Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-05-27
Creation of Man.

Creation of Man.
Extract from sermon of Rev. w. E Munsey.
Man was created in Gods image.
There was a period, however re-
mote, when there was no material
thing-not breath of air, not a
triple of ether, not a particle of
matter, not minin of water, moth
ing ponderable or imponderable,
tangible or intangible, visible or
invisible, no elementary or mOdiac
thing-an inconceivable and indes-
cribable nihility-nothing. Being
no material causes there were no
material effects; hence there was
no light as to the result of material
agency, but universal and absolute
darkness filed all space-darkness
black as the ebOn pail of the dead,
black as hell'S sable badge and
pitchy scowl; darkness unrelieved
by the briefest spark or feeblest
gIimmer; darkness as measureleSs,
bOundles, and infinite as space. In
it God only was, and He filled it,
and His spirit floated instinct with
latent creative power upon every
Cimmerian wave which rolled
through the boundIess and bOtom-
less void.
But God resolved to commence
grand and stupendous work, and
the plelIipOtency of His triune God
head, Father, Son and Holy Ghost
for the text readS, I'm the begin
ming God created the heavens and
the earth"-by the almightiness of
His overcoming power, and let the
triumph OF His invincible 'Let it
be DONE" commencing in the awful
solitude of himself, He laid crea-
TONS foundation deep, wide, vast,
solid, heavy, incumbent on Nights
brawny back, and told the con-
quered king that PROSTATE upon the
ruins of his own shattered throne
he must bear the ponderOus load
without a culver or 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
verdant turf fringed with forests
and thrown around their broad
shoulders and tied there by rivers,
whose fountain lakelets lay glitter
ing upon their bosom like great
of solid crystal embossed
with miniature images Of their
planetary sisters shining away in
the zenith. Thus arrayed, and
their huge waists girded with oce-
anic zones, they Whirled out into
space, sought their appropriate or
bits, and commenced therun Of their
eternal circuits.
In harmonious accompaniment |
were the attendant moons circum-
volving, their primaries shaking
from their argentine locks sheeny
silver rattling down the sky and |
sea and land with beauty.
While from Gods great anvil, from |
every stroke Of His mighty ham,
mer, suns sprang blazing and habit
ed with fiery splendor and dazzling
assembled to their |
central thrones. And as Atlas of
old was forced by Jove to support |
the heaven on his head and hands, |
so imperial Night being conquered |
and forced by his conquerer to bear
up the foundation of all creation,
his black squadrOns were utterly /
and fed, and Light,
Beauty and Glory flung their man.
ties of azure, gemmed with stars,
over their retreat to hide their dus-
ky forms, and singing angels over
powered the discordant thunder of
their panic with lullabies over the |
cradle of an infant universe. Order,
full panoplied like Athene from the
head of Zeus, sprang from the mind
Of God and completed the work by |
the geometrical adjustment of all
creations parts, and hung the |
whole instinct with motion ane |
prOpless out in space magniticently
balanced.
But was creations work cOmple-
ted? To announce it so is rather |
was nearly finished, |
but not quite = creation had no
crown. The work had assembled in
traditional grandeur, the sublimest
method from naught to organic be-
ing but it lacked one piece to mag
cap the whole, perfecting
creation as to architecture and de-
sign, and connecting it in one solid
systena with the spiritual above.
Every line of order, every thread
Of unity, every chain of degrees,
had been carried up the climax, but
one piece was lacking to fasten all
the ends of the lines and thread and
chains, Welding them together in
itself, and ensuring the unity and
of the whole. Creation
lacked its microcosmical master
piece, man. Now, God called a
formal cOnvocation of
the persons Of the adorable Trinity.
Notwithstangind creations stupen-
dous scheme, and the problems to
solve in its building, and though
God in Trinity conceived the
and God in Trinity execu-
ted it, yet such a council appears
not to have been necessary before:
but now, God in Trinity counselled:
"Let US make man." so they re-
solved, but how?
The evening star gently opened a
window of her splendid home in
the far-off Hesperian, and stepped
out upon d cerulean balcony balus-
tired with sapphire, her beautiful
robe of ethereal azure, with borders
gllnted with vermillion falling /
gracefully about her lovely form,
her fair brow wearing a crown OF |
diamonds her IuXuriaIlt tresSe5 of |