It is the law of this earth, the law
of human kind, that the innocent often suffer for other's faults,
just as you see them doing in cholera, fever, ague, smallpox, and
other diseases which man can prevent if he chooses to take the
trouble. There it is. We cannot alter it. Those who will may call
God unjust for it. Let them first see, whether He is not only most
just, but most merciful in making the world so, and no other way. I
do not merely mean that whatever God does must be right. That is
true, but it is a poor way of getting over the difficulty. God has
taught us what is right and wrong, and He will be judged by His own
rules. As Abraham said to Him when Sodom was to be destroyed: "That
be far from Thee, to punish the righteous with the wicked. Shall not
the Judge of all the earth do right?" Abraham knew what was right,
and he expected God not to break that law of right. And we may
expect the same of God. And I may be able, I hope, in my sermon next
Sunday, to show you that in this matter God does break the law of
right. Nevertheless, in the meantime, this is His way of dealing
with men. When Sodom was destroyed He brought righteous Lot out of
it. But Sodom was destroyed, and in it many a little infant who had
never known sin.
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