Show 0 MAN GREATER 0 THAN UNIVERSE Local LOGal Pastor Tells Why the Creator Is Mindful of His Own QUESTION DEMANDS STUDY i SAYS HUMANITY SHOULD HAVE REGARD FOR RESPONSIBILITY What Is I Man was the subject of ot a sermon given Sunday by the Rev Re David DavidW W v Crane Crae pastor of the Iliff Methodist Episcopal church His text was taken from Psalms vIII 34 When I consider Thy heavens the work of Thy fingers the moon and stars which Thou hast or ordained ordained what Is man that Thou art mind mindful mindful mindful ful of Him and the Son of Man Mun that Thou Him Dr Crane said When David wrote this psalm he was wa doubtless amid the scenes of his child childhood childhood hood bood There Is nothing which will awak awaken en memories and Inspire meditation like a visit to the old homestead However hum humble humble humble ble we love It still and the environment of the place will discipline our minds to sacred and pious thoughts of other days as well welt as those of the present time David was now king lung He had passed the stages of oC shepherd boy bo harpist war warrior warrior warnor nor local governor of Judea and was now king of oC Isra l I am constrained 0 to the thought that he had gone home to Bethlehem for a visit It was probably pr probably b bably ably In the night time for the sun Is not mentioned me In his song of praise The dark darkness darkness darkness ness of night nl ht sometimes som permits our see seeIng seeIng Ing lag more of the tha grandeur of Gods cre creation creation creation 1 I have tried to fathom lathom Davids thoughts as he sat looking Into the starry skies and at the moon meon It was wa before the days of the th telescope when he could only discern the moon without to tn distance and size and when to tn distance and size and when but stars be he counted by the naked eye And Arni An yet there was sufficient In thes the Sf to excite admiration toward God and the worlds which he had made The 1 he question comes to us JS today with Alth redoubled force forc and accompanying ac demand on out our attention to the answer God Is mindful of us That Is the thel l thought of the psalm What Isman Is mm man that God should think so much of 1 lim im Is a question worth our while Man ManIs Is the thc T thing Just a little below the angels which God has made The world was cold and lifeless and alone from Its Creator Cr It could not speak back 13 t its Us i uree aid and its Us source not commune with It David in this psalm tells us how God met mt the occasion by the making of th m mn n A man with faculties for tor knowing t lIng loving speaking and Enjoying forever our Savio and King The Inner man the ego go the I constitutes th man and will ive on after atter the ma material goes hack back to ashes and dust God th n is specially minded toward our soul sout i he enters into our temporal affairs ind md nd shares with us our burdens He has ha special concern about the tomorrow of our existence So should we If God made us that we might know love and talk with him and that h might manifest His great love towards th the world through us we see at once our purpose our mission our opportunities opportunities d and w withal thal our responsibilities und and our coming accounting as well |