Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-26
SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. "
A Scholarly Sermon at Fourth Street
N. E. Church Last Night
BY the Pastor, the Rev. DR.. Sooy.
A Sermon Calculated to Clear
Many Doubts From the Christians
Mind a Demonstration That
Spiritual Truths are Not Discern
ed Through Any Of the Human
Senses, But by the Spirit Of God.

Rev. DR.. SOoy pastor of the Fourth
Street NJ. b. church, addressed a large
congregation on the subject, Spiritual
Discernment, or the Discoveries Made by
the Spirit of God" It was a scholarly
sermon, clear in thought and impress
lively delivered. Not only that, but it
was sermon calculated to clear many
doubts that often perpleX many Chris
tians and cause many believers 10
stumble.
DR.. Sooy stated that il was impossible
for man to make spiritual discoveries by
the use Of Of his senses. He did not in
tend 10 deJracl from the glory of senses,
for through the avenues Of the human
senses comes some OF our grandest de-
lights for he mas given us through these
channels the perception of duty, the
perception of music, and all the other
pleasures that come to us as sense per-
ceptiOns.
We would not depreciate these, but we
Ivould say that spiritual truths are not
thus discernabie Prof. Tyndall has
propheSied that the human senses and
Faculties would catch perception thai
now seems to be totally impossible and
unaJtainable. As an example, some Of
the great developments of science were
mentioned. None of these powers or
sciences had ever been able to pentrate
spiritual truth These truths cannot be
obtained By the mind or reasoning fac
ulties.
l. Is M. q question of ,bilocOnhv or
intellect. Spiritual truths are not dis
cerned by philosophy or science, but by
spiritual discernment. His discoveries
came by revelation. When God comes to
us and conyicts, he does no. come
through our natural senses. but through
an inward consciousness which canno3
be explained or defined, but is known
by experience.
When you begin to fathOm the human
soul you will find depths that cannot be
reached. All that we can say IS that II
is one Of Gods seas. Il is not a mere
question of intellect, but an experience
of the Christian, and an experience only.
Don't stop TO reason with me about
spiritual things.
You may be able TO demonstrate to
your own satisfaction that Jesus Christ
cOult. never have existed, that he is
God and both are one, but remember
this, that when you come to look upon
Jesus as revealed in the Holy Book
and through your heart, reason becomes
chaff before the wind. Ii is not a
method Of reasoning or argument, but
Of experience
In explanation Of this thought Rev.
Sooy recalled the fact of the many &c
velopments of science which were de-
clared impossible. and after being at
tanned could not be explained, but were
known by the fact of experience.
\ sure cure fer all motern doubts was
one look at Jesus, al his head crowned
with thorns and his pierced feet. John
Bunyan's parable of Christian and
Hopeful journey.ng TO the New Jerusa-
lem was recited. They were tod that
there was no Jerusalem, but Hopeful,
turning TO Christian. said: "Remem-
Der. we saw it from Mount Clear"
When a man comes to me with inf
deity and says there IS no Christianity,
no life divine, nothing real, | say |
know better, | have experienced it in
the SOU. In the conclusion of his SER
mon. Rev. Sooy referred in deep pathos
to the millions who have denied Christ
and turned their backs on Him, have
come to Him in the last hour.