Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-19

clans, was the overpoweriny 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 10 tell US what is omnipresence-
that is, Gods capacity to he every-
where at the same time Where is
God?" said heather philosopher to
a 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 that?" he was asked again.
He answered.: There is only room
for one, for He fills earth and Heav-
en-. An author says that il 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. l believe il. III this
Divine essence does not reach ALI
places. what use in our PRAYER. for
prayers are being offered TO God on
the other side of the earthsas well as
here. and God must be there and here
to take applications which are Of
fered thousands of miles apart
Ubiquity! No one has il but God.
And what an alarm 10 wickedness. an
everywhere present Lord, and what n
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
hn ~, 0f
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
at the diameter and circumference of
everything, IA close TO you as the
food YOU put to your lips, as the coat
you put upon your back. as the sum
light that shines in your face. Ap-
probation of that. IL through Jesus
Christ, the atoning Saviour, we are
right with God, ought TO give us a
serenity, tranquility, that nothing
could upset. Would il make us
gloomy? No, for God is the God of
JOY and will augment our happiness.
God in full possession of MS is
thought out of which you ought TO
make anthems and entwinc garlands
and kindle Examinations.
SO every system of theology has
attempted to describe and define the
Divine attribute of love. Easy
enough is it 10 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 Il
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-
tolled il, and we can tell what 1t is
like, but no one has yet fully told
what il is.
Only glimpses of God have we in
this world. but what an hour il will
he when we first sec Him. and we will
have no more fright than | feel when
j now see you. 1t will not be with
mortal eye that we will behold Him,
but with the vision Of cleansed. for
given and perfected spirit. OF all the
quintillion 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 un-
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 before7
The WEAKNESS il gone out Of the face:
there is something strikingly restfui
and placid; there is a pleased look
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 BODY
what the soul saw left it's Impression
ON the countenance. / think that is
what gave that old Christian face
after death the radiant and triumph
ant look. The bestormed spirit has
reached the harbor; the hard battle
of life is ended in victory. The body
took that look the moment Heaven
began, and the curtain was completely
lifted and the glorics OF Jehovah's
presence rushed upon the soul. The
departing spirit left on the old mans
face a glad good-by. and that first
look gave the pleased curve to- the DIV.
ing lips and smoothed out the wrin-
kles and touched all the lineaments
with an indescribable radiance. =
Last summer we jOurneyed thou
sands Of miles to see the midnight sun
from North Cape. Norway. We stocd
on deck in the arctic seas. our watches
in our hands, and IL was II o'clock
at night. but light az an ordinary
MONDAY. Then il was half past II
o'clock a night. then il was Is min
utes OF Il. but long. wide, thick
cloud hung over the sun. Are We to
be disappointed az thousands have
been and the journey here failure?
Ten minutes Of -. and the sun Is still
hidden. But about five minutes OF IL
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