Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-28

from hts somewhat perlpatetlC Out nOne-IHe-
less familiar pulpit. Lest the purpose and in
tent of my effort DO mistaken | deem it pru-
dent to employ the we'll known headline here
with reproduced and presented. Your atten-
ton is invited to the following short effort in
the direction of
SUNDAY READING.
All my more attentive young hearers will
know where to find the words of my text:
''And God made man in His own image"
have lately been reading the works
of writer who thinks that grevous error is
perpetuated by those good people of the Pro
testant faith who insist upon it that all the
words of the Old Testament must be accepted
as literally and precisely true, being as they
believe inspired from con high" He thinks
it were better to read the Bible intelligentIy
and IA any other book is read; for he calls
cur attention to the fact that the progress of
the jewish people, their emotions, their CON
ficts, thoir doubts, their hereses, their poe
try and even their Atheism find indication
and expression within the lids Of the sacred
book. Holding, as | do, a high appreciation
e., /
take a wider and more natural view of its pa
Cos and chapters than you and have been
taught to take. Do believe that Good made
man in His own image No. neither be
lieve it nor do disbelieve it; but it does seem
quite in consonance with the weakness and
self-conccit of human nature that man, com
placently regarding himself, his self-conse-
ouepce sustained and fed by an Ignorance
whose profunditv is beyond the comprehen |
sion of the Nineteenth Century with its KNOW, |
edro Of Astronomy and Natural Science |
should be vain enough to think himself not |
only the special object Of Gods care and So |
hcitude, but modelled in form. structure and !
attributes Ike unto the masculine and Der
sonal Deity who had been from his childhood |
represcnted to him "a swave6 by jealousy and |
determined upon vengeance even to the third |
and fourth generations of those who needed |
not His arbitrary laws and mandates. If man
Is made in the image OF the Creator, then is
the Creator nude, or self-made, with head,
body and limbs supoiIatlvcly perfect, OF !
course but 81 If ior1a and fashion if not /
this happens t. be mans con- 'ption of God,
bocaUst all human COncept4us.s are based on
human possibilities and humun experiences
The most fertile Imagination cannot fashion
to itself anything not made Of porishable ma
tcrials or earthly mould, Angels are presen
ted to us with birds wings more or less modi-
tod in form and feathering, articulated to the
angelic back 10y some sort of mysterious con
nection at or near the shoulder blade and
chorubim are represented as all head and
wings and no body, blowing trumpctS OF such
shape and fashion az to suggest the use of one
Of the earthly metals in their construction.
Saints and seraphin are clothed with fine
cloths; and the medltatiVe Idind associates
cloth with the spinning-wheel and the loom.
Out of the material mind of man, man fash
ions God in his own image and surrounds Him
with men and women and children of fancifu
shapes and clad in fantastic attire May there
not grow out of these conceptions a spirit of
idolatryf Is there not danger that we may fall
down and worship the creatures of our own
fancy7 Is il not possible that we NAV, like the
sculptor in the tale, detect ourselves in the
act of adoring creature of our own imperfect
conception! Out beyond the farthcst star