The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-03-01
COOKS LECTURES.
THEODORE PARKER ON
THE GUILT OF SIN.
Additional Errors in Parker's Theolo-
gy-The Penalties of Sin-Its Warp
ing Effect on Mans Character Self
Propagating Power in Sin.

The Boston Advertiser, in introducing
the following lecture by the Rev. Joseph
Cook, says:
At high noon on Monday, fremont
Temple was packed to suffUcation and
oceI flowing although 5000 people werr
IN the Tabernacle at the same hour. The
Temple audience consisted chiefly o;
men. and was of distinguished quality
containing hundreds OF persons well
known in the learned professions. Wen
dell Phillips, Edward Everett Hale
Bronson, Alcott, and many other citizen
Of eminence, sat on the platform. No
better proof OF the character OF the au
dience could have been desired TO show
that Mr.. Cooks popularity as n lecturer
is not confined 10 the evangelical demon
nations. Shortly before IL o'clock, the
Rev. Mr.. Deming stated that perhaps
some had entered the hall under the i'm
preston that Messrs. Moody and Sankey
were TO hold a meeting there, and that
any such could leave before the lecture
began. Not ten persons left the house
The lecture was one OF the most incisive.
epigrammatic and eloquent of the whole
course, and was frequently interrupted
by applause.
THE LECTURE
When Charles TX of France was i'm
portuned to kill Coligny, he for a long
time refused to do so publicly or secret
ly, but at last be gave way and consented
in these memorable words: "Assas .inatr
Admiral Coligny. but leave not a Hugu-.
not alive in France to reproach me-"
So came the massacre of St Bartholo
new. When the soul resolves to assassi
nate some holy motive; when the spirit
determines TO kill, in the inner realm
Admiral Coligny, it, too, delays for a
while, and when it gives way usually
says: "Assassinate this accuser of mine
but leave not an accuser OF mine, but
leave not an accusing accomplice OF his
in all my kingdom to reproach me-" So
comes the massacre of the desire to be
holy.
Emerson quotes the Welsh Triad as
saying: God himself can not procurr
good for the wicked" Julius Muller.
Dorner Rothe, Schleirmacher, no less
than Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. assert
that in the nature OF things there can be
no blessedness without holiness. Confu
cius said Heaven means principleT' But
what if a soul permanently loses piinci-
pie? 81 vis f,tyeTe Dec fttgs ad Deum. is
| the Latin proVerb. lf wish to fee from
cape from God, and can two walk tOgeth-
er unless they are agreed? Surely there
are few certainties in religion, or sever
al points clear TO exact ethical science in
| relation to the natural conditions OF the
peace es the soul.
1t is plainly possible that a man may
lose, not all subsidiary, but all predomi
nant desire TO be holy.
IL he does lose that it remains scien.
tiically certain that even omnipotence
and omniscience can not force upon such
"A character, blessedness There can b.
no blessedness without holiness; and
there can be no holiness without a su-
preme love Of what God loves, and a su
preme hate Of what God hates. IL is pos
sible that q man may so dissarrange his
nature as to fall into a permanent loss ol
the predomint desire to be holy.
Theodore Parker, as his biographers
admit, must be called a great reader rath
er than great scholar. But, De Wette,
his German master, although most OF his
works have ceased to be authorities in
Biblical research, ought to have prevent.
ed Theodore Parker from asserting that
the Founder OF Christianity did not teach
that there may be permanent loss OF a
predominant desire to be holy. Theo
dore Parker himself ought to have pre-
vented himself from that assertion. In
his earlier career he held that our Lord
did teach a possibility OF the lapse oI
some forever and forever from the su
preme love OF what God loves. ami the
supreme hate ol what God hates. lie
thought that the New Testament, p op
erly interpreted does contain in il 9