The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08

ute.
What an exhibition of love, Q
condescension, of mercy is here
The great God bows himself an,
comes down, and links the apostate
race to himself by sharing in thei
nature, "For verify he took not Oh
him the nature of angels but b
took on him the seed of Abraham
But on the hypothesis of the Unita
rians of our time, that he was moth
ing but 9 man, there is no meaning
no granduer' in such passages; in
deed, it is the grandest nonsense t.
talk of the pre-existent riches O
one who had no existence before hi
birth any more than You or I had
What nonsense we have in sucl
passages as these. "For ye know tn.
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who
thought he was rich yet for oul
sekes became pc or," if he never ex.
isted till he was bonn of the Virgin
Mary? And should we adopt the
Unitarian view and allow thai
Christ was pre-existent being, but
in no proper sense God, there was
no essential condescension. What
condescension for an angel or any
superhuman creature to come
down to earth, suffer and do the
will of his Creator and then be en-.
throned at the right hand OF God
Most High, and reign over the
universe
But God incarnated in the person
of Jesus, that thus we may know
him and learn to love him. andsthat
thus he may bless us! What could
more fill the soul with wonderi My
dear friends as we go over this SUBJ
ject, how evident it is that God is
full. What pains does he take to
win US back to his embrace. His
Hottest work in fact, that wherein
he transends, our human conceptions
is that in which he is engaged to
save u.s. Creation is a mystery, the
universe is a great deep, but the
deepest deep, says one, in all the
abyss Of Gods majesty and conde-
scension is here.
What think we of Christi This
Is the question around which the
battle RACES. His Divinity is the
strong background on which his
Gospel rests. 1t is the Malakoff
which the enemy is most earnest to
carry, for as this shall stand or fall
so will it be with essential Christ
anity. do not much wo-der that
those who began their career with
its rejection are fast falling away
from every thing that looks like
gospel. When Theo. Parker deliv-
cred his discourse on, "The Tran
sient and Permanent in Christianity
in which he assailed all that was
supernatural in the Gospels, and
dealt with the character of Jesus
with something of the brusqueness
of the great constable who, sent to
arrest Louis XVI. sat in the coach
with the captive king eating oran-
ges and tossing the peel in the
kings free, the great mass of the
Unitarians seemed Mortified. Now
they seem to be filling the land
with little Theodores. DR.. Chan
nong's great discourse on "The
Miracles" 1 am satisfied would find
as little favor among the great bulk
of them as would a sermon from
Nehemiah Adams on the vicarious
Atoneme t. They have cut their
moorings and are drifting to a issue
not distant nor uncertain.
And let no one be startled at this
If you have watched the reports of
the radical clubs formed within the
bosom of that denomination you
can have no difficulty in determin-
ing whittier the current flows. DR..
Hedge, one of the ablest men with
in their ranks, and he is scholar
and thinker Of the very first en-
minence, recently stated in substance
as follows: 81 formerly thought
Christianity one of the historic re-
ligions of the race and the best. I
now think this a mistake, Buddhism
is equal, even superior. Mr.. Dali
some years since was sent out by
this body as a missionary to the
Indies,tO convert the heather, theon-
ly missionary they ever sent across
thedim sea. We are informed that in
stead of converting the heather they
have converted him, for he has re-
nounced christianity and surreud-
cred himself up formally to the
religion and manners of the Bra
minis.
Well this does not surprise me-
When I give up my faith in the di-
vine Savior, when I accept the the
cries of such men Strau and Renau
who treat the account of the miracu.
Ious. conception, the traasfiguratioE
and the Savior's resurrection and as.
cension as so many myths, when
deny all that is supernatural in the
gospel, and put its great founder on
level with the founders of other
religions, then shall not be able tt
say what next. Pantheism or bald
deism, or which?
We do well kind friends to take
warning, and at no time, IS it seems
to me, does the warning of thu
apostle come more appropriately
and timely than now, Beware lest
any man spoil you through philoso
ply and'vain deceit, after the rudi
ments of the world and not aftel
Christ. Let Us, o let us with NAL
ice toward none, but with charity
toward all contend earnestly for tn
| faith once delivered to the saints
and let MS never forget that tn
chief corner stone Of that faith is tn
doctrine of the Saviors Suprem
Divinity. This held and all is &c
cure; this surrendered and tn
whole STRUCTURE will begin to shak
and soon fall.
i NorE.-I believe in the Father
the Son and the Holy Ghost, Q
three distinct Persons; but be
lieve that above our knowledg
there is a point Of coincidence an
unity between them. What 1t is
dc not know. That is the unreveal
ed part. The revealed part Is ths
the Divine nature stands forth {
us as separate, individual Father
separate individual Son,-and sepa
rote individual Spirit; and that i
THE vast recess of the being Of Goo