The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-19
SERmoN BY REy. pELH4M oG1E.
Preached at Trinity Episcopal Church
 Yesterday Morning.

Yesterday Morning.
 Rev. Pelham Ogle of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, rector of St. John S P. E. church in that city, preached at Trinity Episcopal church in this city yesterday morning on the topic "The Revelation of God in Creation" He spoke from the text Psalms xcii., 4: "Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy works, and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of Thy hands,"
 The sermon dealt with the evidences of God in nature, and after calling at tention to the fact that the theme of the psalm from which the text was taken is that it is good to acknowledge God in adoring praise for His love and truth, by day and night and by every art that human genius can minister, Rev. MT. Ogle said that the first mo- tive is the constraining call of nature and the second is the unfaltering testi- mony of experience.
 After referring to the song of glory and power and holiness, of mercy and judgment displayed in the works of creation, being a familiar strain in the psalter, he said: In deep-toned accents the enduring mountains suggest to Moses an awful contrast to the un- speakable eternity of God, while the transient life of man seems only an ephemeral dream. The cattle on a thousand hills, the sheep and oxen, the fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea, the plenteous fruits of the soil, the wonders and dangers of the great wa ters, the gladdening, restful haven, are witnesses to the goodness of the Lord who has His dwelling so high and yet humbleth Himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth, nurturing the earth with sunshine and cloud and shower, bringing forth the grass and herb for the use of man and beast and feeding the young ravens that call up- on Him.
 Further on he said If we venture into any sort of philosophical inquiry into the causes and character of this enthusiasm we shall first observe that 1t has grown with the development of the intelligences of mankind, to some extent following the lines of the evolu- tion of the mental faculties of the man from infancy to age. History relates that the observation of nature was fol- lowed by fear and then religion. It is the majestic irregularities of nature that suggest to the uninformed thought and imagination of man the presence and action of personal God
 In answer to the question as to whether nature awakens and gives evil dence for this belief in God, MT. Ogle said that the answer was composite and intricate. The emotional and re- ligious influences of nature so much de- pend upon what character of mind is submitted to their impression that it cannot be satisfactorily asserted that nature alone demonstrates the exist ence of God especially when we have laid aside the evidence presented by su- pernatural revelation. For this he said there were two reasons, one that 1t Is not possible and the other that it was not probable-not possible because 1t is not in the nature of things that 1t should be, and not probable because from the nature of the case 1t is im- probable that God would afford us an absolute proof of Ills being.
 In conclusion MT. Ogle said: Nature can hide God from us The entire course of technical study of nature tends to defect our attention and inter- est downward in a utilitarian direction and so to thicken and darken the evil of nature in which God has wrapped Himself. Without the assimilating zeal of the soul nature is dead to us The spirit of revelation depends upon the ideality of man. Faith, the express sion of our intellectual gifts, is the SOL vent of all natural perplexities.