Christianity And Morality : Or, the Correspondence of the Gospel With the Moral Nature of Man
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May we not say that a power which, in individuals and in the world at large, "makes for righteousness," must be a righteous power ; and a righteous power, or a power which acts ■ righteously, must in some sense or other be a Person who exercises towards us acts of will, love, and reason.' If a man admits the sense of Right and Wrong, and the existence of righteous government, but denies that this involves the personality of the governing force,. .302 WITNESS OP CONSCIENCE [lect. -all we have to... ask of him is to observe with more thoroughness the operation of this righteous influence ; and when an objector insists that the personification by the Jews of " an eternal power which makes for righteousness " was a mere instance of the anthropo- morphic tendency of mankind, we have again only to -ask him to observe more closely the operation of that power as described by the Jews themselves. He is quite right as far as he goes ; but he does not go far chough. The people of Israel had a still more deep and penetrating apprehension of that righteous influ- ence than even he claims for them.
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