The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . reprove ;Thou art also victory and lawWhen empty terrors overawe. — Wordsworth. ]HERE are times in every mans life whenhe is compelled to choose between twocourses of conduct. Beckoning to himfrom one path he sees selfish inclinationand a prudent regard for worldly good ;and from the other he hears the words,Ye ought to obey God. Peter and John were injust such a predicament when arrested at one timeand commanded not to preach or teach in the nameof Je
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . reprove ;Thou art also victory and lawWhen empty terrors overawe. — Wordsworth. ]HERE are times in every mans life whenhe is compelled to choose between twocourses of conduct. Beckoning to himfrom one path he sees selfish inclinationand a prudent regard for worldly good ;and from the other he hears the words,Ye ought to obey God. Peter and John were injust such a predicament when arrested at one timeand commanded not to preach or teach in the nameof Jesus Christ. But they said first to themselves,and then to the magistrates, We ought to obeyGod. This word ought embodied to their minds thelaw of conscience, the law of duty, and the law ofright; and the authority of these three combinedwas greater and higher than the authority of theJewish Sanhedrim, or of self-interest and worldlyprudence combined. Hence it is to be inferred thatthe voice of duty is the voice of God. And to everyone this same voice should speak, with trumpet tones,and none should close their ears to its 796 DUTY TO GOD. Once followed, duty becomes pleasure, and easy it isthen, to remember that duty is before all else in theworld—it is the voice of God not to be silenced, DUTT TO GOD. The very word signifies that which we owe to duty is made up of our dues; that which weowe, and are under solemn obligation to idea of duty within us comes from the idea ofright. It is an original instinct of our moral nature ;a sentiment divinely implanted for moral God made man in his own image and likeness, sohe incorporated into the very texture of his moralconstitution, a distinction between right and wrong;and as before said, the idea of duty is the correlativeof the idea of right. If we see anything to beright, then we have a duty to perform in regard toit; and the duty is just as real and sacred as the na-ture and existenc
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