The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-17
Mans Worth
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other man to have done who was as
we'll bred and had been as well
kept.
Our observation makes positive
that the estimate placed on David
was conservative. Then we perceive
that the human mind will feed upon
how such a thing may be possible.
To introduce this reason, We will use
an illustration found in Ben Hur.
Ben Hur who when being so con-
stantly reminded that the Romans
were so much greater than the Jews
in every respect, went and threw
himself down on the floor before his
mother in childish way and with
the implicit confidence of a child
looked into her face with his eyes
fairly sparkling with desire, he said,
Mother, who Is great?" Her answer
was, HE is great who has received
the recognition of God" Alexander
the Great, when he was preparing to
fight great battle, and his enemies
numbered two every time he could
number one, was advised by his Off
GERS that it was unwise to go to war
under such conditions. His reply
was, Have you numbered my
army?" They said, Eyes, every man,
and the enemy is more than twice as
large as your army" Alexander,
staring into the face of his men said,
"How many did you count me?"
They replied, "One, my Lord" But
he sternly demonstrated, 81 have
God with me and he is more than
their whole army"
This leads me to exhort as fol-
lows: Let every soul be subject tc
, the higher power, for there is nc
; power but Of God. The powers that
: be are ordained of God" Now in or.
der that We may have a more prac.
1 tical idea of God as to what he il
and what his relation to men is, let's
study him through the ideas of men
But while we try to describe thai
infinite power, let's be careful ant
. stay within our own limitations. TIL,
Bible says that no man hath seeI
: God at any time. Then Isaiah VIII,
was one of the great prophets. call
ed the man of vision, said of thi
mysterious spirit that God was lik
unto a workman that melteth
:, craven image, a goldsmith tina
spreadeth it over with gold an,
casteth it in silver chains. Davi
came no nearer to describing thi
ID spirit that he so loved but clothe
" his idea in different words. H
: could only say that the heavens de
" clare the glory of God and the firma
ment showeth his handiworl
NJ Jesus description of the spirit t
II Nicodemus was that it was like IN
NJ to the wind. 1t bloweth where
Va listeth, thou nearest the sound there
of but canst not tell whence
a cometh nor whether it goeth; so
every one that is born Of the spiri
- After years devoted to the study {
language, science, philosophy, an
theology, number of devout me
separated themselves from thei
. fellows to write modern theolog!
and when they came to this grea
question of what God is, they coul
y only say, God is a spirit, infnt,
eternal and Interchangeable in his bt
- ing of wisdom, power, holiness, jus
tice, goodness and truth" all {
which is another way of trying
tell that which is so unsatisfactor
to the one who is trying to tell i
If l were to tell you what my ide
of such being is, | would tell yo
|, in this way. l saw a little bah
once not very many hours old wit
just the same attractions that a
other babies have. 1t was ugly 6
all little babies are, and the onl
accomplishment the little fellow ha
was to cry as loud as he could an
to keep crying as long as he coul
From my point of view there wa
nothing desirable about him. ,Whe
4 given to his young mother, she too
him and placing him upon he
- breast held him close to her bosol
while she covered his face with he
kisses Someone would say, "Wel
that was love that caused her to d
that" Then the Bible says. God
love"
To follow this line of thought W
must study what Gods relation t
man is Man is evidently God
greatest product, Judging from tn
- fact that he made him in his ow
q image Man. however, is not God
Z only product, for he is the create
Z of all power and all life. The mar
y ner of this creation seems to ind
Z cate that the animals nearest h
I image and likeness have no powe
. and intellect than those at a create
I distance from his likeness. An
from this we would suppose that
was not intended that man shout
walk in Intellectual darkness as dot
the beast of the field but should wal