His noblest actions taste no sweeter praise
Than that which conscience to itself conveys;
Nor on his crimes can punishment be laid
Worse than inflicts a conscience disobeyed.
Virtue calls, and, easy of access,
Spreads smooth the road that leads to happiness;
Mountains may crumble, Etna fall away,
True virtue only suffers no decay. *
To find out how radically anti-biblical, or how essentially Pagan are our civil and political institutions, compare the following from the American Constitution with the Asiatic teaching of the Apostle Paul:
The Constitution teaches: St. Paul teaches:
That all political power is Let every soul be subject
inherent in the people, and unto the higher powers. For
all free governments are there is no power but of God :
founded on their authority, the powers that be are or-
and instituted for their ben- dained of God. Whosoever
efit; and that they have at therefore resisteth the power,
all times an undeniable and resisteth the ordinance of
indefeasible right to alter God : and they that resist
their form of government in shall receive to themselves
such manner as they may damnation.!
think expedient.