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oil their net* of lift*.How important, then, with these views, would be the anointing ceremony! How forcibly should we be struck with tl* beauty und its uic, should the priest or governor, on being inducted into his ollico, solemnly and conscientiously receive the auointing; thus ranking a most sntred pledge to God and tIso world, that he would tench or govern the people in love und good-will, and would wnlk before them In the spirit of God's love nnd the power of hit truth I Were this solemn responsibility felt by priests nnd rulers, what a change would soon oome over nil our lend ! Truth nnd love (Vom God, in union, teaching and governing the peo-p|C|—aiivh teaching, such government, nnd Mich example. truly understood, felt, and carried out, bv nil the’ministers nnd rulers of the earth, would gradually bring the whole world into heavenly peace and order.lint not only were kings and priest anointed, but also implements of war. Now, in the spiritual ruse of the Word, nil war# commanded by the Lord are combnts against the evils and fklse* of humanity, aud all the iuiplemeuU of defence used denote truths. They therefore anointed the sword, the spenr, the shield, aud the buckler, to tench that We must have good-iicm with the truth; that, how much truth soever we might have, it would never be successful without love. The sword of the spirit muni be anointed with the oil of love. The cold truth of the head alone will never conquer an evil of the sou!: the h.II must be united with It. We must flrst love the truth; wo must oil« * .11 ■ a a* *the riches of its bosom. Hut, without thejuiee, we could not have the delight; without the wine, we could not have the oil. The flavor if from the union of the oil nnd the wine.So, without truth, we cun have no goodness. Truth is the cup which bears It to our «nnL Without the Hon of God, we cannot have the Father. The Son brings the Father to us In his own bosom. To receive the Father, we ruust receive the Son; to receive the goodness, we ntufi receive the truth; to receive the oil, we must receive the wine. Therefore the Lord *avs,141 am the vine, and my Father is the husbandman;’* or, *1 am the truth, and my Father is the goodness/*With these divine truths before us, we should remember, when we enjoy the fruits of the vine, that it is the union of the.oil and the wine in the grape that gives the delight wc enjoy. Hut we should not let our thoughts stop there, but pass, by correspondence, to what Is still within the oil and the wine,—to the goodness andtruth of the Lord. For the delight, after all, Is not from the natural oil and wine only, but from the divine life nnd action that are in them. Oil is the actual expression, in nature, of God’s goodness; and wine, of his truth: and it is impossible for the natural to exist separate from, or Independent of, the spiritual. We ore therefore indebted to God's presence. In his goodness and truth, fur every delight wc enjoy. Hut we should remember, that, in all cases of excess or unlawful piocrcdure. we hurt the oil and the wine, or we hurt our ability to receive of the good and the true.
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Wilmington Delaware Inquirer
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Sat, Apr 07, 1860
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