Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-07-18

VI llltlI ulC5SlOIos anu III tillAcu anu
developed in a particular faith, and
never explore broadly the ocean OF
circumstances outside of themselves.
On the whole, the world is receiving
more truth, more of the Divine; since
the dark ages it has revolved into the
twilight, and here and there is one APP
preaching the sunbeams of the millen-
ium. What a light are these who
have more of the Divine Humanity in
the heart than tenets in the head!
What care these for non-essentials?
Don't they know that to turn from sin
to wisdom and goodness has its clean.
ly consecrated type in immersion?
They know too that the Holy Spirit,
or Divine proceeding comes, in its
sweet, blessed and holy effusion, upon
the soul like sprinkling or pouring,
at the Sacrament, and everywhere.
"Whosoever doeth the will of my Fa-
Their, (the Divine nature the same is
my mother and sister and brother.
Never look through present creeds to
''find the pure, unchanging truths. :"
Our Lord told his disciples to go into
all the world and preach the gospel to
every creature. lie gave them no by
laws. He had taught them that to
love Him "with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind, and to love thy neighbor as thy
self" comprised all the law and the
prophecies. THIS IS to be tile coming creed
for all SectS. This is more than all the
whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
This is the zone faith that is truth"
This is the faith that will yet have
complete "unity." Before this banner
everyone of the clergy and every mem
Der of the laity should now let their
personal distinction sink into insignif-
canoe. Then, as "W" states, "there
will be mighty marshaling of the
armies of the everything God to march
on for victory and glory. Then will
be seen effectively the King in His
Beauty, and the Gone altogether love-
ly" in the lives of protested christians.
| do not expect the world will be ever
all Jesuits or COngregationalists, no
more than that all will sometime see
best through the same concavity of
glasses. But it is not necessary nor
right that they should vary, as now;
and the time is coming that they will
love each other more for little minor
dissimilarities, which were designed as
means for intensifying charity and
culture. That society which preserves
the most of love to God and the neigh.
Dor and genuine reformation of life
has the most of the "Unchanging
truth" Believe in the Trinity, not as
three burlasQue heads in one union,
but of three elements in one perfect
Human person. Human we were
created in His image. His constituents
the Trinity-LOve, Wisdom, Power;
or Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Divine
within the Divine human, like the
soul or spirit within, the letter or body
of the word, and Divine proceeding
lie is everywhere. He revealed Him
self to our natural senses through the
earthly tenement of Jesus. "Whoevel
has seen Inc, has seen the Father.
Faith in Him to save us from our sins
through the voluntary cooperation OIL
our will, is the only faith that ceanses
: from sin, washes "whter than snow
He that wept over those that "stonest
the prophets and killest those thai
were sent''-wept because these would
not turn unto Ilim-Says, "COme
Whosoever will, without money, anG
without price" He only requires thai
we forsake that which would be an in
jury to our good. lie alone is truth
and goodness. Tnrning away from
His guidance inevitably brings us into
evil, and its penalty. Abhor and fes1
sin. 1t is only in the first state of re
pentance-in the beginning of true
wisdom.~that we fear the Lord. W.
can never understand Him nor love
) Film through fear. lie is love. Et
delighteth in loving kindness. Only
the Christian knows the language o
disinterested affection, and this, no
from himself at all, but wholly from
the Lord. Our rational faculties were
given us to use. We have Il right t.
apply our judgment upon ecclesiasti
cal beliefs. The devoted tenet makers
possessed more religious love than our
selves, yet their capacities were finite
, and they may not always have beer
in freedom. The spirit which proceed
eth from the Lord alone can guide in
: to all truth. In trying to gather thu
. wheat of the various creeds extant
: may we aim to live in such obedience
to the heavenly commands, that w
can see the Light of the World illum.
mating His Divine letter OF the word
and giving us the true spiritual mean
2 ing of the sacred scriptures. The In
, finite alone can give q satisfactory
5 reasonable faith, free from contradic
5 tons. May we all choose uim for oul
: faithful guide, -the Crock of age
f cleft for" ALL There is no sectarian
I ism in Him. ORLEANS.