The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy : its nature and remedy, as based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings.

  • Jennings, Isaac, active 1847-1860.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy : its nature and remedy, as based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the first clause of the third article of their Covenant. The whole article stands thus : Art. 3. We will hold and manage our estates personally, but pledge as perfect a community of interest, as though we held a community of property. Mr. Shipherd agreed with me in the opinion that Christians should have no separate interests ; and hoped that the experi- ment which they were then making would issue in the rejec- tion of the separate interest principle from their covenant, their hearts, and their lives. They were then practicing sub- stantially on the community of goods principle. They seemed to love each other as they loved themselves, and were ready to part with any thing they had, time, service, or property, when and where necessity called for their aid. -I assured Mr. Shipherd that it was perfectly idle to think of having tho selfish principle work itself out of existence, or of its being worked out where it is made a basis of action. It is one of the fundamental pillars, and the most substantial one in Satan's kingdom ; and wherever it is admitted as a legitimate moral element, or normal constituent in the social compact, it will be sure to show the cloven foot, magnify itself and pro- duce its own fruit, lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and the pride of life, with all their accompanying abominations. Let the Canada thistle or the white daisy get well rooted in your meadow, and among the rules of husbandry by which your farmers are to be governed, make an article to the effect that these pests of grass are not to be extirpated, and you may pledge the timothy and clover as strongly'as you please, ^