| Show REV W M PADEN Takes fiS as Text God Gal I is 1 a Spirit at first l Church Re Rev W M AI Paden preached In the First Presbyterian church yesterday morning on the divInity of Christ and God Gad ns a spirit absolutely free treo from an any limitation of eIther space or time The meeker said RaId In part God Is a spirit In this text Jesus describes Cods nature lie Ho la III spirit absolutely tree free from limitations of and time the kind eternal tm 1111 mortal InvIsible The rhe Lord Is the I spirit In hl tuba this text Paul hint ChrIst in divine and as no one doubted that was II a person perSall so emphasizes the tho personality of God Cod not the holy ho spIrit of God In In this text Paul Implies his belief nt at once In the tho spirituality of Gad Cod and the tho personality ot of the tho Holy An ma may he resisted but only a person can b be grieved d dW W personality cannot lio be exhaust exhaustIvely Ivel Ively analyzed and cannot therefore hi be beu accuratelY teY dell defined ned I Is tho no u we mow know best itt tho tha world Even Ellen II a hab baby eOOn makes makell It clear that h he or 01 she to Ie IL 11 person not fite 1111 It HI dors doos not re r ecI Kant t 1 felt 1 11 him Iam or you yau that thu ho he Is Isa a and Individual UI as such Huch un an end III ha him That we are 1110 it III the tho ono on l thin thing wo we leno know best In the world Wo Q mut Inu t not hoor think that God is 18 such n A one one all as we know Our Ourselves selves to 10 he be Our personalities are arc Im Imperfect perfect Perfect personality Is In God to nil finite there thele Is allot allotted ted lcd but a polo copy thereof Wo o feel oel our limitations ellen clOn more mart when w wo tr try to ta conceive or of n a spirit It un ordet or of existence which transcends the order of at expel exper experience too material order arder The Tho spirit Is the invisible Immaterial part Jart or of orman man In distinction tram from that which Is corporeal fleshly tangible Yet nath log Is surer that God III hi II a pel person personal on onal al spirit ont and UI that we see us as cr crated In ill his Image are ure personal spirits also God I is the tho filth father or of at our bodies bodice are born or of the tho flesh Tim Tho earthly parent III our father after the Mesh the he wh rely our OUI father the tho hilly nH say God Is I a Is man manMan Man bus u body ody tut tUl he 1113 is c spirit As Ad Newman It No ono one cnn cun by 11 any 11 his had body for tor U 11 Ie his It Il lit III not he This principle which thinks and acts In the tho body mid and each person feels to be himself we en call the soul loul soulAs loulAs As one the Iho body bod connects us with the external universe lUher o the I soul out connects tie with God The flesh la Is hi his production the spirit Is hl blu Image The Tho former separates us from the lat latter latter ter assimilates us to tIm There Thero Is no point of contact between man and God sao salvo spiritual personality No material thin thing or Impersonal force torce can be tiac child ot of God nor con any force or impersonal influence claim lob to l the l Father of hether we talk ot of God Goel or nun Wo sal must begin by b po positing personality nod and spirituality Now as the tho life lICe or of Christ Chrls emphasizes the personality or of God Gad the life lite of the Italy Holy lads sode All to Him is 16 likeness spiritual in personality or more sImplY In character |
