The Penn's Grove record., 1904-11-11

has a 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, at
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 nostrils the breath of
life, and man became a living soul'-tie
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
s,a, and over the fowl of tire air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing hat creepeth upon
the earth" Divinely authenticated on
heart and on brain, a being of boundless
aspirations, separated in moral and spirit
ual nature, as by an impossible gulf, from
all other animal orders, man is at the head
rational. responsible, immortal.
How often we speak 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 eivsian,
Whose portal we all death"
The good which a man does lives for
ever. And the good man lives in it. An
g~ustine in his confessions. Calvin in his
fiiAA%dbAOns ats IlQ fCsifN III tue
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs by
which Christendom'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 journeymen mechanics.
who know not the name. still bless the
hand 10 CNa-o1@- D1-Klo- H. 1-o.-zI -
lessor OF Bonn. because he laid the fOun-
daE01s of the homes which open to them
eneir hospitable doors. Yonder at Wei
mar, that Metropolis of the poets OF
Germany" and hard Ia the grave Of
Goethe, who was the prince of them all,
is the resting place Of one whose fame was
different indeed from theirs. hut on whose
tomb The epitaph runs: "Under this lin
der tree. freed from sin through Jesus
Christ, lies John Falk. Let every strange
child who visits this peaceful place dill
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 nave been con-
signed. We cannot contemplate immor-
tahty simply as a doctrine of the Bible, or
a teaching of the church. Tt is more. 1t
is a vital power in the life. Given the
Fatherhood of God and the Immortality Of
man is the demonstration of human life.
Do V0u caplr tha cfron0pSt and claaract
evidence Of the existence of God? You
take it with you wherever you go. 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 convie-
ton not to be gainsayed Of Him on whom
you depend. Created as he is in Gods i'm
age. man Is an epitome of all Gods crea-
ton. He is a duodecimO universe. Ehe
human soul is a mirror which reflects God.
1t Is true the image Is married and OBJ
seured; there is but little of the intuitive
knowing; the traces of the inherent right
eousness are very feeble: the flow of the
essential holiness is torpid and inert-the
image is a broken one; the picture is a
moving picture; the lines in it are not
straight; they are vibratory-but the like
ness is there. To be a 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 inn
age of God in knowledge and Righteousness
and true holiness.