The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-04-06
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
This is Explained b. DR.. Brick
man to be the knowledge that
Jesus Christ is the ORly God.
Nashville American


Jesus Christ is the 0Rly God
Nashville American.
| At the service Of the New Church
Sunday morning, Rev. Dr. Brick
man preached on the text: "The
kingdom Of heaven is like unto a
merchantmen seeking goodly pearls
who, when he had found a pearl OF
great price, went and sold all that
he had and bought it." Matt. xiii.
45-l6.O
Before the sermon, which was an
exposition of the spiritual sense of
the text, Mr. Brickman gave a short,
succinct explanation of the teach
ings Of the New Church concerning
Jesus Christ, which are that He is
Jehovah, the only true God-not
one Of three-but the Father, Je-
hovah. That the words ,'holy thing"
with which His coming was an
nounced by the angels, meant sane
tuary or tent, so that Lord dwelt
among men in a sanctuary or tent,
which was His humanity. He said
that the New Church ideas We're
different from those of other church
es, in that they (the orthodox
chrches) looked upon Christ as one
of three Gods, and that He made a
sacrifice to the wrath of God for the
sins of man. The Bible did not
teach US to pray to the Father for
Christ's sake. The words of the
Greek had been so translated, but a
proper translation would read that
God forgave us sins, not for Christ's
sake, but in Christ, for Jehovah
"God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto himself"
Coming to the text, the speaker
said the merchantmen in the text
represented the soul, which deals in
spiritual truths, to which natural
pearls correspond, for its own spirit
ual profit and for good to others
The pearl Of great price, represen-
ted under the figure Of the text, was
the knowledge and love Of the Lord
Jesus Christ as the true and only |
God.
As natural pearls were found at |
the bottom of the ocean and must !
be searched for and secured by eff |
fort, sOsthis great pearl Of spiritual |
truth must be searched for in the |
depths Of Gods word, which was
the spiritual ocean. As the natural |
ocean contained fish and other ami
mate objects, so this spiritual ocean
truths Of great value.
There were in the ocean fish which
swan on the surface of the water
representing truths of the word Of
God which were contained in the
sense of the letter, but the pearl of
great price-a true knowledge Of
he Lord Jesus Christ as God Of
Heaven and earth-Was only to be
ound by those who searched, that
S, who lived the life taught by the
Lord. It was thus and only thus
hat these glorious truths were made
,ur own. A true merchantmen was
me who honestly dealt with his
A true spiritual mer-
;hantman was that soul, that under
he influence Of love to the Lord,
lsed the precious pearls of truth
ound in the word of God for the
good Of others.
In every way, Mr.. Brickman
howed that the natural pearl cor
to spiritual truth, and
hat the priceless pearl correspond
d to the grand truth Of the Bible,
hat there is but one God and He
he Lord Jesus Christ.
AS the pearl under the microscope
displayed innumerable little shields
every color of the rain
,oW, so all truths, to which the
hields correspond, are conferred in
knowledge of the Lord. And us
he merchant sold all he had and
purchased the gems Of great price
which he found, 50 man must give
I'D all false doctrines of the Lord,
uch as that he was angry with the
world and needed to be appeased
before he could love and pardon
nan-and accept in his life this true
md sweet doctrine that the loving,
,entle, sweet Jesus was our Father,
savior and only God. Indeed, like
he oyster when brought out and
eft in the sun dies away, leaving
he pearl deposited in the shell, so
ii false doctrines passed away from
he mind of man when he came I'm
Ter the light of the spiritual sense
# Gods word.