The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-20

subsequent remanufaetlre. Nothing can
be gotten out OF machine not built into
| 1t originally, and when machine will
not do the work originally intended, it
is cast out ais junk And ii is old Junk
rather than he'll fire. that man needs to
fear as destiny.
BY what plan was man madef Man
was made to think and to love. "As a
man thinketh in bis heart, so il he"
| The things man loves and hates deter
mines his character. And thinking and
loving stimulate each other and produce
growth through stimulation; that makes
possible worship, and so leads to a
throne Of power; God started man c0m-
/ pletc in his equipment for these func-
tions, but revolt sprang up at the same
time that the morning stars sang to-
gether and Missed like a serpent and
cracked like flame. Here we stand on
the threshold Of mystery and we should
/ push through the mists until our eyes
are stung by shafts of light, and pres
emily we read, 1T Is unthinkable that
the omniseient should learn only by ex-
pertinent Also the 0mnipotent was
not an Adventurer in the work Of crea-
ton" And God foresaw the entire flu
ture OF sin and sorrow when he said,
1T is good, ? 1t is very good And
the angels have been singing ever since
for the reason that the final jubilee Of
redemption would leave in the mind of
man but faint memory Of the feeting
stains OF guilt.
why didn't God make man incapable
of sin and sorrows. il answered by the
question, why didn't be make man
mere automaton!s There can be no
thinking machine; machines have no
brains, A machine is measured by what
1T can do. The same Ii true of man.
Gods creation The work effected on the
earth for G,000 years IL an example Of
what man can do.
If man were machine in thinking he
must be in loving also. Here the Bishop
eloquently apostrophized love, and then
imagined 4 law III Vermont requiring
John Jones to fall in love with Susan
Smith April 20. You can't turn a crank
and make man worship. The mind Of
man, free and unfettered by cranks and
pulcys, can explore the universe and
ransack the ages.
The longer we use a machine the more !
Il wears out, but the more man thinks |
and loves and worships and aspires, the !
better he can do it, and this shows his |
Immortality. Compare mans way Of |
manufacturing canary bird out Of ma
terials he finds with Gods plan for
bringing one out Of an egg BY Gods
plan in creation, each reproduces after
his kind" So. ii we give man chance,
he will tell his story. An inverfe-
hrate can tumble hundred times IT'S
length, but the Bishop had no ambition
to be reduced to the measure of worm
ia order to avoid little pain and re-
sponsibility. Joy, and III the pleasures
81 sins, are impossible without the posi-
bilties OF pain
The plan Of salvation was not an ct.
ter-thought, and there has been no patch.
work in the scheme Of redemption; the
rather it was CONSTITUTIONAL and was
alaid from the foundation of the world
ii architecture the measure Of safety is
i've times the strain required; did God
do any less when he made man9 The
plan Of salvation is the factor of safe
tv.r or the measure Of possible strain
n the mind If man II II inconceiyahle
that anyarehy should ever have been for
m instant possible around the throne Of
God, and the crushing Of the head Of the
serpent was promised when the heel of
man was first bruised
Gods ideal man has never degenerateds 4
All found in the original Adam was
in Christ, the second Adam.
is the complete renovation
Ii ali the powers Of the original man.
Wan may not yet BE an Junk" but It l.
eill require divine power to get him