The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-16


80, / would have told you. | 60 to prepare place
for you. And if 20 and prepare place for you,
will come again and receive you unto myself, that
where an there ye may be alse." It's evident
from these words, that Jesus meant to return from
the heavens again, and by his menusa Of many
mansions, showed that there are many a1dsrent de-
grees of glory to be awarded to those who believe
in the Lord Jesus and there are different degrees
of light placed in the armament, of which the sum-
moon, and stars are figure, SO there are different
degrees of reward for those who worship the Lord
in spirit and in truth; and no matter Of what de-
nomination a man may be, whether Catholic, Pro-
testant, Presbyterian, or any other, he shall see
the glory Of God, if he believeth the Lord Jesus
Christ. " Ye believe in God, believe ye also in
in spirit and in truth God made man in his
own image, when he created Adam and breathed
into him living soul; but man is not now what he
was when he came from the hands Of his maker; he
has become degenerate and corrupt. The question
who are acquainted with the holy scriptures will
declare that it the sin Of dsobedience that thus
defled him. Do we not read tina. death is the
wages Of sin, and that sin entered into Adam and
brought forth its fruits Have not disease, crime,
and death descended on all the children of men
even unto this day But how did sin enter into
the world that God created so fair and beautiful
the existence Of the Deity, but no one that ever
acknowledged there was God, ever declared they
hated him. Lucfer hated and rebelled against
God before the creation Of man. According to the
prophet Isaiah, his ambition led him to say, " will
sit in the congregation of the Most High" We READ
in the scriptures that Lucifer, with many angels,
cast do wn from Heaven, before the foundation
Of the world began; as in the 2Sth chapter Of
Ezekiel, God said to the prince of Tyrus, "Be-
thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said,
/ am God, | sit in the seat of Cod in the
midst Of the seas, will bring thee down to the
pits" and in the l4th chapter of Isaiah the Lord
says, slow ant thou fallen from Heaven, oh, Luci-
fer, son Of the morning; the worm il spread under
thee and the worms cover thee; thou shalt be
brought down to he'll TO the sides Of the pit" When
God created man he said, "Let Us Chat is of the
i rinity) create man in our own image, after our
likeness" SO God created man in his own image
in the image of God created he him, and he placed
him in the Garden of Eden and said, Be fruitful.
and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue
it. Now, this was before the rib was taken from
Adam; before the woman was created; 50 that it is
evident that man and woman was perfect in the
first, before the rib was taken from the side
OF Adam to create an helpmeet foz him. Mark TIE
difference of the words: when God created Adam
he said let rs make man in our own image, but
when he made woman he ssid-It is not good that
man should be alone; will make an help meet for
him; and the Lord God caused deep sleep to
tall upon Adam, and he took one OF his ribs and
made thereof woman. When Adam and Eve
were placed in the Garden of Eden, they were
Ignorant Of the sin Of falsehood or disobedience,
and knew not of the existence Of evil spirit; but
the evil spirt entered into the serpent, and he be-
guiled the woman. He spoke to her in the form of
the serpent, and said to her. Yea hath God said 70
shall not eat Of every tree Of the Garden; and she
answered, may eat Of the fruit Of the trees Of
the garden, but Of the fruit Of the tree which is in
the midst Of the garden, God hath said, ye
shal not eat of lest ye de- and the serpent said
unto the woman, aye shall not surely die, for God
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof that your
eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as God know
ing coed and evil" And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and pleasant to
the eyes, she took Of the fruit thereof and did eat
and gave also unts her husband. and he did eat
Now, when Lucifer first tempted Eve, she reasoned
with him against the sin, and was overcome by
force of argument; but the man remembered
not that God had said, {" Ye shall not eat
there of" and when the woman offered the
fruit to him, he took it and did eat, and
it was not until they had both eaten that their
eyes were opened, that is, the eyes of their
ur der tanding, and they saw that they had cast
from them all that God had given them. Their in
that they naked, and hid them Selves but they
were to be called before the tribunal Of God,
and Adam, with all the assum pton be could mus
ter, lays the charge on his Maker, saying, "The
woman whom thou gavest to be with me gave me
Of the tree and did eat" Instead of falling on his
knees in suppcaten and sorrow OF heart for his sin
he throws the charge on God and on the woman;
but the woman did not do this; she took all the
fault to herself and the serpent saying only, "The
serpent beguiled me and did eat" Then was the
Lords anger kindled against that rebeious spirit
already thrust from Heaven, who thus, in the form
the Lord God said unto the serpent, "Becsuse
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all
cattle and above every beast of the field, upon thy
belly shalt thoa 90, and dust shalt thou eat all
redemption held out to the man, but the Lord said
Cursed Is the ground for thy sske-in sorrow shalt
thou eat Of it all the days Of thy life in the sweat
Of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return
49, 10 1..s Al l-.a
shalt thou return" But unto the woman, he said
y viii greatly multiply thy sorrow thy desire
shall be TO thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee" And the promise was to the woman, for the
Z veen thee and the woman, between thy seed and
her seed it shall bruse thy head and thou shalt
bruse his heel" When Eve bore her first born,
she said-"I have gotten man from the Lord -
but 1t was not until the four thous aodth year that
the voman's seed--Jesus Of Nazareth, who was
called the King Of Glory-entered the world, and
took upon himself the Likeness Of man. For thirty
three years and upwards he walked upon the earth,
doing good, and was subject to principaliues and
powers, yet he was known BY the evil spirit TO be
the promised seed Of the woman which was to bruse
his head. Forty days did the spirit tempt him in
the Wilderness and 1t was BY his entering into Judas
lscartot that Christ was betrayed and cruc6od. The
devils also, who had entered into the man who
abode IN the tombs, recognized Jesus rs the son
Of God, and they cried out TO him, What have
We 70 do with thee Jesus, thou Of Cod art thou
they besought him; and that he would not com nand
them to 60 out into the deep and be suffered them
20 enter INTO herd Of swine and the man who
had been possessed OF the devils, was found Sit ting
at the feet Of Jesus, clothed, and in bic right mind
ohn the apostle, recognized Jesus, tho Of God,
at the river Jordan, when the Spirit of Gsd de-
scended upon him, and abode upon him. Jesus
died to redeem kind on Calvsry's cross; bat,
though he was buried, his boey saw no corrupticn,
neither was bone broken; bat he arose again on the
third day, and ascended into Heaven-6eing seen
Of many after his resurrection. When Adam fell,
III men fell but when Christ arose from the dead,
All men vhs believed in him and are dead, shall rise
gain. Christ said to the Jews, "In my fathers
house there are many mansions. ! 20 70 prepare
place for you, that where au ye may be also"
hrist s the second lam, but wnere lie the second
I've Jesus said, elf go away, ] shall send
another spirit" We are now drawing near the
lose OF the third dispensation In the frs',
sposh was taken up into Heaven without sui-
ering natural death, but the fullaess Of God was
lot Ia him In the second, Elijah was caught up
INTO heaven, but the fulness Of God not in him;
tut in the third, God sent his only son and He, in