The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
"caR1sTIAN
respOndence of the Progressive Farmer.

Christ affirmed that all the law and
the prophets hang (depend) upon these
two commandments:
1st. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy
4od with all thy heart, with ali thy
BuI, with all thy mind and with all
Strength"
god Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thy self"
Teaching that these two command
ments furnish the foundation upon
which his social struc ,ure must be
reared and the basic principle upon
which the Kingdom of God is op
Grated. Also, that when this system
OF government is operated, two impor
isn't events will transpire, viz al the
law of God will be understood and the
fulfllment of the prophesies be rea-
liked. "All the law" not laws con
veying distinctly to minds the i'm
preston that that there is one great
universal law, which applies to all of
Gods creation, whether of the physi-
cal, human or spiritual world. There
fore, any system of government which
will not operate harmoniously and
effectually in each of these worlds
must be rejected as not filling the o
ditions that will entitle it to accap
lance as of divine origin. All intelli
gent students of Natural Science are
impressed with the uniformity dis,
played in the physical laws, their har.
monious operation and b~enificient re
suits, still all have failed to compre.
bend the principle Qaw of operation)
which produces this phenomena. Yet
many of scientists reject the divine
inspiration of the Cd Testament and
the divinity of Christ, not because of
want Of harmony discovered in the
doctrines Of either, but because of the
want of harmony liz the dogma" put
forth by the various sects of Tneo-
logians, and the unsatisfactory results
which have attended their enforce
ment. Perhaps had they been more
charitable and less sceptical towards
Gho tenets of their fellow students in
the more difficult field of Theology,
and brought the experience derived
from the more tangible field of nature,
to assist in the exploration of spiritual
phenomena, they might have dIscov-
cred the principle upon which all
science is based, because it ia revealed
through the Lord and Christ and by
him alone, to whom be ali the honor,
dominion and glory forever.
The Kingdom oeLGod" is-tha di
vine system of development, and the
principle upon which it is based is that
of self government" There can be
no such thing as a self government
without freedom of choice (or option
Hence, the existence of ''good and
evil"-5he Kingdom Of God and the
Kingdom of Mammon. The Kingdom
of GID is a trinity Of forces, which are
intelligence, strength and love. The
Kingdom of Mammon is likewise a
trinity of forces, which are cunning,
violence and selishness. Tue Trinity
of Good Is: God the Father (the SUI
preme law giver), God the Son (5he
supreme executive, the Kung), and
God the Holy Spirit Che supreme
judge. The Kingdom of Evil is also
q trinity of forces, which are Satan
Ghe supreme source of cunning, the
law giver-the anti father the Devil,
the supreme executive (the anti Christi,
and Nammon, the Prince of the World,
is supreme judge (5he anti-Holy Ghost).
These facts are derived from the Scrip
lures and warrant US in the assump-
ton that ''self government" is a trinity
of forces or factors which are mental,
physical ard spiritual, and as man is
created in the image and likeness of
God, we naturally reason that it is in
the possession Of these three attributes
Of divinity. And under the economy
Of the law (the Mosaic d~ispensation),
he was commanded to love the Lord
his God with all these faculties and
his neighbor rs himself, but was left to
solve the problem how to operate these
forces so as to produce that condition
Of fealty to his God and of duty to
his fellowman. This principle he failed
to comprehend, and therefore failed to
operate. In the second dispensation,
that of Christ, we have the reaffrma-
ton of those two commandments, and
in Jesus Christ the personal exemplif.
cation of the operation of this princi-
pie. And yet, up to this generation,
has failed to comprehend the sys,
tenn. Doubtless, in a great measure,
his attention has been diverted from
the consideration of this all important
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