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TrustInJesus版 - <一年读完little bessie> chap 3
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Mamma, if a person by the name of Jones kills a person by the name of Smith
just for amusement, it's murder, isn't it, and Jones is a murderer?
Yes, my child.
And Jones is punishable for it?
Yes, my child.
Why, mamma?
Why? Because God has forbidden homicide in the Ten Commandments, and
therefore whoever kills a person commits a crime and must suffer for it.
But mamma, suppose Jones has by birth such a violent temper that he can't
control himself?
He must control himself. God requires it.
But he doesn't make his own temper, mamma, he is born with it, like the
rabbit and the tiger; and so, why should he be held responsible?
Because God says he is responsible and must control his temper.
But he can't, mamma; and so, don't you think it is God that does the killing
and is responsible, because it was He that gave him the temper which he
couldn't control?
Peace, my child! He must control it, for God requires it, and that ends the
matter. It settles it, and there is no room for argument.
(After a thoughtful pause.) It doesn't seem to me to settle it. Mamma,
murder is murder, isn't it? and whoever commits it is a murderer? That is
the plain simple fact, isn't it?
(Suspiciously.) What are you arriving at now, my child?
Mamma, when God designed Jones He could have given him a rabbit's temper if
He had wanted to, couldn't He?
Yes.
Then Jones would not kill anybody and have to be hanged?
True.
But He chose to give Jones a temper that would make him kill Smith. Why,
then, isn't He responsible?
Because He also gave Jones a Bible. The Bible gives Jones ample warning not
to commit murder; and so if Jones commits it he alone is responsible.
(Another pause.) Mamma, did God make the house-fly?
Certainly, my darling.
What for?
For some great and good purpose, and to display His power.
What is the great and good purpose, mamma?
We do not know, my child. We only know that He makes all things for a great
and good purpose. But this is too large a subject for a dear little Bessie
like you, only a trifle over three years old.
Possibly, mamma, yet it profoundly interests me. I have been reading about
the fly, in the newest science-book. In that book he is called "the most
dangerous animal and the most murderous that exists upon the earth, killing
hundreds of thousands of men, women and children every year, by distributing
deadly diseases among them." Think of it, mamma, the most fatal of all the
animals! by all odds the most murderous of all the living things created by
God. Listen to this, from the book:
Now, the house fly has a very keen scent for filth of any kind. Whenever
there is any within a hundred yards or so, the fly goes for it to smear its
mouth and all the sticky hairs of its six legs with dirt and disease germs.
A second or two suffices to gather up many thousands of these disease germs,
and then off goes the fly to the nearest kitchen or dining room. There the
fly crawls over the meat, butter, bread, cake, anything it can find in fact,
and often gets into the milk pitcher, depositing large numbers of disease
germs at every step. The house fly is as disgusting as it is dangerous.
Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants
in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and
wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum
themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's
dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter and the other food, and
many and many a painful illness and ultimate death results from this
loathsome industry. Mamma, they murder seven thousand persons in New York
City alone, every year -- people against whom they have no quarrel. To kill
without cause is murder -- nobody denies that. Mamma?
Well?
Have the flies a Bible?
Of course not.
You have said it is the Bible that makes man responsible. If God didn't give
him a Bible to circumvent the nature that He deliberately gave him, God
would be responsible. He gave the fly his murderous nature, and sent him
forth unobstructed by a Bible or any other restraint to commit murder by
wholesale. And so, therefore, God is Himself responsible. God is a murderer.
Mr. Hollister says so. Mr. Hollister says God can't make one moral law for
man and another for Himself. He says it would be laughable.
Do shut up! I wish that that tiresome Hollister was in H -- amburg! He is an
ignorant, unreasoning, illogical ass, and I have told you over and over
again to keep out of his poisonous company.
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