The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-07
: WHATISMAN?'
DISCUSSED BY
REV. {. {. RICE
PASTOR or EAST HILL BAPTIST
CHURCH HAD THIS AS SUBJECT
OF SERMON LAST NIGHT.


What is Man," was tie subject OF
the sermon preached by REV. z. e. Ric.
at the East Hin Baptist church last
night.
He remarked in the opening that
once upon q time France declared man
to be but dust and breath. They erected
a goddess o< reason and said to the
people: Cease to fear the God, whom
your fathers feared" On Nov. nth,
1894, he said the popular society of
the museum entered the hall OF the
municipality carrying on the top
OF a pole the half-burned remains of
the Old and New Testanents. This
was consistent with their theory The
Bible did not reason like they rea-
scned, and tner considered their rea-
son, God. AS a result France expert
enced a time of trouble
The deceiver no longer tries to de-
stroy the Bible with fire as he once
did continued Mr.. Rice, but now
poses as an angel OF light, quotes
Scripture freely, places his own con-
st1uction on II and saye, as he did in
France, Man IN beast
This doctrine of dirt from what
ever quarter il may come. il believed
would be the most dangerous things
that ever took upon itself tho name
OF religion.
Yet people las whole1 to believe
they can play the devil all their life
and then die only as the best saint
has TO die; sleep side by side; raise
up some day only to 60 with him into
another age; there to become saint,
also. ! say get people las a whole)
ia Observation-Disclosures We Esili.. have more
he'll in the United States than they
had in France. IL not, then history
does not repeat herself But my friends
il adjectives and verbs, when used in
connection with spirit and soul mean
any thing. then man is more than dirt
and breath.
Matt. 1o:2s-fAnd fear not them
which kill the body, but are not able
to kill the soul, but rather fear him
which is able to destroy both soul and
body in HELL There. ID a. quesf ton
as to whether man is q 'dichotonlist'
or A 'trichotonhst', or in other words
whether he Is a dual being or a trim
ity. Balt he is at least a. dual being,
beyond any shadow OF doubt.
Is 2s:s-.with my soul have l de-
sired thee in the night: yea, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early
Luke 1:46.47--And Mary said My
soul doth magnify the Lord, and my
HdlIl ICJO1CeO you
!, skTAess 81 2s-T pray God your whole
spirit and soul and body be preserved
hiaTn eiess unto the coming OF our Lord
Jesus Christ
Heb. 4:12-Dividing asunder soul
and spirit. o. how wonderful is man.
What is he that thou art SO mindful Of
him. Even death to him is but as
sleep. and when he is dead II can be
truly said OF him He is not dead, but
sleepeth. While we sleep we dream,
we roam in realms, to our friends I'M
known, We hear, we see thou darkness
all around US be-
80 what word could better describe
death, than the word sleep? Who
would dare say OF the dead, there was
no spirit realm: ears to hear, eyes to
see. a consciousness
Was there not q certain man WHO
died and was buried, vet we read of
him lifting up his eyes IN hell being in
torment Luke 16:19.29. On the other
hand, can we not sing OF the saints?
Beautiful. isles Somewhere and can
we not believe and say as Paul TO be
absent from the body is to be present
with Christ, which is FOR better
Think Of Jupiter. Mars, Merc.,~v 49,
the multiplied millions in yonder sky,
with distance that takes you into OBJ
l.vion. Think of their beauty. grand
and glorious and OF their numbers be-
yond consumption. Think of this earth
but as a grain OF dust In comparison.
Think OF heaven, angels and glory.
Think OF earth. mountain ranges, water
sheds, crystal springs. the flowers with
their perfect beanty. Then look at
man, aee how God walked with him,
angels ntndstered to him. the son died
for him, and the Holy Spirit pleads
with him, then you will fee. as David
must have felt when he said: When
I con slder the heavens, the work OF thy
fingers, the moon and the stars. which
thou hast ordained. What In man that
thou art mindful of hfn?' And the
answer will be heard in the inner man.
Life is real, life is earnest,
And the grave is not it's goal