The Portland daily press., 1888-04-23
PULPIT AND PLATFORM.
NEW JERUSALEM TEMPLE.

The third lecture in the course of d0ctrinal
lectures in the New Jerusalem church was
delivered last evening by the Rev. Julian K.
| Smyth Of Roxbury. A very large audience
| was present.
The topic of the lecture was the "Divine
Humanity Of the Lord Jesus Christ" The
| lecturer said:
The impression is gaining ground through
| out christendon that the need of the hour is
| a full carrying out of the Golden Rule. and
| that the creed of the future must be one
founded upon true and living faith in the
Divine Humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ
as its corner stone.
And yet realize how unpopular this word
creed is to some. There is a prejudice
against it but what does it mean? 1t is
from the old Latin word credo, Il believe"
When, therefore, taking the Gospels in the
Latin,) our Lord says, Believe in God, be-
lieve also in me-" He is urging upon every
would be disciple creed.
At the first the creed Of the Christian
church was as simple as that OF this man
who found it in his heart to say, Lord l
believe" 1t was simply the credo domino
of each believing heart, belief in the
Lord Jesus Christ and His resurrection.
The Lord foresaw, doubt not, that the
church would assume various outward forms.
Where the states of men are so different, it
was not to be expected that they should be
ministered to in precisely the same way.
There is one creed that should be common to
all Christian men. 1t is the Credo Domino
of the early Christian. creed which shall
express once more faith in the Lord in His
Divine Humanity as the God of heaven
and earth, and salvation through q lie ac-
cording to the preceipts of His religion.
This is what the New Church stands Tor.
Here is the very core of our religion. These
two essentials; that the Lord in His Divine
Humanity is the God of heaven and earth,
and that salvation must be through life ac-
cording to the precepts OF His religion. In
the opening words or eur creed: 1--WE wor-
ship the One God, the Lord, the Savior, Jesus
Christ, in whom is the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit, whose Humanity is Divine"
We worship Him not as second person;
not as human example merely, but as God
manifest, "who for our salvation did come
into the world and take our nature upon
Him." That nature He glorifed and made
Divine and is the central object Of our faith
and worship.
This faith we believe to be in substantial
harmony with the faith of the primitive
church to whom the assembled Sayoir was all
in ALL The incarnation, as we view 1t, was
the assumption by the Divine OF human
nature, quite like our own. And as with US
the purpose of life is to be living the inward
and the outward into perfect harmony and
unity, so with Him there was the uniting of
the humanity with the Divinity by which
the humanity still became Divine. This the
Lord spoke of as His glorifcation. All that
we can know of the infinite perfection OF
God today, we know through His Divine
humanity.
MODERN LIFE IN BIBLE LANDS.
Rev. @. A. Dereby lectured in Williston
church last evening upon the customs and
characteristics of the Turkish people. He
spoke first Of the remarkable climate and
vegetation of the region between Constanti-
nople and Athens, where the oak, the pine.
the chestnut and the maple and the cyprus
trees flourish. Speaking of the domestic ami
mails, he said the sheep was the most econom-
ical, the wool, the flesh and the
tail all being Of use; the latter being utilized
to supply all the cooking butter of the region
and oftentimes weighing as much as the bod
les of the sheep.
He spoke of the silk industry, which is one
of the most important; of the cultivation of
the mulberry and Of the great care that must
be exercised in order that the worm shall not
be harmed
The manufacture of wine, which is still
carried on in the Bible manner Of having the
grapes trodden by men and women, was
taken up. In fact the Turkish people seem
very slow to adopt labor saving machinery,
the method of plowing taking four times as
| long as in America
Speaking further of the wine, he said that
| the prevailing use of words there was proof
positive that the wine that Christ used was
unfermented-Oiu0S, the word used in the
| original Greek testament, being the one still
| in vogue to signify wine that is not alcoholic.
| The olive oil industry was also described,
| and it was stated that the olives we use are
| not ripe if they were the color, instead OF
| being green, would be blue.
Their living is simple. They never eat
cakes or pies, but do use immense quantities
| of bread, which contains no shortening of
| any kind, and thus dyspepsia is not nation
| al disease The lecture was closely listened