Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-07-23

peareu IN OutWaru tOrm. AS StpOu III /
the main building OF the Chicago Fair
and noted its vast proportions, its great
height, its beautiful appointments
was led to say What hath God
wrought through the intellectual
agency Of His creature, MANI AS l
stood on Brooklyn bridge on beauti-
full morning, and noted carefully its
construction | was amazed and aston.
ished at the ingenuity displayed, and
was staggered in thought as looked
around me at the great cities OF New
York. Jersey City and Brooklyn. with
the throbbing life on the river, and all
about me. As stood on the pinnacle
of the great auditorium OF Chicago and
on the tower of the Masonic Temple OF
the same city. and as from the top of
the great Ferris wheel | viewed that
great city, | said there seems to be no
limit to the ingenuity and the intellect
OF man, and this same thought came
to me as passed over the great loop
in the Rocky Mountains, up the clear
erect cannon and as | went far into a
tunnel under the mountain among the
gold diggers and silver miners, as l
have stood ut my Claymont home and
watched the palatial steamers on the
beautiful Delaware, as have thought
Of our swiftly moving railroad trains,
the telegraph, the telephone, the Cable,
the phonograph, the electric light, the
X-rays invention, and indeed the
thought crowds itself upon me contin-
ually wherever go.
Intellect! What has il not attempted.
Tako science and philosophy, and what
have they not accomplished?
have tried to show what man is from
physical and an intellectual stand
point, and now conclude with some
thoughts as to what is man in a
spiritual sense. promised to note
under this heading mars likeness to
God, as it is written, LET us make
man in our image after our likeness. "
We inquire what likeness or image was
it? We read that "God ia spirit,
and God is love- And remark that
we are like God In that we have
spirit and that We are capable of lnv-
ing. That man is a spiritual being
needs no argument, From the begin
ming he has given evidence that he has
a spirit, and that he is q worshipper
1t seems he must worship something,
even il 1t be golden calf, golden
image, the sun, moon and planets,
beasts, birds or any conceivable thing
known under the face, OF heaven. Al
God, our God, the living true God, who
made heaven and earth, and all things
knew man must worship, and as liz
is a jealous God, He has forbidden thu
worship of idols of wood and stone OF
any:other creature, and He says, "Thor
shalt have no other gods before me-
Thou shalt not mako unto thee any
craven image or any likeness Of AM
thing that Is in heaven above or on tht
earth beneath, or in the waters beneath
the earth, for |, the Lord thy God an
Jealous God, visiting the iniquit,
of the father upon the children to th
third and fourth generations of then
that hate me, and showing mercy unit
thousands OF them that love me ant
: keep my commandments. ~ We canno
SEQ God with our physical eyes, "
, cannot hear Him with our physica
ears, but His voice is low and still il
the secret recessos of the heart. til
seat OF our spiritual consciousness
1t is written, Eye hath not seen, no
heart of man the good things prepare
by God for those that love Him, bu
! God hath revealed them unto us b
His Holy Spirit" God is in us, an
, with us, supping with us and we wit
Him. Do you say We have not felt thi
} sweet peace and juyi | answer, "As
} and ye shall receive, seek and 80 sha
= find, knock and it shall be opened
! Oh, ask earnestly, sesk diligently
knock constantly until you receive th
: Holy Ghost, and get into the secret {
the presence OF tho living God. ii
will give you the sweet abiding peac
: that passeth all understanding.
1t was hard task to teach men 1
ages past about the spirituality of Coo
apart from some visible object whic
!. their eyes could see. Alas that it
r still hard to teach people to trust i
a Him who is invisible. Jesus Chris
; the Son Of God said TO Thoma.
i, "Blessed are they that have not see
! and yet have believed" IIe also sal
: to the woman Of Samaria, "But I'll
j, hour cometh and now is when the tru
a worshippers shall worship the FathC
= in spirit and in truth, for the Faith,
!, seeketh such to worship Him. God
!. spirit, and they that worship Iii
. must worship Him in spirit and
. truth.
r The kingdom of God ia within u
o anu Ny lhlth VIC eullHTe HS httllb III
"a who is invisible Thus we find ma
J. is like God in His spiritual nature an
d IN His love, and the image of God
|, man shattered by Adams fall and sii
o is restored by faith in Jesus Chris
. the Saviour and Redeemer Of the Iae
d neither is there salvation in any othe
,. Standing outside tho great cath
y draI, the stained glass windows presei
II a Cunglumerate and motley appearanc
Ii irregular and repul6ivn. But 90 ii
10 side the building and look out, and yt
10 ara pleased at the artistic beau
ia wrought into them. Ii ia so in q
Kingdom of grace, What is man? !
N is a temple! And God dweIla in hin
re and speaks to him, SUBS with hir
O.. rules, guides and lends him into ii
II paths of righteousness, the ways
a vision whose ways are indeed happ
ii ness and peace! True religion is bett
4s felt than told!
=? What is man. A miracle OF Co
is He has physical powers, intellectu
TX powers, spiritual powers. Elo ia not
h machine, but free moral agent /
o. reasons, lntrustcd with such u wo
10 derful responsibility as human forr
r. let us take good care OF our physic
ly bodies, develop and imprc We our Go
I'd given intellects, and reach out Il
gf hand of faith in thanksgiving to 9,
in day by day for the sweet gift of lii
id Whom we cannot understand, NAV G.,
o give US Il child like trust, to rest
I'd the promise that lie who made us "
ct never leave us, nor fnrsake us
u Yes, life is precious Gift. To lIy