Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-16

garments like those OF men coming ashore
from shipwreck. and that would have
been as wonderful a deiverance, but God
does something better than that. When
the priests feet touched the waters OF
Jordan and they were drawn off, they
might have thought there would have
been bed of mud and slime through
which the army should pass.
Draw off the waters Of the Hudson or
the Ohio. and there would be good
many days. and perhaps many weeks.
before the sediment would dry up, and
vet here in an instant. Immediately, God
provides path through the depths OF
Jordan. 1t is so dry the passengers Go
not even get their feet damp. Oh. the
completeness of everything that God
does. Does he make universe: It's a
perfect clock. running ever since 1t was
wound up, the fixed stars the pivots. the
consultations the intermoving wheels,
and ponderous laws the weights and
mighty swinging pendulum, the stars III
.ne great dome of night striking the mid
night, and the sun, with brazen tongue.
tolling the hour of noon.
The widest comet has a chain of law
that it cannot break. The thistle down
fi-ing before the schoolboys breath Is
controlled by the same law that controls
the sun and the planets. The rosebush
in your window is governed by the same
principle that governs the tree of the
universe on which the stars are ripeniHg
fruits, and on which God will one day
put his hand and shake down the fruit
a perfect universe. No astronomy has
ever proposed an amendment.
A COMPLETE BIBLE.
If God makes :. Bible, it is complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and
delightful truths, you seem to be IN tne
midst of an orchestra where the wailinSs
over sins, and the rejoicinSs over pardon
and the martial strains of victory make
the chorus Ike an anthem OF eternity
This book seems to you the ocean Of
truth. on every wave Of which Christ
walks-sometimes in the darkness OF
prophecy, again in the spl"ndors with
which he walks on Galilee. IN this book
apostle answers to prophet, Paul to lsa-
iah, Revelation to Genesis glorious
light, turning midnight sorrow into the
nidnoon JOY, dispensing every fog. hush
ing every tempest. Take this book; 1t
is the kiss of God on the soul of lost man.
Perfect Bible. complete Bible. No man
has ever proposed any improvement.
God provided Saviour. he IS com
olete Saviour-God-man-divinity and
humanity united in the same person.
Ee set up the starry pillars of the uni
verse and the towers of light. he plant
ed the cedars and the heavenly Lebanon.
He struck out of the rock the rivers Of
lie. singing under the trees, singing I'M
der the thrones. He quarried the sar-
donvx and crystal and the topaz Of the
heaver!y wall. He put down the jasper
for the foundation and heaped up the
amethyst for the capital and swung the
70 gates which are y pearls. In one in
slant he thought out universe, AMI yet
he became child crying 70. his mother,
faeIino along the sides of the manger
laa,,,;,.., 10 waIl
O,pn;no-ance sbeathed in the muscle
and flesh of child's arm; omniscience
s.r,,a., s, IN the on;ic nerve of a child's eve;
;nsn;+e love beating in a child's heart; a
.,raa- ca a,paar;no in the form of a
eb;ld year old 5 years old. Is vears
oId While all 1oe heavens were as
cr;bin. 70 him glorv and honor and
r,orer ~, Garth men said WHO is this
saIlow." While all the heavenly hosts.
With folded wing about their faces,
howed down before him CRYING Holy.
bolv," ON earth they denounced him as q
blasnbemer and sot Rocked in boat
on Gennesaret. and yet ne it is that TN
dirked the lightning from the storm
cloud and dismasted Lebanon of its for
ests and holds the FIVE oceans on the tip
of his finger as the leaf holds the rain
drop.
Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing hls
hand oyer the place where we have ths
min VET the stars of heaven the adorn
ino gems of his right hand. Holding us
in his arms when we take our last view
of our dead. Sitting down with Us on
the tombstone. and while we plant roses
there be planting consolation in oar
heart. every chapter stalk. every verse
q stern every word a rose a complete
Sayiour. a complete Bible. complete
universe. a complete Jordanic passage
Everything that God does is complete
OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME.
Aoa;nI ,4arn from this Jordanic pas
soqe that between us and every Canaan
of s,,ccess and orosperirv there is a river
that must be passed. ,.Oh. how would
like some Of those grapes on the other
c;dap oo;d Some Of the Israelites t,
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