The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-17


that 1.-THE more coolly and methodicaiiy we engage
in the enterprise OF getting to heaven the more
certain we are OF getting there" lie speaks 9!
heaven as II 1t were mere "business speculation''
instead OF never dying eternity, and his advice
TO people Is to undertake the journey thither
fears regarding the future, but to drive away all
voice OF conscience with the WORDS. "lf / get To
heoven, well and good; II / don't, it can't be
helped.n HEBER JOHN OLDHAM.
The Evidences OF Christianity-The
Origin OF Christfanity.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
God Is the origin OF all things Science is the
knowledge OF God, and OF all the laws He has re-
vealed In HIS words and works. Science has two
branches-one spiritual, embracing the laws OF
life and mind; the other physical, including the
laws OF motion and matter. And these are so CO.
related that 1t is impossible for man in his present
state to tell how these laws interpenetrate one
another, or where the material and spiritual forces
unite. Christianity Is the religion OF God and OF
the angels and saints In Paradise, as well
as or man on earth. 1t Is the mother OF
science, because 1t Is spiritual. IL Is q
manifestation of Gods attributes, and 1t
concentrates within itself the wisdom OF all phos.
opnies OF all that the wisest men nave worked
out as conduclng to mans greatest dignity and
happiness, without a divine revelation. Besides
this IT. also reveals all we know OF God aud or the
service He requires from His creatures, ana or
mans immortality and future eternal life
Christianity Is also a factor In creation because
creation was preparation for making man, and
man was preparation Tor the incarnation OF the
Son Of God, and In Him Tor the final revelation OF
the doctrine OF the Trinity ana OF Christianity.
God said, 'Let US make man in our image and
likeness; and His religion was revealed
IN and TO man an, simultaneously with his
received HIS life and became a living spirit
The earth was made for mans DIV ling place, his
temple TO worship God In; the mineral, vegetable
and animal Kingdoms were designed to help man to
run MS eArthy career and prepare the way for the
incarnation OF the son OF Goa, TO unite in HIM
inseparaDly, the infinite and finite, ana through
Him 10 perfect botn the world ana Christ anity.
st. John was inspired by the Holy Ghost to write
I'm the beglnaing was the Word, and the Word
was God, and all things were MADE by him. ''He
was the glory OF the only begotten OF the Father,
fuil OF grace and truth, aud we in him. vino Is
true, even IN his son Jesus Christ. This Is the
true God and eternal llier Christianity Is reye-
lation OF Gods lie and attributes lie says, al
am the LORD, me holy one, the Creator;" and
again, "Thus saith the Redeemer thy holy One.D 1t
IS system LOT conveying Gods life, likeness and
knowledge through Ills son, the Creator, ana Tor
bestowing redemption and salvation through HIS
Son the keaeeIner, by which men ana angels can
return to God the !ove obedience and worship He
demands from them for His gifts OF nle righteous
ness, security and salvation which lie has given
them through His Son. IL Is also the means Dy
which God has made known tnat sin is the greatest
evil in the universe, and also the remedy that lie
had provided TO save man nom Its consequences
the Saviour OF the world before 1t was created,
St Jonn calls dim the Lamb slain rom the l0unda
ton OF the world ana 81. Paul SAID the righteous
were chosen IN Christ before the foundation OF
the world. God ordained 1t before the world
for our glory; lie made Christ, who knew
no SIM to DE SIN ior u.s. that we might be made the
righteousness OF God In him. lie created man
holy. and taught HIM, by His son, how TO MAINTAIN
his righteousness as IL grateful return Tor HIS
gifts to him. The rites OF obedience, worship, rest
marriage and prohibition rom the tree or
knowledge, were prescribed Tor man. But he
Jailed Obedience lost his righteousness. th.a
Son Of God was promised kedeemer, to make
restitution Tor him and restore HIM to Gods favor.
through sacrifice and aith III Him TO be revealed
through the seed OF the woman, until He Should
reveal Himself IN her nature. Thus God practi-
erring children by that provision OF Saviour,
ing, by, which lie redeemed man rom
him to overcome Satan's temptations and the pro-
VISION OF better paradise than the Adam lost.
Thus sin, Oy which satan tried to destroy man,
was made to reveal more OF Gods love- mercy aud
power, because 1t helped to educate man and ur-
nlshed new means to prepare the way LOT Satans
deStructIOn ana to eXalt man TO world where
neither Satan, sin nor death can enter. Thus
physiology ana psychology are seen to be elements
are so correlated in man, and so united to God in
Christ, ana 30 undesirable In their relations in
moral and physical science, ana interaenendent
through man and matter to God. The connection
is 50 mysterious as 1t is revealed through Chris
tanity that 1t Is impossible to separate or define
their relations.
Moreover, there is q soul in creation as well as
in all the members OF the animal and vegetable
Kingdoms and it is related by that mysterious
force to God. st. Paul says, "The son OF God Is
the brightness OF the Fathers glory and npholdeth
all things by the word OF his power.u The spirit
OF God moved on the elements OF matter stimuli
taneousy, as the Son OF God said, "Let there be
lgnt' tine Hebrew "aur" means also electricity,
and the organization Of the mineral kingdom be-
gan. This makes creation and Christianity the two
revelatlon God has made OF Himself urtner
proof OF this mysterious correlation IS, that crea-
tlon ike man, who Is the crown and exponent OF
1t, mas 10 pass through process OF destruction
aud resurrection, by Cnrist's power, before
1t attains to perfection and the final
results OF creation and Christianity are accom-
plsned. ST. John had revelation from Christ,
alter His ascension to heaven, OF the resurrection,
in which, white the dead stood before Christ to be
judged, the heavens and the earth passed away
ana new heavens and earth came down from God
out OF heaven: and Christ said, Behold l make
all Things NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., XXI Prayer Is
one OF tine forces oil spiritual science. We know
not how 1t acts, any more than we know how
gIavtaIon mt aets out IKE Gravity prayer hangs
lind out how 1t reaches God influences His will.
Yet we see the union OF the TWO sciences In man
Tor all the laws OF liie mind and matter are CON-
bined In him-and the spiritual force rules In him
as God, the lnnnite Spirit, rules The forces IN IA
ture
The earth, without man, would be a desolate
world-wltnout works OF ART cities or cultivated
fields. 1t Is mans spiritual intelligence and force,
acting on his physical nature, which has made the
earth fruitful, beautiful and civilized; and 80 1t Ii
Christianity which has caused all that adorns,
Tue principle OF holiness In Christianity Is per-
feet only in Its author, and impaired to man Is his
righteousness and It's highest expression In God
SACRIFICES lor the good OF others. 'rhe Lord Is
holy IN all his works." "God 80 loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son to die for It,"
Tie origin OF Christianity, therefore, Is God, Its
object to manifest Himself to man so as TO make
Himself known and to train the race into His like
ness, 1T them fora spiritual existence and to live
with Him forever and, though ir was impaired by
the first Adams sin, the righteousness OF the sec.
ond Adam gained more Tor man shan the first
Auam lost
Finally Christianity was introduced into this
world as an exotic from heaven-a heavenly germ
and, ike all Gods creations and revelations. de-
signed to grow with the race and adapt itself to
all the changes mankind was to pass through in
its wonderful development on earth, until its
Divine Author and fnlsher appeared to unveil Its
mysteries. PSYCHOLOGIST.
Ministerial and Church Movements.
METHODIST.
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