[1] These things are done before God, who looks upon every part
of the human family as His own. How should you feel if you
were to enter the room where your child is sleeping, and
find upon it a stealthy cat, stationed at the portal of
life, and stopping its very breath? How should you feel
were you to find upon your child a vampire that had
fastened into its flesh his blood-sucking bill, and was
fast consuming its vitality? How do you feel when one of
your children tramples upon another? or when your
neighbour's children crush yours? or when ruffian violence
strikes against those whose hearts for ever carry the core
of your heart?
Judge from your own feelings how God, with His infinite
sensibility, must feel when He sees men rising up against
their fellow-men; performing gross deeds of cruelty upon
every hand, waging wars that cause blood to flow throughout
the globe; when, in short, He sees them devastating society
by every infernal mischief that their ingenuity can
invent.--_Beecher._
What shall become of the oppressor? No creature in heaven
or earth shall testify his innocency. But the sighs, cries,
and groans of undone parents, of beggared widows and
orphans, shall witness the contrary. All his money, like
hempseed, is sowed with curses; and every obligation is
written on earth with ink and blood, and in hell with blood
and fire.--_Adams,_ 1653.