Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-17


er awhile the sun rose, and he said
'Why, truly, here is my Cod Put
! the sun went down, and Abraham was
| saddened. Not until the God of the
( Bible appeared to Abraham was he sat
isfied, and his faith was so great that
he was called 1.-The Father of the Faith
! full All that the theOlOgians know OF
Gods wisdom is Insignificant compar,
ed with the wisdom beyond human
comprehension. 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: ooh, the
depth of the riches, both of the wis
dom and knowledge of God! How I'M.
searchable are his judgments and his
ways past finding out!' The other au.
thor was the scientist who composed
my text. | think he wrote it during a
thunderstorm, for the chapter says
much about the clouds and describes
the tremOr of the earth under the re-
verberatiOnS. Witty writer's sometimes
depreciate the thunder and say it is the
lightning that strikes, but l am sure
God thinks we'll of the thunder, or he
would not make so much of it, and all
up and down the Bible he uses the
thunder to give emphasis 1t was the
thunder that shook Sinai when the law
was given. 1t was with thunder that
the Lord discounted the PhiIistines al
Eben-ezer. Job pictures the war horse
as having a neck clothed with thunder.
st. John in an apOcalyptic vision again
and again heard the thunder. The
thunder, which is now quite we'll eX.
planned by the electricians, was the
overpowering mystery of the ancients,
and, standing among those mysteries,
Job exclaimed: "Lo, these are parts of
his ways. But how little a portion is
heard of him? But the thunder of his
power who can understands?
So also, all systems of theology try
to tell us what is omnipresence-that is.
Gods capacity to be everywhere at the
same time. '"Nhere is God?" said a hea-
then philosopher to a Christian man. The
Christian answered, Let me first ask
you where he is nOt?" The child had
it right when, asked how many Gods
are there, and he answered, cone"
''How do you know that?' he was ask
room for one, for he fills earth and
heaven An author says that if Il man
were set in the highest heavens he
would not be any nearer the essence OF
God than if he were in the center of the
earth. [ believe it. If this divine es
sence does not reach all places, what
use in our prayer, for prayers are be.
ing offered to God on the other side OF
the earth as we'll as here, and God
must be there and here to take suppIi-
cations which are offered thousands OF
miles apart. Ubiquity. No one has il
but God. And what an alarm to wick
ednesS, an everywhere present Lord
and what q reinforcement when we
need help! God on the throne and God
with the kneeIing child saying his even.
ing prayer at his mothers lap. God
above you, God beneath you. God on
the right Of you, God on the left of you.
God within you. No panthcism, for
that teaches that all things are God
but Jehovah possesses all things, rs
our souls possess our bodies. God al
the diameter and circumference Of ev
erything, 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 Saviour, we are right with
God, ought to give us a serenity a
tranquility, that nothing could upset
Would it make us gloomy? No, for
God is the God Of joy and will augment
our happiness.
Gods Infinite Love.
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 he i'll all places at the same time
Nader, the astronomer, went on with
his explorations of the heavens unit,
he concluded that the star Alcyone
one of the Pleiades, was the center Of
the universe and it was a fixed world
and all the other worlds revOlvCd
around that world, and some think that
that world is heaven and Gods throne
is there and there reside the nations o.
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 center.
But no place has yet been found where
God is not present by sustaining pow
er. Omnipresence! Who fully appre
ciates it? Not 1; not you. Sometimes
we hear him in a whisper; sometimes
we hear him in the voice of the storm
that jars the Adirondacks. But we can
not 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 a vein for the
silver and a place for the gold where
they fine it, And after exploring the