St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-15


ton OF a dead soul Is by far greater work
than the raising OF dead body. This Is IN
questionably the fact. viewing both acts
from the standpoint Of human judgment and
power. True, because the soul is
of greater value than the BODY
The jewel is Of more value than the
casket which holds H. So the building is less
valuable than the iDhabitapt. And the soul
is more valuable and precious than the BODY
which contains H. II is. therefore, q greater
work 10 raise thai which is Ct a greater value
Greater work, moreover, because the.
soul requires a greater agency To raise Il
from death, than 10 raise the body.
Jesus stood at the grave Of Lazarus. He
spoke out three words, LAZARUS come forth, -
and the dead man obeyed the living words.
A mere word OF voiition brought back the
dead BODY again 10 life. But, by far greater
agency than this was required for the raising
OF dead souls. Satisfaction was demanded
by justice and laws Of Gods moral govern
ment And mere word from even God
could not remove the sword from above the
head OF humanity. The condition and
urgency OF the case demanded blood. cit
behoOved Christ TO suffer" This was the
greater agency used in raising the souls Of
men from spiritual death. Death
and sleep are the two interchangeable
words which are ever used BY the sacred
writers to describe the sinful state of mans
/ soul Awake" says the text. dead in
| trespasses and SIM is the teaching OF
another. Asleep Fallen, OF course, from
watchfulness 20 light and sight which are the
creatures Of the day; fallen into the state OF
lethargy and sleep. Proof Of this every
where.
What this slumber Of soul does not
/ imply.
Does not imply the sleep OF the natural
propensiues. the unGwakened man is
full Of life. His human, natural
propensities are still the same. The
moral sleep Of the spiritual part
OF man does not imply the distinction Of
the activities of human procliyities and in
clinations. Rather, there are many sad eI-
amplcs in which the soul is asleep TO right
eousness, aud the propensities Of the de-
PRAYED heart have had the utmost latitude
| The soul may be inactive, slumbering; aud
the tendencies TO exclude God be in the
fullest activity.
Second-Soul slumber does not imply the
inactivity of the intellectual faculties
Every day writes the same story, with this
moral, with a thousand heroes 10 il Payne,
Voltaire, Byron, Ingerson are brilliant ex-
amples. The soul may be asleep and the
mind actively employed. No exercise by the
intellectual faculties must be taken 10 by the
spiritual life which Christ commands
Nor does this sOul-slumber imply the
slumbcr of the social nature. Things may
move around sleeping soul in about the
same way. The social life all alive, and the
soul asleep TO righteousness Beneath the
soeiability of men there Is deep sleep. A
very cordial, social nature may be in full
play, while at the same time, In the same
person, there is a slum bering soul-dead
asleep 10 all that is good and Christlike.
Moreover, natural sleep is the ordna-
ton OF God. Spiritual sleep is not Gods or
der. When you retire at night aud sleep,
you are sure that you are not only doing
what nature calls for. but that which is not
displeasing your Maker. "He giyeth His
beloved sleep" But, when nv soul slumbers
know that / am going contrary 10 my
Own nature, and am breaking the divine law,
so that by spiritual slumb Der am displeasing
God, and running counter 10 all his divine
purposes respecting me. Again, spir-
itual sleep is not means OF
refreshmeut- Natural sleep, on the contrary,
does refresh us. The less a man uses his
spiritual faculties, the less he will have to
use. You weaken the soul aud fits powers by
slumber. The desire TO awake will soon be
gone from the man who continues 10 sleep.
There is no refreshment In spiritual sleep 10
the soul. Where the analogy exists between
natural and spiritual sleep,it Is seen in the fact
that soul sleep means insensibility. 1t II
so with the man whose body is embraced in
sleep. The sinner is unconscious of his sur
roundings, OF what is 10 be done or 10 be
avoided. About every man these are facts,
terrible, solemn, actual facts, just as real as
though his Stun bering soul were awake TO
behold them. Once again the analogy
is seen, in the fact that there
is Righteousness in the sleep of the
soul. A man who sleeps lives as really to
him self as the living awakened man lives to
himself. In his dreams he lives as actually
to himself as he does when he is awake. But,
alas there is work TO be done, but he cannot
do it. To himself he lies. A man NAV
dream of the ''river Of life," and in his
dreams fairly feel the balmy breezes of
heaven soothing his fevered, care-worn
brow, but he is not by the river of life. No
man stops amid the business and push of
life to say our dreams are real AS in dreams
so in moral sleep. The sleeper dreams Of
his safety. There is no danger to him. He
thinks he is awake when he is asleep. There
is great deal of fiction about the life and
thoughts of the unconVerted man.
Sleep has also its ransitoriness. You
- AfrAN1 NHNA
comes / will awake"
In everyday life there is time for sleep to
begin and time when the days labor be-
gins. All we may sleep on, but we know
there comes a time When We shall awake
Your soul may hnger in sleep, but know you,
there is one Of two mornings which will
awaken the spirit from its slumbers, and
bring before us eacn the solemn realities OF
our destiny. Either one morning or the
other will bring the rushing, thoughtless
crowd TO its senses, and awaken our con
sciousness.
The first morning is that on which the soul
shall see the bright visions OF its Saviour,
and feel the joys Of pardoned sins; the
morning upon which the Son Of Righteous
ness shall arrive with healing in His beams,
giving health and bloom to the soul; and the
second morning is when the trump of God
shall sound, and its blasts awaken the sleep
ing soul II your soul has not been awak-
ened by the glories Of the first morning, IT
will not fail 10 be awakened by the thunders
Of Gods wrath and the sound of the judy
ment trump on the second Obi may God
awaken US to the joys and duties Of the first.
Saltwater Notes.
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