The Iniquity

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Excerpt from The Iniquity: A Sermon Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday Dec, 11, 1859Will men never choose to discriminate between the treatment of this subject politically and the treatment of it ethically? Which latter is all the pulpit claims aright to do. Will they never cease to assume, that, because it has become involved with party politics, it has therefore passed from the province of the reli gions teacher, and that all treatment of it by him, however strictly on his own ground, is entitled to the epithet of political preaching? I undertake to say that there never was a more senseless assump tion put forth in all Christendom, one more to be resisted, if need were, to the very death, than that the pulpit, standing as the Visible exponent of God's truth and law, should have nothing to say in reference to the fact that millions of human beings, in the na tion in which it stands, are forcefully deprived of their natural rights, and crushed beneath the heel of a law less oppression, should have no words of pity for the helpless victims of the wrong, none of rebuke for the authors and abettors of it, that the pulpit should have none! Standing in the name of Him whose commandment is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, expanded from its Hebrew limitations into Love one another as I have loved you, made thus, as well he called it, a new commandment, alike in the breadth and depth of its meaning. Consider its meaning, - the breadth of it, that ye love one another. The Jew loved his own, those of his own lineage, people, brotherhood, church.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.