The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-03-15

now Ii only plehSnnb bhll hoW Aohk
the boat Is comingl Come, Lord Jesus,
come quickly. Christ the Priest ad-
vances 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
Those gloomy doubts that rise,
And view the Canaan that we love
With unbeolouded eyesl
Could we but climb where Moses stood;
And view the landscape DER,
Not Jordan's stream, nor deaths cold HOOD,
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,
1t would have been natural, you would
have supposed, for the water to have
overhowed 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 dam
on the other side of tho river, so that,
according to the text, the water halted
and reared and stood there, and not
OVERLOOKING the surrounding country.
o, the completeness of everything that
God does
One would have thought that II the
waters of Jordan had dropped until
they were only two or three feet deep,
the Israelites might have marched
through II, and come up on the other
bank with their clothes saturated and
their garments like those OF men COM
ing ashore from shipwreck, and that
would have been as wonderful q deliv-
erance; 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 water OF the
Hudson or the Ohio and there would be
a good many days, and perhaps many
weeks, before tho sediment would dry
up; and yet here, in an instant, imme-
diately, God provides path through
the depths of Jordan; 1t is so dry the
passengers do not even get their feet
damp o, the completeness Of every
thing that God doesl Does He make O
universe?-it is perfect clock, run
ming ever since it was wound up, the
fixed stars the pivots, the consultations
the Intervening wheels, and ponderoui
laws the weights and mighty swinging
pendulum; the stars in the great dome
Of night. striking the midnight, and tho
sun with brazen tongue, tolling the
hour of noon. The widest comet hai
a chain of law that it cannot break
The thistle-down flying before thu
schoolboy's breath, is controlled by thu
same law that controls the sun and thu
planets The rosebush in your window
Is governed by the same principle tina
governs the tree Of the universe oI
which the stars are ripening fruits, ant
on which God will one day put His hant
and shake down the fruit-a perfec
universe. No astronomy has ever pro
posed an amendments
IfGod makes Bible, IL is complet
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful an
delightful truths, you seem to be In tn
midst OF an orchestra where the wailing
over sins, and the rejoicings overpardon
and the martial strains OF victory tn
chorus like an anthem Of eternity. Thi
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 II
walks on Galilee. In this book, apostl
answers to prophet, Paul to Isaiah
Revelation to Genesis-glorious light
turning midnight sorrow into the mit
noon Joy, dispensing every fog, hushin
every tempest Take this book; 1t
the kiss of God on the soul Of lost maj
Perfect Bible, complete Biblel Noma
has ever proposed any improvement
God provided Saviour; He Is CON
plete Saviour-God-man-Divinity an
humanity united in the same person
He set up the starry pillars Of the un
verse and tho towers OF light ii
planted the cedars and the heavenl
Lebanon. He struck out Of the roc
the rivers Of life, singing under th
trees, singing under the thrones II
auarried the sardonyx and crystal, an
the topaz Of the heavenly wall. He pr
down the jasper for the foundation
and heaped up the amethyst for th
capital, and swung the twelve gate
which are twelve pearls. In one IL
slant he thought out a universe; an
vet He became child, crying for ii
mother, feeling along the sides Of Il
manger, learning to walk Omnip
tence sheathed in the muscle and fies
OF n child's arm: 0mniscience strung
the optic nerve Of childs eye; i
finite love beating a child's hear
great God appearing In u
form of child one year old, fi'
years old, fifteen years old. While a
the heavens were ascribing TO Him glol
and honor and power on earth, me
said: "Who Is this fellow?" While o
the heavenly hosts, with folded wir
about their faces, bowed down befo
him, crying Holy, holyP on ear'
they denounced him as a blasphem
and sot Rocked in boat on Genn
saret, and yet He It is that undirh'
the lightning from the stormcloud, AZ
dismasted Lebanon of It's forests, al
holds the Ave oceans on the tip OF His q
ger, as leaf holds the rainprod o, Il
complete Saviour, rubbing His han
over the place where we have the pal
vet the star Of heaven the adornir
gems Of His right handl Holding us
His arms when we take our last vie
Of our dead. sitting down with as (
the tombstone, and while We pla
roses there, He planting consolation
our heart every chapter stalk, eve