The Columbus journal., 1879-01-08

TRANSLATED BYC. C.s.l

AhANSLAItO By Z. &. b.
Scolding sermons are the cheapest
of all.
To be cheated is no alamity, but
only to cheat.
No one is SO outrageously fooled
as the suspicious man.
1t is not the Soul (Which exists
also in the brute) but the Person,
that is immortal.
AT last the whole material organ
ism of the animal being becomes
excrementitious.
Our capacity of Feeling is des-
tined for eternity, as well as our
capacity of Understanding.
If Death rent asuuder personal
relations, it would be absurd 10 feel
the wish and duty of loving.
To whom this life does not appear
lofty and estimable, in MIN there
can be no true longing after the fu-
tire life.
1t is implied in perfect marriage
that the wife shall be just that as a
woman which the husband is as
man, and rice rersa.
1t is with beauty of soul i'm the
two sexes, as il is with a coin, of
which we cannot say which is finer,
the diverse or the reverse.
We cannot keep too distinctly i'm
mind, how high the consciousness
of Christ stands above that even of
his most enlightened apostles.
How often does God intervene by
a miracle in the wider sense in the
mere course of nature, by bringing
about sudden natural death!
Death is not, as is the common
opinion, the severance of Soul aud
Body altogether, but only the sew
erance of the Soul from the material
Body.
Regeneration is not perfectly ac-
complished until after death. Not
until The spiritual body has actually
come TO consummation, is Regener-
alton actually accomplished.
Pauiinism in the strict sense ap-
pears TO have been as good as ex-
clusively attached TO the person of
Paul. Not until the Reformation
did it find its proper field of activ-
ity.
1t is astounding how far the idea
OF the Kingdom of God, which in
the circle OF Jesus ideas, stands so
prominently in the foreground re-
cedes into the background in the
consciousness of his apostles.
There was not at the start a
Christianity, but only a Christ. He
had first TO be translated into a
Christianity, and this was an irk-
some and tedious task, in whose
accomplishment Paul was incom-
parably the most important person.
For the Regenerate there no long
er exists after death any further
occasion for SHINING anew: for the
outward source of fleshly as of !
selfish sin is in his case henceforth |
stopped mp, with the putting off of
the material body, the primitive
principle of both.
The bodily torments of He'll will.
it is true, not be merely SeRsuous,
but. on the other hand. they will
not be rhOliy unSensuOus, inasmuch
as the bodies of the damned have
not attained to pure and actual
spirituality. Their approximalive
spirit will be ever more and more |
dissolving into matter, and So they
will become ever more susceptible
of material pain.
II il cost the early Christians so
much TO make up their minds to
break with Judaism, this, among
other reasons, was because they felt
ii hard TO detach Christianity wholly
from the political commonwealth,
and TO base it upon an altogether
religious community upon a Church.
For without this the severance
could not be made. o: the conse-
quences of this we may well believe
men had a forcboding, even though
only an obscure foreboding.
Continued.