The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-08

jectivity into obscurity, are the same
forces that condition all the suns and
stars of space.
Now remember that you are God;
still you are but ghostly apparation
floating through endless space like a
moat in a sunbeam. Infinite in your
wisdom and power, infinite in your
lonesomeness in a universe of mind
and matter that is not companiona-
ole, not talkative, not expressive, not
musical, not loving.
Can you picture life of greater
WEAKNESS, of more desolate isolation?
Now, as God possessed with the
power to create all that your heart
desires, anything that your infinite
mind can visualize, it becomes the
most logical and natural thing in the
world, why you created man and wo-
man.
As God, you found that a spiritual
life in an invisible and intangible
state was void of utility and express
sion until it became objectified in USE
full living things-in a world of eff
fects, and in that higher life that
moves. thinks, talks, owes, joys and
suffers.
Life means to live, to learn, to pro-
gress and to gather wisdom from eX-
perience, and experience is impossible
only to lives that can tangibly con-
tact other lives on the plan of effect.
So we learn that planets are made
for the abodes of men and that men
are made as mediums for Gods ex-
preston of His highest attributes.
That men are individualized entities
and yet inseperable parts of the inf
mite mind-imperishable.
And while man lives in God, God
also lives in man and is ever striving
to lift man into God likeness and fell
lowship and to make man a co-worker
for the development of life and learn
ing.
Yes, man is a chemical compound,
plus the dynamic power of life and
mind raised to the highest degree
known on erath.
What man may yet become doth not
now appear, but he has within him a
God-like potency, unlimited possibil-
tiles.
Man is Gods only vehicle for His
highest expression.
Only through man can God find fell
lowship and experience the beauties
and blessings of His life in the things
of His creation.
Only through man can God impart
His wisdom, His knowledge of all the
arts and sciences.
Man is what gives meaning to life
both his own and that of his Maker.
Man is sole creator of values or
earth. Strip the world of all living
inhabitants and Manhattan Isle with
it's accumulated wealth of centuries
becomes as worthless as a last years
birds nest.
SO if you ask, "What is man that
thou are mindful of him? the an
swer is: MAN in the aggregate is
God in His noblest and grandest man.
infestation, though not in His full
ness and completeness. Perfection is
the goal of Gods and mans attain
ment-the thing that ever lures us
progressively onward and upward, yet
is always just beyond our reach.
So while man is a wonderful chem
/ list in moulding the molecules of mat
ter beneath him, there is only one AL
chemist who knows the secret OF
chemical combinations that mould
mind and matter into human forms
divine and imbues them with the in
telligence of their Maker.
Man apart from God cannot be, can
not go, can not do. The Creator runs
| the machinery of our lives, our dl-
gestion, circulation, assimilation and
cerebration. Physically He makes
US, takes US apart and re-makes us
Ger and DER. He giveth US the breath
of life and He taketh it away, but the
soul of US He ever keeps marching on
clothed and re-clothed in fresh and
| better raiment.
But to think of God as apart from
His divinity in man is to think Of an
abstraction-just an uncommunicat-
i've energy like we find in heat, gravi-
tation and electricity.
If you would have God help you,
then help your fellowman and thus
you will enlarge and intensity your