Evening journal., 1892-11-21
THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
Rev. Thomas A. King Locates
and Defines it.
BIBLE MYSTERIES EXPLAINED
The Baltimore Clergyman Explains the
RaatiOns of Material and Spiritual
Substances The Three Spiritual states
Defined and Deserlbed-The Theory OF
Hell and the Efficacy of Hades.

Deuned ana DescrlDeu-lhc lhcof@ oi
Hell and the Efficacy of Hades.
Rev. Thomas A. King. pastor Of the
New Jerusalem church, Baltimore, lee
tured last night at the New Jerusalem
church. Delaware avenue and Washing |
ton street His subject was: "rhe |
spiritual world; where it is and what II |
Is
Mr.. King said In part: "rhe love Of |
life is universal, and there is a general |
belief in its immortality. We feel that |
this life does not end all, The human |
soul is created spiritual organism. II
is formed Of the substances Of the |
spiritual world, and its Immortality |
grows out of the fact, that as an organi |
cal form of life, IL is held Ia constant |
contact with Jesus Christ, who said
Because live ye shall live also
"The spiritual world is the necessary
environment Of the soul as a spiritual
body. IL Is the grand theatre Of the
souls life, and is as real TO its inhabit-
ants as this world is TO men in the
flesh. While sdistinctI from this world
as to the substance OF which it is
composed, II is nevertheless not re-
mote from this world. The spiritual
world was created from spiritual
i
is all about us, just as the natural
world Is all about an unborn child.
The Material and Spiritual InseparabIe.
"Where there are material substances,
then, as the life of them, there are
spiritual substances. That world cir
conferences our spiritual bodies. 1t is
only 10 uninteiligence that Il is distant.
''rhe blue. beautiful sky is the material
n q 4
world does not lie in nature. IL Is dis
tinct though not far away from the nat
ural world, as mind is distinct though
not remote from matter.
"The nearness of the spiritual world is
indicated by every reference to IL In the
holy scripture; but that world cannot be
seen with natural eyes. The soul being
the real man and the outer body merely
his material garment, then the soul, as
an absolute organism, has faculties and
organs that relate it 70 the spiritual
world In the same way that our bodily
organs relate the body Of flesh TO the
natural world Ordinarily mans spirit
ual senses are closed In this life; but they
can be opened by the Lord for purposes
Of revelation: and when they are, the
\ beings and things Of the other life be-
; come distinctly visible.
Bible Mysteries Explained.
Z ''This condition and law OF mans capa.
bility OF intromission into the spiritual
world explain the supernatural elements
q Of the Bible. It's grand old prophets
= and seers heard with spiritual ears, and
: saw with spiritual eyes
= "These spiritual intromissions were fol
the communication OF divine trutl
TO men; they were exceptional. Sweden
borg, from the Lord, has explained theii
rationale; but he has done us the further
l. service of showing the evil Of seeking
r communication with the departed
through any violations Of the divine Law
?. that relates the two worlds
l. Death Mans Resurrection.
y ''The spiritual world is therefore herr
y and now. As to our souls we ar,
:, living in them, only we ar
% unconscious Of them because o
L the closed condition Of our splritua
II senses What men call death is simpl,
u she real mans release from his connec
tion with material environments. 1t Is
~ his resurrection and entrance into rea
III life in a real aud substantially organized
, world.
y ''The doctrines Of the New Jerusalem
ia church, unfolded 'as they are, from tn
q internal sense Of Gods word, point us I
=, =, a real spiritual world--to a world whor
al exist all the living prototypes of th
> beautiful things Of this world The
show us that death is not thing 90
~ dreaded-but that it is Gods crysti
~ gate of life-the passage way from tn
n valley Of shadows to the resplender
Il landscapes and sun-crowned SUBMITS {
v heavenly mountains-to the blesse
>, world where what so many Christian
er sing with their lips but deny in the
ao a theology, is a living fact;
"a. ''sweet fields beyond the swelling food
n Stand dressed in living green
~ heThreo Spiritual states.
n The spiritual world is composed
he three places heaven, ghell and hades,
all the intermediate state.
Heaven is eautiful cohntry, in q
sr. vast spiritual universe It is that pa
W, Of the spiritual world where the go'
vi live. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Gl
ne of heaven so that none can come in
lay heaven but those who love him and o.
It another. Mere admission into the pla
he called heaven is not being in heaven, al
to more than when you lead blind mi
he into sunshine you lead him into Z
light
W. AhuoN ASAfNn WIN Ao
really find IL after death. The dc
% %eSe trines Of the New Jerusalem church
sy the greatest emphasis on two thinl
19 ,9l the acknowledgement of the infinite G,
nc nc head Of Jesus Christ, and the necess
lne of the new birth in order TO live
III heaven. A mere humanitarian moral
~ IN will not save any man.
ars The Theory of Hell.
ev. "Hell is the place in the spiritual wo
Of where those live after death who VIII
in the life of the body denied the l.,
Jesus and confirmed themselves in S
d. It is the chosen home of the evil. II
ital spiritual savagism and infernal anarc
B. There is no literal fire there; but there
min wickedness which burneth as tire.
lree punishments are not divine inhicti
irs. but the inevitable outcome of their C
frs. frmations in evils of life The l.
NIX does not slay the wicked; for of then
B. is written Evil shall slay the wicked.
and "Jesus Christ sends no one to b
cted but when the evil came into the OF
life they, by their evils, judge themsel
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