The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-08-06

Wan world only one ship, with a very
small passenger list. Omnipotence first
rolled the seas over the land and then
told them to 90 back 20 their usual chan
nelS as rivers and lakes and oceans At
Omnlpotent command the waters pounc-
ing upon their prey and at Omnipotent
command sinking back into their appro-
pirate places. BY such rehearsal we try
to arouse our appreciation of what omnip.
offence Is, and our reverence is excited.
ana our 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
circumference we cannot compass. and
we feel like first going down on our knees
and then like falling fiat upon our faces
as we eXclaim: "Lo, these are parts of
HIS ways; But how little portion is
heard OF Him? But the thunder of His
power who can understand"
So all those who have put together sys-
TENS OF theology have discoursed also
about the wisdom of God Think OF a wis
dom which can know the end from the
beginning, that knows the thirtieth CEN
fury as we'll as the first century We can
guess what viii happen, but It is only a
guess Think OF a mind that can hold all
the p.st and all the present and all tina
future. We can contrive and invent on
small scale, but think of q wisdom that
could contrlve universe. Think of n
wisdom that can learn nothing new, q wis
facts, scenes and occurrences of ell time
to come az plainly before it as thouCh
they had already transpired. He could
have built all the material universe into
one world and swung it, a glorious mass,
through immensely but behold His wis
dom in dividing up the grandeurs into in.
Vulnerable worlds rolling splendors on all
sides, diversity, amplitude, majesty, in
finity. Worlds, worlds, moving in com.
plete order shining. with complete ia.
dance. Migltiest telescope on one hand
and most powerful microscope on the
other, discovering il the plan of Cod not
one imperfection.
Witty writers c0netines depreciatc tie
thunder and say it Is the light ling that
strikes, but an sure Cd thinks well OF
the thunder, or He would not make so
much of it, and ell up and down the BiJt6
He uses the thunder to give emphasis 1t
was the thunder that shook Sinai WHEN
the law was given. 1t was WITH thund-c
that the Lord discounted tle Phi.s.
tines at Eben-ezer.
Job pictures the war horse IS wing a
neck clothed with thunder st. john in
an cpocalypt.c vision again and agcI.
heard the thunder. The thurder, VIII n
Is now quite well explained by the ele-s-
tricians, was the over9owering mystery of
the ancients, and, stlaCinG among these
mysteries, JOB exclaimed: 10 these are
parts of His ways. But how little or
ton is heard OF in ? EIt tie thIlSer
OF Lis Power NhJ can understand"
So, also, all systcr, of theoiog- try I,
tell US what Is omnipotence-that is,
Coos caTacity To- t. eyerywhero :, .tla
same time. Where Is God" said a
heath2n philosopher to Christian mca.
The Christian answered, Lot rae csk you
where lie il Tot" The child had it right
wien, asked how many Gods are there,
and he answered, One" How do you
know that" he was acEc1 again. lie an.
gW9rpn =
He fills earth and heaven" An author
says that if man were set in thc highest
heavens he would not be any nearer the
essence OF Cod than if he were in the
centre CT the earth. l believe it. If this
divine essence does not reach all places,
what use in our prayer, for prayers are
being offered to God on TIE other side
Of the earth IS veil as here, and G.
mus, be there and here t. t-kc supohca.
TORS which are offered thousands of miles
apart. Ubiquity! No on has 1t but God.
And wat an alarm to wiclcdness, an
everywhere present Lord, and what re-
enforcement when we need help! Cod
On the throne and God with the kneeling
child saying lis evening prayer at his
mothers lap. God above You, God b..
meath you, God on the right of you, God
on the lett OF you, God within you. No
Pantheon, for that teaches that all
things arc Cod, but Jehovah possesses all
things, as our souls possess our bodies.
God az the diameter and circumference
OF everything, as close to you as the food
you put to your lips, as the coat you put
upon your back, as the sunlight that
shines in your face Appreciation of that,
If through Jesus Christ, the atoning Sa-
yiour, we are right with God, ought to
give us serenity, q tranquility, that
nothing could upset Would it make US
gloomy! No, for God is the God OF JOY
and will augment our happiness.
We have al been painfully reminded in
our own experiences that we cannot be in
two places at the same time, and yet here
comes the thought that God can be IN all
places at the same time. Nader, the as
trOnomer, went on with his explorations
of the heavens until he concluded that the
star Alcyone, one OF the PlCiades, was the
centre OF the universe, and 1t was q fixed
world, and all the other worlds revolved
around that world and some think that
that world is heaven and Gods throne Is
there and there reside the nations of the
blessed. But lie IS no more there than He
Is here. Indeed AlCyOne has been found
20 be in motion, and it also is revolving
around some great centre. But no place
has yet been found where God IS not
present by sustaining power. Omnlpres-
encel Who fully appreciates 1t: Not /;
not you.
Sometimes we hear Him in whisper
sometimes we hear Him IN the voice OF
the storm that jars the AdlrondacEs But
we cannot swim across this ocean. The
finite cannot measure the infinite We
feel as Job did after finding God ia the
gold mines and the silver mines of Asia
! saying, There is a vein for the silver and
a place for the gold where they fine it,"
The nature of God never changes, and
/ from all eternity that holy passion glowed
in the Infinite, and i think He was throw.