Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-09
DIVINITY In HUMANITY.
Rev. Holp Finds Many Evidences
Of It---Some Good Points
Made.
Good Things Are Contagious
And Goa Made Them So.
---Man's Goodness.

liiis is the old story of the Shield:
here stands shield and on either
side of it a knight. One declares
that the shield is gold: the other that
it is silver. Both men are right in
what way they affirm; both are wrong
in what they deny. They are look
| ing at different sides of the same
thing.
Here stands man eminent in
goodness, equally eminent in wicked
ness. AS one great man looks upon
hlin he says. "Man is a God" AS
another great man views him: MAN
IS devil" How are we to reconcile
these different statements concern
Ing the same thing? Only by saying
that man has both a divine and a
diaoolical side, and that the critics
are not measuring the same side
he Bible doesn't undertake to prove
| the existence of God, Of sin. nor the
immortality of the soul OF man.
Christ always treated men as though
they were immortal. He treated his
HE as though twere but a fragment
LOT that greater life to come. Ii the
Bible can take 50 much for granted.
| we certainly are safe in taking
improved The diabolical side of man.
We see enough Of it: we know
enough of it already. Goethe wanted
/ 10 mans doubts. He had enough of
/ his. own. but lie should be thankful
for anyone who gave beliefs that
were strengthening and soul-saving.
We know enough of the wickednces
OF man.-let us look this morning
upon his divine side.
Mountains and stars are among the
great wonders to man. but man him
self is infinitely the superior in Won
dermcnt Of the greatest mountain
and the greatest star.
Joseph Parker says, Knowing
that can pat the loftiest mountain
Of the earth under my feet, stand
upon it and lift my hands TO a height
it never climbed, am greater than
! The mountain.
Great Pascal said to the sun, II am
greater than thou; thou couldst fa!l
and crush NE, but ! should be con.
ScioQs Of defeat, whilst thou would
be UNCONSCIOUS Of victory"
pick VI a little shell from tbs
ocean side, place ii TO my ear and
am told the singular rolling sound /.
that Of the ocean itself. Man is til,
shell which reverberateS the sound OF
iwo ocean>,-the ocean of time anc
the greater ocean of eternity.
When Socrates said, Know thy
SELF" he taught man to know that
which was best and greatest in tn,
universe, saving only God.
The hero of an ancient love stor,
was said to possess human bod.
; unanlmated by the divine spirit
Perhaps after all, mans physica
being, wonderful as it is. tells only OF
a human body without a diyin.
: spirit. However. when we think q
ire pyramids. those great peIritiet
histories. petrtied prophecies: wher
We stand in St. Paul's and beholc
it. a crystallized Worship when w
look upon the Brooklyn bridge, tina
visible bond that uilites in marrlag
the city OF New York and the city o
) brooklyn: when we view the Grcel
Slave Of the Artist Powers, and lool
!, upon the mastery canvas of
. Wagner: when We sit entrauced 10
: hours listening to the imperSonatiol
of Hamlet" and "Mucheth' by
Booth Or a Barrett: when wc drink il
r the oratorio Of Elijah Creation.
The McSSiah.' as produced by III
5 uncqualed orchestra and chorus of
Theodore Thomas: when we Loo
through the telescope into TIL
: heavens above and realize that til
: power Of the eye has been hundred
: of times maGn!lied: when we hold tn
telephone to the ear and behold tina
its power of listening has bee
hundreds OF times multiplied: wic
a man in his own private home ca
place his finger upon little butte
and start in circulation the grca
machinery of Il National Exposition
f we must feel of man in general q
Miranda felt when she looked upo
. Ferdinand, son of the King 0
/ Naples, II might cali him Il thin
+ divine: for nothing national eve
. saw so noble"
\ Daniel Webster's success in til
, United States senate. in the suprenl
, court of the United States, befor
great popular asscmblages was som,
y thing almost unequalled in tn
!, history Of eloQucnce, and yet n
5 triumph that he ever won seemed t
\ require the whole of his resource
+ or to drain the hiding places OF hi