The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-14

sweetened by the addition of this meal.
that salvation does indeed depend upon
our trust in God. but that an evil man
can no more trust in God than a bramble
can produce oranges. There must be a
willingness to hear and obey the Lord, CIV
ing up ones sins, and in this soil alone can
The doctrine that we are saved by the
blood of the Christ Is sweetened by the ad-
dition of this rational truth, that 1t is
not the blood of a dead man. but of the
living Savior. not the blood OF the body
that hung on the cross, but the blood OF
that glorious body which rose from the
tomb that washes away sins. And this.
the life blood of our giorihed redeemer, is
divine truth as His body is divine good.
Except we eat my flesh and drink my
blood We have no life in your We eat His.
flesh when we are nourished by His good
ness and we drink His blood when we re-
ceive and are built up by His own truth.
"Of course men cannot accept the word
OF God as infallible so long as they look
stories of cruel, unsparing warfare waged
in the name of Jehovah They say that IL
not worthy our love and worship, and there
seems to be but two alternatives-either 10
reject the whole book or to reject parts of
1t. So we find Christian teachers rearrang-
ing the book, accepting this. rejecting that.
rearranging the chapters, for example, or
Isaiah, and placing them in a better order
men who, III they knew what they were
doing, would as soon have thought of dis
secting the body of our Lord to find where.
In His divinity lay. or course men cannot
accept the infallibility. and pure divinity or
the word when they look for 1T on the
surface.
History is not in itself divine. nor can
ii be made so. though written by the hottest
man who ever lived. The divinity of the
Old Testament consists in the fact that
every word of science, history. story, typi-
fies some phase of the work that the
IT.. 90 rLo, IT
and took our nature upon himself and
wrought our redemption. The inner, deeper
story is what the word is given for. and
the literal sense is woven to fit that, even
as the soul weaves q. body for itself out
of earthly substances"
Mr.. Gladish offered an interesting and
plausible explanation of the apparent con-
tradiction in the doctrine of the trinity
three persons Joined in one and n IN
."The Father is the divine from eternity,
the Son the humanity taken on In the world
TO bring the Father forth to view and lifted
up and giorihed' and the Holy spirit Is Ibis mls
from the indwelling Father as the soul.
through the humanity or Son, as His own
body. Thus we have personal unity and
at the same time trinity-just as In man,
who was made in the divine image, there
are soul, body and operation, and yet but
one man.
"Here is the meal that is needed to
sweeten the badly-poisoned theological diet
of Christendom. 1t is not of any mans
unaided grinding. The Lord himself chose
the proper man and prepared him and
called him to do the work, and guided him
in doing it, and what the Lord does. even
through feeble man, is perfectly done-pro-
vided we know where to look for the divine
perfection in it and do not mistake the
husk for the grain
The announcement was made that the
next preaching services in the chapel Will
be held on the first and second Sundays In
February. Mr.. Gladish will occupy the
pulpit of the Swedenborgian Church in
Glendale, o.