Arizona republican., 1899-05-14
OUR SUNDAY SERMON
RY Rev. George (. Lorimer. 3. D, Pastor Fremont Temple bap-
 fist Church, Boston Mass.
THREE UNPUBLISHED BOOKS

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 70 that one would hear me! Behcld, my desire is that the Almighty WOulu answer me. and that mine adversary had written a boOk.'-Job XXI; 59-
 When one visits a great library like that of the British museum. or Nhe Eodleian at Oxford, there comes over t-he mind q sense of absolute bewdlder- ment and helplessness as the eye ranges over the vast accumu-atlCn or books. There is a very deep sense or our inability to compass such apDaf- emily shoreless seas of information. How utterly impossible it IS Tor one mind to grasp the vast amount or lynovledge that has been printed and placed at our disposal.
 And then. if we try to realize that all the published books are but small handful of dust in comparison to the immense sands of knowledge that have heen in the world, and are in 1t today, we becOrne absolutely incapable Of ad- dressing ourselves to uhe proposition. The libraries are a wonder, that which is written is astounding, but that which man has thought and planned. bl1t which has never been put on pa per. transcends even the power Of the imagination to sum up.
 If we are thus staggered when we think of the works of men, how mucn more must we be overwhelmed when we draw near to the volumes of God. Who has ever been abe to understand even his published works? You have catalogue. so to speak, of Gods two complete libraries, in that marvellous
 
 heavens declare His glory, the firma- ment showeth his handiwork." Are we not immeasurably overwhelmed as we think of the ma~vels written in the heavens. the wonders Of the sea, the eIories Of the earth, the Examinations of G.1d's wisdom in your gardens Tn this springtime? How great and won derful is the work Of God that we call naturei
 But the psalmist breaks away almost immediately from the transcendent glory of the universe to speak of the greater glory of the moral law. The law of the Lord is perfect, the statutes of the law are clean and righteous al together" When we turn to this vol ume we find here written many things, and things that are profoundly impres- sive. And yet, there are moments in our lives when we realize the fnsuffi- cheney of all Gcd has published, and We cry cut with Job of old: O, that GCd would answer me and give me a book in which I might read the secret of all his dealings with me, a volume that would answer all my desires!"
 Now I find, in reading the Bible, in- timations that God has other books, and that they will finally be published. of T y1t F-oT91OOJ0 here with just few words of explanation. First, find God declared that there are Books of Memory. Then there are Books of History, and of Destiny.
 THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
 It is a thought worth pausing on, that God has a memory. We are told he is loving us and caring for us and remembering all the time our needs and our acts.
 It is well we have a church historian in heaven, because the church his tOrians on earth have been very in- adequate. Here and there some great name becomes conspicuous, like that of Savonarola, but the real church his- tory has never been written. It has been made by the great unknown, by the nameless saints. The names Of praying, gOdly men and women are forgotten among men. But God has remembered them. The silent, sweet, pure lives of multitudes who are try ing to help others, pass along unno- ticed, swept into the unseen, unrecog- 'nized, were it not that God looks down and enters their names in the memOr- ial volume. God is writing history; He is keeping the record, and he en- fo1.c 1I,, 5oI0 act. They are written in the Book cf His Remembrance. What a vast num- Der of volumes there will be in that book! And there are other
 BOOKS OF HISTORY.
 You read in Revelation how they brought a roll that was written both on the front and back side of it. Then could break the seals but ''the lion of the tYibe Of Judah" Now what did it mean? It meant the history of all coming time was placed in the hands Of Jesus Christ, and that he was to work out the history of the world; and he has. You and I, though, have not yet that history published. We do not know what will be tomorrow. We
  impressed by what we read; warships here, warships there, possibly in this place, probably in another, nobody knows where. We look around upon the disturbed condition of the human mind. We are anxious, so.icitous, hopeful. We have entered upon a new period in our national life. By a sin gular Providence our feet have been placed on an island of the Pacific, dom mating in a sense the whole eastern world, and that may mean vast change in the whole future of OUT country.
 There is a little book published in the works of Charles Sumner I would like all young men to read. It is en- titled, 'The Voice of Prophecy Con- cerning America You would be amazed, as I was when I read it years ago long before this PhiliDpine eDi-