Milford chronicle., 1906-11-16
Ca(rage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage, D. D.

divine image are impressively pointed
out by the preacher in this sermon
from the text Genesis i, p. $50 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 surveyed i and pronounced it
very good. The illuminating fires had
been kindled, and the command had
gone forth. lie 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 star was
agleam. "AndiGod saw the light that
it was good, AID God divided the light
from the darktess. And God called the
light day. ap( the darkness he called
night. And tlf evening and the morn
ing were thekirst day"
That the dlf land might be separated
from the dep seas the waters were
driven back'until they crouched and
growled andfawned at the foot of the
mountains. The great hOllOws were
scOoped out of the ocean beds and
tossed intolheaps. The rivers were
turned lOosi and allowed to cut their
way throua the valleys and squirm
among the fills and push on and on in
their serpAtine- windings until they
were lost h the great bosom of the
seas. Tho Mount Shasta arose and
stood senInel over tile Pacific. The
MatterhoI was detailed to keep its
eyes up9 tie Mediterranean, and
Mount Washington was stationed to !
watch til Atlantic Then the volca- (
noes hadheir hemOrrhages and breath |
ed forth heir hot breath and vOmited |
in their Avful agonies.
Then lora rambled forth to cover up I
the ghjtly wounds of a suffering
world, 18th her bandages of green and
yellow ind white. She planted the
erocus the foot of the snow bank, and
coverejthe hillsides with forests, and
seated her seeds far and wide in the
valley Then, chasing the shadows
from kder the trees, she sprang from
the Flands and climbed the lofty
cliffsllutching this crevasse and that
craghlancing here and Nesting there,
untilE last the rocks, like Jacobs IA
voritson, stood bedecked in garments
of my colors. The garden of Eden
wasblOOm. The desert was blossom
ing the rose. The white lily and the
red'se and the blue fOrgetmenot, as
higrieStesses before the affairs of the
mdtains, were swinging their in
GET of praise: "And the earth brought I
fol grass and herb, yielding seed aft
:et B kind, and the tree yielding fruit {
" he seed was in itself after its kind, I
a God saw that it was good. And J
tavening and the morning were the
day"
slen God reached forth his hand and (
fhed the waters. and the mighty {
Hathans of the deep began to move. /
= goldfish swan among the entan- q
l thickets of kelp. The speckled f
hut leaped from the eddy. The won I
8ful aquariums of the seas had their q
Nriads of inhabitants. Then God q
Iched the land, and the woods were /
lleys became great pasture field, d
led with browsing herds. Then he c
|uched the airSAnd the heavens were :.
lied with vibrating wings and made a
elOdiOus with songs of the prima +,
)nnas Of the skies. And God saw that Il
] the works of his hand were good. a
And the evening and the morning b
ere the fifth day" \
In His own Image. Il
Everywhere we turn we see the bless il
g of Gods creation. No grass could s.
greener, no sky could be bluer, no +
ngs could be sweeter All the seas et
d the lands and the skies We're filled 81
It'll glOries. Thus all things were b
ldy for mans advent. The curtain fl
the worlds drama was lifted for the Il
ief actors about to perform their el
rts. Two mighty thrones Of power in
ere pushed forward, upon which were h,
sit the twain who were created only IL
little lower than the angels. So on b.
2 sixth day God created man in his HI
N image; male and female created 81
them. And God blessed them. And te
ID said unto them, Be fruitful and IL
lltiply and replenish the earth and V,
bdue it, and have dominion over the CO
b of the sea, and over the fowl Of the b,
/, and over every living thing that b,
'veth upon the earth. And God saw So
erything that he had made, and, be- fl
ID, it was very good. And the even til
, and the morning were the sixth ca
r." ",
low, what does the word image" in al
great climax of Gods creation hi
an? When God says, II have made III
n in my own image" does it mean, ru
a great author suggests, that God br
ended to say that he was only ga in
gnified MANI? "Oh, no." you an III
eE; that is not the meaning of that so
sage. The catechism tells us that an
i is a spirit, infinite, eternal and I'M tn
ngeable. The idea of worshiping be
j as a physical body is a material tn,
little different from that of the M
age. If we do this, we can bow be- ha