The Iola register., 1901-06-21


Memphis il has ground up until many
of its ruins are no larger than your
thumb nail and you can hardly find n
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 few crumbling
pillars left Sodom and Gomorrah
are covered by waters so deathful
that not fish can live in them. Baby
Ion and Nineveh are so blotted out OF
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 to
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. At
Omnipotent command the waters
pouncng 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
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 fiat upon our faces as we eNclaim:
40, these are parts of His ways. But
how little 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 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 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 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
| il Is though they had already trans
pired! He could have built all the ma
terial universe into one world and
swung il glorious mass through i'm
mensity, but behold His wisdom in di-
viding up the grandeurs into innu-
merable worlds, rolling splendors on
all sides. diversity. amplitude, maj
esty. infinity. Worldsl 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
imperfection What but Divine wis
dom could have planned human race
and, before it started, built for it a
world like this; pouring waters to
slake human thirst and giving soils
capacity 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
all the scientists of the ages have only
begun to unroll them? Wisdom in
magnitude and in atom, in archange
and in mollusk. Think of n 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 thai
Galen, the most celebrated of medica
authors among the ancients, fell OF
his knees at the overwhelming wisdom
of God in the constitution of the hu
man frame. Our libraries are filled
with the wisdom of the great think
ers of all time. Have you considered
the far superior wisdom which fash
ioned the brain for all those thoughts
of the Infinite Mind that built thos,
intellects? But it is only the mil
lionth part of that wisdom that ha
come to mortal appreciation. Clos,
next to every discovery is a wonde
that has not been discovered We Sc,
only one specimen among 10000 speci
mems.
A tradition says that Abraham o
the Old Testament was when an in
fant hidden in cave because of th
prosecutions of Nimrod. The frs
time the child came out of the cavern
~ was nlBul, anu ne lOOhtu up at III
star and cried: This is my God" bu
the star disappeared, and Abraham
said: "No, that cannot be my God.
; After awhile the moon rose, an,
( Abraham said: This is my God" bu
2 il set, and Abraham was again disaI
e pointed. After awhile the sun rose
= and he said: "Why, truly, here is m
r God" but the sun went down, an
e Abraham was saddened. Not unit
2 the God of the Bible appeared t
e Abraham was he satisfied, and hi
J, faith was so great that he was calle
= "the Father of the Faithful" A.
r that the theologians know of God
! wisdom is insignificant compared wit
y the wisdom beyond human comprt
= hension. The human race never ha
l. had and never will have enough brai
n or heart to measure the wisdom G
t God. / can think of only two author
r who have expressed the exact fact!
l. The one was Paul, who says "Ol
r the deDth of the riches, both of tn