The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-01

yesterday morning upon the many differ
ent metaphors by which Christ had been
known.
The world of truth" he said, has not
been understood because of the variety of
It's settings. The truth-seekers have re-
fused to see unity in variety-that noun
tain and plain, hill and valley. land and
sea are components of one sphere; that
the person of Christ in prophetic meta
Phor Is seen in great variety and yet in
unity" Continuing, Mr.. Dunlap said:
we go aside to say that this statement does
pertain to His simple teaching as well as to
nus person Truth-seekers have failed to grasp
tne condifions OF human salvation by failing to
see unity in variety. They have distinguished
between Incidental and vital, essential and non-
essential, where relation does not distinguish.
HOBBY riders discard all variety and presume
upon the infinite value of the one truth to the
excursion OF al other. Prophets of old failed to
understand their own words Il Pc. i:l0-l2), be-
cause they seemed to stand at antipodes. We
believe that with the advantage of fulfilled
prohecy we can see the truth of their words az
they could not The sure word of prophecy
rested not upon reason, by which
The seer advanced step by step
according TO the uniform law of human
tnonght, but winged bis fight by
divine guidance from one extreme of meta
pnorleal figure to another, employing objects in
ali Kingdoms of earth and sea and sky to SYM
noiize the Coming One. So far from being con-
trary TO reason, this fact is high enough above
IL TO indicate that human thought Is utterly in
capable OF inventing it, as the following in
stances will illustrate:
Jacob and John saw the Christ as lion, king
OF beasts; while Isaiah saw Him as LIANT led
70 the slaughter. Isaiah saw Him as a sucker
ana root out OF dry ground, and Solomon saw
the rose of Sharon. Isaiah saw a man
without form or com elness, with visage
marred more than any man, while
solomon saw Him in the fairest among thou
sands and altogether lovely. Another sees q
mighty warrior, with garments dyed in blood,
VIGOROUSLY sweeping onward; but Isaih sees
Him the Prince of Peace. He is seen as a twink
ing star and as the sun of righteousness, with
healing in His beams. The same thread of met
aphor runs through the New Testament as we
LOOK upon Him as the foundation, the chief
corner stone, the bread OF life, the good shep-
nerd, the sower and the way, the truth and the
Lfe The tyro only fails to see that these ex-
remes are not contradictory. we stand in the
light of this life. These are still SO many SYM
bois OF Him that are constantly telling the story
OF the Redeemer of men.
The same antipodes were seen in Him and His
oiclples were kept in doubt as they looked upon
one fact at a time. They saw Him sitting the
tempest and said this is God. They saw Him
asleep In the ship and said He is only a man.
sitting at the well of samaria, hungry, He was
a man, but feeding multitude He was God.
Weeping witt Mary and Martha He appeared
very human, but calling Lazarus to life He was
q very God. Dying upon the cross He was
weakly human, but the darkness and the earth
quake made the centurion say, surely He is the
Bon OF God. Buried in Josepas tomb He was
mortal, but rising on the third day He was I'M
mortal and King OF Death. Let US be broad
enough to see the truth in its fulluess, in its
variety and its unity. Let US see in all that is
about and above US proc,aimers of the truth
embodied in Jesus of Nazareth, whether it be
sun or star, lion or lamb, plant or flower, let
them tell US of His love-