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darkness it ia evident thai his heart
WAS filled with doubts

woo AAACo WIN uOuD'o.
"why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, o
Israel. My way Is hid from the Lord and NY
Judgment Is passed over from my God! HAST
thou not known hast thou not hesred; that the
ends OF the earth, fainteth not, neither is
weary there Is no searching OF His understand
that have no might lie incrcaseth strength" Elsa.
xl. 27.29).
When VIC say with jacob, My way is
hid from the Lord, lit is because we do nc,
know cd. He is hidden from us. and
we think He is therefore shs"n,; we a.
not see Him. and we think IL oues mt
see us. Like u chila in u.irium, snss
cannot zee its moth or, sithouRn sbo is
holding 1t tender in nor arms. ard
that calls out In dcspair, % mother,
mother, come" so VIZ in tae delirium
of our unbelief call our. How ionv wilt
thou forget me, 0 Lo d? Forever? How
long wilt thou hide ny race from Ds?
while all the time His arms ara under
meath US, and Hie love environs US on
every side.
"If say, Surely the darkness shall cover me-
even the night shall be lignt about me Yea,
the darkness hitcth not from thee; bn, tho night
are both alike to thee" tPs cSxxix. ii, ~.
God may DO hidden fron us, bu. we
can D\ver be hidden from Him. There
Is scene in the life Of Elisha that il
illustrates this. The King Of syria WAS
warning against Israel, but his designs
were continually frustrated by Elisha.
At last he determined to take Elisha
captive, and sent an armv to surround
the prophets own city. / will let the
Bible tell the rest of the story.
"And when the servant OF the man OF God was
risen early, andigone forth, behold, ell hO, com.
passed tho city both with horses and chariots.
And his servant said unto him Alas my master
how shall we do: And he answered, Fear not:
for they that be with US are moro than they that
be with them; And Elisha prayed. and said.
And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man;
and ne cav; and behold the mountain WAS lull OF
horses and chariots OF fire round about Elisha"
e Kings vi. l5-lO.
Were our eyes but opened, as were.,he
eyes OF this young man, we too should
see, in every time OF trial or Danger,
the noun tains round about VA full of
tina horses and chariots Of God
And behold, two OF them went that same day
TO village called Emmsus, witch was from Jc
rusalt IN about threescore furlongs. And they
talked together of all these things which had
happened. And II came to pass, that, while they
communed together and reasoned, Jesus limself,
drew near, and went with them. But their eyes
were holden that they should not know him.
duke xiv. 1916.
Now as then 1t often happens that the
Lord Is walking with Hts people, as He
did with the two disciples on their way
to Emmaus, ard like them, we do not
know Him. w, need 10 have our eyes
opened that we may see Him.
These disciples saw with their
bodily eyes, but we are to STE
with our spiritual eyer. Our seeing is
20 be by believing. Faith Is the SOULS
eyesght. The word "see" Is used not
only OF the sense CT vision by which we
perceive exte,nalob jects, but also OF that
inward perception which gives US q GER
tain knowledge Of spiritual things. We
say, for instance, of mathematical
problem. II see It," meaning. that not
cur outward eyes ace 1t worked out on
blackboard, but that our inward per
ception grssps II as an ascertained fact.
Is Is 10 this sense that we shall core 10
see Him who is invisible, not with our
outward eyes. but with the inward eye
OF our deepest perceptions. In other
words. il we would discover the hidden
God. we nj st aim ply believe. In spite of 4;
every seeming" to the contrary. that
He is with US and Is watching over US
and caring for US every minute OF the |
time. Though we see Him not, we
must believe that He Ia there. and, 80 |
believing, we shall surely REPLICA with |
JOY unspeaka5le and full OF glory
"Whom having not seen, yc love; In whom. |
though now we see Him not yet believing. ye |
rejoice with Joy unspeakable and full OF glory:
receiving the end of your faith. even the saliva
ton OF youf souls" q Peter /. 5. %.