Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-11-10

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nal. Il had an actual and definite begin.
ming Man is not the child of chance, he
hasa Father in God After that God had
snent much time and labor in fitting and
furnishing the globe to be an abode. He
said. "T,et lis make man in our image. at.
ter our likeness" Tt is written. $50 God
created man in His own image; formed
man of the dust of the ground and
hreathed into his nostrils the breath OF
life, and man became nvlns sou, n nom.
masterpiece of divine ingenuity and pow
er in whom there is no Dremonition 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 over
the cattle. and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creeepeth upon
the earth" Divincy authenticated on
heart and on brain, being OF boundess
aspirations, senarated in moral and spirit
nal nature. as by an impossible gulf from,
all other animal orders, man is at the heao
rational responsible. immortal.
How often we speak that word "lmmor'
tal!' Man does not die
"There ia no death What seems so IL
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but 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: Az
gustne in his confessions. CALVIN IN me-
vindication. Watts and Wesley IN INC
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs by
which Christendom's praises are still at
tuned Robert Raikes. the publisher, an ti
Henry Duncan. the divine-the one stu
gathers the children and the other still
guards the treasures of the poor. Through
out all Germany. amid their rest less 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-
lessor of Bonn. because he laid the foun'
dations of the homes which omen to them
their hospitab'e doors. Yonder at Wei.
mar, that "Necropois 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 I'M
den 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, q
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 lmmor
tally simply as doctrine of the Bible, OF
teaching of the church 1t is more. 1t
is 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 God? You
take it with You wherever you go. You
yourself are that evidence. "The argu'
ment from design You have it in yout
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'
ton not to be gainsayed OF Him on whom
you depend. Created az he is in Gods i'm
age, man is an epltomc OF all Gods crea'
tioa. He is n duodecimo universe. Tho
human soul is A mirror which reflects God
1t is true the image is marred and OBJ
scured: there is but little of the ntuitivu
knowing; the traces of the inherent right
eousness are very feeble: the TOW OF the
essential holiness i. torpid and inert-ihe
| image is n broken one; the picture is a
straight; they are vihratory-but the like
| ness is there, 70 be man is to have
some pprcephhle 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 il
| the whole aim oE Christianity; TO bring us
| back to what God first intended ns to hr
| 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.