Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-24

unity evolved from the idea of a Personal
God, in whom and by whom all things
consist, and that vague, intangible and
| ever-shifting philosophy that diduHes its
/ divinity into an indefinite and necessarily
indehnable omnipresent principlef
Still we have no reproaches for those
who have chosen this Idea of God, rsth-
or than the worship of three Gods of op-
posite and conflicting attributes. For
when men are asked to worship
ONE DIVINE PERSON
who Is angry with them, and another who
| so loves them as to die for them, and en-
other vino is simply the executive agent
of the other two divine persons, the re-
/ action from such an unreasonable theOlo-
Ry would naturally be extreme soepH
| clsm as to ell that the Bible is made to
teach by tri-personslist teachers.
But here, in stunning Scilla, our spirit
uslist friends have fallen into Ohsrybdis
for nature-worship Is not the only refuge
from tri-personal theology. He whom
all the hosts of heaven adore Ia One, and
we repeat that without the Lord as q
light, mans reason Is out upon starless
ocean of unexplored uncertainties. That
reason that formed and arranged ali
things Is the only reason that can guide
our reason into an understanding of all
things. All who have attempted to rea-
son without the Lord as a teacher have
relspsed inio the infant PHILOSOPHERS that
preceded the Christian church. Thus do
th5steps of this kind of rationRlism stake
hold.on hell. With their eyes thus turned
away from Christ, /" the wandering spirits
who represent the,
ANTIoHRIsTIAN MOVEMENT
of the invisible world rush upon them
and hurry them out into the great deep of
shoreless scspticism. By these spirits
their homes are haunted; their intellects
obeessed, as well as their bodies, by the
Ohrist-reviling legions of the pit. Their
companions, or spirit-sssociates, are the
crucifers OF our Lord, whose prayer is
still, "his blood be on US and our chill
dTen." How fearful the responsibility of
those who lay open the human mind to
the invasions of this demoniscsl host"
Better, far better for them hsd they never
been born.
Here let me quote from one who has
passed from orthodoxy to infidelity,
through modern EpirituRlism, and found
no resting place until he was led TO accept
the Bible as explained by Swedenborg.
"Msny of u.s." he says, "have passed
through the beWildering mszes Of modern
spiritualism or Pantheism, which pre-
sented at first the grand ideal of q con-
summste philosophy-aph philosophy which |
seemsd to come as the new Savior to a
lost humanity, but which, when the veil |
was uILeOt eX0lDlJeQ nauRnJ out spl9n-
did illusions grand phantssmsgoria, |
prcj into the brain from the lower |
world. When the delusiOn was dissipsted, |
and We beheld tho utter bsrrenness of our |
souls, then 1t was thst we felt the need CT |
some dear One who could I'LL US with his |
love, and enlighten US with his wisdom, |
and speak to US in the gentle tones of 6 /
fathers sympathy. At such sn hour there |
Is but One who can satisfy the soul
THAT ONE Is THE GOLDMAN,
our infinite elder brother, Jesus Christ
our Savior.
He who realizes this presence within the /
heart, Is being made receptive of divine /
element, which Is to draw his soul into /
oneness with God. He is beginning to /
breathe that pure atmosphere which holds /
man in his orbit of love to the Lord, and |
which, when received, makes heaven on /
earth to his soul. This union of the /
with the divine-nsture, this
action and reaction of the love
of the Infinite Father with his child, this
is religion, and nothing else will fill the |
OF an immortal soul.
Till God in human flesh see,
My thoughts no comfort find.
But If Emanuel's face appear,
Ny hope, my 10Y begins.
His name forbids my slavish fear,
his power removes my sin.