New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-28
THE METROPOLITAN PULPIT.
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,r.ncd toward the world Thus specifically spiritual
NE was excluded and only natural life was received
es 70 divine law implanted within him. It not
an arbitrary law; it was law Of his creation, law Oh
s state n was n spiritual disease truly as paralysis
Ia material disease and It resulted In spiritual DEATH
"a paralysis Of the vital organs causes ply steal DEATH
me Lord did not innict the punishment OF death III
same as natural and inevitable consequence. Death
Fame because life excluded-ust as darkness comes
when you shut your eyes You how fully aud beau-
tny this doctrine exonerates the Lord from beng the
eaue of evil the executor OF its punishment when is
death The Lord did everything which infine wisdom
eoad do for mans good he made him to be q form OF
his life and its blessed recipient. Man changed TIE form
and closed the direct aud open avenues through whch
life came TO him The inevitable result ws uea.n I'M, 10
drawn by the Lord ii was excluded by man. Inc LORD
d not send death upon man Man SeaseS aS
the way to the advent OF life. The divine life brooded
over him and moved upon hm as sne se Srooas oyer p
i've. "a blind man ceases 10 see
merely a wrong act, any number OF wrong actions
It dtsordered and perverted condition OF mans
of mans spiritual nature results in sinful acts
But the effect of the sin and not the SIN ITSELF
and we can never subject in its true hight SO long
As we regard IL solely from effects We must look TO
causes from them learn the true nature OF
elects and the real distinction between good and evil
Regarding man organized spiritual form, created
by the Lord IN His own image to receive life from Him
IN it's fullest aud most perfect forms and adjusted with
lhe incest accuracy effect His purpose can see the
tu import OF many Of the terms used TO describe mans
state both before aud after his fall. Righteousness Is
the state being in right relations to the Lord In
i1niy rs want 81 unity and fitness between the giver
aud receiver. Justice fitness that state in which one
thing another In which action conforms to
principle. Injustice Is some disturbance in the accord
Of tue beings things so that they act against
hinder rather than help each other When the adj
ustmeut between and the Lord is deranged so that
spiritual light cannot How into tue spiritual eye, man
becomes blind his sight Is so deranged that he sees
every truth obscurey and in imperfect forms For the
same he deaf; he cannot hear the words
81 the Lord He becomes paralyuc; he cannot walk
IN the ways OF the Lord He is spiritually dead, be.
eanse the spiritual degree OF the mind Is closed
sgainst the Inflow OF spiritual life. The connection is
brOacn and the way barred against all direct COM
uuuicat0n with the constant source OF lie Thus the
declaration is Inevitably true, The soul that
snLeth shall ide" 1t dies III the II dies just as
me branch dies when severed from the vine. IL dies
INST the dies when cut from the body The Lord
Kill II. So all weakness all our blindness
N supOr, all our pain and sorrow, and DEATH come
rom this want OF conjunction aud Opcnness TO the re-
repti0u Of life from the Lord He does not withhold it,
We close minds against Hin. And there s no rem
edy this feeDeness and death but the REIMBURSEMENT
Of ourselves the life. and the reOpeniug OF our spirit
ua faculties 20 It's reception The Lori Is the yne and
we are branches. By abiding IN Him and only by
that, can We bear NUT