The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-07-23

soul, rational mind and body, and We
call each by the same name man.
There Is the judgment, the memory
and the imagination--thiee faculties,
each Of which we call mind. The Office
OF each Is distinct. The imagination in.
vents ideas, the memory retains them
and the judgments compares and decides.
Yet there are not three minds but one
mind.
what do the Scriptures says upon
this subjectf The first and most usual
Iappellation Of Diety In the original
Scriptures Is 'Elohim.' This word Il In
the plural number. We know this not
only from it, form but by its being often
Joined with other words in the plural
number The first instance occurs in the
very first sentence Of the bible In the
beginning God Gods created. etc, all
through the Bible IL stands as II we
should read, Gods created the heaven
and the earth Gods spake and It was
one Gods sent his holy prophets, etc,
and yet the word Is no, plural In signi-
fication. Repeatedly and solemnly in
the Old Testament God declares that
Jehovah Is his name alone. God said to
Moses, I will scnd mine angel Ito guide
you through the wildernessl, beware Of
him, obey his voice, provoke him not, for
my name Il in him And In the New
Testament. he whom the people tempted
in the wilderness ia declared to be- the
Christ. When David by the Spirit says.
They throne o God, IL forever and ever
When Isaih by the same Spirit says, His
name shall be wonderful, counselor. the
mighty Cod when Malachi gives the
incommunieable name Jehovah 10 the
messenger OF the covenant we cannot
hesitate in saying, The Sent Of God Is
no other than God himself.
"We find the same respecting the
Holy Spirit. The Spirit is truth, but
Christ is the truth The Spirit quickens
the dead soul into life, but Christ Is the
life The Spirit points the way but
Christ is the way The Spirit testihes
OF the seed OF the woman which shall
bruise the serpent's head, and that in
corruptible seed Is Christ himself
mo fact is more clearly set forth in
the Scriptures than that God Is one
He condesceRded to reveal himself In
the threefold character of Father, Son
and Holy Ghost In the wondrous plan
Of salvation the Son performs certain
definite offices distinct from those of the
Father and the Holy Spirit accomplishes
a work peculiarly his own.
"But this could not be accomplished
until God should become as man with
men. His loving authority may have
been all that was necessary to present
to angels. Before man he must 90 much
further. Mans strong will needs to be
made loyal to God and righteousness.
His intellectual powers need to be
clarified that he may perceive Gods way
and will. This done his redemption is
complete. But to do this he must 90
even further than to reveal himself as
Father and Redeemer. He cannot ac-
his plan Of redemption until he
comes in the third f0rm--God, the Holy /
Ghost. Sin has rendered man sluggish
in heart. He is dead to spiritual har'
monies God needs not only to live
with men but to live in them. God,
The Holy Ghost in the heart, the soul
is vitalized, the sensibiities inhamed the
conscience quickened; sin, then, is hated.
Ill the desires are purified, intensified,
,anctifed. When the Holy Ghost comes
ntO the soul the whole man glows with
new life. The Eold man. the 'old body
If sim is destroyed. old things are
passed away He Is new creature in
Jhrist Jesus
"Such a trinity of God--the sovereign
Father, the self-sacrifcing Redeemer, the
Ioly Inspirer-one God adopting himself
n this threefold way to mans triple
nature, and new creating the whole Of
hat nature, Il reasonable for belief and
II accordance with the entire revelation
# God. It is the most practical as well
Is the most profound Of doctrines, and
necessary to the one end and aim Of all
reation and oil all revelation--the re-
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