Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-29
NICHOLAS r. KLAINE. Editor.
WHAT WE MAY EAT.

Union Church, in Dodge City, on Sunday
morning and evening, March 10Th. Hi
subject in the morning related to "The Two
Masterp," God and Mammon," and embed
led clearly expressed practical thoughts.
In the evening his subject was, "Whai
We may eat" His text was, "Thou shalt moi
eat any abominable thing, (Dsut., xiv: 81.
The speaker, in his predatory remarks
stated that all denominations Of Christians
believe that the sacred Scriptures are given
to man, BY the Lord, to instruct him con.
corning spiritual things that. nevertheless
the Scriptures abound in statements concern.
ing material things and natural events
whence arises the inquiry, why man il tc
understand them as relating to spiritual
things. and whether the Scriptures do moi
mean what they say. He declared that they
mean what they say, when rightly under
stood; bot that Gods method of talking to
man is unlike mans method in talking with
his fellow.man; that - the thoughts Of the
Supreme mind are infinite, be needs to clothe
them with finite images % . means of reach
ing the finite mind Of angel and man; that
thus fnited the angels see them in their
spiritual aspect, because they think of spir-
itual and not of material things; but that
man on earth cannot zee them unless they
are imased in material things, natural events
and representative notions, peoples and per-
sonages; therefore God SO clothes spiritual
truth, and thu, comes cut to mans external
plane Of thought, there taking hold of the
human mind, which, in its degenerate state,
looks outward and downward, and gradually
turns it and leads it to look inward and up-
ward.
He cited many instances to show that We
can have very li,ile true know edge Of the
thing, Of nature, unless we look beyond the
surface-explore their interiors, anslyze
them and test their qualities by scientific
processes. And he declared that the came is
true OF Gods verbal revelation to man; tina,
its essential truths are clothed with images
taken from nature, and hence the Scriptures
seem to be dealing with external things,
while they really treat Of spiritual things
that sustain relations to others spiritual cor
responding with the relations which the N.
terial things named Sustain 10 other material
things.
10 accordance with this Law of correspond.
ence. the Mosaic Law Of diet was given; that
in this Law Of Diet the Lord, As the thought
is in his mind, is talking Of the principles
that underlie spiritual life-the celestial and
spiritual elements that go forth from him
self to build up the humane soul and make
MP an image of himself, and the same ele
ments perverted and made destructive und.
the operation Of perverre influence, and ad.
verse determinations of the will; that angel,
understand these dietstic rules IS teaching
what rules they may appropriate, and vhal
they need to reject as baneful in their effects
in the lorna ion of character. He added
This affirmative reception and appropriation
Of spiritual truth and heavenly influence
making them ours by living in accoI danes
with them, is to the soul what the eaiins
and appropriation OF maternal food is to tn,
physical body, causing a growth of menta
stature and sffectionsl eraces; in othel
world. tina: it assimila'es the spirit of MAI
to, and makes il an image of it, Maker.
The Jewish people, in their extreme de
generscy, he said, had almost wholly los
eight Of these better elements Of chas.ctsr
end heoce, - = means OF reaching them