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Show s ,taught them pow, .I wan~~d the people to add the rest of the sePmon theJn~elves." __ He said, "I d_e clare, brother Young, I would have .given anything I poss_e ssed in the world, if you ha~ continued your remarks until I had obtained the knowI inquired the nature of it. "To know ledge I_ desired." I smiled and said, "Are you a the character of God." "Twenty-seven years I have been preacher of the Gospel?" a preacher of the Gospel of Christ." "And you have been a minister so long and have never iearned anything about the character of the Being about whom .you have been preaching! Now you want to find out the character I am astonished! I can make you answer the question yourself in a of -God. "Well, I do not know, brother Young; it is few minutes." a very mysterious subject to mortal man." ·"Now,, let me ask you a single question. Will you tell He sat a me what God our Father in heaven appears like?" considerable time,while the colour of his cheeks ebbed and flowed alternately, till at last he replied, "Brother Young, I will not presume to describe the character of the Deity." I smiled, and he thought I was treating the subject lightly. "I am not making light of the subject, but I am smiling at your folly,that you--a .teacher in Israel-a ,man who should stand between the living and the dead-yet know nothing about your Father and God. Were I in your place, I would never preach another sermon while I lived, until I learned more about God. Do you believe the Bible?" "I do." "What resemblance did our father Adam bear to his God, when he placed him in the Garden of Eden?" Before he had time to reply, I asked him what resemblance Jesus bore to man in his incarnation? and "Do you believe Moses, who said the Lord made Adam in his own image and after his own likeness?" 1 I then quoted to him the 26th and 27th verses of the 1st chapter of Genesis, in which we find the following words: "And God said let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. '' 3 1 I also referred to the visit of the Lord to Abraham in which Abraham said, "My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will fetch a morsel of bread and confort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on." I al so referred to where the Lord |
