Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-07-11

| we feel like first going down on our knees
and then like falling fat upon our faces
| His ways. But how little a portion Isl
| heard OF Him? But the thunder of His
| power who can underestimate
| So all those who have put together sys-
| TENS of theology haze discoursed also
about the wisdom of God. Think of wis
| dom which can know the end from the
| beginning, that knows the thirtieth cen
| tury as well as the first century. We can
| guess what will happen, but it is only a
| guess. Think of a mind that can hold all
! future. We can contrive and invent on
| small scale, but think of wisdom that
| could contrive universe. Think of a
| wisdom that can learn nothing new, a wis
| dom that nothing can surprise, all the
| facts scenes and occurrences of all time
| to come as plainly before it as though
| they had already transpired. He could
| have quilt all the material universe into
ole world and swung it, glorious mass,
| through immensity, but behold His wis
Vulnerable worlds, rolling splendors on all
| sides, diversity, amplitude, majesty, in
| tinity. 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 imperfection
| Witty writers sometimes depreciate 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 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 Win thunder
that the Lord discounted the Philis-
| tines at Eben-ezer.
Job pictures the war horse as having a
| neck clothed with thunder st. John in
] yDtlp and
| heard the thunder. The thunder, which
| is now quite well explained by the cleo
tricians, was the overpowering mystery of
the ancients, and, standing among those
parts of His ways But how little por-
| ton is heard OF Hin! But the thunder
of His power who can understand"
| So, also. all systems OF theology try to
tell us what is omnipotence-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 ask you
where He is not:" The child had it right
when, asked how many Gods are there,
and he, answered, One How do you
know that" he was asked again. He an
swered, There is only room for one, for
! He fills earth and heaven" An author
| says that ii man We're set in the highest
heavens he would not be any nearer the
essence OF God than if he were in the
| teiJlc VI ltlc GARTH. DS4c|c IT, IL lHl5
| divine essence does not reach all places,
what use in our prayer, for prayers are
! beng offered to Cod on the other side
of the earth as we'll as here, and God
must be there and here to take supplica-
tions which are offered thousands OF miles
apart. Ubiquity No one has it but God.
| And what an alarm to wickedness, an
| everywhere present Lord, and what re-
enforcement when we need help. God
on the throne and God with the kneeling
child saying his, evening prayer at his
mothers lap. God above you, God be-
meath you, God on the right of you, God
on the left of you, Goa within you. No
pantheism, for that teaches that all
things are 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
| gloomy? No, for God is the God of JOY
and viii 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
I world, and all the other worlds reyolved
| 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-
ence! Who fully appreciates it! Not L;
| 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 cannot swim across this ocean. The
! finite cannot measure the infinite. We
I 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 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 dld for this world,
| as He has not told us what He did for
them. l think the love of God was dem
onstrated in nightier worlds before our
little world was fitted up for human resi-:
|
land put all the cultivation on half
acre? Win 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.
| habtants? No, it takes a universe of
worlds to express the love of God. And
there are other ransoms and other rescues
and other redemptions, as there may be
other millennums 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
evidence OF Gods love that any world
ever saw or ever will see. Compressed on
two planks joined together as a cross,
there, was enough agony there concen-
trated, if distributed, to put whole ma
tions 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, o
church of God Go ahead, 0 world, and
tell as we'll as you can what the love OF
God is, but know beforehand that Paul
| was right when he said, 'It passeth