Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-23

stealing over the waters, and to cross
now is only a pleasant sail. How long
the boat is coming. Come, Lord Jesus
come quickly. Christ the Priest ad'
vances ahead, and the dying Christian
goes over dry-shod on coral beds, aud
flowers of heaven. and paths Of pear
Oh, could we make our doubts remove
Those gloomy doubts that rise,
And view the tanaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes,
Could we but climb where Moses stosd.
Ana view the landscape DER,
Not Jordan's stream. nor ceath's cold food,
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 would
have supposed, for the water to have
overfiowed 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
OF the other side of the river, so that
according to the text. the water halted
and reared and stood there, and not
overfiowing the surrounding country.
o. the completeness of everything that
God does
One would have thought that, if the
waters of Jordan had dropped until
they were only two or three feet deep,
the lsraelites might have marched
through il, and come up on the other
bank with their clothes saturated and
their garments like those of men eom-
ing ashore from shipwreek, and that
would have been as wonderful a deliv-
erance; but God does something better
than that When the priests feet
touched the water of Jordan and they
We're drawn off. they might have
thought there would have been a bed of
mud and slime through which the army
should pass. Draw of the water of the
Hudson or the Ohio, and there would be
a good many days, and perhaps many
weeks, before the sediment would dry
up; and yet here, in an instant, imme-
diately, God provides a path through
the depths of Jordan; it is so dry the
passengers do not even get their feet
damp @, the completeness of every
thing that God doesl Does He make a
universe?-it is a perfect clock. run
ming ever since it was wound up, the
fixed stars the pivots, the consultations,
the Intervening wheels, and ponderous
the weights and mighty swinging
the stars in the great dome
of night striking the midnight, 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 flying before the
schoolboy's breath, is controlled by the
law that controls the sun and the
The rosebush in your window
S governed by the same principle that
the tree of the universe on
which the stars are ~ripening fruits, and
IN which God will one day put His hand
shake down the fruit-a perfect
universe. No astronomy has ever pro-
posed an amendment
If God makes a Bible, it is a complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and
delightful truths, you seem to be in the
midst ofan orchestra where the ~wailings
'ver sins, and the rejoicings over pardon.
md the martial strains Of victory the
horus like an anthem of eternity. This
'ook seems to you the ocean OF truth,
m every wave of which Christ walks 1
ometimes in the darkness of prophecy,
gain in the splendors with which lie {
on Galilee. In this book, apostle
to prophet Paul to Isaiah, 1
revelation to Genesis-glorious light, !
midnight sorrow into the mid {
Don joy, dispensing every fog, hushing 9
very tempest Take this book; it is /
he kiss of God on the soul of lost man. {
Bible, complete Biblel Norman j
as eve proposed any improvement |
God provided a Saviour; He is a COM Z
lete Observation-Disclosures and /
umanity united in the same person. a
set mp the starry pillars Of the uni 7
erse and the towers Of light He I
the cedars and the heavenly a
ebanon. He struck out of the rock n
he rivers of life, singing under the a
'ees, singing under the thrones He r
the sardonyx and crystal, and d
lie topaz of the heavenly wall. He put
the jasper for the foundation, q
I'D heaped up the amethyst for the j
lpital. and swung the twelve gates, II
hich are twelve pearls. In one in o
ant he thought out a universe; and b
i lie became a child, crying for His e.
feeling along the sides of the h
learning to walk. Omnipo- II
nee sheathed in the muscle and flesh a
a child's arm; 0mniscience strung in in
e optic nerve of a child's eve; In p
lite love beating a child's heart: is
great God appearing in the OF
rm of a child one year old, five ri
airs old. fifteen years old. While all in
e heavens were ascribing to Him glory W
d honor and power on earth, men W
id: WHO is this fellow?' While all al
e heavenly hosts, with foldei wing m
their faces, bowed down before m
crying Holy, holyr' on earth
ey denounced him as a b~lasphemer 70
d a o Rocked in a BOAT on Genne- n,
and yet He it is that undirked 4,
a lirhfpfnr from tho cforpaoI o,,J ond