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,gen4 ii4 #g4        8,and the ,lord    
,god formed man of the dust of the      
ground1 and      breathed into his      
nostrils the breath of life1 and man    

became a      living soul40    ,,thus1  
my brethren1 in noble and grand words1  
noble in their strength and  in their   
simplicity1 we are told of the creation 
of man1 as separate and  distinct from  
that of all other creatures4  ,having   
formed his bodily  frame out of the dust
 of the earth1 the ,almighty breathed   
into him the  breath of life1 and man   
became a living soul1 in the image of   
the living  ,god4  ,how far1 and with   
what divine beauty1 the heavenly image  
was then  reflected in its earthly type1
 the splendour and perfection of ,god's 
handiwork1 we know not4  ,however noble 
the glory of man's appearance1  however 
godlike its outer form1 in that day1    
since then he has fallen  from his high 
estate1 and sin and death1 which marred 
the purity of his  soul1 have left      
traces of their deadly leaven in his    
framework of flesh  and blood4  ,and yet
 not utterly debased or ruined it4      
,for1 still1 the  face of many a little 
child bears stamped upon it the         

imperishable marks  of ,god's handiwork1
 and the beauty1 and freshness1 and     
innocence shine  out1 till we think of  
the faces of the ,blessed before the    
,throne on high4  ,while all that is    
fair in the face of woman1 and all that 
is noble and  true in that of man1 tells
 only of the same divine source4  ,in a 
word1  the whole living man1 the body in
 its strength1 pride1 and beauty2 the   
mind1 the keen reason1 the swift        
intelligence1 the glowing imagination2  
and the soul1 the conscience1 and the   
spirit answering within2 lifting  man   
out of himself to the ,heaven above him1
 and enabling him on earth to  hold     
commune as a spirit with the ,father of 
all spirits--each and all  witness to   
the same truth--the breath that is in   
him1 his framework1 his  whole being are
 from the breath of ,god1 and therefore 
he is a living  soul1 immortal1 and for 
a life beyond this4    ,and nothing is  
commoner1 even among worldly people1 my 
brethren1 than a  sort of easy1 vague   

acknowledgment that it is so2 nothing   
easier than a  kind of fluent talk about
 the soul1 and the importance1 perhaps  
the  necessity1 of saving the soul2 if  
not just at present1 certainly at the   
earliest possible opportunity2 if not by
 a life of faith and purity to  ,god1   
and of truth and goodwill to man--at all
 events by holding fast to  some        
particular set of opinions1 or of texts1
 some one favourite  doctrine1 or pet   
form of outward service to ,god4  ,and  
even below this  range of talkers1 there
 are others who say1 ,the soul          
immortal8--,oh1 yes1  of course1 man is 
to be in ,heaven hereafter--if all be   
well--and we trust  by the mercy of ,god
 that at last we shall reach that land2 
but1 in the  meanwhile1 they live on    
from day to day1 in one round of easy   
smoothness1  working only for the body1 
its care1 its comfort1 its life2 as if  
there  were no dwelling-place but earth2
 as if man's soul were but a matter of  
concern for the future2 as if ,christ   

had never borne the bitter ,cross for   
man's sin1 to open for him the gates of 
,paradise6    ,their terrible and fatal 
mistake1 you see1 is the fashioning out 
a  religion as a thing apart from their 
daily life1 and thinking of their  souls
 as apart from themselves4  ,whereas    
there is no true religion but  such as  
speaks in a man's life1 and is its vital
 breath2 and the soul is  no other but  
the man himself4  ,they madly look upon 
religion as a thing  for ,sundays1 for  
fixed times only1 and for set forms2    
times and forms to  be used as a sort of
 charm against uncomfortable thoughts of
 death1 or  fear of ,god's anger2 or as 
a set-off for the follies1 and sins1 and
  selfishness of the week2 something    
that shall set all right at the last1   
and make the account square when the    
balance is against them2 or for  still  
worse and weaker reasons3 because it is 
right and decent to go to  church1 and  
do as so many others do whom they know  
and imitate1 and whose  regard they     

value4  ,god help the man--ere it be too
 late--who trusts to  such a scheme of  
religion as this2 for it is full of     
deceit and peril6  ,it may end1 and it  
probably will end1 in his forgetting his
 soul  altogether4  ,not forgetting to  
wish that his soul may be saved at last1
  and that peace may be with him when   
death comes1 and joy beyond it2 not     
this1 because every man1 however foolish
 or however wicked1 wishes this  much1  
or will wish it some day2 but absolutely
 forgetting and ignoring  the fact that 
the soul is the man himself2 that its   
life1 and passions1  and desires1 and   
hunger1 and thirst1 are to be looked to1
 cared for1 and  fed day by day2 that if
 he hopes for ,heaven at all1 he must   
begin to get  ready for it now1 while   
life lasts2 and that in neglecting this1
 and  letting religion slip out of his  
daily life1 he is perilling his very    
existence1 he is dying by inches4       
,heart1 conscience1 soul1 spirit1 are   
becoming seared1 cold1 dark1 and dead1  

while he1 to all outward  appearance in 
full strength1 has the form of religion 
but not its life2  the words in his     
mouth1 but no echo within2 the sound of 
the ,gospel in  his ears1 but neither   
the spirit1 nor life1 nor freedom of the
 truth1  which spring from the abiding  
sense of ,god's unseen abiding presence4
    ,how shall any such being understand
 that religion1 that prayer1 praise1    
and sacrifice are no mere matter between
 man and man1 but only between  him and 
,god8  ,what does it affect him to be   
told1 or to agree1 that man  is a       
spirit1 and that if he seeks to worship 
the living ,god it must be in  spirit   
and truth8  ,he scarcely knows what the 
desires1 and passions1 and  wants of the
 soul are4  ,to him the words1 life and 
death of the soul1 are  little more than
 vague sounds4    ,no wonder1 then1 that
 the two great springs of his spiritual 
life are to  him but of light account4  
,his ,baptism1 to him1 is merely a time 
when he  got his ,christian name2 his   

confirmation when he was old enough not 
to  need the help of sponsors any       
longer4  ,but1 as to his having then    
entered  into a covenant with ,god1 by  
,his divine grace1 to live the life of a
  spirit1 of one made a living soul2 and
 these vows being on him all  through   
life1 it never even remotely occurs to  
him6    ,no wonder even that the solemn 
feast in memory of his ,saviour's death 
is  a matter from which he may turn away
 just as the whim1 or the idle excuse   
of the moment prompts1 or neglect       
altogether through his whole life1      
without a thought of peril4  ,i say     
altogether1 yet a day falls on him  at  
last1 when1 in the midst of decaying    
strength1 a clouded mind1 and  dying    
faculties1 as the windows of the soul   
begin to grow dark1 he thinks  it only  
right and decent that he should ask for 
the ,holy ,communion1 as  all proper    
people 7he says7 do under such          
circumstances--and he takes it2  not    
because it has strengthened and         

refreshed his soul all through life1    
but because1 without it1 the fear of    
death is too strong for him4  ,he  dares
 not go out of the world1 in fact1 and  
enter on his ,maker's presence  without 
this one final token1 as he thinks1 of  
not having utterly  forgotten ,him4     
,god forbid1 brethren1 that ,i should   
count little of even this terribly  late
 and weary confession of the ,god that  
made him2 this tardy1  unwilling1 owning
 that man is a living soul4  ,but mark  
well1 brethren1  never forget1 the wide 
difference between this and the owning  
of ,god our  ,creator1 and ,christ our  
,saviour1 and the ,holy ,ghost our      
,sanctifier1 here1  now1 in our daily   
work1 while life remains1 while strength
 is ours1 while  the battle is going on 
all round1 and within us2 while the     
devil tempts1  and the flesh has power1 
and the world is bright and gay4    ,see
 the difference between offering to ,god
 while we have anything to  offer1 and  
when we have nothing2 when all else has 

failed us2 when power1  and pride1 and  
human pleasures1 and human cares have   
all come to an end1  and there is no    
further possibility of indulging either 
the one or the  other2 but only the     
intolerable weight of the past1 only the
 deep  conviction remaining that our    
trial is over1 our time of probation    
finished1 our ,judge very near at hand2 
as the earth crumbles under our  feet1  
and ,heaven is opening wide on our      
amazed distracted eyes4  ,ah6 or  it may
 be ,hell yawning beneath our troubled1 
weary1 bewildered feet4    ,mark well   
the difference3 it is the difference    
between living ,faith that  can save1   
and dead ,faith that is worthless4  ,but
 if man is a spirit1 how  shall his     
spirit's life be maintained8  ,not by   
outward observances only2  not by fixed 
forms and rites only1 on fixed days2    
though all these are  noble1 and good1  
and blessed in their degree4  ,the key  
to the truth is  written in words older 
even than the ,divine words of the ,holy

 ,gospel4  8,behold1 to obey is better  
than sacrifice1 and to hearken than the 
fat of  rams40  8,they that worship ,god
 must worship ,him in spirit40  ,how8   
,by  striving after those blessed things
 wherein ,christ was our example1 and   
far above all human perfection4  ,not by
 leaving all the other outer  services  
undone 7for all are good--they flow and 
always must flow from  true religion1 as
 its natural and happy fruit71 but by   
adding to them  purity1 self-denial1    
thought of others1 generous1 unselfish1 
and  untiring2 by suffering long and    
being kind2 by love unfeigned2 by       
thinking no evil2 by hoping all things1 
enduring all things1 believing  all     
things2 by readiness to forgive2 by     
slowness to condemn2 by bold1  brave1   
manly1 simple faith2 by striving never  
to forget that unseen  living presence  
which shuts us in all round1 which we so
 often say is  about our path and bed1  
and spieth out all our ways4    ,this1  
brethren1 is the spirit of the religion 

which we want in our daily  life1 in our
 shops and in our business2 in the      
market and in the  counting-house2 in   
the streets and the family circle--not  
to be obtruded  and thrust into men's   
faces1 as much as to say1 8,thank ,god1 
,i am not as  other men are10--but to be
 the life and joy of the heart1 the     
light of the  household2 to be the      
motive power1 the ruling principle2 for 
the one  reason that we are not mere    
dust1 as other creatures1 not to go down
 into  the grave and be forgotten for   
ever1 but to live--live when this world 
has  perished1 and they who believe in  
it and swear by its gods alone1 are1    
with all their follies1 and errors1 and 
sins1 blotted out--until the  ,judgment 
,day2 to live then1 when true life      
dawns1 and man draws nearer  and nearer 
to the fulness of ,god's holiness1 joy1 
and peace2 and finds in  ,him more than 
lips can utter or soul imagine4    ,and 
how can man do less than strive for this
 if he be ,god's son8  ,if the  breath  

of the ,almighty be in him8  ,his life  
must be a spirit's life if he  believes 
this4  ,he must know and feel that even 
here1 in this world of  strife and sin1 
and folly and darkness1 and worldly     
pride and false  ambition1 and          
unutterable selfishness1 even here1 all 
round him1 is the  world of spirits4    
,that unseen and holy beings are near at
 hand1 ready to  minister to him1 even  
as the land of spirits itself is but a  
step from  this--divided from him but by
 a narrow line2 that though here now    
hemmed  in by falsehood1 and doubt1 and 
fear1 and perplexity1 yet in a moment he
  may be beyond the veil--swiftly       
passing from darkness to eternal day1   
where doubt is unknown and fear comes   
not--from death to life itself4  ,no    
man of rational sense1 who gives himself
 time to think1 and to pause for  a     
moment amidst the daily passions1 and   
toils1 and cares that consume  him1 can 
doubt this2 nay1 he feels and knows the 
greater presence still4  ,he knows that 

the ,living ,god is about him1 his very 
life and breath2  that without ,him he  
cannot live for a single moment--in ,him
 he lives1 and  moves1 and has          
being--whose ,divine presence he has    
felt again and again  within him1 deep  
down in the recesses of his inmost soul1
 his heart1 and  spirit4  ,against this1
 if he be true to his own convictions1  
he cannot1  dare not1 resist4    ,and   
yet1 brethren1 plain as all this seems1 
and deep and constant the  necessity for
 man's thus owning his spiritual life1  
and that he is indeed  a child of ,god1 
living only at the word of a ,father in 
,heaven--strong and  abundant the       
conviction of immortality hidden in     
every man's heart--how  vaguely1 and    
loosely1 and lightly1 is such knowledge 
often held6  ,the  great boast of the   
present age is its claim to universal   
knowledge4  ,there is no bar to its     
depths1 no limit to its extent4  ,it    
takes in all  subjects1 human and       
divine2 tries them by one standard1     

weighs them in  one balance4  ,the      
inscrutable nature of ,god1 the simpler 
nature of man4  ,it analyses the        
atmosphere of the stars1 and weighs in a
 balance the  density of bodies beyond  
the sun2 the laws of light and sound are
 laid  bare1 and allowed to be wisely   
based2 miracles are declared to be      
impossible1 and cease to have existence2
 nay1 never have existed1 seeing  that  
they contradict some few principles of  
life and matter1 of which we  have      
gained a scanty knowledge2 or at least  
seem to contradict them2 and  that the  
,first ,cause 7for we have not learned  
to do without one--as yet7  will not and
 cannot interfere with ,his own laws1   
being in fact a ,god1 or  first         
principle1 who is bound by ,his own     
edicts1 and imprisoned within  the      
fetters of ,his own rules6    ,and how1 
my brethren1 do such men deal with words
 like those of the text8  ,there is some
 little difficulty in evading or openly 
denying them1 for  the one reason that  

in their eyes mind does appear to be    
immortal1 and  intellect to outlive the 
body in which it dwells4  ,but1 as to   
the soul1  the conscience1 the moral    
sense1 the spirit within a man1 so      
supreme is  the power of modern science1
 so keen the insight into all things    
human  and divine1 into the cloudy      
records of past ages1 and the thousand  
phenomena of present life2 so absolute  
the sway of intellectual research1  so  
abundant and so trustworthy the array of
 facts1 that man can not only  by       
searching find out ,god1 but so map out 
the solemn acts of the  ,almighty1 from 
the first day of creation to the last1  
as to leave no  doubt that what we as   
,christians hold dear1 our birthright as
 spirits1  and our inheritance in the   
heaven to come as spirits1 is a dream1 a
  mistake4  ,they are far more curiously
 anxious to prove man's nearness to  the
 beasts that die than to accept his     
birth from the breath of the  living    
,god1 as meant and made to be immortal4 

,so monstrous1 so  incredible1 does this
 seem1 that it sounds like a jest2 yet  
this1  brethren1 is neither time nor    
place for jesting1 least of all with    
such  things as eternal life and eternal
 death1 the birth1 the destiny of the   
whole race of man4  ,it is no jest1     
brethren1 but the grave and shameful    
teaching of a book now put forth by one 
of the men of science of this  very age2
 calmly put forth as the inevitable and 
incomparable result of  long1 careful1  
and exhaustive study4  ,the habits1     
ways1 instincts1  passions1 and         
peculiarities of hundreds of animals    
have been minutely  examined1 and out of
 them has risen the foul and debasing   
assertion that  man has sprung from a   
race of inferior and filthy creatures2  
without  spark of conscience or sense of
 shame1 without perception of evil or of
  good1 without power of speech--and    
speech is but the fruit of              
thought--without a breath of the living 
,god within them1 or a trace of ,his    

handiwork in their whole being4  ,so far
 from men being sons of ,god1 they  are 
the offspring in remote ages--ages too  
remote to be measured by any  but the   
skill of modern science1 the offspring  
of creatures without a  soul--creatures 
dead to every sense of feeling but      
hunger1 lust1 and  blood2 only able to  
make known their wants or miseries by   
inarticulate  cries of rage1 pain1 or   
despair2 creatures who1 in their turn1  
sprang  from others yet lower down in   
the cycle of life1 fouler1 more         
ferocious1  and yet more loathsome than 
the grinning ape4  ,and from things base
 as  these1 we are told1 sprang all the 
noble1 great1 good1 and wise men that   
have trod the earth4  ,from such a stock
 as this all the purest1 grandest1      
songs of truth1 of victory1 of joy1 of  
melody1 and beauty2 all the  noblest    
flights of eloquence1 all strains of    
living melody2 all that  sages1 bards1  
and philosophers have uttered in words  
that can never die2  all the loftiest   

ideals of art1 in glowing colour or in  
snowy marble2 all  the splendour1 and   
glory1 and beauty with which man has    
crowned the  earth2 nay1 more than this1
 the sublime words of prophets1 of      
seers1 and  apostles1 from him who in   
solemn grandeur tells of the thunder of 
,sinai1  down to the visions in lonely  
,patmos2 of heaven open1 of the great   
white  ,throne1 and the ,eternal ,king2 
yea1 the bravest and purest in every    
age1  the men1 and women1 and children  
who have gone undaunted to death1 with  
joy on their faces1 and peace           
unutterable in their hearts1 rather than
  deny their ,master or their           
birthright2--all these alike have sprung
 from a  thing that has neither speech1 
nor conscience1 nor sense but of being  
full or empty1 whose only weapon is     
ferocity1 and to whom a morsel of       
garbage is a supreme delight6  ,and1 if 
it be so1 if this incredible boast  of  
science be true1 our text is a lie4     
,and if the text be false1 the  whole   

book in which the words are shrined is  
unworthy of belief2 the  whole framework
 of the ,book of ,life falls to pieces1 
and the revelation  of ,god to man1 as  
we ,christians know it1 is a delusion   
and a snare4    ,and on what ground are 
we asked to receive so monstrous and    
degrading a  scheme8  ,because1         
forsooth1 after careful study of        
hundreds of various  creatures1 in      
different ages and different climes1    
among their countless  peculiarities1   
habits1 and ways1 in their so-called    
instincts a man  finds1 or fancies he   
finds1 here and there1 some faint       
glimmering of a  resemblance to what is 
human4  ,in the plumage of birds1 in    
their love for  gay colours1 which is   
tacitly assumed1 in their little arts   
and  artifices1 cunning1 and ferocity2  
in the rough or smooth skin of some     
wild creature of the woods or plains1 he
 searches for1 and finds1 some  faint   
type of what happens among the idle1 or 
silly1 or careless among  ourselves1 who

 believe only in brute force1 or obey   
the laws of fashion  however            
preposterous and absurd2 of women who   
paint what they think ,god  ,almighty   
has not painted aright2 who distort     
their dress1 or their  persons2 or of   
men and women who bedizen themselves2 in
 every conceivable  form of fantastic   
and foolish caprice4  ,for these1 and   
possibly a hundred  other such paltry   
reasons1 cleverly collected and         
cunningly adapted to  ensnare the       
unwary1 we are to believe that between  
man who is immortal  and the beasts that
 die1 there is no line of distinction4  
,this is the  latest book of ,genesis2  
this the most improved account of the   
creation4  ,but if so1 if there is a    
particle of truth in this newest        
science1 then  the work of creation1 the
 progress from baseness to purity1 from 
darkness  to light1 having once begun1  
must be now going on1 in all its        
thousand  grades and varieties2 with    
still new steps of progress from the    

lower to  the higher1 from the foul     
,ascidian reptile to ,man in the image  
of ,god6    ,where1 then1 in the wide   
universe of created things is any such  
example  to be found1 half way between  
the unintelligible gibberish of the ape 
and  the divine faculty of speech8      
,where is one1 only one1 such           
monstrosity--base1 and cruel1 and       
filthy1 without a soul1 or a ray of     
moral sense1 knowing only the passions  
of lust and hunger--who is even         
remotely beginning to grow into human   
likeness or shape8  ,not all its  brutal
 deformity lost1 and not yet the glory  
of manhood assumed8  ,no such  being has
 ever been found1 in the records of     
ancient travellers or sages1  or even in
 the journals and the dainty discoveries
 of modern science4  ,but still between 
the highest and most intelligent of     
creatures of the  wood and field1 and   
the lowest in human shape1 there        
stretches an  infinite gulf4  ,a gulf   
not to be crossed but by the shallow and

 flippant  philosopher who scorns all   
idea of a living personal ,creator1 and 
admitting no bound to his own knowledge1
 and no bar to his understanding1       
denies the existence of his own soul1   
and treats all idea of spirit with  idle
 contempt4  ,yet1 my brethren1 the gulf 
remains4  ,god has drawn  the line      
between man and beast1 and no human     
power can abolish it1 no  human         
sophistry explain it away4  ,men may    
deny it1 or turn it to ridicule  under  
the pretence of scientific discovery2   
just as they deny the  existence of ,god
 ,himself4  ,denying ,him1 the ,king and
 ,prince of all  spirits1 they may well 
deny their own spiritual being4  ,but1  
still1 the  grand unalterable truth     
abides1--8,god breathed into man's      
nostrils the  breath of life1 and man   
became a living soul20 and as long as   
the  world stands this truth must abide 
as the foundation of all truth1 of all  
religion1 of all progress1 step by step 
in purity1 holiness1 and faith on  our  

way to ,heaven4  ,this is the witness of
 all human hearts1 of all human  life4  
,this is the conviction rooted deep down
 in man's inmost being2  which1 though  
he tamper with it1 or stifle1 or deny it
 all through life1  yet on the bed of   
death will speak to him with            
unanswerable voice1 as he  draws nearer 
and nearer to the unseen presence1 to   
that ,divine and  ,eternal ,spirit from 
whom his being sprang at the first4     
,with this conviction and this          
confession1 my brethren1 let us be      
content4  ,it has outlived centuries of 
scorn1 the wit of philosophy1 the       
sophistries of science1 the laughter of 
fools1 and the questioning of  heresy4  
,it will outlive all centuries1 all     
time4  ,it will outlive them  who deny1 
and them who believe1 it2 to the one    
bringing confusion1  darkness1 and      
shame2 to the other1 peace when the     
strife is done1 the  beauty of holiness1
 the rapture of immortality4    ,if any 
be content to believe they are the mere 

chance offspring from  creatures of     
lust1 ferocity1 and shameless strife1 so
 let it be2 they  must even reap as they
 sow4  ,their next creed is plain       
enough1 and easy  of practice2 eat1     
then1 drink1 and to-morrow die4  ,but   
let us1 as  ,christians1 fly to the     
greater1 nobler doctrine than this1 for 
the one  reason that we are the         
offspring of the living ,god1 made in   
,his image2  and having in us the breath
 of the ,almighty1 cannot die4  ,our    
very  framework of flesh and blood was  
that form and fashion of a man in which 
,christ1 the ,blessed ,one1 came to us  
on earth1 in which ,he lived and        
suffered2 was tempted1 scorned1 mocked1 
and nailed to the accursed tree4  ,it is
 in ,his memory that we keep this solemn
 season2 ,his whose blood was  shed1    
whose body was broken1 when the heavens 
grew dark1 and the earth  trembled as   
,he yielded up the ghost4  ,it was to   
glorify this human shape1  and to redeem
 the living soul within it1 that ,he    

endured the bitter  cross4  ,his death1 
,his passion1 ,his resurrection1 are to 
us what they  are1 because wrought in   
human form1 to be crowned with new      
splendour and  glory in ,heaven4        
,again ,i say1 let us be content with   
this hope which has been the only  stay 
of countless thousands in every age     
since ,christ trod the shores of        
,galilee1 and spake to the listening    
thousands by the sea4  ,let us be       
content with the plain living words of  
,him who is ,truth itself1 who was      
before the world began1 who spake and   
there was light1 who breathed into  the 
lifeless dust and it lived2 ,himself1   
the ,king and the ,prince of all  ,life1
 the ,beginning and the ,end1 the ,first
 and the ,last2 who will still  remain  
unchanged and unchangeable when this    
world of sin and shame has  become the  
kingdom of ,his ,christ2 when human     
philosophy has died out1 and  human     
science failed2 but the greater1 and    
purer1 and nobler wisdom                

abides--greater1 because ,god1 the      
author of it1 is mightier than man2     
purer because it wins men from the base 
things that perish1 and nobler  because 
,heaven is higher than earth4  ,let us  
hold fast to this belief1  firmly1      
through life2 that it fail us not on the
 bed of death1 as we draw  near to the  
twilight of eternal day1 and to the     
fulness of knowledge  which is ,life4   
,well is it for us that neither the     
perverseness1 nor pride1 nor wisdom1    
nor ignorance1 nor intolerable vanity of
 man can snatch from us the  birthright 
of immortality4  ,and they who basely   
attempt to unsay what ,god  has said1   
and to rob us of hope beyond the grave1 
add but one more proof1  not of man's   
having risen from the foul beasts of the
 earth1 but having  fallen from his     
first high estate4  ,their very         
ignorance1 doubt1 and  defiance of ,god 
are but tokens of their own corruption1 
confusion1 and  decay4  ,meanwhile the  
earth abides in its appointed course2   

heaven  abides1 life and death remain2  
truth is immortal4  ,wise men1 ripe for 
the  grave1 mighty in worldly knowledge1
 babble of mysteries beyond their       
utmost ken4  ,so let it be4  ,god is not
 unmindful of ,his own4        8,man's  
little systems have their day1          
,they have their day and cease to be2   
,they are but broken lights of ,thee1   
,and thou1 ,o ,lord1 art more than      
they40    ,for ,god created man to be   
immortal1 and made him to be an image of
 ,his  own eternity2 through ,jesus     
,christ our ,lord4  ,amen4              
,,laus ,,deo4                           
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,,and ,,co41 ,,printers1 #agb1 ,,st4    
,,john ,,street1 ,e4,c4