The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-11-10
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given, OF him shall much be required, iS
the law universally here applied: That Is
the principle underlying this whole matter.
Children of God be imitators OF God. No
biesse Oblige. Nobility imposes the obIi'
CATION of nobleness. BE ye therefore im-
itators OF God. as beloved children
Whence am /? 1t is the old question by
which every man is confronted as soon rs
he begins to draw lines OF distinction be.
tween himself and his surroundings. And
here. as everywhere. no comment on the
works of God like the word OF God. In
the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth" That sentence scatters dark
ness and doubt The world IS not eter-
nal; it had an actual and definite begin
ming Man is not the child of chance: he
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 III our image. at.
ter our likeness 1t is written. so 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'-the
masterpiece of divine ingenuity and pow.
e.. 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, md over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth" Divine!y authenticated on
heart and on brain, being OF boundieSs
aspirations, separated in moral and spirit
ilal nature, as by an impassahie gulf. from,
al! other animal orders, man is at the head
rational. responsible, immortal:
How often we speak that word "immor-
tal!' 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 VIC 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
rindication. Watts and Wesley in the
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs by
which Christendom's praises are still at.
tuned Robert Raikes. the publisher, and
Henry Duncan. the divine-thc one still
gathers the children and the other still
guards the treasures Of the DOOR. 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-
fessor OF Bonn. because he laid the foun-
dationS OF the homes which omen to them
their hospitabie doors. Ionder at Wei.
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 tins lin
den tree. freed from sin through Jesus
Christ, lies John Fak. Let every strange
child who visits this peaceful place dill.
gently pray for him. And because he
cared for little children. receive him, y
Lord, Thy child, unto Thyseif.'
"Cone forever! ever, No--ior 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: Nv 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-
taiity simply as doctrine of the Bible. or
teaching of the church. IT is more. 1t
is vital power in the life. Given the
Fatherhood OF God and the mmortalityNof
man is the demonstration of human life.
Do YOU seek the strongest and clearest
take it with YOU wherever you 90. You
| yourself are that evidence. The argl-
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 convic-
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 duodecmo 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 intuitivc
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 a
moving picture; the lines in it are not
straight; they are vibratory-but the like
ness is there TO he ran is to have
some pereeptiiole trace in God.
My dear friends. however broken and
malTed 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
hack 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.