The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-06-22
We get some little idea of the divine

thumb nail and you can hardly find
souvenir large enough to remind yo
of your visit. The city of Tyre is IN
der the sea which washes the shore
on which are only few crumblin
pillars left. Sodom and Gomorra
are covered by waters SO deathfu
that not fish can live in them. Baby
] lon and Nineveh are SO blotted out o
existence that not one uninjured shat
of their ancient splendor remains
y Nothing but Omnipotence could hav'
put them down and put them under
D The antediluvian world was able t.
5 send to the postdiluvian world only
5 one ship with very small passenger
{ list. Omnipotence first rolled the
seas over the land, and then told then
, to go back to their usual channels as
rivers and lakes and oceans. Al
Omnipotent command the waters
bouncing 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 a
mountain we cannot climb, lowering
over depth we cannot fathom, at
the rim of 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 exclaim:
40, these are parts of His ways. But
| how little 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
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
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 universe! Think of
n wisdom that can learn nothing new,
wisdom that nothing can surprise,
all the facts, scenes and occurrences
of all time to come as plainly before
it as though they had already trans
PRED! He could have built all the ma.
terial universe into one world and
swung it a 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
- II. IL
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
Stake human thirst and giving soils
capacity to produce such food and lift.
ing such 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 archangeI
and in mollusk. Think of 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 that
| Galen, the most celebrated Of medical
authors among the ancients, fell on
his knees at the overwhelming wisdom
| of God in the constitution of the hui
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
toned the brain for all those thoughts
| of the Infinite Mind that built those
intellects? But it is only the mil
lionth part of that wisdom that has
come to mortal appreciation. Close
next to every discovery is wonder
| that has not been discovered. We see
only one specimen among 10000 speci
| mems.
A tradition says that Abraham OF
the Old Testament was when an in
FAINT hidden in a 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 star disappeared, and Abraham
said: "No, that cannot be my God
After awhile the moon rose, and
Abraham said: This is my Cod" but
it set, and Abraham was again disap
pointed. After awhile the sun rose
and he said: "Why, truly, here is my
God" but the sun went down, and
Abraham 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
"the Father of the Faithful" All
that the theologians know of Gods
wisdom is insignificant compared with
the wisdom beyond human compre'
hension. 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. how
unsearchable are His judgments and
His ways past finding out" The
other author was the scientist who
composed my text. think He wrote