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A THOUGHT.
BY FATHER RYAN.
The summer rose the sun has flushed
With crimson glory, may be sweet—
’Tis sweeter when the leaves are crushed
Beneath the winds and tempest feet.
The rose that waves upon its tree,
In life, sheds perfume all around—
More sweet the perfume floats to me -
Os roses trampled on the ground.
The wavering rose, with every bieath
Scents, carelessly, the summer air—
The wounded rose bleeds forth in death
A sweetness far more rich and rare.
It is a truth beyond our ken,
And yet a truth that all may read,
It is with roses as with men;
The sweetest hearts are those tliat bleed.
The flower which Bethlehem saw bloom,
Out of a heart all full of grace,
Dave never forth its full perfume
Until the cross became its base.
THE MERRY HEART.
’’Tis well to have a merry heart,
However short we stay;
There's wisdom in a merry heart,
Whate’er the world may say;
Philosophy may lift its bead,
And find out many a flaw ;
But give me the philosopher
That’s happy with a straw.
If life but brings us happiucs-,
It brings us, we are told,
What’s hard to buy, though rich ones try,
With all their heaps of gold;
Then laugh away, let others say
Whate’er they will of mirth;
Who laughs the most may truly boast
He’s got the wealth of earth.
There's beauty in a merry heart,
A moral beauty to >,
It shows the heart’s an ho cst heart,
That’s paid each man his due,
And lent his share of what’s to spare,
Despite of wisdom’s fears,
And make the checks less sorrow speak,
The eye we< p fewer tears.
The sun may Mi road itself in cloud,
The tempest's wrath begin,
It finds a spark to cheer the dark,
Its sunlight Is within;
Then laugh away, let others say
Whate’er they will of mirth ;
Who laughs the most may truly boast
He’s gut the wealth of earth.
Partridges hi Illinois are tame enough to
eal from the hand—when properly cooked.
A shrewd old Yankee said lie didn’t
believe there was any downright cure for
laataess tn any man ; “but,” ho added, I’ve
known a second wife to hurry it some,”
“Gaol Gracious!” exclaimed a grieved
chan, as he braced himself against a |x>st
in front of a saloon on Washington’s birth
dt\y, “can it be possible that that great
and good m m Is dead ?”
A compositor out west the other day,
tamed out an account of a wedding head
ed, “Making of Sauer Kraut,” when it
should have been “Marriage of Gen Gantz;”
when the editor saw the article he burst
a patent swear-guage.
Truth.-- Speaking truth Is like writing
fair, and comes only by practice; it is
less a matter of will than of habit; and I
doubt If any occasion can be trival which
permits the practice and formation of such
a habit*—Ruskin.
WI II ' ~~~~
I .OVE.—If we once truly love, we love
forever. There is no lime in real affections
as far is this life is concerned—it has no
existence—or, it is an eternity, nothing
saved the proved worthies neaa of the ob
ject of cur regard can rend the bonds of
affect i< n.
Homk.—Home is not a naiueiwi a form,
nor a routine. It is a spirit, a presence,
a priftci]dc. Matrrial a and method will not,
and cannot, make It It fttetete it. h
muat get light and sweetness from those
who inhabit It, from flowers and sun
shine, from the aympalhelic natures,
which, in tlieir exerviae of sv m pat by can
lay aside the tynany of the broom and thr
awful duty of endhts* scribbling.
What Hora Dio.—lt stole on its pinions
of «aow to the bed ot disease; and the
sufferer's frown became a smile -t!<e em
blem of peace and endurance. It went to
the hottM of mmuuing -and from of
sorrow there came sweet and cheerful stmgs.
It hdd it* hand on the arm of the poor,
which was Stretched fort i to the command
of unholy impulses ami saved him from
diagrwee and ruin. No hope my good broth
er! Hare it. Rock it <ui y<u aide,—
Wrestle with it, let it not depart; but
hope will lead you <»«r it* mountains a< d
aMstain thee amid its bilker*. Part with
a|l besrdks, but keep th} h-'j'?.
Illi: NORCROSS ADVANCE.
BY SIMMONS* VINCENT & CO.
A LECTURE.
DELIVERED AT NORCROSS, GA., ON
SABBATH, OCTOBER 26, 1873.
—BY
JAMES P. SIMMONS,
ON —
THE DIVINITY AND HUMANITY OF
JESUS CHRIST.
The question to which attention
is now invited is, whether Christ
had a human soul ?
To answer which it is necessary
to inquire into both, his divine
and human natures. It is not con
tended, so far as I am aware, that
he possessed two souls — one di
vine and the other human. If he
did, were they both taken up to
heaven ? and will those who are
so fortunate as to get there, see
two Christs—one divine and the
other human?. Or will the only
Christ seen there be but a human
soul, which was born of the Virgin
Mother with his body —a soul
which had no existence before ?
These questions meet us right at
the threshold of the argument,
and should be kept steadily in
mind during its continuance.
It is my present purpose to prove
that the soul of Jesus Christ was
a pre-existent Spirit, and not a
mere human soul,or Spirit; and
that what is said of his humanity,
in the Bible, applies alone to his
body (which was in every material
particular just like ours), and to
his condition while occupying his
earthly tenement.
The Bible furnishes more full,
clear and conclusive evidence in
support of this proposition than
any other book I have read. But,
as it seems that some people are
unwilling to believe anything, on
the authority of that Old Book
alone, and require the corrobora
ting testimony of a great man, or
men, before yielding their assent,
I will first give the opinions of a
few such men :
Dr. (Jill, who has hitherto been
considered good authority, at least
by Baptists, in his comment on
Jude 9th, says: “ Yet Michael the
Archangel. By whom is meant,
not a created angel, but an incre
ated one, the Lord Jesus Christ,
as appears from his name, Michael,
which signifies who is as God;
and who is as God, or like unto
Him, but the Son of God, who is
equal with God? and from his
character a ehangel, or prince of
angels; for Christ is the head ol
all J rmcipality and power, and
from what is elsewhere said of
Michael, as that ho is the great
Prince, and on the side of the peo
ple of God, and to have angels
under him and at his command,
Dan. 10:21, and 12:1, Rev. 10:7.
So Philo, the Jew, calls the most
ancient JFortf, first born of God,
the archangel.’’
Dr. Adam Clarke, on the same
scripture, say : “ Yet Michael the.
Archangel t of this personage
many things arc spoken in the
Jewish writings.’’ * * * So
that it seems as if they considered
Michael in some sort as those do
Christ, who hold the eternal Son
Ship of his divine nature.’’ To
this view Dr. Clarke offers no ob
jection. but further on says: “J/7-
chael is the Archangel, find head
of all the angelic orders, the devil,
great dragon, or Satan, is head of
all the diabolical orders.” etc. He
then gives the original word, and
a translation of it, and adds:
“ Hence by this personage, in the
Apocalypse, many understand the
Lord Jesus.”
Air. Benson, on John 17:5, ar
gues that Christ pre-existed, and
quotes approvingly, .Macknight,
who says : “ Besides it should bo
remembered that this is not the
only passage which speaks of
Christ's pre-existence, for the
Evangelist John (chap 1:1) rep
resents him as existing from all
eternity, and making all things.
Ami (chap 8.55) ,l C sus himself
tells us that he existed before
Abraham. And Paul affirms (Phil.
2:6) that before Jesus took the
form of a servant, he wa> in the
form of God?’
Mathew Henry, in his commen
taries on Genesis, says: “The
originrl won! which is translated
Lord, and printed in small captial
letters, in our Bible, is Jehovah.
and Jehovah is the great and in
communicable name of God, which
denotes His having His being of
Himself. 1 ' lie also says that the
word “ Elohim?' means “a God
Of-‘tear, ‘and “Jehovah Elohim*'
means “<z God of power and per
fection. ”
It should be observed also, that
in our Bible the word Lord, or
Lord. God, when printed in small
capital letters, means Jehovah, or
God the Father, and the word
God, when printed in small Ro
man letters, usually, if not always,
means God the Son. The term
angel of the Lord, also means, the
angel ol Jehovah—the Son Jesus
Christ.
“Angel of the Lord, or the an
gel of Jehovah; a title as is sup
posed of Jesus Christ, in his ap
pearances to the Patriarchs and
others, in the Old Testament.”
'"The angel of the Lord appeared
to Moses in a flame of fire, but the
same angel called to him out of
the bush, and said, I am the God
of thy fathers,the God ofAbraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob,” etc. Rel. Enc.
“The Jews held this Word, or
angel of the Lord, to be the fu
ture Messiah, as appears from the
writings of their older Rabbins,
so that he appears as the Jehovah
of all three dispensations, and yet
is invariably described as a sepe
rate person from the unseen Je
hovah, who sends him.” Watson
in lb.
Smith and Baruum, in their
Comprehensive Bible Dictionary,
published in 1869, says: “The
Rabbinical traditions about Mi
chael are very numerous. Many
(Luihur, Hengsteugberg, Dr. W.
L. Alexander, Prof. Douglass,
etc.) maintain that Michael—the
Messiah, or Lord Jesus Christ.”
Prof. Douglass (in same) com
pares the answers of Michael in
Jude 9 with those of Christ in
Matt. 4 :4, 7,10, and remarks that
the opposition of Michael and the
devil here “is without a parallel
in Scripture, if Michael be a cre
ated angel; whereas it is very
common opposition indeed if Mi
chael be Christ.”
Having offered sufficient human
evidence, as it is hoped, to prepare
the mind to receive with respect
.it least, the words of inspiration,
1 now venture to quote a few pas
- ’ of •'Scrips nre, to «u.i : ■> t >
uiiLmalToh that the Spirit which
animated the body of Jesus Christ
existed before his fleshly body
was born, and would have existed,
as before and since, if that body
had never existed ; and that his
was not a human soul, or spirit. It
will not be expected that in one
lecture on a subject of this magni
tude, all the Scriptures will be
cited which bear upon it. I cannot
now quote one text in ten of them,
but must content myself with call
ing attention to a few only of the
prophecies as to the Messiah, and
then to a few of tho leading pas
sages from the New Testament
writers.
Malachi, tho last of the Old Tes
tament j>rophets,says: (3:1) “Be
hold, I will send my messenger,
and he shall prepare the way be
fore me; and the Lord, whom ye
seek, shall suddenly come to his
temple, even the messenger of the
covenant, whom ye delight in, be
hold, he shall come, sail h the Loi d
-of hosts.”
And again (4:5) “Behold,! will
send you Ely ah the prophet be
fore the coming of the great and
tlreadful day of, the Lord.” Bee
1 Isa. 40 : 3, John 1 23, Matt. 17 : 10.
Now I understand that it was
“ the angel of the Lord” (Christ
himself),speaking to the prophet—
tliat John the Baptist was the
“messenger” he was to send —that
• by “ the Lord whom ye seek,’’ he
1 meant liiiuself, and by the words
j “shall sudd<a\ly come to his tem
i pie,” that he. a Spirit, should sud
-1 denly come to enter and occupy
i the body (“temple”), to be pre
' pared for his use, while he should
, Übernacle in the flesh. See 2 Pet.
1 :13. H.
Was that a divine or human
soul! Our Saviour informed his
I disciples that tho prophecy as to
the return of Elijah the prophet,
as the forerunner of Messiah, was
tuitilled in the person of John the
Baptist. See Matt. 11: 9to 14,17:
10 to 13, Mark 9:11 to 13. and
Luke 1; 17.
I understand, also, that the
’ Spirit -known as the Word, angel
■ of the Lord, Michael, etc., entered
j and dwelt in tile body prepared
; for him. just as the human spirit
of Elijah, the Prophet of Old, en
tered and lived again on earth in
! tho body known as John the Bap-
■ list.
Christ said; “ Therefore doth my
Father love me, because I lay
‘ gown that 1 might take it
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again. No man taketh it from me,
but I lay it down of myself. I
have power to lay it down, and I
have power to take it again.” John
10:17,18.
He did lay his-life down (his
Soul left his body),for three days,
and then took it up again—re-en
tered his body. Does this look
like his soul was human ? That he
was no more than a good man?
In John 8 : 14, be said to certain
Pharisees, “Iknow whence I came
and whither I go,.but ye cannot
tell whence I come, and whither
I go.” And in 23, “Ye are from
beneath, I am from ’bove; ye are
of this world, I iim not of this
world.” (Benson remarks, on this
same verse, il Lam from above" — “I
am from heiven, and sdiall quickly
return thither.”) And again, in
29, Christ says: “And he that
sent me is svith
hath not left for Ido
always those thinrs fehaX please
him.” And, in 3& he says: “I
speak that which I-jjave seen with
my Father, and ye,do that which
ye have seen with your father.”
And in verse 44 he s,aid: “Ye are
of your father the .devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do.”
And in 58, “Before Aabrahani was
I am.”
These quotations prove clearly
that Christ came from some other
place Jian this—that he was sent
here—that Jehovali is, in some
sense, his Father, and Satan ours,
and that Christ was in existence
before the time o#jAbraham.
Then was his flk.hilriian Soul,
created with and in his pody, or
was it a pre-existe>it Spirit ?.
If he is to be but one
answer can be n to this ques
tion, and I believejlikn.
Now let us nolife some of his
titles and works.,, He is called
“ the Angel of the ; Lord”—“ Mes
senger of the Mi
chael—the Archangel—Messiah—
The Word—Son of God—and last
ly, Jesus Christ. These are not
the terms applied to those posses
sed of human sonls.
Os his works —jja John 1:1, we
read: “In the was the
IVnr l l, and the iVUITWIIri God
and the Word was Ged.” (Mean
ing that the Word was the Son of
God.) 3. “All things were made
by him,” ect. (That is, this world
and all things herein ) 14, “And
the Word was made flesh (to oc
cupy a body of flesh, or to dwell in
the flesh, as elsewhere expressed),
and dwelt among us, (and we be
held his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of tho Father), full
of grace and truth.”
Hebrews 1:1 to 4, reads thus:
“God who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the
pi ophets, hath in these last days
spoken unto us by his Son, whom
he hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the
worlds; who being the brightness
of his glory, and the express idi
age of his person, and upholding
all things by the Word of his
power; when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down On the
right hand of the Majesty on high,
being made so much better than
the angels, as he hath by inheri
tance obtained a more excellent
name than they.”
“ Made the worlds ” —“image of
his person,” etc. Hence we learn
that the Word—the Son —was in
the beginning with God---that by
this Word, the Father made all
things—And that the same Word,
lived in the flesh as we do—That
he was flic brightness of the Fath
er's glory, and “the express image
of his person" that when he
had made atonement for our sins
he sat down on the rigid hand of
the Father on high. If all this be
so, the Soul, or Spirit- of Chnsi
could not have been human, but
must have been divine—
divine. “To talk about the hu
manity Os Christ, in* a Ipiritnal
sense, is at once idle and irrever
ent.” War in Heaven, page 295.
If tho confession »f faith of any
leading branch of the Christian
Church adopts, or favors the theo
ry that the Soul of our blessed
Redeemer was humin. I am not
aware of it.
Be this however, as it may with
others, the articles of faith adopt
ed by the Baptist Church, (to
which I belong.) contains in such
heresy. Our fourth art.de read"
thus: “ Os the ir ry of Si’r iti<>u.
That the salvation of sinners is
wholly of grace, through theme
diatiorial office of the Son of God,
who took upon him * nature yet
without «in.” etc.
Here we have in substance,
Phil 2 : 6,7, 8, “who being in the
form of God, thought it not rob
bery to be equal with God, but
made himself of no reputation,and
took upon him the form of a ser
vant, and was made in the like
ness of men ; and being found
in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the
cross.”
Note the agreement—“being in
the /bryn of God-—"- '■'dook upon
him the form of a servant—” “and
' was made in the likeness of men.”
! He changed h s form from what
it had been, to that of men. Now,
was it his spiritual nature, or his
| habitation—his personal nature
; and appearance that he changed?
The answer is easy, he laid aside,
for the time, his spiritual body
and “ took upoii iiim o,ur niUure”—•
a jfliyncal body like ours, “yet
without sin,” as expressed in that
article of faith and by St. Paul.
If his soul had been human as
ours, he too would have been a
sinner; for of such are all men.
It is the soul, not the body that
sins. His spirit being eternal, as
well as pure and hoi ', he was
free from sin, while here in the
form of a nnn, as well as before
and since. The devil tried to
tempt him to sin, as he does men,
but utterly failed, “Get thee be
hind me Satan,” replied the Son
of God ; but we who are but poor
fallen human souls, are led cap
tive by the devil at his will. To
free us from such captivity was
the kind oflke. of our Savior. Is
it not ungrateful, ii reverent, im
pious to say that one who proved
himself a God, by his works, per
form das our mediator,Re J com el
and only hope for salvavation pos
sessed but a human sou) ? If that
were true, lie would have been
but a good man.
Attention is invited, in this con
nection, to John 17: It does seem
to me, tliat a careful reading of
that chapter alone, could not fail
to satisfy any one who believes in
the Bible and really desires to
..know the tradh, as to Hie prtuixLs.-
tence ol Can st —his purely oivine
nature, and of the personal rela
tions existing between the Fa
. (her an 1 S >n, as well as of each
to our fallen race.
John 17:1, “These words spake
Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to
heaven and said : Father the hour
is come; glorify thytSon, that thy
Son also may glorify thee.” 4, “1
have glorified them on the earth ;
1 have finished the work which
thou g ivest me to do, 5. Ami
now, () Father, glorify thou me
wit Ii thine own self, with the glory
which Z had with thee before the
world was." 11; “Holy Father,
keep through thine own name, !
those whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one as we are."
ISj “As thou hast sent me into the
world,’ even so have I also sent
them info tho world,” (What are
we to understand as referred to
and inlended here? The Father
sent the Son from heaven here,
where did the Son send us from,
into this world?) 22, “And the
glory which thou hast given me, I
have given them ; that they may
be one, even as we arc one.” 23;
“I in them and thou in me, that
they m ty be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that
thou hast s-'nt me and hast loved
them as thou hast loved me.”
Then tho Father has, at some
time, loved us as he loved his
only Son. When was that ? We
are gravely told that it was before
either our spirits, or our bodies
were brought into being *.
It is proposed, in conclusion to
not ice, very briefly a class of texts
which are relied upon by those
who insist that the sou! of Christ
was human, and descended from ;
his parent-, (as well as that the
souls of men descend from theirs; I
as held by the same school of:
theorists).
“And the Lord appeared unto I
Abraham, and said, unto thy seed
will 1 give this land,” Gen. 12: 7. i
and 35: 11.12; “And God said unto I
him (Jacob), I am God Almighty; i
be fruitful and multiply: a nation i
and a company ol nations shall be
•>i thee, and Kings shall come ,
of thy loins. And the land which i
I gave Abraham and Isaac.to lhee !
I will give it. and to thy as- !
tor thee will I give the land.” .
And air tin :“The Lord hath sworn
in truth unto David; he will not
turn from it; of the fruit of thy
body will I sit upon my throne.”
I’s. 132: 11.
The Onlv argument proposud. to
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show that the terms '‘'■seed” — “out
of thy loins”—“tho fruit of thy
body” etc., refers to the bodies and
not souls to the eternal
Spirit, is to quote what the apos
tles said of them. Os King David St.
Peter said : “Therefore being a prophet and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath
to him, t at of the fruit of his loins, ac
cording to the flesh, he would raise up
Uhiist to sit upon his throne.” ‘ Acts, 2:
30 ; St. Paul says : “Concerning his Son
Jesus Christ, our Lord, which was made
of the SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE
flesh.' Rom. 1: 3.* Paul con'd not
have used the words, “which was made of
the seed of I’avki,” as applicable to the
Soul of Christ, by whom the world was
made, as he elsewhei"? said himself.
But I must close. ‘-What shall we then
say that Abraham, our Father, as per
taining to the flesh, hftth found.” Rom.
4: 1. “Foy 1 could wish that myself
were accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsm n according to the flesh.”
Rom. 9:3.
Those wbo wish to know the truth of
this vital qn stion are commended to
“Search the Scriptures. ” They are all on one
side of this, and all kindred subjects of dis
putation. And from such search, lam sat
isfied that Jesus Christ was the Son of God,
and that he was the son of man—and
yet, that there was no mixture of the di
vine and hum tn natures in him, but that
his So: 1 was purely divine, and his body
was strictly human.
HEATING SICK ROOMS.
Where the entire dwelling is heated by a
furnace, or by steam, it will piobably be
unnecessary to have other means of warm
ing the sick-room; but the fire-plac ■ should
be a ways open, and kept ready for a
wood or a coil fire whenever the patient
shall express a desire for one. The, fiie
plae.es are excellent ventillating flues even
without a fire, but are nearly perfect when
supplied with a wood fire, the brisk blaze of
which creates a strong ascending cur
rent, and continually carries off the ever
accumulating exhalations of the sick-i om.
If the e is no fire place, a window open
ed a s'lort distance from the bottom, in
th? room in which the patient is lying, and
one let down from the top in the other
large room, with the doors opened between
the two, will form an effectual draught
during any but the warm days . f summer,
and will not be too strong for the most deli
cate patient, who is protected from the d -
rejet daught by the higu head-board of the
In cold wcath r the window opened from I
the bottom wi 1 often be found sufficient.
On th? very cold days we may trust to an
entire change of air several times each day,
effected by raising all the windows for a
few moments at a time, during which the
patient must be thoroughly protected by ■
extra blankets, and a shawl about the head.
If stoves aie the only means of heating
the apartments, a “perpetual burner”
(coal) may b iusid in one room to keep
both at an even temperature during day
and night; but the sleeping room should
be provided with a wood stove, the brisk
blaze in this answering to some extent the
purpose of a fire in an open lire place.
Many lives have been cut short by exag
g rated notions in regard to frosh air. Air
must be pure, but it sh uld be warm. To
effect, there should be, <iay and night, a i
Steady b it g ntle heat in the room of an
invalid, accompanied by an equally steady
and g.-ntle current of fresh air.—Scribnei’s
Magazine.
Man proposes, but woman very often re
jects him.
“The power behind the throne”—the i
foot that kicks you down stairs.
The grand essentials to happines are ;
something to do, something to love and
something to hope for.
# j
It is said that a little son of a minister in |
this city a few weeks ago. interrupted the i
sermon of his father by asking, “Pa ain’t :
you done putty soon !”
Virtu? produces beauty, vice deformity. I
Virtue prolongs life, vice hastens death.!
It s moral cleanliness which is next to 1
go lliness, not a washed and perfumed !
skin.
Turn rtter a new leaf! Ah those new j
leaves! If half of them were turned that i
are talked about, what a gigantic volume j
w uld they form in the life of every one of ■
us.
A California man tied one end of a lariat i
around his waist and lassoed a cow * ith
the other. He thought he bad the cow, |
but at the end of the first half mile he i
Ixgan to suspect the cow had him.
“Do?b your arm pain yon asked a lady >
of a g -ntleman who in a mixed assembly, I
had thrown his arm across tne back of her !
chair and touched her neck. “No, Miss, ,
it don t; rut why do you ask t “I noticed
that it was out of its place, sir, that’s all.” ■
The arm was removed.
A worthy old lady offers the follow
ing advice to girls : “wiaawver a fel'ow -
pops the question, don’t blush and stare at '
your foot. Just throw your arms around
his neck, look him full in the face, and
common -e talking about the furniture.”
Ferguraon says he always gets mad when i
he goes along a street about nine o’lcock
at sight, and passing a shaded porch
where a young man is bidding his beloved
a good night; bears the girl exclaim in a
L u>! whisp r. “Oh, stop, you
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