Milford chronicle., 1906-11-16


came and stole the food they thought
their god ate it. Furthermore, they
would not believe their idol did moi
eat this food until a northern con
quer0r lifted his battleaX and smote
the idol and broke it and pointed to
the rats sculTying out Of its ruins MS
they flee from sinking ship. Thus
when we say. God made man after
his own image" we mean, MAN was
created after the spirit of Cod We
are all ready to grant that One little
drop of water is like unto all the great
waters of the mighty deep Thus. as
an mfnitesisal drop of water. man
was created like unto the infinite spirit
of Cod Now. let US study for little
while in what sense man was created
in the image of God.
The first godlke quality which over
whelms the students of eschatology is
the fact that man is an immortal be-
ing. Though we may open the Bible
and write up the family records and
say my father was born Jan. T. 1892.
we have no right to say that he died
April -, 1902 We may speak of n
child as having been born into this
world on Il certain hour of certain
day: but. once born. thar child will
never die. He may die to our sight
but he is not really dead, but is trans
lated TO another life. He will never
lie He will live on. as the monarchy
Of a European throne lives on. No
sooner did Queen Victoria of England
breathe her last than the Prince of
Wales became king. Aye, man shall
live on longer than that. He will live
on through the centuries and the mil
lenniums and the ages. He will live
on until the consultations of the heav-
ems shall be snuffed out. He will live
on until the very rocks under our feet
crumble into dust with age and the
mountains above us are incinerated
and scattered to the four corners Of
space. Still man will live on. He will
live forever and ever. He will never
die. When God created man he made
him immortal, as he is immortal.
A Wonderful Fact.
This Immortality of man is the most |
wonderful fact to me about man, for |
when l try to fully grasp what that |
one word Immortality" means feel
as though mighty mountain ranges
were towering one above another into
space. When try to conceive
that man, with all his powers of love
and hate. joy and suffering, will live
on and on forever, then say, snow
realize why the salvation of man was
so important that Christ came here to
suffer and die to achieve it." ImmOr-
tality! Oh, what word! AS bird it
IAN fly swifter than the light, yet its
wings never tire. Those wings will
continue to fly on forever and ever.
The wandering jew" that Eugene Sue
pictures was condemned on account of
past sin to live on until he lOutlived
III his generation. He lived on, suf-
ering the agonies of remOrse, until he
begged God to let him die. But man
Ioes not live on as did the great char
cter of the French novelist. If man
ms and is condemned for his sins, he
must suffer an eternal punishment. He
nav plead with God to let him die, as
he wounded soldier sometimes pleads {
With his comrades to shoot him to
nd his agony, but man by his inherent {
allure can never die. Man is immortal.
Ian will live on and on forever. 8
To prove to you that man is immortal /
re do not have to turn the leaves Of /
he Bible alone. We find that this in a
mite truth is Unborn in every human e
cart. We wander among the tOmbs a
{ the ancient Greeks, and what do we
nd? A piece of coin placed in the
louths Of the dead to pay their way t
yer the river Styx, for the ferryman S
Z the river of Death was supposed to a
e paid, like every other ferryman. We d
D among the ancient Arabs, and what d
D we find? The mOurners about this Il
Drpse are not saying. HE is dead,' but "
He is alive" We pass to the inhabit II
lts Of the islands of the seas, and W
the Aztecs Of ancient Mexico. and to fl
le old mound builders of America, o.
nd everywhere we find the universal b
alief that the grave does not end all. 4"
Ow, my friends, do you believe that ir
lis universal belief of the human race al
llG lllluOIldilAN VI man 10 d AhNAN ] Ill
Iperstition? Listen to these words Of h
enry Ward Beecher; l would have al
ch one of them burn itself into your te
nj: Il never saw a man who did not bl
,lieve in the Immortality of love when SC
flowing the body of a loved one to h;
e grave. have seen men under 9th sa
circumstances that did not believe be
it, but never saw man who, when Sc
stood looking upon the form of one al
at he really loved stretched out for al
lrial, did not revolt from saying: 1t m
is all come to that. The hours of an
rect companionship, the wondrOus in w
Racing Of congenial souls, the joys, to
e hopes, the trusts, the unutterable ha
arnings-there they all lie No man M
n stand and look in a coffin upon the W,
dy of a fellow creature and remem- In
r the flaming intelligence, the bios ca
ming love, the whole range Of divine wi
o,1Iffos which sO latplv animated i'm