The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
DR. TALMAGE'S
 SERMON.

Washington. June le.--In this dis course Dr. Tallmage raises nigh ex- pectatIons of the day when that which 3s now only dimly seen will be fully revealeds text, Job xxyi, 14: 'Lo, these are parts of his ways. But how little
 a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can under sfand7''
 The least understood being in the universe is God. Blasphemous would
 be any attempt by painting or scripture to represent Him. Egyptian hieroglyphs tried to suggest Him by batting the figure of an eye upon a sword. im- plying that God sees and rules, but how irnperfect the suggestion! When we speak of Him, it is almost always in language figurative. He is Light or s.Dayspring From on High" or He is a ~High Tower or the Fountain of Liv- irg Waters" His splendor is so great that no man can see Him and live. When the group of great theologians assembled in Westminster Abbey for the purpose of making a system of re- 7igiotas belief. they first of all wanted an answer othe question: Who is God gt No one desired to undertake the answering of that overmastering question. They finally concluded to give the task to the youngest man in < y, Rev. George Gillespie. He consented to undertake 1t on the condition that xhey would first unite with him Tn prayer for divine direction. He began his prayer by saying: 70 God, thou art a spirit infinite, eternal and un- chargeable in Thy being, wisdom. power. holiness, justice, goodness and fruth.' That first sentence or Giles pies prayer was unanimously adopted Ana Of God. But, after all, 1t was only partial success, and after everything that language can do when put to the utmost strain and all we can see Of God in the natural world and realize Of God in the nrovidential world we are forced to cry out with Job in my text: 10. these are parts of His ways. But how little a portion is heard of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?"
 Archbishop Tillotson and Dr. Dick and Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Ed wards of the past and the mightlest theologians of this young century have discoursed upon the power of God. the attribute Of omnipotence. And we have all seen demonstrations of Gods al- miehfiness. It might have been far out at sea when in an equinoctial gale God showed what He could do with IS2IGE8. August thunderstorm in the mountains when God showed what He could do with the lightnings. It might have been sn South America when God showed what He could do with the earthquakes. lt might have been among the Alps when God showed what He could do with the avalanches. Our cheek was Dlanched. our breath stopped, our pulses fiuttered, our whole being was ferrorixed. but we had seen only an tn- stance of divine strength. What was 4he power of that storm compared with the power which holds all the oceans! What was the power that shook the hills compared with the power that swings the earth through all the cen- furies and for 5000 years. and in for rnafive and incomplete shape for hun- dreds of thousands of yearsT What is that power that sustains our world compared with the power which rolls through tmmensity the entire solar sys- 4ena and all the universe? The mighti- est intellect of man would give way if for a moment there came upon 1t the fun appreciation of what omnipotence Is. What you and see and hear Of di- vine strength are only parts Of Ills ways. But how little a portion Is heard of Himl But the thunder of His power who can understand?"
 GODS WAY OF DOING.
 We try to satisfy ourselves with say ang. "Tt is natural law that controls things, gravitation is at work. centri- petal and centrifugal forces respond to each other" But what is natural law? It is only Gods way of doing things. At every point in the universe it is Gods direct and continuous power that controls and harmonizes and sustains. That power withdrawn one instant ks.vrs va6 all the worlds which astronomy re- veass one universal wreck, bereft hem sspheres, dismantled sunsets, dead con- gteila4ions. debris of worlds. What power it must be that keeps the in- ferna1 fires of our world imprisoned and here and there squirting from a Cotopaxi, or a Stromboli. or from a wesuvius. putting Pompeii and Hercu- laneum into sepulcher. but for the