The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-11-11

has Q Father IN God. After that God had
spent much time and labor IN fitting and
furnishing the globe 70 be an abode. He
said, Let ua make man in our image. al
ter our likeness" IL Is written. so Qod
created man in His own image: formed
man Of the dust Of the ground and
hreathed into his nostrils the breath oi
life, and man became a living soul'-tht
masterpiece of divine Ingenuity and pow
er. in whom there is no premonitlon what
soever Of any higher physical life. Let
them have dominion over the FISH of the
: a. and over the fowl OF the air, and owe,
the cattle, and over all the earth. and owe,
every creeping thing that ereepeth upor
the earth" Divinely authenticated OF
heart and on brain, being Of boundles
aspirations, separated in moral and spirit
ual nature, as nv 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 docs not die
There 10 no death. What seems so 10
transition;
This life Of mortal breath
Ir hut suburb Of the life elvs'an,
Whose portal we all death"
The good which a man does lives for.
| ever. And the good man lives IN il. An
gustine in his confessions. Calvin in his
vindication. Watts and Wesley in the
psalms and hymns and spiritual SONGS by
| which Chr,stendom's praises are still az,
tuned. Robert Raikes. the publisher. and
Henry Duncan. the divine-the one stN
gathers the children and the other stlR
| 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 of Clemens Perthes. the learned pro-
= l.. 1..l L. L..
| dations OF the homes which omen 10 them
their hospitahk doors. Yonder at Wei:
| mar. that Metropolis of the poets OF
Germany" and hard by the grave ct
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
den tree. freed from sin through Jesus
| Christ, lies John Falk. Let every strange
child who visits this peaceful place dill.
gently prav for him. And because he
cared for little children, receive him, q
Lord, Thy child, unto Thysef."
Gone forever, ever No-for since our
dying race began.
Ever, ever, and forever was the leading
light Of man"
How are we TO explain thsg What is
| the philosophy of such power over the raw.
ages of time? NV dear friends, we ought
TO take some things out of the region ot
| speculative or ecclesiastical doctrine, where
they eeem sometimes to have been con.
| signed. We cannot contemplate immor-
tahty simply "a a doctrine OF the Bible. or
teaching of the church. II is more. II
| - 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 clearest
| evidence OF the existence OF Cody Nou
take 1t with you wherever you 60. Yon
yourself are that evidence. "The argu.
ment from design" You have il in your
| own body. the most wonderfully complete
| Of all known organisms The argument
| from being" In the consciousness OF
yonr own dependence. YOU have convic.
ton not to be salnsayed 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 rs duodecimo universe. The
| human soul is a mirror which reflects God
| IL is true the image rs marred and OBJ
| scured there is but little OF the intuitive
| knowing: the traces of the inherent right
| eousness are very feeble: the dow Of the
| essential holiness ~ torpid and inert-the
| image is broken one; the picture is q
| moving picture; the lines in II are not
straight; they are vibratory-but the like.
ness IL there. To be a man is 10 have
some perceptlble trace in God.
| NV dear friends, however broken and
marred the image NAV be in any, Christ is
| able to restore II in all And that verify il
the whole aim of Christianity; to bring us
| back to what God first intended us to he
| 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.