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Show 5 taught them how, I wanted the people to add the rest of the sermon themsel ves." He said, "I declare , brother Young, I would have given anything I possesse d in the world, if you had continue d 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 charact er of God." "Twenty -s even years I have been preache r of the Gospel ?" Chr is t. " - "And you have been a of Gospel the of a preache r ministe r so long and have never learned anything about t he charact er of the Being about whom you have been preachin g! Now you want to find out the characte r I am astonish ed! I can make you answer the ques tion yourse lf in a of God. "Well, I do not know, brother Youn g ; it is fe w minutes ." subject to morta l man ." ous mysteri a very "Now, let me ask you a single question . Will you tell He sat a me what God our Father in heaven appears like?" and ebbed cheeks his conside rable time,wh ile the colour of r "Brothe , replied he last at till flowed alterna tely, the of er charact the e describ to presume not will I Young, 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,th at 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 resembla nce 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 resembla nce Jesus bore to man in his incarna tion? and "Do you believe Moses, who said the Lord made Adam in his own image and after his own likeness ? 111 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 likenes s; 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 11 3 1 and female created He them. 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 yourselv es under the tree. And I will fetch a morsel of bread and confort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on." I als9 referred to where the Lord |
