The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-03-23
| Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape DER,
Not JOrdap's stream nor deaths cold flood
Could fright us from tho shore.

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 baltcd, it
would have been natural, you would
have supposed, for the water to have
overlooked the region all around about,
and that great deverstaton would have
taken place. But when God put the
dam in front Of the river he put dam on
the other side of the river, so that, ac-
cording to the text, the water halted
and reared and stood there, and not
overlooking the surrounding country.
Oh, 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
Israclites might have marched throu III
it and have come up on the other bank
with their clothes saturated and their
garments like those of men coming
ashore from shipwrcck, and that would
have been as wonderful deliver once
but God does 80 nething 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 bed of mud and slime
through which the army should pass.
Draw of the waters Of the Hudson or
the Ohio, and there would be q good
many days, and perhaps many weeks,
before the sediment would dry up, and
vet here, in au instant, Immediately,
God provides path through the depth ;
OF Jordan; it is so dry the passengers do
not even get their feet damp. Oh, the
completeness Of everything that God
does! Does he make universe?-it is
a perfect clCck, running ever since it was
wound up, the fixed stars the pivots
tho consultations the iutermoving
wheels, and ponderous laws the weights
and mighty swinging pendulum, the
stars In the great dome of night striking
the midnight, and the sun. with brazen
tongue, toling the hour of noon.
The Widest comet has q cham Of law
that it cannot break. The thistle down
flying before the sChoolboy's breath is
controlled by the same law that contro Is
the sun and the planets. The rosc3usN
III your window is governed by The same
principle that governs the tree of the
universe on which the stars arc rpcn
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.
IfGOd makes Bible, it is a 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 rel olcngs over par.
, don, and the martial strains OF victory
n n OH
: eturnlty. This book seems to YOU In;
c ocean OF truth, on every wave of whlcl
/ Christ walks-sOmctimcs in the dar!;
d ness OF prophecy, again i'll the splcndor
n with which he walks on GaliiGe.
&c this book apostle answers to prophet
Paul ~ Isaiah, Revelation TO GGncsls-
l. glorious light, turning midnight sorro,
If INTO the mldnoon joy, dispensing ever
n 10y, hushing every tempest. Take th
- book; it is the kiss OF God on the Sol
ii OF lost man. Perfect Bible, c)mplcL
l. Bible! No man has eyer proposed an
|. Improvement.
II God provided n Saviour. He is con
,, plct Saviour-God-man- an
,c humanity united in the same rcrsol
&c lie set up the starry pillars Of the univ
)i crsc and tho towers OF light. He pluntc
o the ccdars and the heavenly Lebanon
d lie struck out otthe rock the rivers c
:, life, singing under the trees, singing ul
{ der the thrones. lie quarricd the sar
donyN and crystal, and the topaz Of TIC
, heavenly wall. lie put down the jasper
} tor the foundation and hcapcd up the
amethyst for the capital and swung tho
II gates, which arc II pearls. In one
lnstatnL he thought out Il universe, aud
yet he became a child, crying tor his
mother, feeling along the sides Of the
mangcr, leaning to walk.
Omnipotcncc shcathcd in the muscle
and flesh Of y child's arm, omnsclcuce
strung in the optic nerve of a chid's
eye, infinite love beating in the child's
heart, q great God appearing in tho form
OF child year old, S years old, Is
years, old. While all the heavens were
ascribing TO hum glory and honor and
power on earth men sad, "Who is this
fellow" While all the heavenly hosts,
with folded wing about their, faces, bowed
down before him crying, "IIolyl IIoly!o
on earth they denounced him as a bias.
paemcr and a sot. Rocked in boat on
Gcnncsarct, and yet he it ls that un-
dirkcd the lightning from the stormcloud
and psmasted Lebanon Of it's forests
and holds the five Occ rs on the tip of
his finger as a leaf hold the rlindrop.
On, the compete Savior, rubbing
his hand over the place where we have
the pain, yet the stars O. hcav; the
adormnG gems OF his right hPI,. Hold
in us iD his arms when we take our last
view Of our dead. Sitting down with us
on the tombstone, and while we plant
roses there he planting consolation in
our heart, every chaptera stalk, every
verse stem, every word Il rose. A
complete Saviour, a complete Bible, a
complete universe, complete Jordaic
passage. Everything that God does is
complete.
Again, learn from this Jordanc pas
sage tn It between us and every Canaan
OF success and prosperity there is a river
that must be passed. "Oh, how |
would like some OF those grapes on the
other side!' said one of the Israeltcs to
10 hua. " Well" says Joshua, Ill
you want the grapes, why don't you