The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-10-18
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] SERMON FOR SUNDAY .
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!, a Schoiar,S Discourse By !.
: DR.. James w. Lee.

= Nuul Cues, betnanv Dutch Re
/ formed, Simpson NJ r. and Centra
baptist. These churches united their
! CONGREGATIONS into one, and invited
! Ut Lee to serve them The sermon
last sunday was at Simpson Church
me SUBJECT was How to Know
God, and the text Hosea vi:S: "Ther
snaH we Know, II we follow on tc
KNOW the Lord. DR.. Lee said:
/ For all our knowledge we are in.
uented 10 three forms of mental ac.
ufttE winch are known as intuition
Ienection and recollection, or to use
inherent forms for the same things
we can call them perception. bv
lyonS OF Whlch we recognize single
snlhss' conception, by which we de.
u"c4 general terms from single
lnlngs; and recollection. by which
We recall previous perceptions and
reCoilecuons. That is, the human
ulhu can know the natural world
lhe human world and the spiritual
world Dy the activity of the intui.ive.
Crohcepuve and recollective powers.
rom Ihtultlons man generalizes con.
sptlous or IDEAS Of greater co'npre.
neuslVehess' and he can call back
,7st perceptions and conceptione
ss1Iroush MS powers Of recollection
Slan mas three great intellectual en-.
II. Nv NY ents ne can perceive. he can
conceive, he can remember.
Our intuitions. our percentione
may be divided into three classes
We have intuitions of the world
these are sense perceptions. we have
intuitions of ourselves. those are
seli-perceptions; and we have intui.
fsf
are religious perceptions
Il must be understood. bowevar
tnat we can have no cognitions or
perceptions Of either nature. man m
God, unless nature. man and Cod
come before the mind In every per.
ception there must be a perceiyer
something perceived. and an act of
perception No world can be seen
UuIesS there is a world before tbe
NINA no man can be seen unless
there is man before the mind Nc
man can create perceptions either of
nature, man or God. out of nothing
for all his perceptions of nature
man or God, he is shut up to the OH
lects which produce them. He could
no more nave religious Derceptions
without God than he could have self
perceptions without man, or sense.
perceptions without a world. Spirit.
udI lntultlons are as indubitable evi
ueuces OF the presence of God as
sense lntultions are of the presence
oI tue material world, or as self-in.
Iulliohs are OF the presence of man.
rehglous intuitions do not imply
uol' as sense-perceptions imply ma.
ture' and self-cognitions imply man.
men clVl!lzatlon is an unsubstantial
uiean. Nhen a person obiectifes
HIHiSeII INTO some one else and comes
az length to believe himself a ruler
vi nation when every one of his
IrIehds knows he is only John Smith.
d jury Is called to pass on his sanity.
II man continues to talk into one
Gnu OF telephone and 10 get an
sVers back when there Is no ono AZ
me other end Of it, jury is called 10
inquire into the state oc his mind
Now, If for thousands of veara ~
human race has been Derceiving God
IN nature, in conscience. in bistorv
ana answering back through uraver
and reverence and song and litrrg,,
ana doctrine and temple. when in
tact no God has been perceived then
It is evident that human nature 10
constitutiOnally deranged II is re-
markable, however, that man should
ma hlmselt led astray at none of the
gateways through which he holds
commerce with outside reality eycent
the religious. The gateway of vision
opens out directly into the kinpdom
OF light. The gateway of sDund ay-
actly adloins the kingdom Of meiodv
Inc intellect borders on the realm
OF truth. The universe fits closely
ABOUT ana meets and matches every
human sense except the RELIGIONS n
man would breathe. there is the air.
II he would satisfy his hunger tbere
Is food; If he would slake his thirst
there Is water If he would talk fbera
are vibrations 10 carry his words
Every door Of the soul and bodv is
an open port through which there js
constant exchange of inside and ont
side merchandise. except the one
opehing into the religious regions
When through the spiritual sense he
apprehends what he takes 10 he d.
vine reality he finds ONLY the rban-
tasmal forms OF his own soul aliin,
the horizon In front OF i'm.
IL we can know Cod no ,vo,t,.. a..
same methods we usa 10 -, ~
world and mar. wbat Loaa,,, 'N
faith? In replv. n NAV bl. ..,,-,,..., ",
that we have no lyDovgls5gs o@ 49, r-
grade of reality vrat.,a,.n .,..+, "u.
faith. For knowlajsa og ti,i,'.i.' " i,nou1
tarial we need saneo-fairb. ,'.'2S fo,. I.'' ~
edge OF things human We - ~