The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-30
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all other animal orders, man is Mt the heao
rational. responsible. immortal:
How often we speal that word "immor'
tal!" Man docs not die
"There is no death. What seems so is
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is hit a suburb Of the life %eIvsian,
Whose portal we Ill death"
The rood which a man does lives for
over. And the good man lives in it. Az
justine in his confessions. Calvin in his
vindication. Watts and Wesley in the
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs by
which Christcndom's praises are still at
timed. 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 livei
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
lessor of Bonn. because he laid the fonn'
dations of the homes which omen to them
their hospitah'e doors. Yonder at Wei.
mar. that "Necropolis 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
child who visits this peaceful place dill
gently prav for him. And because he
cared for little children, receive him, O
Lord, Thy child, unto Thyscif."
"Gone forever! ever? MOTOR since our
diving 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 ray
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
tally simply as a doctrine OF the Bible. OF
q teaching Of the church. It is more. II
is a vital power in the life. Given thu
Fathcrhood of God and the Immortality Of
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Do you seek the strongest and ~elearest
take it with you wherever you 60. YOU
yourself are that evidence. "The argu
ment from design" You have it in youl
own body, the most wonderfully complete
of all known Organisms. 'The argument
from being" in the consciousness o.
your own dependence, you have a convlc
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 q duodecimo universe. The
human soul is o mirror which reflects God
1t is true the image is marred and Oh
scured; there is but little of the lntultivt
knowing; the traces of the inherent right
eousness are very feeble; the flow OF thu
essential holiness is torpid and incrt-.tht
image is a broken one; the picture is
straight; they are ribratory-but the like
ness il there. To be a man is to have
some perceptible trace in God.
My dear friends, however broken ant
married the image may be in any, Christ i
able to restoroi st in ell. And that verify i
the whole aim of Christianity: to bring. IL!
back to what God first intended us to be
Believers in Christ are in Him created
anew unto good works and nave renewed
in themselves the whole man after the i'm
age of God in knowledge and Righteousness:
and true holiness.