The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-05


 got the better of 1t. IL is the animal and the angel coupled together. Once be- fore there was an animal and a Balaam riding him. and the animal was wiser than the rider. tLsughter.l
 In man the animal, the man, the primi- tive man. the flesh man, the man that comes up from the lower strata of animal existence. and has superinduced upon him tkose faculties ,ha; struggle to take the animal ou, of him. 10 perfect and control him, that man says: "l would do good. bu, evil is present with me. would rot, but l do. l would. but do not Oh. wre;ched man that am. who shal. deliver me from this animal death - Thank God for Jesus Christ, There will come day when there wiil be such spiritual force in the upper brain that ii will perfectly control the lower ore But see how sin comes m. Men are like what we call the lower animals: have seen men that were close relations. Laughter
 Now. it Is no sin tor wolf to kill she D. IL IS no sin for fox 10 steal goese-i may oe his misfortune fl he is caugt,. Laughter lie was made to do lsi sach things. Selfishness Is ;he method of his existence. He has bu, a very .ex fields, ranging in I very marrow sphere. and he must die If he don't. His beily k his god, and il tells him every day: Go ou, and kill something and eal r. or will klll you laughter: and he has Q do II.
 Now, when you rise by successive un- fol iias, into the higher existence of the if.srAT ...e tn h.. .,i.a dient to the spiritu Il elements in him. but they retain their old strength. and they become sinful. They were not sinful Tn the lower state. Before men came into the h gher state. pride. selhshness. murder would Lave been sinlessness bur. being clothed with higher powers. they have become mere slaves and servants cireum- sri5ed, working IT accordance with be- nevolenee. and ptrty. and love: and there IS where sin comes m. On that sore every man who liyes is sinner Every man here knows tha, fl sin Is the conflict between the spiritual man dcvel- oped in us by Christ Jesus, and the flesh man ,ha, we bear up | on below, every man 3efe knows that II k dlseord Do we np' kaog that man ; evening rebakes his morning e.ery day He says II will go forth to-day. and n my business l won 5e selfish 2" ana n the evening: :" My hed have been all day selfish. Me so forth intending to De leu.en,. and we came back with sno,;cd brow and f.asprd hands s-~e have been cruel We go iosth disinieres;ed and pure in the morning. and Ill tae evening We say.
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 The testimony ol sinfaleess les with every nl..n who loails at he ftets. and there Is .he orsiu of l. There is the theory oi explanation.
 Wei. l,ok ai the question oi oonver- on. A.en have doubted II; ihough, there wasn't any just foundation for con- version, 50 far IS the scripture was con cerned. They say: "Oh. man Is good eneash. 1r some are" The word oi tfad says: Except Il man be con yer ed, and become as little child, he i shall not see the kingdom of heaven; by winch is meant that he shall not rise | into tht; state or kingdom in which the l 'noral feelings constitute the life and joy. !, The whole presence of God is in the ! higher moral sphere. l, IS no; with refer ! ence io future state. but simply with i reference 10 a moral condition here now. [
 Now, we say that a man must be con- verted that Is to say. that children have ! 10 be converted at home. before you can get along with them. They naturally l want the biggest apple, the best place 1 They envy each other" he has go, a bigger piece of cake than l have got" snd every child has 10 be taught equity. generosity. preferring others rather than | themselves. and with multiplied instruc- tons anu some applie atoms. Laughter i When men go ou, into lite and come un- der such general conception of wha; | they are. what they ought to be. and are filled with power of the god Nature, iin- 1 minent and universal. they declare war | against selhshness and all vasilar su- l premacy, and begin 10 walk according 10 the spirit: those men are converted. ! do not think when man is first con- | verted he Is a perfect animal. either. 1 When ! set out flower in the spring, it l Is no, perfect {; it has got to grow. The | converted n an has got to run through all the stages of unfolding. until he comes to | the highest possible forms of experience | that this world can allow But the great | doctrine of the possibility of conversion. and of the need of it-that Is to say, the ! suppressions of the vasllar man by the | ruling power of the spiritual man-that IS significant definition of conversion | according 10 the Darwinian theory of | evolutionary philosophy and it is genu- inc one. There is christianity perfectly consistent with evolutionary theories, and | indeed a great advantage is gained in | their authority and in their compre- hensibility but do not perceive that the theory of evolution touches churches i at all Certainly ii does not touch the l great ethical teachings of churches. Do | you know that all the racket in the world l among the churches has been a quar- rel about things they did not understand at all-not one. of them? When men got up into the infinite. which they knew no more about than beetle-bug knows about me, then they got strong, and got to swinging their cohorts about the field of geology and then they got to damn ing each other about various things, amony uhirh v,as shA do<tr,n> .>C ,ha r.