The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-20

uon enao nocnine can surprise, Al tne
to come. as. plainly before IL as though
they had already transpired. He could
have built all the material universe into
one world and swing it, glorious mass,
through immensity, but behold His wis
dom in dividing. up the erandeurs into in.
Vulnerable worlds, rolling splendors on all
sides, diversity, amplitude, majesty, in
finity. Worlds, worlds, moving in com
plete order, shining with complete ra-
dance. Mightiest telescope on one hand
and most powerful MICROSCOPE on the
other, discovering in the plan Of God not
one imperfestion.
thunder and say it is the light1ing that
strikes, but i ari sure Cd thinks well OF
the thunder, or He would not make so
much Of It, and oil up and dvwn the Bivle
He uses the thunder TO give emphasis. 1t
was the thunder that shook sinai when
that the Lord discounted thc Phi..s-
tines at Eben-ezer.
Job pictures the war horse cs living
neck clothed with thunder. st. John in
an cpocalyptic vision again and agni
heard the thunder. The thunder, viii 4,
Is now quite well explained by tie eles.
tricians, was the overDoweriny mystery Of
the aneients, and, staat ing among those
mysteries, JOB exclaimed: 'Io, these are
parts of His ways. But how little a >or.
tion is heard Of Yin Eut tie thua5er
OF Lis power whJ can understand?"
&c, also, all systcr.s Of theoiog-, try to
tell us what is omniposence-tlat is,
S0' t5 tfS5sey tH ss eyerywSs%r' yUS % Ia = ts
heathan Philosopher to Christian mso.
The Christian answered, Let ne csk you
where lie i. cot" The child had it right
w1en, asked how many Gods are there,
and he, answered, "one." How do you
know thats he was asked again. He an.
swered, "Tierc is .cnly room for one, for
says that il man were set in the highest
heavens lie would not be any nearer the
essence of Cod than If he were in the
centro of the earth. / believe it.. If this
divine essence does not reach all places,
what use in our prayer, for prayers are
| Of the earth cs veil as here, and G,
mus; tc there and here t. take supphca-
tiors which are offered thousands Of miles
apart. UbQuityl No on has it but God.
And wnat an alarm to wickedness, an
everywherc present Lord, and what a re.
enforcement when We. need help! God
On the throne and God with the kneelinis
child eaying Lis evening prayer at his
neaS yo God 0d on the SeG sh YOU OF yoS SEd God
on the left Of you, God within you. No
pantheon, for that teaches that all
things arc God, but Jehovah possesses all
things, as our souls possess our bodies.
God at 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-
viour, We are right with God, ought to
give us c serenity, tranquility. that
nothing could upset. Would it make us
gloomy? No, for God is the God of joy
end will augment our happiness.
We have all 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 Pleiades, was the
centre of the universe, and it was 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 He is no more there than He
is here. Indeed Alcyone has been found
to 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. Omnipres-
encel Who fully appreciates it! Not !;
not you.
Sometimes we hear Him in whisper;
sometimes we hear Him in the voice of
the storm that jars the Adirondacks. But
we cannot swim across this ocean. The
finite cannot measure the infinite. We
feel as Job did after finding God in the
| gold mines and the silver mines OF Asia +,
saying, There is vein for the silver and
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 l think He, was throw.
ing out worlds into, space and inhabiting
| them and more worlds for the application
of that love. He may not have told the
other worlds what He did for this world,
as He has not told us what He did for
them. l think the love of God was dem
onstrated in mightier worlds before our
| little world was fitted up for human resi-.
dence. Will a man owning $4,000 acres of
land put all the cultivation OH a half
acre? Will God make a million worlds
and put His chief affection on one small
| planet? Are the other worlds and larger
worlds standing vacant, uninhabited,
while this little world is crowded with in,
habitants? No, it takes universe of
there are other ransoms and other rescues
and other redemptions, as there may be
| other millenniums and other resurrection
mornings and judgment days than those
of our world. But in the space OF six
feet by five was comprised the mightiest
! GNiucucc Ol uou lOft tndL any WOTlu
ever saw or ever will sec. Compressed on
! two planks joined together as a cresg,
there was enough agony there concen-
tratcd, if distributed, to put whole ma
tons into torture. That God allowed the
assassination Of His own Son for the res.
cue of our world is all the evidence needed
that He loved the world. Go ahead, D
church of Godl Go ahead, o world, and
tell as well as you can what the love of
God ls, but know beforehand that Paul
was right when he said, 'It passeth
| knowledge" Let other poets take up
the story OF Gods love where William
Cowper and Isaac Watts and Charles
Wesley and Horatius Bonar left it, and
let other, painters improve upon the isis
tine Madonna" and the Alteration of the
Magin and the "Crucifxion' as Rophael
and Titan and Claude and CoIreggio pre-
sented them. Let the German pulpit or
ater take up the theme of Gods love
| where Frederick Thoiuek left it, let Itai-
ian pulpit take it up where Gavazsi left il,
lee French pulpit orator take up the
theme where Bourdeloua left 1t, let the
Swiss pulpit orator take, up the. theme
where Merle d'Aubigne left it, let the
ErYi English 7, pulpit take I up where George
take i up where Dr, Csndlish left i, let
mas Evans left it, and let the American
pulpit take It up where Archibald Alex
ander and DR.. Kirk and Matthew Simp.
son left it.. But the world will never ap-
preciatc fully the love of God until they
hear from His own lips the outburst Of
His minnie aud everlasting affection.