The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-12
MANS DlvlNlTy-Goo's GLORY"
Subject Of Impressive Discourse BY
Pastor Of Lutheran Church
Last Evening.

: theme, Mans Divinity, Gods Glory
biased on Ps. SAD what is ma
3 that thou art mindful of him?" sal
in part; The riddle of the Sphyn
past and present-has ever bee
the marvellous Interrogation poin
: man. And no Oedepus has as ye
passed along times travelbeate
pathway who has been able to soly
the riddle of riddles-man. In tn
Pagen world, great souls, holdin
aloft the torch of inquiry. formulate,
! systems of philosophy. truth and Ell
ror commingled treating on human
life and its comcomitant problems
the origin and destiny of the race
but they never cleared the mystery
whence, What Where?" Only in
scored annals, Gods Word, the prob.
lem oil man is successfully consider.
| ed The great Underwriters stand
clearly defined, lofty peaks of hui
mainly. from whose submits mes
sages of truth. of promise and cheer
have been flashed down the ages.
Man ScripturalIy Defined.
A little farther in the Eighth
Psalm, these words are found, For
thou hast made him a little lower
than the angels, and hast crowned
him with glory and honor" AT the
outset God created man in "his image |
and likeness. Bear in mind that our /
discussion will be in harmony with /
Bible revelation, for we hold, CD The I
creation OF man by God--the physi-
cal from the dust Of the earth. the
aGo--or soul-man-in his image and
likeness" ca That man derives all
Ills potency, known or undiscovered
rom God who is his light and wis
Iom, and who eventually Will receive
lin, through faith in Christ. unto
imself in heaven. AS in our Relig-
Gus worship we recognize the Trim
". Father Son, Holy Spirit" SO the
decentralization called man is a
rinity: corporal body, spirit. soul.
.lso, dual In make up. composed Of
he body (seen) and spirit and soul I
lnvisible1 Soul is ego center, and ?
S manifestations are through the We y
icle of spirit. both of which use the s
hysical body as servant i'm their
Itercouse with other egoes, Those s
lmiliar with anatomy win agree that v
re body is complex mechanism. Z
I'd no thinker" will combat the as \
triton that the Invisible man. Z" @
DDS image, is decidedly abstruse. e
II is in accord with advanced teach Il
6 OF psychology also clearly G
Iught by the Bible-to view the n
hysical as machine, subject TO the S
Of the spirit or soul r.
therefore,, it is an absolute necessity. 81
soul-power is to have full play, ID Val
i've the body, vehicle OF expression, 81
a state of perfect health. Life. with In
! mnltltndinous forms of expires tr
on, is the greatest fact of the uni W
rise, each type. moving serenely-- w
less interfered within its own hi
Dove. and its hoizon may be us bi
eat, proportionately, as that of its dc
rger and more complex neighbor. to
Il, the soul of man is the browning he
)rk of the Master-Architeet of all. In
e external God. he
Other Theories of Mans Orioin. pr
Another theory, arrogantly denying do
ID, is materialistic evolution. tn
ep by step, from ooze and slime, OF
to man. Step by step-but stop, 10
IL there missing link" Let us ar
zee man down in the scale of men rel
ity until we come to the lowest le;
'e OF human-the miserable Papu. re;
the lower forms of life, in the thu
'lution-hypothesis. have been trac. ho
up, up, until the highest type of Of
nkey the chimpanzee appears: joe
in this chain link seems miss Of
lit is wide chasm between the
mpanzee and the Papuan For ar De
nents sake, admit the evolution Go
theory as true, The soul has ere
nc, through successive steps Of tha
ingc, from a small piece of mud. a Co
germ" Because the full. ed
vn rose is undeveloped within the rul
!. one would not argue that the OBJ,
e originated it's self, Granted that ma
. has come. step by step. (which gra
are unwilling to admit. except for fro
that does not prove that ed
had no Creator. does il? What is 'D'
Diluted" must be "involuted." some
'ce had to inject into the "primor. wa.
germ" those qualities and poten. is
tiles that are mans peculiar pro- afr
atives. In other words. Moses TO
cutive ability. the poetry of shak. kni
care, the electrical genius of Ell. De-
]. and Tesla, and the motherlove int,
consistency Of wife hood never hin
yinated themselves. Go,
here is a man confined within a resl
IS case at the Smithsonian Insti gel
:. Washington. y. C.. but this man and
inert Certain quantities Of car are
/ salt. lime etc are shown in the uas
2. and labeled a man" What dev
acyi soeratese told his sorrow dev
.disciples that they should not you
y him. only bury his body. Ito
Mans Accomplishment. seai
Ian has assiduously. since the Ion,
ming Of creation. sought 10 al. star
80. the Divine within the BODY On. the
rOfing 10 express Itself Wonder. fen,