, 1886-02-07

MIR. Beecner SAID: Inc DOCK OF hoDreWN
was designed for the Jews primarily, and
therefore all Its illustrations are national,
and since all that economy which was so
dear to the Jews is passed away, at least
from Christian consciousness, we can only
understand 1t by giving 1t an Interpretation
suited - our own experience, and to those
great moral principles which underlaid tho
Jewish economy. We know nothing about
the high priest Among the Jews no
was the most conspicuous, unlike any
other oficer-king, prince, president He
was ordained to stand between erring and
sinful men and God, not to legislate, not to
command. but as a sort of intermediator, n
channel through which human weakness
might ascend In pleadings before mercy,
and through which also might descend for
giveness and compassion Ho was chosen,
we nro told, from among men; He repre-
sented In his experience the average expert
ence OF common men; He had therefore
compassion with them; upon the ignorant,
upon them that are ''out of the way
irreg ular; and we are told that Jesus Christ
took His place in a more glorious manner,
and was assembled into the great invisible
to do for mankind what the pious Jews un-
derstood tho high priest did for the Jewish
religious nature And so, while this Is tho
dominant figure, it is interlaced with others
OF IA larger scope. This Is what He is in
heaven-Jesus, the great High Prlest-but
He Is tho forerunner, and as, when some
monarch approached, or somo army, or some
chanting band, or some enterprise, 1t was,
and Is, the custom to send on In advance to
make preparation and announce and TO pro-
vide; and so Christ has gone into tho
invisible a. tho forerunner OF the
human race.
He ever liveth to make intercession." An
advocate, one who pleads. What is He
pleading fort / do not know. / know the
result that He expects from tho intercession.
Tho whole occupation OF the Savior in tho
other land Is not to be measured by our earth
ly economies except by way OF suggestion;
not by way Of limitation and accuracy;
but by way Of a help to our Imagination,
picking out some single element most favor
able, and giving TO that scope and power,
and 1t may be said that Christ's inter cession
simply Is His forerunning and advocacy,
and intercession is doing everything In tho
invisible world that is necessary to bring
men out OF the visible world up there. What
ever it Is l don t know. know very little
about the state of affairs up there; but l
know that there Is ono there that has regard
for mankind in their earthly condition, and
What H. that Ignorant, imbecile, weak
except in wickedness-powerful in that
misled by wrong teaching, subject
TO overthrow by all sorts OF Ignorance OF
natural laws; very dim eyes, and imperfect
in their solution Of the mysteries OF provi-
dence; the whole creation on earth ''groan-
ing and Travelling in pain until now" And
the first point that l wish to make Is that
there is a great soul living for us In the in
visible world. There is one to whom ws arc
ms dear us children are dear to an earthly
parent You and l and everyone. bond and
FREQ, high and low. the human family, for
whose illumination Christ came, and
for whose welfare He departed, say
Ing: at Is expedient for you that
| go away, and go into the heavenly place"
and there assuming the whole administration
Of the invisible world In such a way that
mon shall find their way out OF tho visible
and material and into the spiritual and In
visible world. He might have called Him
self a pilot That would have I'm II one shade
Of meaning. II He had called Himself their
invisible captain, that would have In 1t an
other; but 1t is all summed up in this, What
ever is needed for the race on earth, in its
transmigration in its slow and imperfect
unfolding all that Christ is looking after
in the heavenly land
Now, there ia no relation in nature OF this
thing at all, yet It is tho truest revelation OF
the Billie. Science knows nothing about 1t,
yet science represents the best and most
complete thoughts of men in regard to Gods
administration of the material world Faith,
In the largest acceptance OF the term. Is
magnihcently more advanced than mans
senses and tho reasoning power that super
intends Thorn. shall a man live againf'
Science says. ~ know not. There Is no
evidence" II there Is, therefore, to DO any
conviction, produced by force OF reasoning,
IL must be conviction based on testimony,
not on observation, not on our experience.
| Ind IL IL inst hera that Christ COm0a in "A N
witness; II have descended from God /
know the truth"
And when he says: II know; l declare
TINT In tho realm where my Father dwells
there Is ample apartment and room for all
Of you, and shall go to prepare a place for
you, that where l nm there ye mny DO also
that Is what / call revelation All tho
Questions which tho soul would ask we can
In some degree answer through Jesus Christ
They aro answerless without Him Is there
n cradle therei Arc the infants therei Tho
couch and the cradle can learn nothing OF
themselves. What is the occupation OF the
emancipatedl Do they growl What Is
growth In a spiritI Is there locomotion, or
is the absence OF the body but to give place
to that lightning-ike rapidity by which
thought travels round and round the worldf
Can we intuit each other in that realmi Is
therc no occasion for secrotivene~sI Are we
luminousi Can men read each other rs they
read "A book Science can give ms nothing
In answer to thess questions What ars
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