Evening star., 1896-07-10

, of the tent. There was a hearty laugh, q
fustllade OF hand-claDs and another cheer
as Dr.. Whitman bowed bis ackn 1WledE-
merf Of tina compliment and proceeded as
, follows with his address:
The two testamaEts have q common lcey-
word. Emmanuel Its Interpretation is
Of God to dwell In the midst Of men that
men may be transformed by the ndweii-
ing. The theme appeals to us In three
phases. 1t is:
l. A method Of revelation
Man has never been left In Ignorance OF
God. Successive disclosures have been
made Of the divina character and will AS
men were able to receive It the divine pur~
pose has been spelled out. Slowly but
steadily. progress has been made in the
conception OF truth. instruments have
been many, but their use has been one.
Many forms have been followed. but the
central idea has remained the same Moses
looked to Jehovah as redeemer The latest
saint finds his faith satisfied by the same
thought. Only In the fullness and ciearness
Of the thought has there been change. The
time came Whsn the message could be
delivered in completer form. God, who
at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past by the prophets. hath
in these last days spoken unto US by His
Son. whom He hath appointed heir OF all
things. by whom also He made the worlds;
who, being the express image Of His person
and upholding all things by the word Of
His power. when He had himself purged
majesty on high: being so much better than
the angels. as He hath obtained a more
excellent name than they" Heb, 1:1-4. In
this manifestation the issue Of all reyela-
ton was made clear. Then Emmanuel was
written In the beginning Of the gospel in
token that the fellowship which God had
offered and to which he called men was
at last accomplished. Christ was but the
elimination Of revelation. Ia Him God
made of Himself personal offering, SO
that men knew that He had accepted the
lot Of their life to the. end that He might
win them to His life and so abide with
them forever. This is the theme Of sacred
" urit from Genesis to the Gospels.
II. A principle of life.
We have to consider:
l. The meeting point of the divine and
the human life.
The simplest outline of psychology will
make this clear. Man rs rartly physical
and partly spiritual. The spiritual part is
essentially the man. In the spiritual part
we find fourfold function. intellect. sensi-
btiity, desire and voHtion. In this fOur-fold
function We have not four different things
at work, but one thing working in four
different ways. Intellect is the soul know
ing, sensibility Is the soul feeling, desire
is the soul craving, voliticn is the soul
willing. The four functions are closely re-
lated. knowledge awakens responses in
feeling Of satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
Feeling passes into desire or aversion. On
the basis of desire or aversion will is de-
termined for attainment or avoidance. The
step IN the process Of Importance to US
just now Is that by which we pass from
desire to will. VIII never acts without de-
sire in the form of motive. Motive is de-
sire accepted as controlling. Unmotived
volition Is a contradiction of terms OF
course. the choice Of motive is not without
reason. 1t is no mere clamor Of impulses,
with ear given to the noisiest. 1t may be
that the impulse weakest at the outset is
found to have sanctions which authorize 1t
to take precedence of all others. Once ac-
cepted as controlling, the desire or impulse
bee ONES the motive. and will acts accord
ing to 1t.
= A new impulse impaired by the touch
of God.
One has only to regard man in his usual
condition to see what Is needed. His life Is
dominated by wrong motives. The inherit
ance into which man is born is sinful at
least In tendency. Theology easily mistakes
an inheritance Of consequence for an in
herltance Of penalty. But the simple awful
fact that faces every life Is that whether as
consequences or as penalty. IT'S Impulses
are largely evil It is beautiful to talk about
developing the soul into the kingdom, but
first we have to reckon with the stubborn
fact that until the soul comes under the.
dominion OF q new impulse 1t has no place in
the kingdom.
3. The new impulse become resnant the
source of new life.
We understand now the Importance of the
law by which an impulse may become a