St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-07-13
We get some little idea of the divine

! prOudest cities and nations. Ancien
Memphis it has ground up until man.
of its ruins are no larger than you
thumb nail and you can hardly find :
souvenir large enough to remind 70,
of your visit. The city of Tyre is I'm
der the sea which washes the shore
on which are only few crumblins
| pillars left. Sodom and Gomorral
are covered by waters so deathfu
that not fish can live in them. Baby
Ion and Nineveh are so blotted out o:
existence that not one uninjured shaft
of their ancient splendor remains
Nothing but Omnipotence could have
put them down and put them under
The antediluvian world was able tt
send to the postdiluvian world only
one ship with very small passenger
list. Omnipotence first rolled the
seas over the land, and then told them
to go back to their usual channels as
rivers and lakes and oceans. Al
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
appreciation of what Omnipotence is,
and our reverence is excited, and our
alteration is intensified, but after all
we find ourselves at the foot of q
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 fall
ing fat upon our faces as we exclaim:
10, 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
systems 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 can guess what will hap
pen, but it is only a guess. Think Of
a mind 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 q wisdom that
could contrive a universe! Think of
wisdom that can learn nothing new,
q wisdom that nothing can surprise,
all the facts, scenes and occurrences
of all time to come as plainly before
it as though they had already trans
pred! He could have built all the ma
terial universe into one world and
swung it glorious mass through i'm
but behold His wisdom in di-
viding up the grandeurs into innu-
merable worlds, rolling splendors on
all sides, diversity, amplitude, maj
esty, infinity! Worlds! Worlds!
Moving in complete order, shining
with complete radiance. Mightiest
telescope on one hand and most pow
erful microscope on the other, dis
covering in the plan of God not one
What but Divine wis
dom could have planned human race
and, before it started, built for it
world like this; pouring waters to
Stake human thirst and giving soils
to produce such food and lift
ing such a canopy Of clouds embroid-
cred with such sunlight and surround
ing the world with such wonders that
Ill the scientists of the ages have only
begun to unroll them? Wisdom in
and in atom, in archangel
md in mollusk. Think of a wisdom
that was able to form without any
or any model to work by
the eye, the ear, the hand, the foot,
The vocal organs! No wonder that
1alen, the most celebrated Of medical
authors among the ancients, fell on
1is knees at the overwhelming wisdom
If God in the constitution of the hui
nan frame. Our libraries are filled
With the wisdom of the great think
RS of all time. Have you considered
he far superior wisdom which fash
oned the brain for all those thoughts
# the Infinite Mind that built those
ntellects? But it is only the mil
ionth part of that wisdom that has
.ome to mortal appreciation. Close
lext to every discovery is 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
ant hidden in 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
he star disappeared, and Abraham
aid: mo, that cannot be my God"
After awhile the moon rose, and
Abraham said: "This is my Cod" but
set, and Abraham was again disap-
ointed. After awhile the sun rose,
nd he said: ''Why, truly, here is my
iod," but the sun went down, and
Abraham was saddened. Not until
he God of the Bible appeared to
abraham was he satisfied, and his
aith was so great that he was called
the Father of the Faithful" All
hat the theologians know of Gods
visdom is insignificant compared with
be wisdom beyond human compre-
ension. The human race never has
ad and never will have enough brain
r heart to measure the wisdom Of
cd. I can think of only two authors
Tho have expressed the exact facts.
he one was Paul, who saws: ooh.