Providence in Reference to Nations: A Lecture Delivered Before the Halifax Young Men's Christian Association, April 6th, 1858 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Providence in Reference to Nations: A Lecture Delivered Before the Halifax Young Men's Christian Association, April 6th, 1858

But Providence in the Opinion of many has reference exclu sively to individuals. Corporate bodies are proverbially skep tical. Christian men in companies have oft consented to run steamers and railway trains on the Lord's day, and yet never dreamed of opening their own shops or offices; and good men are silent when those who in 'high places are acting for them and others, are leading the nation in a course of hostility to the law of God. Responsibility is forgotten or thought to be dissipated among the million like the electric fluid, when it strikes earth or ocean and diffuses itself in ten thousand dirceo tions. Such silence is wrong. Responsibility remains. It is indeed diffused over all, and the righteous Lord will treat cor porate bodies as well as individuals, according to their deeds. If the nation exists by divine appointment and if the legitimate functions of government are ordained of God, then surely it is amenable to divine law. If Christian men forming an insu rance company or a railway company are bound in their cor porate capacity to act rightly, so are they who constitute a. Commonwealth, whether civic, provincial or national; and when we open the Bible we find in fact that nations as such are ad dressed, commanded, encouraged and threatened.

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