Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-29


OF the anc,ents. and standing among
those mysteries job exclaimed: "Lo.
these are parts OF His ways. hut how
little n portion il 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 10
God?" said a heather philosopher to
. Christian man. The Christian an
swered: let me first ask you where
He is not?" The child had il right
when asked how many Gods are there
and he answered: "One." How do
YOU know shat2'' he was asked again.
He answered: There is only room
for one, for He fills earth and Hesv-
en-" An author says that il man
were set In the highest heavens he
would not be anv nearer the essence
OF God than il he were in the center
of the earth. I believe IL. IL this
Divine essence does not reach all
places. what use in our prayer, for
prayers are being offered 20 God on
the other side % the earth as well as
here and God must be there and here
TO take supplica tons which are Of
fered thousands of miles apart.
Ubiquity! No one has il but God.
And what an alarm TO wickedness, an
everywhere present Lord, and what
reinforcement when we need helpl
God on the throne and God with the
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
| az the diameter and circumference OF
everything. as close 20 you as the
| food YOU put 20 your lips, as the coat
| you put upon your back. as the sum
| light that shines in your face. APP
| probation OF that, IL through Jesus
| Christ. the atoning Saviour, we are
| right with God. ought 20 give vas
serenity. n tranquility. that nothing
could upset. Would 10 make us
| gloomy? No, for God is the God OF
Joy and will augment our happiness.
God In full possession of "a il
thought out OF which You ought to-
make anthems and entwine garlands
and kindle Examinations.
So every system of theology has
| attempted 10 describe and define the
| Divine attribute of love. Easy
| enough is il TO define fatherly love,
motherly love. conjugal love. frater-
nal love, sisterly love and love OF
! country. but the love of God defes
all vocabulary. For many hundreds
| of years poets have tried 10 sing it
and painters have tried TO sketch il,
and ministers Of the Gospel TO preach
IL and martyrs in the fire and Chris
tians on their deathbeds have ex-
tolied IL, and we can tell what il ia
! like, but no one has vet fully told
what il is.
Only glimpSes OF God have we in
this world, but what an hour II viii
be when We first see Him. and We viii
have no more fright than l feel whe IA
! now see you. IL will not lac with
mortal eve that we will behold Him.
, | but with the vision of a cleanSed. for
given and perfected spirit. OF al the
quintillion ages OF eternity 10 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 strikilgly reStfu
and placid; there is pleased lool
where before there was a disturbed
look. What has wrought the change
> think the dying Christian saw God
At the moment the soul left the bod,
what the soul saw left its impression
on the countenance. / think that 4
what gave that old Christian fac
/, after death the radiant and triumph
ant look. The beStormed spirit ha
reached the harbOr; the hard battl
of life is ended in victory. The bod
took that look the moment Heave
began, and the curtain was completed
lifted and the glories Of Jehovah
presence rushed upon the soul Tn
- departing spirit left on the old man
face a glad goOd-by, and that frs
:, look gave the pleased curve to the dy
ing lips and smoothed out the wriI
80 kles and touched all the lineament
with an understandable radiance.
- Last summer We journeyed tho'
nv sands of miles to see the midnight su
nd | from North Cape, Norway. We stoo
az on deck in the arctic seas, our watchs
a. in our hands, and il was IL O'cloC
MS at night, but light as an ordinar
"a MONDAY. Then it was half past
An o'clock at night, then IL was rs mi
a. utes OF IL, but long, wide. this
an cloud hung over the sun. Are we
20 be disappointed as thousands ha'
'os been and the journey here a failur,
- Ten minutes of -. and the sun is ST
IN. -