Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-18

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Inc third period dates from the unihoa-
ton OF the tribes into nation. The process
OF lntegration through which the tribes con-
solidated into monarchy was as natural as
Athe masking OF England" Samuel was the
king-maker OF Israel. 1t is significant that
coincident, with this political development
was fresh religious development. The
prophets arose at this time. They were far
from what we think OF by this name in the
latter period, but still they made real adj
vance. The period of the monarchy down
TO the age OF the great prophets was the slow
ripening OF the remarkable life which burst
forth in these noble men. They constitute
the next great epoch. We feel new re-
ligion in them. They set themselves against
the popular religions of their day, and we
may judge how low, how material, how I'M
ethical 1t was BY their denunciations. In
them the thought OF the divine power has
become wholly ethical. Isaiah cries: 10
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nuts the onsstion of RELIGION. "WbarawitbaI
sbaIl I snnear b.fore God2n He sno.
yeats The spswer. d;ffsrant worsbins m ade
and gives the true answer: aHe hath
showed thee. O man. what il good.
and what doth tho Ior3 rsou;re of ,bee
Init 70 do ;ustlv 10 love merry aud ~
wall bumblv With nv Go59r Tbs ethical
imnulse of The nronbsts sbows Itself str;k.
inelv in their sociaIistic attitude. -They
were men of the peopIe. They voiced the
lcry of the poor against the encroa ebmepts of
new and great wealth. The old. simpIe So
ciety of Israel was going through the usual
process and individnaiism was takino the
place of the communal rights. Land was
being aepclosed.n mouonolies were growing
up, poverty was deepening. The prophets
appealed to the corporate conscience of
Israel and pleaded for eocial iustice-broth-
erhood. The prophets soughtto embody the
new life on institutions, and hence the re-
mark able movement which / pictured last
Sunday in describing Deuteronomy. 1t is
interesting 10 trace the development of the
propneuc Ideas through the successive
Tins Jeremisb ;nd;v;dn sl;xss rsl;oion and
spiritualizss II His IDEAL ;s the law writ.
len in the heart
SoichENEp BY EXILE.
/ The next great epoch is the exile-Israel
transported to the midst OF venerable, a
hisniy developed civilization. Its mind Is
quickened. New ideas sprout. 1t begins to
question the beginning OF things. 1t draws
from Inc Old Semitic stock the legends and
myths Oh creation, and reads them into
theistlc and ethical translation. Contact
with great peoples, especially when of high
and pure religion like the Persians, makes
Them realize the unity OF the human race.
Jehovah becomes God-one living lord OF
earth. Religion becomes monotheistic.
Ethical life Is deepened, partly by their SUI
1erings and partly by the influence OF the
Persian ethical religion. In consequence,
while the individuality OF religion is de-
veloping the hope OF Immortality arises.
The priestly movement crystalizes in the
exile. Men learned in these lands the power
of highly organized system and the priest
hood of Israel was elaborated into a HER
archy. The legislation of Israel was now
codiied, its history rewritten, and the Penta-
touch took its present shape.
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AiNo ToA ihh NEW LIFE
Ihe restoration opens the hnal period OF
Israel. IL was not vacuity. There was a
wonderful development OF thought, but no
longer pfopneuc;. II was now the era OF
pnnosoPoy IN rehgion; here belong the
wliti1gs Oh 'ns Oio Testament. Contact
WIN S!feclan ana Egyptian thought through
the olsperslon developed lsraefs specula-
The o.h; 49, IN sn;e;, was III. We" J".pS is
the temoje Torsb;n was sn;ritn aI;zsJ W.
see how much so. in the rich growth of
sacred poetry. az the temple bymnaI-i e
onr PssIter We see IL also in the institution
of The Jewish ameet;nobonssn or svnsaoars
wherein Sabbath bv Sabbath the sons II
men were taught from the law and The
prophets and trained 10 spiritual aud ethi.
cal worship. 1t is period of Growth nm 10
the last, though at the last the signs of
death chow themselves as the tassels wilt
and wither when the corn is ripe, Then
comes the Christ,
Christianity is 10 be studied in the New
Testament as the issue OF this long travail.
The gospels studied critically reveal the
real Christ, most sure historical parsonage
whose essential form is IS clear as that OF
Cesar. The gospels, too. are an evolution
a growth-from which we have the winnowed
wheat. Sitting these still further we get ia
the threefold tradition the certain Christ.