Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-21
"MAN'S RELIC NITURE."
Outline of DIR. Mowhinnsy's Sunday Morn.
ing Discourse.

From Morning EdIion.l
"Man's Religious Nature was the theme
of DR.. McWhinneys discourse at the Chris
tan church yesterday morning, founded
upon the text, "Thou Shalt Worship the
Lord Thy God, and Him Only Shalt Thou
Serve, Matthew, iv., 10.
The speaker sought to establish three i'm
porlant propositions; FIRST, That God had
made the human soul for worship, as Ger
tanly as he had made the beaver to construct
his dam, or the eagle to soar aloft. In
proof OF this, it was claimed that man had
been worshiper in all countries of the
world and during all historic time that
religion, in some torn, had been and is now
AS universal and wide spread as the race OF
mankind. This universal phenomena
can only be accounted for upon
the supposition OF the souls native
religosi,y. In6delity had sought to explain
this universal fact of human history, IN other
ways than that OF supposing that religion is
incorporated in the nature of the soul But
these various explanations were shown to be
devoid of all sound reason. Semi -barbarous
people, long ago, distinguished man from the
rest of animated rature by giving him the
title OF "worshiping animal"
BY defining the term religion it was shown
that this was the chief faculty OF the soul, in
that it made man the connecting link be-
TWEEN the great Father and his sublunary
universe and was designed to bind fallen hu-
manity back to the Holy Infinite. Secondly
this native disposition to worship has led the
benighted mind OF man to deity some object
or objects, being or beings, appropriate
moral character to them and then worship
them. This statement was illustrated
by reference to the history OF idolatry. 1t WAS
impossible, in the nature OF things, for man to
give a better character to these supposed del
ties than was possessed by himself, and it
there fore followed that depravity worshiped
deprayty, until the whole head was sick and
the whole heart faint" Hence "mau's ne
cessty was Gods opportunity" TO reveal the
character of Him whose lite was spotless and
whose divinity was complete, and to impose
the obligation, Thou shalt worship the Lord
thy God"
Thirdly, The worshipcr is transformed into
the moral image, or character Of the being
| wOrshiped or conceived to belong thereto.
| The rapidity with which a man is made over
into the spiritual likeness of the being wor.
| SHIPPED is in the ratio of his faith and
| the intensity OF his devotion. SO that the
worshiper of God as manifested in the per.
son OF Jesus Christ, is not he who
makes the loudest profession, but he who ex
hibts the nature of his faith and the ter
vency OF his worship, by lite OF truth anC
honesty, and who manifests spirit of gentle
ness, love and good will TO mankind Tn,
priest at the altar of Budbah voices the cor
rectness Of this proposition when he say
ale that worships Budhah and is not mad
like Budhah worships only with the lips anc
not with the heart" Christian worship aim
at nothing less, it could aim at nothin,
greater than that OF bringing the soul of mai
into bisstul harmony with God, and His Law
of love. Only through such divine instru
mentality can life be made success, death
triumph and heaven glorious reality.
The above ia only a brief outline of ser
mon, which to have been highly appreciated
needed only TO have been heard