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end of man is the glory of God. The end of a Christian is the greater glory of God. The end of a priest is the greatest glory of God.

1. The greatest work of God in the six days of Creation was man. S. Paul says that "the woman is the glory of the man but that "man is the image and glory of God." The works of God arose in an ascending scale from the creation of the light to the inorganic and inanimate creatures, and from these to the organic and animate, and from these again to the rational. There was nothing higher than man under God except the holy Angels, pure, spiritual intelligences, simple and immortal, sinless and resplendent, sanctified and illuminated by the Holy Ghost. Man was made a little lower than the angels, because his spiritual nature was clothed in a body taken from the slime and dust of the earth, and subject, therefore, to the sinless imperfections