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tAe Rev. George Henry DulepxeacAea
an esoqaett a-seoarse yesterday upoa
the following subject. APfoIsssst.oll
he Ue of the Ultimate Form q
Truth, q Way the strength Of s4n.-
son sas IA Hls Hair" Text.
'sif | BE- saorn then vi my strength
g from me aai l shall beeon.s weak
Ike other nen-''-Judges xyi. II.
The central thought embodied in the
text Is thas the higher or spiritual
truth rests upon natural truth. sclenee
has determined many facts a. T. tie
order IN Which th.nss were created.
The earth wss created before tue see-
etable Kingdom. Tha foss.feroas
ROCKS reveal that the lowest ordefs of
both animal AID vegetable kingdoms
were created first AID man crowned
the scfnalng scale. Such i the law
that rules over external f0rms aud t u
tie universal law Natural laW and
spiritual laW are tie same, and each
particular i hat lesser I0rn1 OF all
law. The universal Ia. marks an
ascent IN the individual man a il
does IA creation Ii brings forth
man hrst as an animal or a sen
sate being, then as man and
then A. an angel, which Il man reborn,
LIVING from new loves b0gn of wisdom.
Mans faculties develop and he becomes
j rational beng. He ! then ready for
a higher plane. The Lord. by cooper
ating with the natural faculties accord
ing To the law OF correspondence. de-
VelOps the spiritual faculties. Natural
I forms are necessary IN which to develop
spiritual forms and lower or ultimate
| truths hear the SAME relation O. spirit
ual truths. This relation ls expressed
/ IN our text wherein Samson represents
| the regeneratIng man and ms hair the
| ultimate truths IN winch was hls power
| and wherein is all power. Let Us make
it appear why the hair represents the
| lower form of truth. The hair IS an
excrescence of the body of
lower substance and pos
sessed Of the least life, being
practically indestructible by decay. 1t
| l. used throughout the word to express
/ the lower truth. John the Baptist was
clothed IN a garment of camePs hair.
John representing the word because
the word does spiritually what John
did naturally. His garment represents
the letter of the word relatively a
coarse garment of the delicate truths.
Ii IS written: ''The very hairs OF your
head are all numbered" The angel
seen by John chad hair like wool" F."
The Phlllstlnes represent the falsltles OF
life which regenerating man must rec
tfy. Delilah represents the affections
Tor those talsitics. Dshlah cutting oil
>;imsOn'S hair is II picture of evll alice
ions destroying lower truths, and "it
the foundations hc destroyed what can
righteousness dO?' When ultimate
truths perish the Lord must depart
When ultimate truth Is destroyed IN
man the PhIlistiucso of bis nature prevail
They put out his eyes that he may not
descern spiritual truth, lead hm away
captive and bind hlm with tetters OF
false reasoning.
The letterof the word is the ultimate
form or divine truth presented To man
mans regeneration depends upon it
lt Is the fountain head of spiritual
light. search tine scriptures for il
them We think ye have eternal life anc
they are they that testify of Me-"
Without divine truths claspcd in yes
ture of human ideas the world woulC
soon be cut off from the infinite anC
spiritual light would leave the world a
Samson was left, blind and bound IA,
talsIty to false and evil life.