The Detroit times., 1916-09-20
Tvssdsy Nights Sermon.

~ nie famous sermon, MUS TOT
Hootics TO crack" lie said;
when Tom Paine was about 10
Gblieh his infidel book entitled
~ Age OF Reason he sent the
nnuscript 10 Benjamin Franklin,
- % that time was doubter re
y1lng some OF the essential quail
~ Of orthodox Christianity, and
3D1omin Franklin returned to Tom
11pe the manuscript with this ap-
1n6ed advice: Burn H. ] would
1vioo you never 90 attempt 10 IN
DA1u that tiger upon the people.
~ the world IL so bad with the
o)jei0n Of Jesus Christ, what would
IT be without II. and the wise sen
51once of Benjamin Franklin affords
I'D upanswerable argument TO every
imposed form OF opposition 10
hrtstianity.
what harm has the gospel OF Je-
<no Christ ever done this world?
= HAT injury has the Bible ever
# s4how me the nation that has
|oor crumbled into oblivion whore
<0o people were governed by Chris
N principles.
History In replete. Muititudes
Uuld arise and millions would
1ewl out OF the grave II God should
I've them the privilege, and all
Uuld testify as TO the benefits ac-
Cuing to them through their repent
ice and faith In Jesus Christ
Therefore, let me ask you, at the
l~~ - fnnsghF Is
<kere anything grander or more no
&1o that can command or arrest
&Uur attention or draw from you
rour generous and liberal support
Id hearty cooperation than 20 give
S5luur cooperation and help TO that
hIch II and has been the most up
l&ing force that has ever entered
ITO human history?
Heaven and earth shall pass
may. but Ny word shall not pass
koNay.
ssIhe Bible opens with an account
E&R q sinless pair In the Garden OF
q 1on, chronicles their disobedience
S1nd fall. and the sixty-six books are
Enken up with the expressed and re-
Eoaled will OF God TO save a lost
Ennd ruined world.
DID you ever stop 10 think OF the |
ENeAlth which perished when Para |
\ 60 WAS lost? ? Did you ever STOP ~ |
4 3|1>lnk OF the glory of Eden. the first
|CDtate and abode OF man? Former |
k6ovesuor Taylor, OF Tennessee. pic
k1nres, In ornate language. the scene
IT. he imagined IL. He said
Draws Picture Of Eden
II might have been a dream OF
IA, glowing with ineffable beauty, |
|lmmed about with blue mountains |
DUm whose moss-covered peaks a
q <Aoueand CLASSY streams spread out |
r. mid-air and were like thousand |
111al wells kissing thousand rain
Owa from the sun: an archipelago !
M gorgeous colorings necked with !
HEoeu isles where grape vines stag |
|ored from tree TO tree. drunk with !
3 " nectar OF their own clusters;
here peach and plum and blood.red
UAerries and every kind OF berry
- wilderness of flowers, redolent
~ eternal spring. and pulsing with
0pd-song; where dappled fawn play
~ upon banks OF vioiets: where 4
0oUpards, peaceful and tame. lounged
- the copses OF the magnolia: and (
Where lions painted In jungles of /
:1Uoes--a biiiowy landscape festeeH- I
~ with tangled creepers and cur.
toined about with sweet-scented /
'nrUves Of orange and pomegranates.
'# The air was softened by
'Dfeamy haze OF perpetual summer; 4
<hrough the mist there aowed a true 4
,u1ent river. alternately cleaning
~ the sunlight and darkening into
omerald In the shadows.
n "Down In some dark vale. fresh
;lrom the workshop OF God. slept
Adam. No monarch ever slept on
~ softer couch and no earthly poten-
hate was ever draped with more
eoetly or beautiful tapestry. and God
'oansed TO pass upon him a sleep.
And forth from a painless wound In
BIZ side there sprang being, blithe-
oouae as the air.
Her hair hung like strands OF .
I9old; her teeth were like pearls. He
gnsed upon Gods capsheaf OF crea-
tion. His hrst thought for the hap /
'Djness Of man--Eve.
4 think Adam must have wooed .
Der In the morning. when the dew I
WAS on the flower: think he wooed (
her at the nooutide by the river (
bank: l think he wooed her when /
the sllvery moon necked the feath
ery palm; think the cattle must
have departed in pairs. and ! can
hear the quail whistle for his mate
and the bluejay and the robin stop
auArreling In the top OF the cherry
tree. and they bic away 20 the glen
90 build their nests and rear their
young
Man 10 q Fool Always
"But man was a fool and man is a
fool tonight, for In the exercise Of
his God-given free will he ate OF the
'forbidden fruit and he fell. and what
= fall It was.
Il 1T was like the fall OF virtue into
the arms of vice; like the fall OF
Dnrity into corruption. like the fall
- q star from heaven into hell like
TIE fall OF wounded albatross from
<}ne regions OF light down into the
oEk. tempestuous sea. and when
0on ate OF the forbidden fruit God
- The angel with the drawn sword,
- guard the tree OF I.fe lest man
3oht reach out and eat thereof and
jlxo forever.
Gods original plan was that man
1 ohould not die. His original plan
was that man should not work for a
living. and n man hadn't sinned he
n never would have had 10 work, but
he ate OF the forbidden fruit and
III God passed sentence. BY the