The Law Is Holy and Just and Good.
By Mrs. E. J. Hildom
WHO can doubt this? Who would wish his family to disregard every precept of the law of God in their lives? Who would wish his neighbors to transgress these precepts continually? How could there be any order or safety in society except they were observed? Well, if no one would wish all of them transgressed around him, why ignore any one of them? Each one is a part of the whole. If one can be set aside, so may all of them. One is just as sacred as another! Why not? "By the law is the knowledge of sin." The commandment was given "that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful." Some assume the right to mutilate the law of God because it crosses their practise. Has not some other one as much authority to take out another precept which crosses his practise? and some one else, another? until nothing would remain of this standard of right that is even recognized by civil authority. This would let the whole social structure fall in ruin around us, and what would be the result?—Chaos which no person could endure! Let man beware how he destroys the protection which the Creator has erected over his head.