throw drifts of dead fishes upon the shore.  But, fortunately for man, this love has never been perverted in the lower orders of creation.  Each kind loves its own kind, and seeks its propagation.  But man has fallen from this love, the love of his fellowman, into a state of feeling in some respects the very opposite, which is hate.  Let the history of the world but unfold her page, and the truth of what I have just said will appear in lines written with human blood.  It is from this, and this alone, that human laws have been instituted.  It is self-preservation.  This is the one single origin and basis of all human law.  What protects me from the wrath or cupidity of those who would destroy or devour me, protects you; and inasmuch as all desire such protection, human governments, and laws with fearful penalties annexed, have been instituted.  Right here, in a civil and social sense, the words of my text apply with profound meaning:  “For none of us liveth to himself.”  They apply to every statute in every national code, as well as to every local law in every land.

But human laws restrain by fear, and God would have all restraint from evil to spring from love.  The gulf between these two principles is immeasurably wide and deep, quite as much so as the chasm between heaven and hell.  I said:  Human laws restrain by fear.  Why does the heart murderer not kill?  He is afraid that if he kills me, and it is found out on him, somebody else will kill him who feels himself in as much danger from his bloody hand as I was.  Why does the heart-rogue not steal?  He is afraid his booty may not balance what it may cost in the way of punishment.  So with all criminality.  With those who have not the love of God in their hearts, nor the love of their neighbor which springs out of this love, nothing but fear restrains them from the worst of crimes.  But this is a very unhappy state to be in, because all fear hath torment.  Human beings can never be happy in their social relations, when the fear and dread of each other is the governing principle in their lives.  The heart of man was originally created for the exercise of love, for perfect love, which knows no fear.  All the happiness and peace of heaven spring out of love made perfect.

  “There love springs pure and unrepressed;
    There all are loved, and love again: 
  Love warms each angel’s glowing breast: 
    Love fills each shining saintly train.”

Fear, with its long and varied list of torments, primarily springs from a sense of guilt.  We have a clear example in proof of this in the third chapter of Genesis.  Immediately after the fall Adam is represented as saying to the Lord:  “I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, and I hid myself.”  Now, Adam had heard that voice before; it was the voice of love; but, oh! how changed!  The voice itself was not changed; but the ear that heard, and the eye that saw, and the heart that felt its power, these, these were changed.  Ever since