Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-03-13

they smell of the blossoms of the tree
Of life. The music of the heavenly choirs
comes stealing over the waters, and to
cross now is only pleasant sail. How
long the boat is comingl Come, Lord
Jesus, come quickly. Christ the Priest
advances ahead, and the dying Christian
goes over dry shod on coral beds and
flowers of heaven and paths OF pearl
oh. could we make our doubts remove
These gloomy doubts that rise
And view the Canaan that we love
| With unbeclouded eyesl
Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape DER,
| Not Jordan's stream nor deaths cold flood
| Could fright US from the shore.
Again, this Jordanic passage teaches
me the completeness of everything that
| God does. When God put an invisible
| dam across Jordan, and it was halted, it
would have been natural, you weuld
have supposed, for the water to have
overfowed the region all around about,
and that great devastation would have
taken place, but when God put the dam
in front of the river he put a dam on the
other side Of the river, so that, according
to the text, the water halted and reared
and stood there and not overfowing the
surrounding country. Oh, the complete
ness Of everything that God doesl
One would have thought that, If the
waters Of Jordan had dropped until they
were only two or three feet deep, the Is
raelites might have marched through it
and have come up on the other bank
with their clothes saturated and their
garments like those of men coming ashore
from shipwreck, and that would have
been as wonderful deliverance, but God
does something better than that. When
the priests feet touched the waters of
Jordan and they were drawn of, they
might have thought there would have
been a 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
yet here in an instant, Immediately, God
provides path through the depths of
Jordan. 1t is SO dry the passengers do
not even get their feet damp. Oh, the
completeness Of everything that God
does Does he make universep 1t is a
perfect clock, running ever since it was
wound up, the fixed stars the pivots, the
consultations the intermoving wheels,
and ponderous laws the weights and
mighty swinging pendulum, the stars in
the great dome of night striking the mid
night, and the sun, with brazen tongue,
tolling the hour Of noon.
The widest comet has chain Of law
that it cannot break. The thistle down
flying before the schoolboy's 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 ripening
fruits, and on which God will one day
put his hand and shake down the fruit
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 the
midst of an orchestra where the wailings
over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon,
and the martial strains Of victory make
the chorus like 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 splendors with
which he walks on Galilee. In this book
apostle answers to prophet, Paul to Isa-
iah, Revelation to Genesis glorious
light. turning midnight sorrow into the
midnoon 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
plete Saviour-Go God-man-divinity and
humanity united in the same person.
He 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
life, singing under the trees, singing un-
der the thrones. He quarried the sar-
donyx and crystal and the topaz Of the
heavenly wall. He put down tho jasper
for the foundation and heaped up the
amethyst for the capital and swung the
10 gates which are IL pearls. In one in
slant he thought out a universe, and yet
he became child crying for his mother,
feeling along the sides Of the manger,
learning to walk.
Omnipotence sheathed In the muscle
and flesh Of child's arm; omniscience
strung in the optic nerve of child's eye;
infinite love beating in child's heart; a
great God appearing in the form of
child year old, years old, Is years
old. While all the heavens were as
cribing to him glory and honor and
power on earth, men said, "Who is this
fellowY' While all the heavenly hosts,
with folded wing about their faces.
bowed down before him crying "Holy,
holyi" on earth, they denounced him as
blasphemer and sot Rocked In a boat
on Gennesaret, and yet he 1t Is that un-
dirked the lightning from the storm
cloud and dismasted Lebanon of it's 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 his