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ishment is more absolute than chastening, result- 

 ing from disobedience to parents. But, however, 

 given a clear case, and allowing justice to take 

 its course, the results of violated law are usually 

 administered. The lessons to be learned from 

 civil government are forceful as far as the penal- 

 ties are founded upon righteousness, and compre- 

 hend the motive from which action springs, as 

 well as the object toward which violence is directed. 

 The sphere of civil government is limited. It 

 pretends to deal, not so much with motives, as 

 with fact. 



"Earthly courts and judges look at the trans- 

 gression of law, with reference to man's temporal 

 relations, not his eternal. Thev punish an of- 

 fence as a crime against the state, not as a sin 

 against God. Neither do they look into the 

 human heart, and estimate crime in its absolute 

 and intrinsic nature, as does the Searcher of 

 Hearts and the Omniscient Judge. 



A human tribunal punishes maiming, we will 

 say, with six months imprisonment, because it 

 does not take into consideratien either the mali- 

 cious and wicked anger that prompts the maim- 

 ing, or the dishonor done to the Supreme being 

 by the transgression of his commandment.'' Dr. 

 Sliced. (Endless Punishment.) 



Says Paley (Moral Philosophy) ''Human laws 

 omit many duties, such as piety to God, bounty 



