Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-28

God put q dam Ia front ol the river ITO
mt a dam on either side Of the river; so,
according 10 the text, the waters halted
and reared and stood there, not over
flowing the surrounding country. Oh,
the completeness OF everything that
God does. One would have thought II
the waters Of Jordan had dropped until
il was only two or three feet deep that
the Israelites might have marched
through and have come upon the other
hank with soaked and saturated gar
mepts as men came ashore from ship
wreck, and that would have been
wonderful deliyerance. So 1t would.
Hp, God Docs Something Better Than
That.
One would have supposed, il the water
had been drawn off from the Jordan,
there would have been a bed Of mud
and slime, through which the army
would have had 10 march. Draw of the
water from the Hudson, or the Connec-
tcut. and there would be many days
and perhaps many weeks, before the
sediment would dry up. Yet here, i'm
media.ely, God prepares path through
the depths OF the Jordan. 1t is 30 dry
| the passengers do not even get their feet
damp. On, the completeness OF every
thing that God does. Does he make a
universe, it is a perfect. clock, running
ever since it Was wound up; fixed stars
the pivots, consultations the inter
moving wheels and ponderous laws the
weights and mighty swinging pendulum;
the stars in the great dome strikingmld
night, and the sun with brszen tongue
toflinp the hour o! noon. The slightest
corner has upon it the chain OF law
which it cannot break The thistle
down fying before the school boys
breath controlled by the same law that
controls the sun and the planets. The
rose.bush in your window governed
by the same principle, that governs the
great tree OF the universe, on which stars
are ripening fruit and on which God
will, one do, put his hand and shake
down the iruit
"A Perfect Universe.
No astronomer has even proposed an
amendment. Does God make Bible, 1t
is a complete Bible. Standing amid It's
dreadful and delightful truths you seem
to be in the midst of an orchestra where
the wailings over sin and the rejoicings
over pardon, and the martial strains OF
victory make a chorus like the anthem
eternity. This book seems 10 you an
ocean OF truth, on every wave OF which
Christ walks, sometimes in the darkness
of prophecy. sometimes IN the splendor
with which he walked on Galilee. In
this book, apostle answering prophet,
Paul 90 Isaac, Revelation 10 Genesis
Glorious light turning the midnight OF
sorrow into the wisdom OF joy-plerclpg
every fog, untlickering in every tempest.
Oh, this book 10 the kiss of God on the
soul OF lost man. Complete Bible. No
man ever proposed an Improvement
Does God provide Savior; he IS COM
plete Savior,
God. Man. Divinity, Humanity
united in the same person. He set up
the starry pillars OF the universe and
the towers of light. He planted the
cedars on the heavenly Lebanon. He
struck out of the rock the rivers OF Lille,
singing under the trees, singing under
the thrones. He unquarried the sar.
dOnyx and the chrysolite and the topaz
OF the heavenly wall, putting down
Jasper for the foundation and heaplng
up amethyst for the capital and swing
ing twelve gates which are twelve pearls.
In one instant He thought out uui.
verse aud yet He is a child crying after
his mother and holding her hand while
he is learning TO walk Omnipotence
sheathed in the muscles and flesh OF 4
childs arm. Omnisciepce strung in the
optic nerve OF childs eye. Infinite
love beating in a child's heart. The
great God appearing in the form OF a
child one year old, five wears old, fifteen
years old While all heaven were as
cribing to him
Glory and Honor aud Power on Earth,
sinful nen called him "this fellow"
While the heavenly host with folded
wing over face bowed before him and
cried: "Holy, holy" on earth they de.
nounced him as blasphemer and sot.
Rocked in boat on Genessaret, and yet
he it is who undirks the lightning from
the storm cloud, and dismasts Lebanon
Of its forests, and holds the five oceans
on the tip of his finger as leaf hOldelh
rain drop. Oh, he is complete
Savior Rubbing his hand o"er the
place where We have pain until il is
sOothed, vet the stars OF heaven are the
adorning gems OF his right hand Hold !
ing us in his arms when We take the
last view OF our dead, and sitting down
with US on the tombstone, and while We
plant roses there, he planting consola-
latiOn i'll our hearts, every chapter q
stalk, every verse stem, every word
rose. 4 complete Savior; complete
Bible; a complete universe; complete
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Everything God does Complete.
Again learn from this crossing tina, be-
tween us and every Canaan of success
and propnety there is river that must
be passed. "Oh, how | should like TO
have some OF those grapes on the other
side" said some OF the lsraeltes TO
joshua "Well,' said Joshua, III you
want some OF those grapes why don't
you cross over and get them" river
Of difficulty between Us and every thing
that Is worth having. That which costs
nothing is worth nothing. Gol did not
intend this world for an easy psrlor
through which We are TO be drawn in a
rocking chair; but We are 10 work our
passage. climb uias:s. fight battles, scale
mountains, ford rivers. God makes
everything valuable difficult to get at for
the same reason that he puts the gold
down in the mine and the pearl clear
down In the sea;
And tits to Make Us Dig and Dive for
Them.
We acknowledge this principle in world
ly things, would that We were wise
enough to acknowledge it in religious
things. We are not surprised 10 find
that Cornelius Vanderbilt used to have
his hands blistered rowing a ferry boat.
We are not surprised to tiud that A. T.
Stewart used TO sweep out his own
store, You have had scores o! ilIustra.
tions uDder your own observation,
where men have had it just rs hard as
they could have had it, and yet after
awhile had it easy. Now the walls OF
their home blossom and bloom with
pictures. Carpets that made foreign
looms laugh embrace their fee. The
summer wind lifts the tapestry about
the window gorgeous enough for
Turkish Sultan. Impatient steeds paw
and neigh at the door, or moving there
from the cilied harness tinkering with