American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-01-03
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''From Everlasting 10 Everlasting Thou
art God! ~


'.From Everlasting To Everlasting ThOu
art GOd!"
In Ills essentially, or ease. God is mex
Plieable. Man caa only comprehend his
Creator, as He has been pleased to reveal
Himself in his works Of creation, and in
the dicta of his most Holy Word. These
interpret each other.--1eop calling unto
deep, and they must agree in one. HU is
Spirit, therefore imms.erial; al;-seli-exis-
tent, and therefore uncrestoj. Jehovah
God, is one. II is writlen-"He.r. o Is
rael. the Lord our God is ONE Lord" He
is the only Life. Actually, the sole and
alone l AN in the Universe everything
else is, only by the Divine power 1t fol-
lows thence that Col must be the vitslity
of all life, the essence Of all truth, the sub
stance Of every substance, aud lhs form Of
all forms. He must be in all time without
time, and in all space withou. space. Time
and space are material elements, and have
no applicability beyond the limits Of ere
alton; hence we cannot predicate a true
thought Of eternity as involving either n
past ora future;-and immensity becomes
eonfounded with space whenever the idea
of extension or distance is connected with
it. All the attributes of Deity must be
infinite, and cannot be limited in any sup.
posable case whatsoever. 1t is an inspired
dogma that COP Is LovK-of course then
infinite and universal Love. Every crea
ted being and thingis alike its recipient =
angel and spirit. man and devil. sain! and
sinner, each according to his capacity o.
reception. The light Of the sun falls with
equal intensity upon tho charcoal and the
diamond, one exhibits therein its opacity
and blackness, the other filings back hi
rays in jets Of flashing and radiant bril-
liancy. We dare not attribute to God any
Of the natural characteristics Of man; es
pecially any Of his worse or baser charac
terisiics. such as revenge, hate, indigna
tion, wrath, an tho liks, as we arc thel
bound logically to invest them with infn
itude, and this would be unutterabe bias
phemy. Such might bs tho suppoiitiou
traits OF an Infinite Dsvil,-but Of G,t
NEVER AS he is the essence of Truth
consequently Of Infinite Truth. il mus
follow that lie is tho perfection OF wisdom
and shat all his doing, are in al inelfabl
degree rational; tha. is. they must cxhiI
it, according to the harmonious rules Z
His owa perfect order. the most eomplei
adaptation OF means to tho accomplish
ment Of their ends anil this is the rs
corded TACT, when on tie sixth dav @
epoch Of creation. "Gol saw ever, thin
shat He hal male, aai beho!l, i. WI
very gOod."
1t is Of oftransoOnlant Importance for ma
to understand his Creator, to the full e.
tent it ia permitted him to do so; becau:
without such truthful perception Of lii
in whoss very life he lives AMI moves an
has his being, it woull be impossible
, acquire any true knowledge Of himself
: and THIS is Indispensable. both for tim
and o:ernity;-for time, that ho may re
hOnally prepdrS himssb for the indwellin
Of the Holy Ghost, through whose bapiis
, only. he is perfected for the stupsndot
r benefaclions of God, in eternity. As G1
? is sslf-existant, because he is uncreate,
it must be evident hs canno. create anotl
or being who is his own center of life, ,
= having life in himself, for this would
to invest such being with self-existanc
i and such being wolll b. CD. Hs
S in all his fullness, in the ultim ,te equllly
: in tho first principle-bccauso the pri'
must bo in the posterior. the cause mu
o exist in the effect. Every person mu
: acknowledge Creator or stu!tify himsoI
There is no such thing in the Universe.
disconnected or inispsnden! being; fro
r the obscure cryptic samy to tho most ella
0 oratc production of floral form and bca
ty;--from the equally obscure spons
o though the myriad mazes Of animated Iii
+" invertebrate and vertebrate, to man hir
!, self, who crowns the work Of Creation;'
l. and from HIM, as an intellectual Startil
point, through tho starry mutituIes
spiritual existencc--angel and arch ang
is thorne and dominion. .principality anil po
er,--up. higher and higher, through
u the gloriGsd hierarchy OF Heaven, the
IT is the most perfect development of pr
gress in design and harmony in order,
|. still, immeasurable attitudes up, to t
Q Infinite, Universal I AM Himself, W
thus becomes, as He is, self-avouched
l. the Alpha and Omega First and I
= Last---tho Beginning and the End Of
things. i' i-'i a'-' d'ja,.
The infinite perfections Of God forl
him creating absolute life, or life separ
/. from himself. and limit him 10 The cr'
& tion of,.fornS Of tiife or recePiables ii