The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . 7SS CONSCIENCE. CONSCIENCE. Oh, Conscience ! thou tremendous powerWho dost inhabit us without our leave,And art within ourselves another self,A master self. *****How dost thou light a torch to distant deeds,Make the past present, and the future frown ;How, ever and anon, awake the soidAs with a peal of thunder to strange horrorsThrough the long, restless dream of life ? — ijOD has set up two tribunals before whichall men are, or are to be, arrai
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . 7SS CONSCIENCE. CONSCIENCE. Oh, Conscience ! thou tremendous powerWho dost inhabit us without our leave,And art within ourselves another self,A master self. *****How dost thou light a torch to distant deeds,Make the past present, and the future frown ;How, ever and anon, awake the soidAs with a peal of thunder to strange horrorsThrough the long, restless dream of life ? — ijOD has set up two tribunals before whichall men are, or are to be, arraigned fortrial and judgment; one is in the soul,and the other is in the Bible. One is thebar of conscience, and the other, the barof absolute or revealed truth. One is tem-porary and uncertain, the other, final and constitutes a kind of lower court to the other,and its decisions may be reversed in the higher, orthey may be approved, according to the facts andcircumstances of the case. There is greater abilityand more light, and a clearer exposition of law alwaysin the higher tribunal; but still, the decisions and thecondemnation of the lower court are not thereby tobe despised. For should a man be condemned inboth, as he is very liable to be if the case at first goes IS CONSCIENCE A SAFE GUIDE ? 789 against him, nothing but the mercy of God can thenhelp him. Dropping the figure, however, and speaking plainly,the human conscience, which is referred to in thesimile, is a faculty implanted within the se
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