Smyrna times., 1884-10-22
Sermon by Rev. II. II. Haynes.

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Rev. T. H. Haynes, of Newark, Del.
recent pastor of the NJ. +. Church. in
this town, preached to his former con-
gregatiOn here last Sunday morning.
The words of his text are found in the
first chapter of Romans, the twentieth
verse - the invisible things of
him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood bv the
things that are made" The whole dis
course Of fifty-five minutes duration
was profound and scholarly in thought
and dictiOn, full of interest, and
traught with tendency to lift the
auditor to plane of spiritual thought
and feeling. Tho strong and beautiful
argument tended to show Christ as the
creation and embodiment of spiritual
humanity" There are grades of posi-
ton in the angelic as there was in the
earthly creation, the seraphim, cheru-
bin, the angels and the archangels.
and higher still, the summit of creative
genius was displayed in the creation of
the preexistent spiritual humanity in
which the second person in the Trinity
enshrined himself and became the yis-
ible Jehovah and the angels were re-
quired to worship him. Lucifer. who
up TO this time stood at the head, declines
to worship him, gathers a multitude of
followers among the angels and there
follows the war in heaven, the result of
which was the overthrow and subiuga.
ton of the rebel Lucifer, who falls
from his former high position, falls as
lightning from heaven and becomes
the Prince of darkness and the ruler of
all evil. But his downfall is not i'm
mediate; after the conflict in heaven he
gradually loses place and power and
the veneratiOn of the angels.-God
converses with him Frequently and ap-
points him to certain duties, as for ex-
ample the case of the temptation of
job, until the rebelliOus archangel.
Jealous Of the position and power of
Christ, approaches him during his in
carnatiOn on earth and strives by his
tempting Wiles to overthrow the Son
OF God. Then he entirely loses place
and the respect of heaven and becomes
complete outcast and the enemy of
souls. This pTe-eGistent spiritual hu-
mainly in which the second person
ruled himself as a new existence in the
spiritual world, standing before us, we
could see properly in the language
" Let us make man in our image as
there was an appearance there, that
our physical humanity resembled.
And man was created like God. like
unto Christ, the highest of all created
beings, to have dominion over all the
things of the earth.
IL is said, Thou didst make him a
little lower than the angels and didst
crown him with glory and honor"
There IS fault in the translation here,
brought from the ancient tongue; it
should have read, little lower than
God, or lacking but little of God.
Man then is a wonderful. a noble. q
glorious being, higher than the cheru-
Dim, the seraphim, the angels and the
archangels, next to God and the Son,
who is equal with God. Thus man is
God-like being capable of celestial
power and celestial actions, the supe-
rlor Of LucifeP even in his pristine
glory, and his superior now as the
areh-enemy of all that is glorious and
heavenly. Man can over come Satan,
need not fear him, he can successfully
resist him; Satan unresisted is very
mighty, but met by resistance, faith
and prayer he is weak and powerless.
We would like to give a much fuller
synopsis of the sermon if we had space.
1t was much enjoyed by the large con-
gregatiOn, and will be remembered
with pleasure and profit.
AZ night he delivered a lecture on
What | think Of Ingersoll, and why /
thlnk OF him as / do.n 1t was care
lqlly written and Q scholarly dissec-
hon OF the loose and illogical premises
OF the blatant infidel, and while dis.
course Of much force of thought was
not OF so pleasing a character to the
audience as an exposition Of q great
sseriptural truth, as was the case In
the morning.