The Spirit of God stirreth in every man to move his sluggish nature that it may rise

toward heaven. Materialism merges the man into his accidents. Pantheism drowns him
in the All. Deism hides him in vastness. Ultramontanism smothers him in the Church.
Caesarism makes the State all, the individual nothing. Christ rescues the one from being
lost in the many, and cries aloud, “It is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of
these little ones should perish.” …
We should take every opportunity of warning men that, if ever they trifle with the
interest and destinies of their brother man, God will call them to account at his bar. The
voice of Abel’s blood cried unto God from the ground. If a neglected, mutilated, slain
body of any one, however obscure, was found in Israel’s fields, they were responsible to
the God of nations for inquiry and for expiation.
No on is at liberty to cry, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” When he maketh inquisition
for blood, he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. And terrible beyond all power of
expression, will the shame and dismay, at the bar of God, of those who have trifled with
human interest, and who go into eternity laden with the guild of their brothers’ blood!

The Pulpit Commentary, Deuteronomy p. 340, Deuteronomy 21:1-9, (C. Clemance)

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Trifling with Destinies

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