Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-14

6lSnC OF men, becomes uCCerly empty ana
vain. He alone possesses true wisdom who
in the great work of life makes everything
to this higher end of his exis-
tence, and conversely, it is the supreme of
human folly to make any natural or earth
ly ends the highest object of pursuit. "He
that findeth his life shall lose it. and he
that loseth his life for my sake shall find
it,
The divinely declared order of the
natural first and then the spiritual, is i'm
portant to be kept in view to contradict
the captivating theory of evolution. The
lower order has no latent power to lift
itself into the higher. There is an evolu-
tion but it is by the power of the quick
ening spirit. The vital principle lays hold
of the organic and transforms it into tEe
living plant. The error that the inor-
ganic can by developing some latent power
bloom into the organic gives us the danger
GUS theory of humanitarianism, according
to which all higher life for man is a mere
refinement, transformation. or glori6cation
of the natural, inbOrn in his constitution,
by process of development or evolution.
In its logical consequences this tremen-
dOus root heresy makes man to be his own
God.
On the other hand, for every true devel-
opment the higher must come down into
the lower to elevate it. Jesus Christ, the
Goldman, is the prototype of all creation;
in whose image the first Adam was fash
ioned; and in His incarnation, epiphany,
resurrection and glorifcation he is the
completion of the first Adam, the end of
our humanity as it returns in the cycle of
evolution to rest eternally in the bosom of
God.
Jesus as a quiekening spirit, contrasted
with man as u living soul, possesses in
Himself, rs absolute source, the principle
of that higher supernatural life, which is
mans true destiny. In Him the spiritual
triumphed over the natural, as we'll as over
the unnatural or abnormal which had been
introduced into mans nature by sin. He
overthrow the powers of darkness and in
His ascension carried our humanity up to
the light and peace and rest of the fulness
of spiritual life in God
The new spiritual creation, of which
Jesus Christ is the central sun, shines
forth in its majesty and glory through tue
Word Of God. Commensurate with the
record of the first creation, and underlying
that record as the spiritual mystery that
underlies the natural, the glory of the new
creation emerges, SO to speak, through the
old. From the first word of Genesis to
the last in Revelation the Bible, as the
Word of God, exhibits to the eye of faith
the incoming of the kingdom of grace and
glory, pointing everywhere to its great
central luminary. As Christ glorified the
natural and raised our humanity to honor
and immortality, so His Word through the
Holy Spirit is resplendent with the light OF
the heavenly word, and life-giving in Di-
vine energy.
In conclusion the preacher held before
the graduating class Christ and His words
as the end of all seeking the Bible as the
lamp for their feet and light for their
pathway, that all knowledge might be il
lumined and verified by the heavenly wis
dom unfolding for all who seek the truth.
The sermon, of which the above is a
mere outline, was mastery exposition of
the Christological philosophy of the insti-
tuition and literal copy of it has been
prepared to be published in full in the An
nual Collegian, paper 70 be issued next
Thursday, with full repot of all the COM
mencement exercises, under enterprising
editorial direction.