The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-06-22

scales and the hills IN balances
-Tenerife and the Cordiilera.
To move a rock we aus have leve
and screw and great machinery, Blu
God moves the world with nothin,
but a word: power to create world
and power TO destroy them. as iron
the o~hservstories again and agail
they have been seen red with fame
then pale with ashes aud then scat
tered.
We get some little idea of the divine
power when we see how IL burieS The
proadest cities and nations. Ancient
Memphis il has ground up until many
o. its ruins are no larger than your
thumb nail and you can hardly find a
souvenir large enough to remind you
of YOUR visit. The city OF Tyre is un-
der the sea which washes the shore,
on which are only a few crumbling
pillars left. Sodom and Gomorrah
are covered by waters so deathful
that not a fish can live in them. Baby
Ion and Nineveh are so blotted out OF
existence that not one nniniured shaft
of their ancient splendor remains.
Nothing out 0mniporence could have
put them down sind put them under.
The antediluviaa world was able to
send 20 the pos,dilnvian world only
one ship with a very small passenger
list. Omnipotence first rolled the
seas over the land. and then told them
10 20 back to their usual channels as
rivers and lakes and oceans. At
omnipotent command the waters
bouncing upon their prey, and at
Omnip0tent command sinking back
into their appropriate places. BY
such rehearsal Ne try 10 arouse our
appreciation of what 0mnipotence is,
and our reverence * excited, and
alteration is intensified, but after all
We find ourselves at the foot of a
mountain we cannot climb. lowering
over a depth we cannot fathom. at
the rim of a circumference we cannot
compass, and We feel like first going
down on our knees and then like fall
ing fat upon our faces as we excIsir:
leo. these n parts Of His WAYS. Eus
how little a portion IS heard of Him?.
But the thunder of His power who
can understand?"
So all those who have put together
of theology have discoursed
also about the wisdom of God. Think
of a wisdom which can know the end
from the beginning. that knows the
thirtieth century as well as the first
century. We a guess what will hap
pen. but /, IS Dily a guess. Think of
a mind hat ran hold all the past and
all the present and all the future. We
can contrive and invent on a small
scale, but think Of a wisdom that
could contrive a universe. Think of
a wisdom that can learn nothing new.
a wisdom that nothing can surprise.
all the facts. scenes and occurrences
OF all time TO come as plainly before
II as though they had already trans
pred! He could have built all the ma
terial universe into one world and
swung II a glorious mass through i'm
nensiiy, but behold His wisdom in d.
viding up the g~rsndeurs into innu-
merahle worlds. rolling splendors on
sides, diversity, amplitude, mai
esty, infnity! worldsl Worlds!
in complete order, shining
With complete radiance. Mightiest
telescope on one hand and most DOW
erful microscope on the other. dis
covering in the plan of God not one
mperfection. What but Divine wis
ON could have planned a human race
md. before it started. built for it a
world like this: pouring waters to
human thirst and giving soils
10 produce such food and lift
ng such a canopy of clouds embroid.
red with such sunlight and surround
ne the world with such wonders that
III the scientists OF the ages have opIv
to unroll them? Wisdom in
magnitude and in atom. in archanre!
In mnllusk. Think Of a wisdom
hat was able to form without any
aAN I
or any model 10 work by
he eve. the ear. the hand. the foot.
he vocal organs, No wonder that
the most celebrated of medical
among the ancients, fell ON
lis knees AZ the overwhelming wisdo ON
God in the constitution of the bu-
nan frame. Our libraries are filed
the wisdom Of the great think
RS of all tinse. Have you considered
he far superior wisdom which FASH
oned the brain for all those thoughts
the Infinite Mind that built those
~ntellects? But i; is only the mil
ionth part of that wisdom that has
'ome 10 mortal appreciation. Close
text 10 every discovery is a wonder
hat has not been discovered. We see
'nly one specimen among 10000 speci-
mems.
a tradition says that Abraham of
he Old Testament was when an in
hidden in a cave because Of the
of Nimrod. The first
ime the child came out Of the cavern
: was night, and he looked up at the
tar and cried: This is my God" but