New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-13
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 49, 1876
words and suggestions those whom We
found without God in the wOrd3'

words and suggestions those whom We
found without God in the wordi'
We might have met one in the doubter's
fearful concition. If we had induced that
being to study some one branch Of science
We might have saved q soul by bringing it
in this manner to the feet of Him who is
the source of all science.
All minds are not constituted alike, some
can not receive an abstract idea, nor be-
lieve in any revelation, except such a. their
own senses can explore. To such what .
boon would scientific lore be found, taking
the unity we call science, dividing it into de-
partments, and pursuing each to its earthly
limit, would inevitably lead to position
where we would "touch Gods right hand
in the Darkness" what bursting in of
light, spiritual light, the life of the soul
The poet said, "The undevout astronomer
is mad" go is the chemist, if he does not
find the life of God in his departments; go
is the geometer, if he does not see in the
bees labor, for example, G I'd teaching it to
economize space in it's instructive applica-
ton Of geometry to the construction of its
cell, construction which no human intel
lect can improve.
Can the mechanic do anything better
than study the applications Of the principles
BY which he works in the anatomy of the
human frame! Can the telescope maker
equal the living, self-adjusting telescope
the human eye9 All his comparatively
clumsy apparatus, what is it all compared
to thsti 1t can look at the sun, blazing
millions Of miles away, and glance at the
notes floating in one of it's beame. and all
the while the being who uses it is uncon-
scious of the true mechanical apparatus.by
which its focus has bcen instantly adjusted.
Without screws, levers, wheels, it can throw
its glances up. around and below. The tele-
scope maker can q thousand times increase
the capacity of the eye, but the eye is the
suggestor of the telescope, and the Father
inspired the idea of making it, when the &C.
cidental juxtaposition OF two lenses, pre-
pared for other uses, suggested it's construc-
ton, one of those so-called accidents which
should be named inspirations, thoughts
possible only to minds grown by scientific
unfolding to q condition in which the in
breathing of Gods mind can give the i'm
pulse to act in the direction He wills. No
mind can receive an inspiration for which
it is not ready; q thought thrown into
mind not ready for it, would be as produc-
tive as sowing wheat upon granite. All the
worlds great inventions, so called, are un-
doubtedly inspirations, breathings into, as
the word means.
If the mind of the inventor had never
grown by study of principles in his specially
he would never have been ready for the re-
ception of tbs inspiration. The human
spir.t, looking out of its window" the eye
into in6aite space, longed to verify conclu-
sions arrived at by inductive thought, and,
so, in the "fullness Of time" supply an
swering demand, the ripe mind was quick
ened by the Spirit of God, and the telescope
was invented. ASK, and it shall be given
70 you," the source of inspiration is always
ready to give all which we are ready to re-
ceive.
There are diversities of gifts, but only
one spirit and taking up one branch Of
science We will realize the truth that all of
them are parts of one whole, but integral
parts, each indicating another, leading to
and suggesting the rest.
"In the beginning" a wondrous thought
of the Creators sincomprehensible mind was
sent forth, instinct with iife-God's life
having inherent power to clothe itself with
q body according to His Ordi nation. Aeons
of ages, time transcending calculation-for
what need has He of time who has infinity
to work in! This thought sped through space
before this was accomplished. We speak of
the "speed of thought" try and form On
idea Of thought win ged with infinite speed
try and imagine thought endowed with
infinite power. We record with respect the
results of human thought worthily elabo-
rated; what shall we say of Q thought re-
sulting in the elaboration Of unnumbered
universes, having for ultimate the individ-
uaIization of immortal intel igenciess Try,
then, and imagine the infinite love and be-
nevolence which c"ndescends to make happy
and provide for the wants of the tiniest ex-
istence which the most powerful microscope
can detect.
Studv then: cultivate the intellect with
which you are endowed; it is yours to pro-
vide the pabulum by which the immortal
indwelling spirit grows, and as you 20 on
you will by this means put yourself more
and more in intima ate communion with Him
"who has given YOU all things richly to en-
ioy." As you labor on you will find that
"He is His best interpreter" and will make
all things plain 4.