To be near unto God - pagina 235

wisdom has been christened with the name

involution and new evangel.

Darwm

is

of called the prophet of this

This whole system is nothing more than miatuation of unbelieving thought. But

self-

there that the whole creation seems to have been built up as a temple in which man should serve as priest. Everything in it points to man. It calls for man. And when at length man appears in this temple of nature, everything that went before, appears to have served merely as preparation for his coming. Man has lustlv been called a world in miniature. The creation IS

this truth

on^y finds

its

m

it,

end

in

man.

Almighty God who

hides himself in nature as behind a veil, makes personal revelation of himself in man, not onlv his power and majesty, but, what is far greater as bpirit. In man there is self-perception, clear consciousness thinking after God the thoughts ot God. reye.ation of will, thirst after holiness, the spark of genius, appreciation of the beautiful premonition of eternal existence, the resumption of being in one personal existence, the imprinted mcreated knowledge of the Eternal Being, and all this is him, solely and alone because God created him after his iamge

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niaster-builder by the palace fK^f^u that he''I'' has ^uT built, a poet from his poetic works. a cogent thinker from his ^v^itings But the him that remains is altogether ^fffCi'^'^f.^^ different, after you have seen in his picture the features of hs face, the flaming of his eve, and the expression of his person ^^ Such is the case here. The Divine Masterbuilder and Artist first showed his works in nature ""

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