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large enough to remind you of your visit.
The city of Tyre is under the sea which
washes the shore, on which are only a
few crumbIing pillars left. Sodom and
Gomorrah are covered by waters so
beautiful that not fish can live in them.
Babylon and Nineyeh are so ~blotted out
of existence that not one uninjured shaft
of their ancient spiendor remains. Moth
ing but omnipotence could have put them
down and put them under The ante
diluyian world was able to send 10 the
postdiluyian world only one ship with
very small passenger list. Omnipotence
first rolled the seas over the land and
then told them to 90 back to their usual
channels as rivers and lakes and oceans
AT omnipotent command the waters
bouncing upon their prey, and at omnipo-
tent command Sinking back into theii APP
propriate places. BY such rehearsal we
try to arouse our appreciation of what
omnipotenee is, and our reverence is ex-
cited, 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 COM
pass, and we feel like first going down on
our knees and then like falling fiat upon
our faces as we exclaim: 10. these are
parts Of his ways. But how little por-
ton 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
wisdom which can know the end from the
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fury as well as the first century. We can
guess what will happen, but it is only a
guess. ; Think of mind that can hold all
the past and all the present and all th'
future! We can contriye and invent c
small scale, but think of a wisdom.
that could contrive a universe! Think
of wisdom that can Tern nothing new
a wisdom that nothing can surprise,
the facts, scenes and occurrences of ali
time to come as plainly before it as
though they had alreG dy trnspired! He
| could have built all the material uni
verse into one world and swung it glo-
rious mass through immensely, but be-
hold his wisdom in dividing up the gran
deurs into nnumerable worlds, rolling
| splendors on all sides, diversity, ampli-
tude, majesty, infnity Worlds! Worlds!
! Moving in complete order, shining with
complete radiance. Mightiest telescope
on one hand and most powerful micro
scope on the other, discovering in the
! plan of God not one imperfection. What
but divine wisdom could have planned a
human race and, before it started, built
| for it a world like this; pouring waters
to slake human thirst and living soils
| capacity to produce such food and lift
ing such canopy of clouds embroidered
| with such sunlight and surrounding the
world with such wonders that all the sci
entists of the ages have only begun to
unrol them? Wisdom in magnitude and
in atom, in archangel and in mollusk.
The worlds that have been counted are
only small regiment of the armies of
light, the hosts of heaven. which have
| never passed in review before mortal Wis
| ion. What God we have!
The God of Abraham.
A tradition says that Abraham Of the
| Old Testament was when az infant hid
| den in cave because of the prosecutions
of Nimrod. The first time the child came
| out of the cavern it was night, and he
/ looked up at the star and cried, This is
my God" but the staEtdisar pearei, and
| Abraham said, mo, that cannot be my
| Cod" After awhile the moon rose and
! Abraham said, THAT is my God" but ii
| set. and Abraham said. mo, that cannot
| be my God" After awhile the moon
rose. and Abraham said, That is my
| God" but it set. and Abraham was again
disappointed. After awhile the sun rose,
| and he said why, truly, here is my
| God" but the sun went down, and Abra-
| ham was saddened. Not until the God
! of the Bible appeared to Abraham was
| he satisfied and his faith was so great
| that he was called 1.-THE Father Of the
| Faithful" All that the theologians know
| of Gods wisdom is insignificant compar-
| ed with the wisdom beyond human COM
! prehension. The human race never has
| had and never will have enough brain or
heart to measure the wisdom Of God.
| can think of only two authors who have
| expressed the exact facts. The one was
| Paul, who says. ''Oh, the depth of the
! riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
| of God, now unsearchable are his judg-
ments and his ways past finding out. y
| The other author was the scientist who
composed my text. l think he wrote il
! during thunderstorm, for the chapter
| SAYS much about the clouds and describes
| the tremor of the earth under the reyer-
| berations Witty writers sometimes de-
preciate the thunder and say it is the
| lightning that strikes, but | am sure God
! thinks we'll of the thunder or he would
not make 50 much of it, and all up and
! down the Bible he rises the thunder to
! give emphasis. 1t was the thunder that
! shook Sinai when the Law was given. Ii
was with thunder that the Lord discom
! flied the Ph.listines at Eben-ezer. Jot
| pictures the war horse as having a neck
clothed with thunoer. St. John, in an
! apocalyptic vision, again and again heard
| the thunder The thunder. which is now
quite well explained By the electricians
was the overpoweriIlg mystery of the an
clients, and standing among those mys-
teries Job exclaimed 10, these are
parts of his was. But how little por-
| tion is heard If him. But the thunder
| of his power who can underestimate
So, also all systems of theology try to
tell us what is omnipresence-that is
Gods capacity to be everywhere at the
| same time. Where is God?" said a
heather philosopher to Christian man
! The Christian answered, Let me FIRST
ask you where he is not?" The child ha,
! it right when asked how many Gods are
| there and he answered, "One" How
| do you know that" he was asked again
He answered. There is only room for
one. for he fills earth and heaven"
The Ornniprese uce of God.
We have all been painfully reminded in
! our own experiences that we cannot be
| in two places at tho same time nn8 Yet