Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-08-21
God, Above All.
BY REV. s. X. CHUBB.

HOW llny uOeH lHe IHlSHl VI mai
appear when contrasted with thu
almightiness of God. How small
is earth's greatest giant by the side
of Heavens King. How pigmy ap
pears the brightest developments OF
human genius, when we scan the
outcomes of Gods power. Man
cannot create the smallest atom. He
cannot destroy. He cannot under
stand what he sees, or hears, or all
Of what he believes. The surround
ings mystify him. He tramples
beneath his feet into the very dust
the inexplicable, the unsearchable,
the overmastering, the infinite meets
him at every step. Incomprehensi-
biIity waylays him. The wonderful
and unexplained ambush his foot
steps. The heavens, earth, seas,
flowers, insects, are partially sealed
books, or written with hierog lyphlcs
understandable. Man the brightest,
soon gets beyond his depth, into "a
deep where all our thoughts are
drowned;" in any direction which
man may travel he pulls up every
time in Puzzledom, the chief ruler
Of which is Mr.. Don'tKnow. Per
fectly to understand any subject is
foreign to man. Partial discovery
is all he can do or make. He sees,
but it is through q glass dark y.
Man is not blind, but very near
sighted. His eyes seem in the back
OF his head, for he only looks back
ward. Tomorrow is a profound
mystery, yesterday partial one.
The future is a total eclipse. 1t is
an unpacked, unread, unopened
book. We cannot review it for we
may not open it, is not ours. We
cannot walk by sight for the fogs
have gathered till it is as black as
Egyptian midnight. All ahead of
us Is closely yelled. We can not
even peep, but this is nothing to be
depIored, it is best under the circum-
stances; a child need not know as
much AS the parent-thank God for
the impossibiIities of humanity!
But man in all ages has seemed to
point with pride to what has been
performed, and the pride is some
what pardonable. See the finger Of
nation-which is only man III the
aggregale-pointing to some memo
rial Of wisdom or power, and as she
points She seems to say, "There,
what do you think of that? Beat 1t
if you can" Take, for instance,
Egypt. She stretches her finger
toward the Pyramid of Cheops,
with its height of 400 feet, and its
square base of 800 feet, built by
100, 900 men working for prolonged
period, its four sides pointing north,
south, east, west TO hairsbreadth,
and says to the world, "Build anoth-
er one, if you dare, like it, much
less beat it.
But we take our gaze away from
It's terrific masonry and accurate
proportions, and fix our sight on one
of Gods pyramids. o, look at that
cloud-klssed mountain, snow-capped
with eternal Wilderness, beyond the
reach of the multitude, towering far
above us, grand in a God formed
serene altitude, from the top of
which one would think it possible
10 mount the cloud and step heaven
ward--nay into heaven; and as we
look at its eagled crags and torrent
gorges and mighty dimensions, we
lose sight of Cheops.
1T has sunk. The Lake Moeris is,
or was, one of the nations wonders.
1t was a pretty good dugout certain
ly-5U0 miles in circumference, 800
feet deep--was quite a work.
have often wondered where they put
all the stuff they dug out, but we
must not ask questions. But what
was that to the scooping out of the
bed of the Atlantic, or Pacific, 5000
miles across, 7 miles deep, etc.. All,
poor Moeris goes where Dayid's
bay tree man went-where it cannot
be found.
Men point to Westminster for
architectural embellishments, to the
Vatican for its multitudinous rooms,
to st. Pauls with its remarkable
dome, library floor, and whispering
gallery; but what are the beauties
of elaborate workmanship manifest
ed therein to the mansions prepared
for earth's faithful, for eye hath not
seen, neither hath ear heard, neither
hath it entered into the heart of
man to conceive the things laid up
for those who love the Lord.
Rome was pointed to as the inn
perial city, its name the synonym of
beauty and grandeur, the seat of
power and craftsmanship; but how
transcendantly more glorious rises
to the enraptured vision the city
made by, God with its twelve foun-
dations of precious stones, its gates