Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-31
TINE DoorRIsn,s PHILOSOPHY.
The Rev. u. Hcber Ncvvton,s Second
Sermon on thc Incarnation.

The nev. u. Hcber Nevton,s second
Sermon cn thc Incarnation.
New York Times, January eth.
The Rev. Il. Heber Newton preached
the second Of bis series Of sermons yes
terday on the Incarnation Mt ALI Souls
Church. The subject of the discourse
was "The Philosophy Of the Incarna-
ton" Mr.. Newton said: "If the doc.
trine of the Incarnation be philosophy
we cannot hope to translate tho speech
Of metaphysics into Language under
stood by the people without mental
effort. No most orthodox Christian
scholar Inns ever 30 far misread the
Nicene Greed as TO imagine that tho
very and absolu.s God, the First Cause,
the Father OF all things, was incarnated
In Jesus of Nazareth. By the very term
used, Of Jesus, the Son Of God, scholars
have known there was expressed some
distinction in the Deity, whereby tho
| God who was 10 Christ WINS 10 be con-
oeived as secondary or derivativo God.
MEN have conceived God as o being
dwelling apart from nature. This was
tho prevalent view Of the Divine Being
throughout antiquity, as II has continued
the prevalent view Of God through all
later history. How then, under such
conception OF God, were mon to under
stand the creation Of the universe, and
the proyidentisl government OF God
Plainly by the very natural method of
bridging this gulf between God and
nature, God and man, by succession of
intermediary beings, q hierarchy OF
divine creatures, touching man aud Ms
ture on the one hand and reaching mp TO
God on the other. Az the head OF this
hierarchy was placed being 10 near to
God that He might bs described as God,
and yet creature; the aIchangel OF the
Jews, the word of the hidden wisdom Of
Israel, ths angel Mes4ish OF the Per-
SLAMS, the world -fashioner OF Rnosticism,
the aIchetypal man of philosophy, the
Son of God, and the logos Of thcosophy.
Wherever we come across descriptions OF
the Divine Son, Of the Father, the Word,
az though He were being outside Of
man and nature, bringing down from the
heavens to earth the messages of God, we
are feoe to face with this conception.
ibis line Of development issued in the
theory known as AriAniam, which placed
at the head of this hierarchy OF div,nities
Son Of God, begotten and not made,
begotten eternally, spontaneously, and
necessarily, and not by an act OF will,
NhpOsNthhto ~ hAD EhbhNft NV hlhihuH
tho very Identical substance Of the abso-
luie God, but possessing only similar
Substance. This conception as presented
by Arius failed to solve the problem, and
was rejected by the church.
"Onr New Testament yields the samo
thought of God which was given forth by
Hiudus and by Grecians. This is the
thought to which Foenoe, nnder the
Ruioauco of reyerent imagination, IL
leading tho modern world-the vision in
which the universe Is for US growing
alive with the movements Of the indwell
ing spirit, and man himself IL becoming
Shekipah where the Holy One Is
shrined. This conception of the Divine
Being leaves no gu'f TO be spAnned he
tween the Creator and the creation, be-
tween Col and man. Man grows
Luminous with the indwelling spirit, bis !
body becomes temple, and
"'Qhe Parian mind
Admits thee to the perfect riind,'
"ihs universe, indeed, manifosta God
through oil Its laws revealing the inhnite
and eternal mind; but that initiate
and eternal mind hes depths unfAthom.
able by human thought, even after II
c0mpasses the utmost knowledge Of
nature and of man. Thus man fashions
q dOubls thought OF Cos; God ia IFS
eAgo1tial nature, tho absolute the tr3n.
seondsnt, iuoomprehensible Being. and
God entering into the relationships of
creation, dwelling in the universe, reveal
ing Himself through His works. When
once the validity Of this natural action Of
the human mind Is realized the philoso-
ply Of the Incarnation opens upon US.
God is at once the ground and spring OF
all hal NEl Nal ~ Il
secondary deriyative Being, of whom
universe, then, il thought OF
God, thrown outward and become thing,
yet ut heart always a thought, an image
OF the father, whose son ii ia. Man. also,
IL thought OF God, thrown outward and
bscome reflection of God, an image of
the father whose son he Ia. The universe
was thought ont in the divine mind be-
fore any individual part thereof was
evolved; man was thought before indi-
vidusl man came into existence. This
image OF the absolute GOD In the uni
VERGE, In man, ia not somewhat thrown
out from God and separate from him, but
ia rather to be conceived as constant
forth putting from the mind OF God.
ITO mon themselves who are In earnest
after goodness 1t was seen ages before our
day that the power revealed in nature
and in man is u power making for
righteousness, ON energy streaming forth
the processes of evolution, q purpose Of
progress toward even higher forms of
being. Let there come man who bodies
the finest human dreams Of personal
goodness and nantes them with the
lustre OF exquisite bsauty, so that all
hearts who see sigh to be like him, and
around him the mystic musings OF oen-
turtles will orystallize. He will be identi-
fed with the Divine Reason, the Logos
speaking forth the mind and will of God"
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