The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-11-09

ness and doubt. The world e not eter-
nal: IL had an actual and definite begin.
ming. Man is not the child Of chance: he
has Father in God. After that God had
spent much time and labor in fitting and
furnishing the globe to be an abode. He
said, "Let us make man in our image. of.
ter our likeness" It is written. $50 God
created man in His own image formed
man of the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrls the breath Of
life, and man became a living souP'-the
masterpiece of divine ingenuity and pow
er, in whom there is no premonition what
soever. of any higher physical life. let
them 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" Divinely authenticated on
heart and on brain, n being of boundless
aspirations, separated in moral and spirit
ual nature, as by an impossible gulf, from
all other animal orders, man is Mt the head
rational. responsible immortal
How often we speal; that word "immor.
tall" Man does not die
"There is no death. What seems so is
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elvsian,
Whose portal we Ill death"
The good which man does lives for.
ever. And the good man lives in it, Au-
gustine in his confessions. Calvin in his
vindication. Watts and Wesley in the
psalms aud hymns and spiritual songs by
which Chrstendom's praises are still at.
tuned. Robert Raikes. the publisher, and
Henry Duncan. the divine-the one still
gathers the children and the other still
guards the treasures OF the poor. Through
out all Germany, amid their restless lives
and the many temptations of their career,
hundreds of young iourneymen mechanics,
who know not the name. still bless the
hand of Clemens Perthes. the learned pro.
fessor of Bonn, because he laid the foun-
dations of the homes which omen to them
mar, that Metropolis of the poets of
Germany" and hard by the grave Of
Goethe, who was the prince Of them all,
is the resting place OF one whose fame was
different indeed from theirs, but on whose
tomb the epitaph runs: Under this lin.
den tree. freed from sin through Jesus
Christ, lies John Falk. Let every strange
gently pray for him. And because he
cared for little children, receive him.. O
Lord, Thy child, unto Thyself"
"Gone forever! ever? MOTOR since our
dying race began,
Ever, ever, and forever was the leading
light of man."
How are we to explain this? What is
the philosophy of such power over the raw.
ages of time? My dear friends, we ought
to take some things out of the region OF
speculative or ecclesiastical doctrine, where
they seem sometimes to have been con-
signed. We cannot contemplate immor.
tahty simply as doctrine of the Bible, or
teaching of the church. 1t is more. II
is a vital power in the life. Given the
Fatherhood of God and the immortality Of
man is the demonstration of human life.
Do you seek the strongest and cearest
evidence Of the existence of God? You
take it with you wherever you 60. You
yourself are that evidence. "The argu.
ment, from design" You have it in your
own body, the most wonderfully complete
of all known organisms. "The argument
from being?" In the consciousness OF
your own dependence, you have a convic.
tion not to be gainsayed of Him on whom
you depend Created as he is in Gods inn
age, man is an epitome Of all Gods crea.
ton. He is duodecimo universe. The
human soul is mirror which reflects God
1t is true the image is marred and OBJ.
scured; there is but little of the intuitve
knowing; the traces of the inherent right
eousness are very feeble; the flow of the
essential holiness is torpid and inert-the
image is broken one; the picture is q
straight; they are vibratory-but the like
ness is there. To be man is to have
: some perceptible trace in God.
My dear friends, however broken and
marred the image may be in any, Christ is
able to restore it in all. And that verify is
| the whole aim of Christianity; to bring us
back to what God first intended us to be
Believers in Christ are in Him created
anew unto good works and have renewed
in themselves the whole man after the i'm
age of God in knowledge and righteousness
and true holiness.