The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23

their cages of rock. and century after
 century unable to break the chain l or burst open the door! What power to keep the component parts of the air in right proportion so that all around the world the nations may breathe in health the frosts and the heats hind cred from working universal demoli- tion Power, as Isaiah says, ito take
 up the isles as a very little thing Ceyion and Borneo and Hawai- as
 though they were pebbles; power to weigh the mountains in scales" and
 the hills In balances. -Tenerife and the Cordilleras. To move a rock we must have a lever and screw and great machinery, but God moves the world
 with nothing but word; power to cre- ate worlds and power to destroy them. as from the ohservatories again and | again they have been seen red with flame, then pale with ashes and then
 scattered.
 | What is that power to us? asks some
 one. It is everything to us. With Him on our side, the reconciled God, the sympathetic God, the omnipotent God,
 we may defy all human and satanic | antagonisms. And when we are shut
 in by obstacles we can say as did one | of Frobisher's men when the sailor
 was describing how their ship vas sur
 rounded by icebergs in the Arctic sea. "The ice was strong, but God was l stronger than the ice" and whatever opposition we may have our God is | mightier than the opposition. All right with God, we may have the courage of | the general dying on the battlefield. He asked to be turned. and when they said. Which way shall we turn you?" | he said, Turn my face toward the enemy" What a challenge that was | uttered by the old missionary hero. If God be for us. who can be | against us?" Think of it! God is | the only being in the universe who has power to do as He pleases. All human | and angelic forces have environments. There are things they cannot dos heights they cannot scale; depths they cannot fathom. Whatever their might and velocities. they are servants of | omnipotence, which has no limitation, no indictment and no insurmountable | obstacle. Martin Luther asked Sax on peasant to recite the creed, and the peasant began: T believe in God. the I Father. Almighty" Stop" said Lu- know" replied the peasant. Then Lu- ther said: You are right, my dear fell low. Neither l nor all the learned men can tell what is omnipotence." Human power, however great, tires and must | rest but omnipotence never wearies, and a quadri1lion of years from now l will beas fresh as at this moment.
 l We get some little idea of the divine power when we see how it buries the preudest cities and nations. Ancient l Memphis it has ground up until many l of it's. ruins are no larger than your 1 thumb nail and you can hardly find souvenir large enough to remind you | of your visit. The city of Tyre is under | the sea which washes the shore, on which are only few crumbling pillars l left. Sodom and Gomorrah are cover ed by waters so deathful that not a | fish can live in them. Babylon and Ninevah are so plotted out of existence that not one uninjured shaft of their l ancient splendor remains. Nothing but omnipotence could have put them down and put them under. The ante diluvian world was able to send to the postdiluvian world only one ship with
 a very small passenger list. Omnipo- tenoe first rolled the seas over the land
 and then told them to go back to their
 usual channels as rivers and lakes and oceans At omnipotent command the waters bouncing upon their prey, and
 at omnipotent command sinking back
 into their appropriate places. By such rehearsal we try to arouse our appre-
 ciation of what omnipotence is, and
 our reverence is excited, and our ador- ation is intensified, but after all we
 find ourselves at the foot of monu-
 tain we cannot climb, lowering over
 depth we cannot fathom, at the rim of a circumference we cannot compass. and we feel like first going down on
 our faces as we exclaim: To. these are parts of His ways. But how lit-
 tie a portion is heard of Him? But
 the thunder of His power who can
 understand?"
 So all those who have put together systems of theology have discoursed
 also about the wisdom of God. Think
 of wisdom which can know the end
 from the beginning, that knows the
 Thirtieth century as well as the First
 century. We can guess what will hap
 pen. but it is only a guess. Think of
 mi1sd that can hold all the past and all the present and all the future! We
 can contriVe and invent on a small scale. but think of wisdom that noth-
 ing can surprise. all the facts, scenes and occurrences of all time to come as
 plainly before it as though they had
 already transpired! He could have
 built all the material universe into one
 world and swung it glorious mass through immensity, but behold His
 wisdom in dividing up the grandeurs
 into innumerable worlds, rolling splen- dors on all sides, diversity, amplitude,
 majesty, infinity! Worlds! Worlds! Moving in complete order, shining with complete radiance. Mightiest telescope on one hand and most powerful micro scope on the other, discovering in the
 plan of God not one imperfection. What but divine wisdom could have planned human race and, before it started, build for it a 'yorld like this; pouring waters to Sla'Se human thirst and giving soils capacity to produce such food and lifting such a canopy of clouds embroidered with such sun light and surrounding the world with such wonders that all the scientists of the ages have only begun to unroll them? Wisdom in magnitude and in atom. in archangel and in mollusk. think of a wisdom that was able to form without any suggestion or any model to work by the eye. the ear, the hand. the foot, the vocal organs! No wonder that Galen. the most celebrated of medical authorities among the an cients. fell on his knees at the over whelming wisdom of God in the con stitution of the human frame. Our li- braries are filled with the wisdom of the great thinkers of all time. Have you considered the far superior wisdom which fashioned the brain for all those thoughts of the Infinite Mind that built those intellects? But it is only the mllionth part of that wisdom that has come to mortal appreciation. Close that has not been discovered. We see only one specimen among 10000 speci- mems. What we know is overwhelmed IA aaf INnf ha