The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-26
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CREATION OF MAN.
BY THE LATE REV. W. f. MUNsEY.


of air, not a ripple of ether, not particle
of matter, not minim of water, nothing
ponderable or imponderable, tangible or in
tangible, visible or invisible, no elementary
or monadie thing-an inconceivable and
indescribable nihility-nothing. Being nc
material causes there were no material ef-
fects; hence there was no light as the result
of material agency but universal and alb
solute darkness filed all space-darkness
as black as the ebon pail of the dead, black
as hell's sable badge and pitchy scowl; dark
/ ness unrelieved by the briefest spark or
feeblest glimmer; darkness as measureless,
boundless and infinite as space. In it God
only was, and he filed it, and His Spirit
/ hoated instinct with latent creative power
upon every Cimmerian wave which rolled
/ through the boundleSs and bottomless void.
But God resolved to commence grand
and stupendous work, and in the plenipO-
tency of His triune God-head, Father, Son
and Holy GhoSt-for the text reads, "In
the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth by the almightiness of His
overcoming power, and the triumph of His
invincible let it be done, commencing in
the darkness in the awful solitude of Him
self. He laid creations foundations deep,
wide, vast, solid. heavy, incumbent, on
Nights brawny back, and told the conquer
cd king that PROSTATE upon the ruins of
his own shattered throne. he must bear the
ponderous load without quiyer or a groan
and bear it forever. Worlds were made,
mountains vertebrated, with hearts of fire,
with granite bones and nerves of richest
ore, with flesh of softeSt mould, and clothed
with yerdant turf, fringed with forests, and
thrown around their broad shoulders and
tied there BY rivers, whose fountain lake
lets lay glittering upon their bosoms like
great medalli0ns of solid crystal, embossed
with miniature images of their planetary
sisters shining away in the zenith. Thus
arTayed and their huge waists girded with
oceanic zones, they whirled out into space,
sought their appropriate orbits, and com
menced the run of their eternal circuits,
In harmonious accompaniment were the
attendant MOONS eircumvolying, their pri-
maries shaking from their argentine locks,
sheeny silver rafting down the sky and
baptiKing sea and land with beauty. While
from Gods great anvil, with every stroke
Of His mighty hammer, suns sprang blaz-
ing. and habited with fiery splendor and
dazzling unsgni6eence ascended to their CEN
tral thrones. And As Atlas Of old was
forced hy Joye to support the heaven on
his head and hands, 50 imperial Night be-
ing conquered. and forced by his conqneror
to bear up the foundations Of all creation,
his black sguadrons were utterly eonfound-
ei and fed. and Light, Beauty and Glory
flung their manfles Of azure, gemmed with
stars. ever their retreat, to hide their dnsky
forms, and singing angels oveTowered the
liSooT,lan, thunder Of their panic, with lul-
ahies over the cradle Of an infant universe.
Order. fun pauoplied like Athene from the
head Of Zeus. sprang from the mind Of
God. and completed the work by the geo
lnssrieai adjustment ct all creation parts.
and hung the whole, instinct with motion
and propless, out in space magnificently
halancrd
But was creation work completed? To
announce it - Is rather premature-it was
nearly finished, but NOT quite--crcation
had 40 crown. The work had assembled
in gradatioual grandeur, and sublimest
method from nought TO organic being, but
It lacked one piece To uiagniheently cap the
whole. perfecting creation as to architecture
and design, ana connecting it in one solid
system with the spiritual above Every
line Of order. every thread Of unity. every
chain of degress had been carried up the
climax, but one pieee was heking Co issten
all the euds Of the lines and threads and
chains, webbing them together in itself,
and ensuring the units and permAneney Of
the whole Creation lacked It's mierOcos-
tnical maS;erpiece-man. Now, God called
oouncil--a formal conyoealion Of the per
sons Of the adorable Trinity. Notwith-
standing creations stupeRdous scheme, and
the problems TO solve in is building, and
though God in Trinity executed it, yet such
council appears not to have been neeessa-
~ before, bat, now, God in Trinity coun-
selled Let Us make man, 81 they resolv-
ed, but how
The evening star gently opened window
Of her splendid home in the iar-of Hespe-
rian, and stepped out upon eerulean bal
eony, blistered with sapphire, her beautiful
robe Of ethereal azure, with borders glinted
with vermillion falling gracefully about her
lovely form, her fair brow wearing crown
of diamonds, her luxuriant tFesses Of gilt
tering gold dropping to her silver sandals,
her sweet, sweet face upturned, all the stars
applauding, aud said -" Make him like
me But God said No Now, fair
Selene, the gentle moon, queen Of the night,
her robe Of hoary light fringed with aureate
and trailing in the oceans brine, escorted
BY the consultations, and coming in royal
procession along the sky, turned her cold,
chaste face, radiant with beauty, and looked
with her fine eve Of conscious purity and
unfeigned reverence at God, her maker,
and said -" Make him like me. But God
blessed her, and then said, 'No'
Next Eos, the Latin-named Aurora, the
superb goddess of the dawn, robed in saff-
ron attire, embroidered with crimson,
opened the gates of the Orient with her
slsy fingers, and mounted her chariot,
hich came rolling along tho amber-payed
b ghway Of the Leyant, Ess beautiful veil
iit uing in the breath. of Ealss, anil pinned
mS.1 the brow with tie star of tie morn
ing. and pearly dew trrkhng down her
cheeks, and sitting through the air upon
pastures floral and green, and said =" Make
him like me. But, again God said "No,
Next, golden-slippered Iris, the charming
daughter of Thamus and Electra-Wonder
and Notwithstanding upon the arch Of
the rainbow, finging kisses at the rumbling
thunder, and penciling bushes upon the
cheeks of the storm and smiles upon the
ugly face of the tempest, the pattering rain
dancing to the music of her laugh, said:
make him like me- But again, God
said, "No.
Next, Helios, the grand god Of the sun,
and king of the armament, the material type
of the immaterial God, arrayed in his i'm
perial robes, woven with polychromatic
wool, into warp of splendid fire, whose
sceptre was solid carbuncle tipped with
flame, and whose imperial crown threatened
to kindle the universe into one wide mex
tinguishable confagration, mounted his
burning ehariot-throne, rolling upon wheels
of torrid amber, and drawn by steeds shod
with lightning, whose quiyering names
dropped golden frost, and whose lustrous
training were ablaze with Jewels and gold.