god’s VIEW OF EEBELLION. 13 continually directed against this monster iniquity, and let no lesser question , of personal rights, much less of policy and party, weaken my zeal or pervert my energy. If I, for any reason, philosophical, social, or political, am ready to yield to any of the demands of rebellion, while I have power to resist it, I am compounding with felony, and am myself a rebel, exposing myself to the threatened judgment of the text. And this leads to our second question. 2. What is to be the issue with the rebels f “ They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.” God is against them, and His wrath shall consume them. Temporary gains shall only make more woful their final destruction. It is not a question of North and South, of democracy and aristocracy, of Slavery and Antislavery, however much these questions may. prove concomitants; but it is a question of obedience to law and rebellion— a question raised above all human expediences and party platforms—a question not between man and man, but between God and man, and woe to him who is found fighting against God. God has given our nation the power to put down this rebellion, and He has ordered us to put it down. We must do one of two things—put it down and be God’s ministers of vengeance for this odious crime against Him, or else draw back from the appointed task, shake hands with rebellion, and thus, becoming rebels ourselves, suffer with them the fierce
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