Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-30
NEW IDEAS OF LOVE.
Rev. John Whitehead Explains
Noman's Mission in This Life.
A PASTORS LIBERAL VIEW OF.SIN.
The Williamsburg 7. NJ. c. A.. Celebrstes'1t Its
Second Anniversary.
PRESBYTERY MEETS HERE TOMORROW

Rev. John Whitehead gave the second
sermon of the course on Marriage" at the
New Church. Isabella and Sandusky streets,
Allegheny. He said: s'The Word of the
Lord is given to teach us of spiritual things;
and to convey these to us it contains spir-
itual sense within literal sense, The first
chapter of Genesis, in the spiritual sense,
treats Of the new creation, or the regenera-
tion of man, showing how from natural he
is made spiritual The second chapter
treats of his intelligence and wisdom. The
Garden of Eden, with its trees, etc, repre-
sents that intelligence and wisdom. Refer
ring to his first discourse, he said that man
was created male and female, the male be-
ing born to become intellectual, or form
of the understanding, and the female TO be-
come voluntary, or a form of the WILL
From the exercise of his love of knowing,
understanding and growing wise, he &C.
quires knowledge, intelligence and wisdom.
He also has a corresponding natural love
which is the love of acquiring wealth, pos
sessions, etc, in the world. When he has
acquired these, secondary love is formed,
which is the love of HE owa wisdom, or, in
other words, the pride of his own inte'li-
gence, ans or the natural plane the pride
of wealth and possessions.
Secret of woman's Mission.
This secondary love, as it exists in the
man, is an evil love, because it partakes in
great measure of the love of self and the
world, and it has in it PRIDE conceit, con-
tempt of others, ard many other evils. If
man remains in this love it will destroy his
spiritual life, and therefore the Lord pro-
vides for its removal from the man, which
removal is meant by the words: Jehovah
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the
man, and he slept, and He took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
And Jehovah God built the rib which He
took from the man into a woman.
MANS love of his own wisdom is called
rib, for this love in man has little or no
spiritsl life; it is like dry bone: but
woman is formed by the Lord to be the love
of the mans wisdom, ard in her this love
is vivifed or made alive by the Lord. 1t is
no longer in her selfish love, full of con-
ceit, pride and unlovely qualities in gen.
sral: but it is transformed into everything
that is of feminine loveliness, beauty and
grace.
Transmission of Gods Love.
"The Lords love is love of those who are
out of Himself He is entirely unselfsh.
Man, 10 be an image of God, must love that
which is out of himsel. If he loves him.
self, and is in the conce;5 and pride of his
own intelligence, he destroys the image of
God in himself But the Lord, to preserve
mans integrity transfers this to the wife
and transforms its nature, for in her the
love of her husband for his manly qualities
is the true womanly feeling, and the Lord,
in true marriage, gradually forms her
into this love of her husband. The rib
taken out of the man is spiritually built
into a beautiful and lovely woman. As
woman receives intellectual thingG through
conjunction with man, so MAJ receives all
the delights and happiness of coniugal life
from the Lord througI the wife. 1t is only
by the reciprocal giving and receiving of
each others qualities that true heavenly |
union is formed and the two minds are
formed into one mind or one flesh i