The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-04-25

Now attention. Poor humanity is out of
harmony with itself. That's what's the matter.
l don't think humanity is rotten. 1t is out of
harmony with itself. To Illustrate: God said
to Eve the seed of woman shall bruise your heel.
And it is a fact. l never saw a fellow yet that
didn't limp on one foot. It's fact. Take the
best man in town and let him tell his expert
eDce. He will say: Brethren, have been serv-
ing God for twenty years, but have come poor.
limping gait" Take the best church in the
country. and it goes lame in one foot 1t has
got its hypocritical and no-accOunt members.
Amt that it? Take the best organized charity,
and the first thing you know the treasurer has
run away with the money.
Every thing goes limping on one foot. You
never saw anything that belonged to humanity
but had a limp. Did you ever see. in your life,
anything whether ii was in the church or out of
it, that didn't limp. They shall bruiSe the
serpent's head, but he will bruise your heel.
Are there any of you that don't limp. No, sir!
You all limp! Of course we limp Out of
harmony? Machinery not in good order? Now
attention, A well trained musician sits down to
the piano and sweeps his fingers over the keys.
l see frOwn gathers on his face, and the melody
of the instrument is destroyed. What is the
matter? He says three of those keys are out
of harmony. And those three keys that are out
of harmony are out of harmony with everything
in heaven and earth that is in harmony. l say
to him: CLOSE up that piano and tell it to get
itself into harmony with Itself" He says:
THAT piano can't do it, | say "Who can?"
He says: The man that made it, And take
the IMAM that made it, and he can sit down at
that piano and open up its movements. and he
can sit there with his wrench and hammer and
bring those keys up and when he brings them
up in harmony with the others, then they are in
harmony with everything in heaven and earth
1t is in harmony. Men like everything else. get
out of harmony. Sometimes man will do some
thing that judgment doesn't approve;
sometimes will and judgment both concur,
but conscience pulls back of them; and some
times will and conscience and judgment
all agree upon a nights drunk. and the fellow
wakes up sick in the morning. SO you see the
thing don't run right, and the very worst you
can say Of poor humanity is that it is out of
harmony with itself | am not running right.
! Here What is salvation? will tell you. Who
puts the piano in h armony with itself? The man
that made it. Who can put me in harmony
with myself? Can l do it? No sir. l can't
catch hold of my boot straps and lift myself up.
| am lifting down as fast as am lifting up, and
can't do it. 1 can't put myself in harmony
with myself. Well who can do it? The God
who made me. Boys get into harmony with
yourself. 1t is the best thing you can do.
Now some people could never be made to
| think that. They think we come up through evOu-
tOn wonder if that is so. whenever nature will
evOlute again l have been watching that thing.
My old grandfather was ninety-One when he
died, and he told me only short time before his
death, that he had never seen nature evOlute,
and he said his father told him he never saw it,
and have traced that back through my kin
| folks, and they, not one of them, ever saw nat
ure evolute. It's fact! 1t wouldn't evoute
when they were around. Now how many of us
believe we came from an animalcule? From an
animalcule to a tadpole, from a tadpole to a
lizard, from lizard to SQUIRREL and from
squirrel to monkey and from monkey to a
man. We don't! l don't believe man came
from monkeys; but when look at some fellows
I think they are heading that way, and will
likely reach there. But believe God made
| you and believe God made me, and that he alone
can put us into harmony with ourselves and it
behooves us to get into harmony with ourselves
if we are ever to be worth anything to ourselves
! or our felOw-men.