The New York herald., 1874-08-30

supnositon has ever entered IN a s .,
man, and Is high arem ee ne ns eenevolens neSoi
nature .a Q, ,rnm .nx asher % % snould be uy
views Of the sacreu writers ans ,nian, Hinu ao
the same end, that for HIS pleasure we are and
M efs tse minis Of many W. srestng question arises
hands OF TINS aa,wise '.iI-powerin and KIND bene-
rl,y In tins presens IN placed III only tempora-
!dl ny ~ ~ an,, ,, ~ imperfect state OF being; sub
ject TO vanity, ter Iptaton AND the various lbs OF
nrohem hscy Sith much confidence TO solve the
hat in This Ause in tgls calculation We think
,one car as; and thai goodness mercy and truth
Comes possibly @,s result from everything when
7, SOLUTION.
-, pleased the Divine mind to make man IN this
;, 5mporary state of oeing) little lower than Tue
angels, tnat man might thereby be crowned Win
glory and honor.
Subject TO vanity, drawn by temptations from
the pain OF rectitule, and allowed by the super
abounding grace OF his Heavenly Father to wander
rom the light In order thereby that he mignt
experience know OF himself the value OF rlght,
eousness; man became as 1t were q creator oi
knowledge. desire to speak with all Difference
and humility when ! say TO become companion
OF the great Creator. Intended so to oe as
Swallowed out in many portions OF sacred history.
we md IN Isaiah; lSl"Come now and let US rea-
"And the children OF Israel = asked coun,
sci OF God" !. Job XIV, a7-"And Saui asked
counsel OF Cod" Job, Kill, 3-"Surely would
speak with the Almighty, and desire 10 reason
with Cod"
trust have sufficiently explained my theory so
ton OF my readers to the height to which fully
believe he viii attain through the experience
viii allowed ns bv our heavenly Father. Assum-
ing such to be the case, l VIII now attempt 10
further elucidate an apparent paradox-one wnich
many very erudite writers have decided to be un-
explanable; as IL such an epithet can be allowable
when set up so many infalllble articles OF latin
and creeds we now find In the churches The
learned DR.. Williamson, OF whose views I have
somewhat avaed myself already, in ms comments
on the writings OF the Rev. Eli Ballou ID. d., upon
fCreklOWledge OF GOD, quotes TIE lOll0Wln8
He knows all that has been. all thatis.
All that viii be and all tnat might be.
And then DR.. Williamson remarks :-"That might
be the stone OF stumbling. over which the sub
is bound so to speak, in the rigid rules OF con.
struction which this idea incucates that is, that
the obligation would be imposed on the Almighty
to know and observe every act-even when in His
pleasure he might otherwise will think otherwise.
and with such text Will endeavor to advance my
theory lurtner. In the persistent endeavOr TO re-
sist even all appearance Of limitation to the at
trioutes of the Creator. His power must be ad-
mitted to be unlimited should II even TAR
transcend our finite comprehensons. The argu-
ment shadowed out in the quotations Just made
would make 1t impossible tor the Creator TO exer-
else a faculty which we finite beings are con-
stantly in the habit OF using VIZ. Ill we desire
to exercise no control or limited control over
person, where we even possess full power over
such person, we can assuredly DO so. II we desire
to close our eyes ior a more or less
comlngs OF any one within our power,
and thus during such period allowing such a
one Tree Will ana cOQCfOl carry out his
ual desires, we can assuredy do so. We must
therefore Tully admit that sucn power does not
pertain to the Godnead, ana Of course that He
can exer else 1t II He sees fit to do NV theory
is that He does see fit to DO so; tnat revelation
fully sustains such theory, and that so we should
this brief period, until, at the consummatlon OF
all things, His Will shall be all in all.
The plain aud simple narrations of Scripture
are perverted to conform to and ala IN the sus-
tanning OF certain creeds tnat many things plainly
written are seen in very false light. The ..king
af En1e, ny1nu nf hoo In
Kingdom" synonymous terms) are spoken
of as places or abodes in another state
mentator Will confirm this view: that they
simply mean the new religion which was then
being taught by Christ and His disciples. Preach
ers say that Christ came TO save the "lOst' from
further punishment eternal punishment-Ior
sins already committed, whereas .'He came TO
save His people from tner sins, or from shining,
by the precepts and example which he taught.
They preach three persons in one GOdhead,
Cling the world unto himself.o How many read
this that the endeavOr ought 10 be to cause God to
be reconciled to us sinful creatures, in
Onciied TO Him. But Pm wandering rom an at
tempted definition OF my theory.
tr0lled 6y an ali.wise, loving and powerful Crea-
tor that it was and IS His pleasure to confer on
portion OF His intelligences-man-ali liberty, tree
Will to wander from the paths OF rectltude to sin.
COUPLED WITH POSITIVE ISJUNCTI0NS TO RESIST
TEMPTATIONS TO SIN,
that thereby we may become COnquerOrs and crea-
tors ourselves, OF knowledge within ourselves,
by experience OF the value of the better way. And
that during this exercise OF our free Will our
heavenly Father. in HIS kind Providence chooses
to shade His knowledge, be unknOwlng, 10 the
prospective workings OF man, While man is re-
spOnslDly acting his own free will.
The only thing which we can possibly carry from
this state OF being TO another and future state,
over and above that which We brought here, Is the
knowledge OF good and evil which we shall more
or less have obtained through our own several eX-
periences We cannot possibly carry any further
justice must at once leave the witness stand as
soon as 1t IS made to appear that he knows nothing
OF himself. Hearing Will not be admitted as evil
dence. The witness must know by his own ex-
perience. Other descriptions or knowledge are
comparatively valueless-ergO, the immense boon
conferred on US by free will.
VIM. COVENTRY II. WADDELL.
VALHALLA, August. 1874.