The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
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T OS ANGELES, Cal, November IL
The differences from the Scriptural
statement that the human race
originally bore the divine image are i'm
pressiveiy pointed out by the preacher
in this sermon. from the text Genesis l.
q, so God created man In HIS own
image"
The first leaf of the worlds history had
been turned. The stupendous task of
creation approached completion. God sur
veyed it and pronounced it very good.
The Illuminating fires had been kindled
and the command had gone forth, Let
there be light, and there was light" The
heavens were hung with tapestries of
blue, and the white clouds of the day
were trimmed with gold and the black
curtains of the night bespangled. Every
tar was agleam And God saw the light
that 1t was good. and God divided the
light from the darkness. And God called
the light day, and the darkness he called
night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
That the dry land might be separated
from the deep seas the water were driven
back until they crouched and growled
and fawned at the foot of the noun
tains. The great hollows were scooped
out of the ocean beds and tossed into
heaps. The rivers were turned loose and
allowed to cut their way through the
valleys and squirm among the hills and
push on and on in their serpentine wind
ings until they were lost in the great
bosom of the seas. Then Mount Shasta
arose and stood sentinel over the Pa
cific. The Matterhorn was detailed to keep
its eyes upon the Mediterranean, and
Mount Washington was stationed to
watch the Atlantic. Then the volcanoes
had their hemorrhages ana breathed
forth their hot breath and vomited in
their awful agonies.
Then Flora rambled forth to cover up
the CHASTITY wounds of a suffering world,
with her bandages of green and yellow
and white. She planted the crocus at the
foot of the snow bank and covered the
hillsides with forests, and scattered her
seeds far and wide in the valleys. Then.
chasing the shadows from under the
trees, she sprang from the lowlands and
climbed the lofty cliffs, cutching this
crevasse and that crag, balancing here
and nesting there, until at last the
rocks, like Jacobs fayorite son, stood
bedecked in garments of many colors.
The garden of Eden was abloom. The
desert was blossoming as the rose. The
white lily and the red rose and the blue
forgetmenot as high priestesses before
the affairs of the mountains, were swing
ing their incense of praise: And the
earth brought forth grass and herb,
yielding seed after its kind. and the tree
yielding fruit whose seed was in Itself
after its kind, and God saw that 1t was
good And the evening and the morning
were the third day.
Then God reached forth His Hand and
touched the waters, and the mighty
leviathans of the deep began to move
The goldfish swan among the entangled
thickets of kelp. The specified trout
leaped from the eddy. The wonderful
aquariums of the sea had their myriads
of inhabitants. Then God touched the land
and the woods were turned into great
menagerie, and the valleys became q
great pasture field, filed with browsing
herds. Then he touched the air. and the
heavens were filled with vibrating wings
and made melodious with songs Of the
prima donnas of the skies. And God saw
that all the works of His hand were good.
And the evening and the morning were
the third day
In His Own Image.
Everywhere we turn we see the bless
ing of Gods creation No grass could
be greener, no sky could be pluer, no
songs could be sweeter. All the seas and
the lands and the skies were filled with
glories. Thus all things We're ready for
mans advent. The curtain of the worlds
drama was lifted for the chief actors
about to perform their parts Two mighty
thrones of power were pushed forward,
upon which were to sit the twain who
angels. So on the sixth day God created
man in His own image; male and female
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And God said unto them: Be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the earth and sub
due it, and have dominion over the fifth
of the sea. and over tho fowl of the air