The record-union., 1899-03-26

end Of the teleScope-the star that Is
looking, not looked after nor looked at.
And again: Man is the jewel of God,
who has created this material world to
keep his treasure in"
Emerson: o rich and various man!
thou palace of sight and sound, carry
ing in thy senses the morning and the
night and the unfathomable galaxy; IN
thy brain the geometry of the city OF
God; in thy heart the power of love
and the realms of right and wrong. An
individual man is a fruit which it cost
all the foregoing ages to form and rip
en-. He is strong not to do, but to live;
not in his arms, but in his heart; not
as an agent. but as a fact.
Pascal: What a chimera Is man!
What singular phenomenon! What
chaos! What a scene Of contrariety! A
judge Of all things, yet feeble worm;
the shrine Of truth, yet mass of
doubt and uncertainty; at once the
glory and the scorn of the universe. If
he boasts, lower him; if he lowers him.
self, 1 raise him; either way contra
dict him, till he learns that he is a
monstrous, incomprehensible mystery.
Henry Giles: Man is greater than a
-
is more mystery in the union Of soul
with the physical than in the creation
of a universe.
Man perfected by society," says
Aristotle, lis the best of all animals;
he is the most terrible of all when he
lives without law and without justice. =
Omit a few of the most abstruse
Sciences" says another obs rvant THINK
er, and mankind's study OF man oc-
cupies nearly the whole field of lltera-
ture The burden of history is what
man has been; Of law, what he does; OF
physiology and the story OF to-day.
what he isl of ethics, what he ought to
be; of revelation, what he shall be-"
In the Book of Genesis we have this,
when written and by whom no man can
tell: And God said, let us make man
in our own image and after our like
ness; and let him have dominion over
the fish of the sea- and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. So
God created man in his own image; in
the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them And God
saw everything that he had made, and
behold it was very good"
And Paul, writing to the Corinthians.
says to them: "Know We not that We
are the temple of God, and that the
spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any
man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of
God is holy, which temple We are
Again: Whats know we not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?"
All this and infinitely more is said of
man. Each of US here present has
that skull which will soon be ready for
the pencil of the thoughtful querist
Where will we be then-you and I?
Each Of US is that paragon of animals;
upon each of US those realms of infinite
truth burst open from above; each OF
us is that inscrutable mystery of God
that palace of light and sound that out
come of the ages, that scene of contra
riety, that best and worst of animals
that satrangest of beings who makes
himself so much the subject of thought
and discussion as with that alone al
most to monOpoliZe the wide field of lit
erature. Each of us is made in the
image and likeness of God-words we
might well say with .bated breath-and
each of US should be the temple of the
indwelling spirit of God--Lecture by J.
P. McCaSkey