The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-04-13
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The Question 4
Of Personality l
By REV. HUGH 7. KERR q
Pastor Fullerton Ave. Presbyterian
Church, Chicago III;
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in creation and beheld the fashionins
Of sun and moon and stars and seeh
tho furnishing of the earth with cattle
and every creeping thing and behe!o
Eden biossoming with love until sins
sting shriVeled innocence as in 4 fire,
then God speaks out of the silence OF
his own omnipCtence aHd demands all
answer from the man into whom he
has breathed the breath of a divine
life: Where art thOu?"
Ii lifts man out from the rest of
Gods creation. Not OF the heaven or
the earth Of the sea or the air does he
ask this question. Not of the birds or
beasts of the field. They are part
and parcel of a great dumb creation
that works the will of him who or
dered their coming and determines
their going
Not so with man. He stands as SEN
tinel. Into his hands dominion is
given. He is not part of the great
creation procession. He is the mas
ter, the arbiter the spectator 1t is
the first question asked in the begin
ming Of worlds. 1t will be the last
ouestion asked when tho worlds are
rolled up as a scroll and all things
pass away Tban too tho question
will be heard. "Whara ART tbo, ."
How diverse and different have
been the answers. We have heard
many stories Even tho Rfbra tells
lis Two stories I'm tho ono hand we
are told that he stands where tbe
shadows come ana po He is nc q
yarcr. a dream, q sIeen . story a tala
that IS told wafer smiled unon the
ground. a thread Of tha weaver that is
cut. q flower that faded Grass that
wi,tereth. = sbpnber5's toni that is 70
moved Tban foo We ara told that
lie is clothed in lishf and immortaritv
as with 4 garment and croyvned win
glory and honor
Here lies a man whose nama was
writ in water" so runs the enitanh on
the stone Of one whose name ie Gin
remembered. What is mano What is
ucrsonalirv9 Physicians toll Ms that
the body changes ever, sevan vaars
once we We're children now we are
men and women vet we baIiava we
are the same now that we vera then
with all the changes akin to the dearh
Of tie physical
There have becn two of nc Darhars
more. One of tho MAST ono of the
present and still one of The mon thai
is TO be- Which is tba reaI pam, tina
one that breatbed ont slaughter or the
one that worsbined at Chriet.s faato
Which is the true midas tho one mat
listened TO the call of Tasus or 49,.
one that BETRAYED him with = kiss
You remember how oliver Wendell
Holmes pictures three men in each
nan-the man that one Thinks no &c
the man his friends thinl, him n he
and the man whom Cod sees tho real
man
Yet through # all thara is ono ron
tinuing personality The Adam of
Eden is linked with the Adam with.
ont tine gate II belonps IN +bo raaln,
of the soul the mind the memory
son remember" is the verdict ot
heaven and the doom of heu Iobn
Quincy Adams NJ Tho a,.tra,,,o limit of
Old age when asked about his health
repljed. "Thank Won Iobn Ouincv
Adams is quite well Rut the houso
in which he lives is diIanidatad II 10
tottering. Times and seasons have
made their mark uuon if II Is vol
nigh worn ont Some dav soon I ebau
move out But John Quincy Adams
is quite well sir thanl, Won
Gods voice Is ever calling IN the
conscfances of mon He l. a,.or
- e''i
searching to discover the best that is
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