The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-04

Light or ten OF us may we will
they have beautiful display of flowers out there One of
this party entirely blind He goes with us but so far as those
flowers concerned he is dead not? He cannot 90 into
ecacies them would do There no connection
between him and those flowers So far concerned there
| u.s. My vision is connected up with those flowers
If that deaf he had been sitting here last ords
Day when the choir rendered those beautiful selections there
would have been connection between him and that
none whatever He might just well have been in Indiana
! Now, what do mean by the death of the body?
IT. in addition being blind and deaf one lung is gone he
is out OF connection with the atmosphere that extent he no
Whenever the time that all the connections are cut off,
then that he is DEAD there no union so far
as his physical organism is concerned.
There connection with the flowers there is no con-
necon with the music there connection with the air and
SO After while all off, and then he dead and the
body is taken and buried
| That is the death of the body!
Notce-"To be covnoAy minded is DEATH" want YOU to
get the meaning of death there That is what am after
| LIFE CONSISTS IN UNION WITH GoD
say that life truly Divine union with God and that death
is not unconcousness, but that it is separation from God
Now come back to this: This blind and he deaf
other words there correspondence between his ewes and
his ears and these flowers and this music
When you take this and deliberately cut off ALL cor
respondence or ALL connection, ALL with all ma
terial environment then he is dead
Do you the point?
The of going sleep simply when the sentnes 90 off
duty
Which one of the sentnels retires first?
In going to Sleep the vision off duty the go off
duty and the last sentinel that goes is feeling is it not
In waking in the morning these sentnels come in through
the door one after another.
That is what going to sleep and awaking are
Some of people roll and tumble all sentnels
are stubborn, and they will go off duty
Therefore, in when you go to sleep you are dead
You see nothing hear nothing you feel nothing true
that the heart BEATS but the correspondence broken
more truly you break them, the will be the Sleep
Do you the point?
"For to be carnally minded is death p
DEATH CONSISTS IN SEPARATION FROM GOD
The carnaly minded has correspondence or con-
nection with God and Heaven things spiritual at ALL
The carnally minded Just like hog-that is all
there to it. He dead all things Godward and spiritual
this blind is dead to the flowers and to the
music.
Take that audience last Sunday might Just as we'll have
read the Bible to pigs for all the appreciation of those
people had They had appetite for the Word of God
If had had ballet dancer come out there and dance
jig they would have been right in their They would
have enjoyed that But the Lords Supper the Thyfifth
Chapter of Isaiah the Nnetyrs Psalm is just as foreign
to them darkness is to daylight
They DEAD They have no appreciation and thew
never will have until they born again. connection
is established
You cannot expect anything from dead people, you?
Now after has established all his connections
God here Indicating the circle SPIRITUALLY then the
next thing he has to do is break off all his connections
| Indicating the center circle - the physically.
That is what is meant by cuciion; that what is
by puckng out right and cutting off your right hand
LIFE IN GOD FOLLOWED BY DEATH TO THE WORLD
When you have established your connections with God
then the next thing is DEATH break all your con-
nections with the world
Do you understand that?
In the first place. you die then you live then YOU die
again