them by their own sins. He will chastise them by sore
judgments. He will make fearful examples of wilful and conceited
sinners; and those who seem to escape him in this life, shall not
escape him in the life to come. But he is trying for ever every
man's work by fire; and against that fire no lie will stand. He
will burn up the stubble and chaff, and leave only the pure wheat
for the use of future generations. His purpose will stand. His
word will never return to him void, but will prosper always where he
sends it. He has made the round world so sure that it cannot be
moved either by man or by worse than man. His everlasting laws will
take effect in spite of all opposition, and bring the world and man
along the path, and to the end, which he purposed for them in the
day when God made the heavens and the earth, and in that even
greater day, when he said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness,' and man arose upright, and knew that he was not as the
beasts, and asked who he was, and where? feeling with the hardly
opened eyes of his spirit after that Lord from whom he came, and to
whom he shall return, as many as have eternal life, in the day when
Christ the Lord of life shall have destroyed death, and put all
enemies under his feet, and given up the kingdom to God, even the
Father, that God may be all in all.

SERMON II. THE LIKENESS OF GOD

(Trinity Sunday.)

GENESIS i. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness.

This is a hard saying. It is difficult at times to believe it to be
true.

If one looks not at what God has made man, but at what man has made
himself, one will never believe it to be true.

When one looks at what man has made himself; at the back streets of
some of our great cities; at the thousands of poor Germans and Irish
across the ocean bribed to kill and to be killed, they know not why;
at the abominable wrongs and cruelties going on in Poland at this
moment--the cry whereof is going up to the ears of the God of Hosts,
and surely not in vain; when one thinks of all the cries which have
gone up in all ages from the victims of man's greed, lust, cruelty,
tyranny, and shrillest of all from the tortured victims of his
superstition and fanaticism, it is difficult to answer the sneer,
'Believe, if you can, that this foolish, unjust, cruel being called
man, is made in the likeness of God. Man was never made in the
image of God at all. He is only a