand in the tire flie but the effect wll will assuredly as surely follow and if the penalty be delayed even to the I 1 third and fourth generation it Is all the more terrible when ails developed in this higher sense cod does punish the wicked and reward the righteous but it is as much i a consolation to the he righteous to know that the universe Is the security for their reward as it must be or would be it they stopped to ref reflect feci a source of despair to the wicked to know that the same security stands pledged pl aged for their punishment ish ment V f thin this limit if that can be called limited which Is bon bounded only by the universe itself theres there is ample amble scope for the exercise of all that providential power so plainly manifested man to all who ikpe are nott not spiritually eliod and which has been a source of astren strength 11 and comfort and courage to the adages ai age i now the evils which afflict society today and which threaten to disrupt it are the nit natural and inevitable consequence qu 1 ice of the falso false conditions upon which it is based to say that god brings bloodshed and horrible suffer ing his children because of their neglect or refusal tp to is a gross libel upon his name and character his works and words bear evidence to th the contrary he is continually pleading with his children to take the path that leads to present peace and eternal life and happiness giness god has no pleasure in the death of the wicked Turn iye yeturu ye turn ye ahr why will ye die de the scriptures ea are ae 1 fun I bof ol 01 expressions showing UL the lor lords gifts anxiety to save his cl children fr from M misery isery and death he k knows hows the end from the beginning ginning bc lie he knows what a certain course will result in but to charge him with being the au tholof thoc of calamities which he foresees an foretells ore tells is as unreasonable as it be to hold one gae responsible rt for an explosion which he bi predicted on oil B seeing el ano another er enter a powder maga z e ith fire are in his hand anessa Un lessa essa speedy and radical change be made in the organization laws and methods of society it must be apparent to a au 4 who read aright t ane e signs i of the he times that the most tre ire mand minious ous I 1 of jimes isla A t an wish revolution will be bd but aa the battle edow bov pr for thousands of years the masses beeri been enslaved oppressed 0 and nd allardt ali ground into t the 91 e soil fro from which they mey sprang in consequence sequence e of their own ignorance aita the consolidate power of theiron their op they have been obliged to submit S amit h heretofore buethe but the increase of intelligence among them the knowl edge of their wrongs rather than what they term their rights the discoveries in relation to explosives which Ater literally gIly enable I 1 one to put a thousand to flight and the lessons of organization which they have learned are completely changing the checker board of lif life e ar aad promise to convert the oppressed into the oppressors no reflecting fi echi ting n g person will deny that much 0 of f t the h e misery of et the masses ot of mankind is ii the result of their own wn ampt improvidence bad and ab beuce 0 of healthful self control and self denial nor on the other hand band that many of the noble and wealthy among the upper classes like lord shaftesbury are deeply solicitous tor the welfare and elevation of their less faivor favored ed brethren and sisters and are doing all la in their power so far as the conditions ot of society permit to ameli ameliorate grate their condition but this dos does not and cannot alter existing con editions nor can the evils which afflict soc society abety and aad produce want and crime be eradicated in ift this way As well try to change Is a fountain of po poisonous I 1 bonous water into life giving liquid by throwing antidotes ti into the streams that now flow from it or convert the deadly into a and healthful retreat by pruning some of its outer branches mere education will not effect the needed en changes elanges anges an educated hungry man is more dangerous than a stolid and ignorant one A 4 knowledge of greek and Lat laploof loof classic literature and the various louk sciences are arc not calculated to man a man less desperate when wife andl children are for want of those necessaries which he deesso sees so abundant a around und hira him but which are so unequally distributed henry georgel george land tim tax theory even if reduced reduce Ito to practice would not prove the universal panacea for socie society tys a ills which he thinks it would commin ism on a merely economic basis has been failed many hav been abe pet schemes of real as well as pretended philanthropists for the abolition of social evils but they have all been weighed in ia the balance and found wanting 1 I 1 there is but one way mankind seem determined however to try every way except the right one no single reform in any one d department of life will be of permanent avail the axe must be laid at the root of the tree the anarchists say that is what they ard doing but they are laying the tae axe axa to the root of every tree but their own which is the personification of selfishness the very root of all others which needs to be destroyed the remedy to be effectual must be one that will bring universal peace that w will I 1 unite mankind in one universal brotherhood and turn their attention and ere energies gies from the arts ans of war and destruction and death to those of peace and conservation and this cannot be done by bayonets or dynamite by assassination or confiscation nor b by y brute torce force in ia any aay form no one nation can effect this and it is impossible to secure any universal co of nations by merely human agencies the leaders of the race will never bow to any authority less than that of god himself when tha th time cornes comes as come irwill it will that they become as little children before the lord humble themselves in intellect and heart before him and seek for that wisdom which cometh from above then and not till anen will be found the solution of all the knotty problems that now distract the wisest statesmen and disappoint the most generous philanthropists rhen chea will the race commence its upward career the true spirit of co operation will prevail th the antagonisms D iams isms of class and elas clashing bing iro interests disappear while universal universal confidence and harmony and love will fill the world with peace and prosperity if this is an impossible chi chimera naera it is only because men choose ose to make it so it if the leaders of all civilized nations would meet in thia sig spirit irit laying aside all their vain ambi ambitions tiong and sordid selfishness fis fish ness the changes could be effected with comparative ease and in a very short time happy is that people whose god is the lord lor d happy is that world whose lord and lawgiver is god 8 SALT ALT city nov 1887 |