The Kalispell bee., 1902-04-16

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who represented a mere fragment OF
humanity, but to Adam, who was the
father and representative of man, the
progenitor of all races of men
hence they are binding upon unlver-
sal man. Marriage and the Sabbath
are twin neutrality-suspicious. at
the dawn of human history by the
Great Creator and Father of man.
kind, and they are inwrought into the
constitution of the social and spirit
ual fabric of our complex humanity.
The earth was made for man and
man was made for God. Marriage
was made to bind men to men and
to God by pure and holy affections,
and the Sabbath was instituted as a
holy agency to bind the entire race
of Adam to God.
There was a two-fold purpose in
mans creation-work and worship.
"Dress the garden and keep it," was
the command given to Adam at the
close, probably, of the sixth day; but
the first morning upon which he
lifted his astonished eyes was the
commemorative festival day, when the
stars sang together and the sons of
God shouted for joy-the day set
apart for the alteration and praise of
the mighty God who created him and
his race, and made this marvelously
| beautiful world for their home. The
human race commenced it's career
/ ha hann6infinn nf
heaven rested upon that day. The
paradise in which our first parents
spent their first Sabbath together was
royal garden of Coda wonderland
of miracles in nature-a wilderness
of exquisite beauty-one vast orches-
ira of sweet sounding praise-a tenn
pie filled with the incense of sinless
and happy alteration. There is truth
as we'll as beauty in the thought that
if a marble statue, after being hewn
from the unsightly rock and polished
into a perfection of grace and beauty
were suddenly endowed with life and
intelligence, it's first impulse would
be to fall on it's knees and. worship
the artist to whom it owed its crea
ton. Undoubtedly, this was the first
the natural, the loving, reverentia'
and uncomfortable impulse of oul
first parents when first thrilled witt
a sense of God and of their own won
drous being.
God intended the day to be com
memorative not only of the creation
and fashioning of matter in it's won
derful forms, but also of the creation
of man-of man creature of TIVE
worlds-matter and spirit-half o
earth and half of heaven. There wa
day when matter was not and whel
man was not. There came a da.
when God said, ''Let matter be-, AM
it was. There came another day
when He took of the dust of matter
fashioned it into the form of man
breathed into it the breath of Hi
own divine immortal life and man be
came living SOUL and entered upol
, career which shall still be younj
| when suns and stars have foreve
set.
Were these creations worthy Q
, commemoration? Memory is the d
l vinely implanted faculty of history
Nothing is more congenial to nobl
, minds than the preservation of tn
| memory of great men and nobl
: deeds that they perish not from tn
earth. In order that justice may b
, done, that our intelligence may b
l enriched, that our gratitude may b
: awakened and our hearts may be in
: spired, we build monuments and sc
! apart days to recall their virtues an
' bring them into admiring and CRATE
, full remembrance. The Fourth G
5 July reminds us of the great achieve
: ments of our patriotic ancestors, Eel
: ruary %, recalls the memory anC
r services of one who bears the illus
: trious title Father of his Country.
2 Memorial day brings to mind tn
2 heroes who went down to death fo
- the preservation of our federal uniol
!, Each day has it's mission and it's edl
cational influence in developing. patr
2 otic feelings and in fostering sent
ments of reverence, admiration an
e obligation toward those to whom W
l are indebted for our institutions {
" civil and religious liberty.
2 We need these commemorative il
4 fiuences. They bid us to all that
e noble and inspiring in the past, pu
}, ify us from selfishness and sensua
: ity, deepen our sense of obligatio
y and contribute to the best element
0 of our individual and national life.
: nation without anniversaries is a nj
i ton without history or heroes, wit
out goodness or greatness, and u
S terly destitute of the ennobling sent
J. ment of gratitude to both God an
b man. Through all their long an
h eventful history, the Jewish nation;
i life was compacted and intensified b
S their anniversaries, and of these tn
0 greatest were those which celebrate,
} not the deeds of men, but the might
? works of God Take God from th