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And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all; that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you. And ye shall know that I am the Lord. -EZEKIEL xx. 32, 33, 38.
A FATHER has two ways of showing his love to his child-by caressing it and by punishing it. His very anger may be a sign of his love, and ought to be. Just because he loves his child, just because the thing he longs most to see is that his child should grow up good, therefore he must be, and ought to be, angry with it when it does wrong. Therefore anger against sin is a part of God's likeness in us; and he who does not hate sin is not like God. For if sin is the worst evil-perhaps the only real evil in the world-and the end of all sin is death and misery, then to indulge people in sin is to show them the very worst of cruelty.