St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-07-13
vision. again and again heard tho

quite well explained Dy Inc eIeCGTl'
clans, was the overpowering mystery
Of the ancients, and standing among
those mysteries Job exclaimed: 'Lo
these are parts of His ways. But how
little portion is heard of Him? :
So, also, all systems of theology
try to tell US what is omnipresence-
that is, Gods capacity to be every.
where at the same time. "Where il
God?" said heather philosopher to
. Christian man. The Christian an
swered: "Let me first ask you where
He is not?" The child had it right
when asked how many Gods are there
and he answered: "One." "How do
you know that?" he was asked again.
He answered.: ''There is only room
for one, for He fills earth and Heav-
en-" An author says that if man
were set in the highest heavens he
would not be any nearer the essence
Of God than if he were in the center
Of the earth. I believe it. If this
Divine essence does not reach all
places, what use in our prayer, for
prayers are being offered to God on
the other side of the earth as well AZ
here, and God must be there and here
to take applications which are of
fered thousands of miles apart.
Ubiquity! No one has it but God.
And what an alarm to wickedness, an
everywhere present Lord, and what q
reinforcement when we need helpl
God on the throne and God with tho
kneeling child saying its evening
prayer at his mothers lap. God
above you, God beneath you. God on
the right of you, God on the left Of
you, God within you. No pantheism,
for that teaches that all things are
God, but Jehovah possesses all things,
as our souls possess our bodies. God
everything, as close to you as tho
food you put to your lips, as the coat
you put upon your back, as the sun
light that shines in your face. APP
probation of that, if through, Jesus
Christ, the atoning Saviour, we are
right with God, ought to give us .
serenity, tranquility, that nothing
could upset. Would it make US
gloomy? No, for God is the God Of
joy and will augment our happiness.
God in full possession of us is .
thought out of which you ought to
make anthems and entwine garlands
and kindle Examinations.
So every system of theology has
to describe and define the
Divine attribute of love. Easy
enough is it to define fatherly love,
motherly love, conjugal love, frater-
nal love, sisterly love and love OF
country, but the love of God defies
all vocabulary. For many hundreds
of years poets have tried to sing 1t
and painters have tried to sketch it,
and ministers of the Gospel to preach
it and martyrs in the fire and Chris.
tians on their deathbeds have ex-
tolled it, and we can tell what it is
like, but no one has yet fully told
what 1t is. ~
Only glimpses Of God have we in
this world, but what an hour it will
be when we first see Him, and we will
have no more fright than I feel when
I now see you. It will not be with
mortal eye that we will behold Him,
put with the vision Of cleansed, for.
given and perfected spirit. OF all the
4uintillion ages of eternity to us the
most thrilling hour will be the first
hour when we meet Him as He is.
This may account for something you
have all seen and may not have I'm.
derstood. Have you not noticed that
after death the old Christian looks
young again or the features resume
the look of 20 or 30 years before?
The WEAKNESS is gone out of the face;
there is something strikingly restful
ind placid; there is pleased look
where before there was a disturbed
ook. What has wrought the change?
think the dying Christian saw God.
1t the moment the soul left the body
what the soul saw left its impression
IN the countenance. I think that is
what gave that old Christian face
after death the radiant and triumph-
mt look. The bestormed spirit has
cached the harbor; the hard battle
# life is ended in victory. The body |
,ook that look the moment Heaven
began, and the curtain was completely |
lifted and the glories of Jehovah's
presence rushed upon the soul. The |
spirit left on the old mans
ace a glad good-by, and that first |
ook gave the pleased curve to the dy.
ng lips and smoothed out the wrin-
lies and touched all the lineaments
With an indescribable radiance. VI
Last summer we journeyed thou
ands of miles to see the midnight sun |
rom North Cape, Norway. We stood |
N deck in the arctic seas, our watches
a our hands, and it was II o'clock
It night, but light as an ordinary
Then it was half past II
,'clock at night, then it was Is min
ties of 12, but long, wide, thick
loud hung over the sun. Are we to
,e disappointed as thousands have
zen and the journey here failure?
,en minutes of IL, and the sun is still
idden. But about five minutes of IL
he cloud lifted, and the midnight sun,
he most. wondrous spectacle of all
he earth, appeared, pouring forth
afuluence that turned the arctic sea |