Nevada County picayune., 1889-09-04

moral world, the carnal and the spiritual, those who SOW to the flesh and those who SOW to the spirit. The trial in the garden resulted in placing man under the dominion of his lower nature. By obedience to the law he could have established the supremacy of the spiritual, and thereby secured the blessings of eternal life. But in the untrammeled exercise of the moral agency with which he was invested, he chose to disobey the law, and thereby brought death into the world with all our woe.' - The Gospel is the expression of the effort which God is making to restore man to the spirit ual plane from which he had fallen, and to reinvest him with the attri- butes and prerogatives of everlasting life. Says the great Apostle of the Gentiles, on this llne, and in conlir- nation of this view, ''If ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye, through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live; - showing that death and life are the logical results of these opposite states of living. Death and life are antipodal or antithetical in their relations. As life means conscious existence, so death means a cessation of conscious existence. The higher life, or the life of the spirit, consists ill the subjection of the animal nature to the requirements of the divine law; or rather this is the process by which it's attainment is secured.
 After the resurrection and the general judgment, the righteous will be provided with spiritual bodies, which will be of such fine texture, and so thoroughly in sympathy with the soul, that there will be no longer any need of bringing it's appetites and passions under the control of the higher nature; for each of these natures will then be responsive to the feelings and sentiments of the other, and the utmost harmony and concord will characterize the ever lasting unlon which will then be consummated. But in the present state there is perpetual warfare between the flesh and the spirit, between the body and the soul on account of which the Christian sol dicr should put on the whole armor of God, that he may subdue his sin ful appetites and propensities, and keep his body in subjection to the laws of the spiritual world.
 This warfare between the flesh and the spirit is universal, so far as this world is concerned the differ cnce between Christians and sinners is, that the former are constantly engaged in the struggle to maintain the supremacy of the spiritual nature, while the latter are willing slaves to the bondage of the carnal or ieshy nature. There may be spasmodic efforts on the part of sinners to throw off this bondage, arising from worldly motives, or considerations of health or fortune; but there is no systematic. conscientious effort to put the animal or lower nature under the dominion and control of the higher or spiritual nature. This marks the essential difference be- tween the Christian and the sinner. The one lives after the flesh, takes his portion in this life; while the other lives after the spirit, and has refer ence to things that are unseen and eternal.
 Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; because stright is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be which find it" The multitude throng the road of ease, sensuality and selfshness and only a small band pursue the way of self-denial and cross bearing. Why is this? Does not God throw many obstacles across the way of the wicked, and urge him to seek the narrow path of virtue: Does not the Bible, and conscience, and the Holy Spirit, and all nature around, plead elo- quently with him to abandon the dark and deceptive ways of sin: Why will men seek death in the error of their life: These questions can only be answered in the words of our Savior: "Men love darkness rather than life because their deeds are evil,
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