Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-26

to the temple door of Revelation. Aye,
across the Threshold, until, like the sick
of the palsy. he is present before the Lord
OF life. Let him linger there until Christ
speaks into the heavy ear, touches the
blind spiritual eyes, and the leprous
heart, and says thy sins be forgiven
thee-and he hears the voice of the In
-linger until the Holy Spirit
blind, misguided, disappointed seeker no
longer; but the new-found spiritual
vision sees Gods finger prints on every
field OF nature, and hears his voice in
every activity of the Universe and every
epoch OF human history.
He may follow, now, the sceptical geolo-
gist down into the secrets and mysteries of
the words history and structure, land when
his guide sees nothing but the activities
OF force and behold with wonder how God
has built his world home, strata above
strata, story above story, each with rich
deposits of vegetable and animal growth
transmitted by His wondrous alchemy,
as the ages have rolled on, into
choicest treasure for mans use; while
here and there with a full hand
lie has sown the strata, the secret
places OF this treasure-house, with silver,
gold and wondrous jewels, and given man
the key to unlock and possess.
Then turning his gaze upward, see
in wider fields displayed the
wondrous architecture of God, and not,
like the shorter visiOned ancients, think |
of Jehohah as riding on the storm with |
His cloudy chariot, but as sweeping |
across the universe on a cleaning path |
way OF starry worlds, and the vast ex-
panses, OF suns and systems, Psalming
the wisdom, power and glory OF God
while about you on every side, in the
minutest lowly forms of life, sporting in
the dew drop, swarming in pool or pond,
in lake, river or great sea depth, in grass
and flower and tree, in fish and bird and
beast, until on on every side life quivers
and throbs and grows and builds and
thrives by the imminent presence and
power of God
Look back across the flood OF years,
and the growth, migration, revolutions,
the conquests and supremacy and even
decay and ruin Of empires, as they
work into and develop the man.
fold plan of human elevation
and perfection blaze everywhere of
Jehovah, like Tabors tC the eye of faith.
We have been gazing directly on external
movements; look into the interior and
mystery of things; of history, of life, of ]
human life, and we enter the holy place !
where the awe of the manifest presence
# Deity bushes the soul into soberest
thoughts; for in every form of life, from |
he simplest cell to the tallest mammoth. I
here are myriads OF little busy builders l
famed Bioplast, as orderly, as certain I
nd correct as trained human builders. I
recting the walls of being or weaving +
ne tissues of life, activity plan, order. +
kill, God: for look within, from the red F
des of life see the white-robed white T
anded little builders darling Out hither. F
nd thither on their busy mission to build
nerve of the eye, muscle of the hand. a T
awe OF the heart, some minute portions
the great bony frame, or even some =
ortlon of the minute canal that directs
he liquid OF life back to whence it came.
ook further and see nerves, sinews, =
ones, veins and arteries formed into 4
eat intricate systems, with varied and dc
ellcate duties, and organs and faculties, gu
re, ear, smell, touch and taste, ali ", w
utually adapted and each perfect in NJ
'tlon, and we ask for the architect of ~
Re author of this, and voice like unto
at on the mount directs your gaze to
.hovah.
Enter the holy of the holes within.
OK and listen, star distances and p
Unite space are forgotten, for the p
Ind OF faith, reaches forth and In
asps the hands of Him, whose seat is
the circle of the Heaven, and listen IT
"a Jehovah Himself speaks in this silent l.
'ly OF the holies, and you hear the In IN
ute spirit, bearing witness: Now are IL
the Sons of God and the TRANSPORTED A
u talks, as it were, face to face with sci
'd. Aye, more bow the knee, for Je- ito
yah dwells here on the throne of this 'hs
her temple, and you are in the very I
9sence OF the power and majesty of the
All! The world by its wisdom knew ir
God. By searching it could not find
God; but since faith and reason have TIL
the soul through the door of the
ord to the Cross of Christ, everywhere.
we, around, beneath, are the foot
nts, the building, the wisdom, the
ught OF God. And within God him.
and We know whom We have be-
ed. And now are we the Sons of