The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-06-21
sion. AGAIN and again heard N,

clans. was the Overpowering mystery
Of the ancients, and standing among
those mysteries Job exclaimed: 10.
these are parts of His ways But how
little a portion is heard of Him?
So, also. all systems of theology
try to tell Us what is omnipresence-
that is. Gods capacity TO be every
where at the same time. Where is
God2" said a heather philosopher TO
Christian man. The Christian an
swered: LET me first ask YOU where
lie is note" The child had it right
when asked how many Gods are there
and he answered: zone" How do
YOU know that?" he was asked again.
He answered: There is only room
for one, for He fills earth and Heav-
en-" An author says that if a 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 essence does not reach all
places, what use in our PRAYER, for
prayers are being offered 10 God on
the other side of the earth as well as
here. and God must he there and here
10 take applications which are of
fered thousands Of miles apart.
And what an alarm 10 wickedness. an
everywhere present Lord. and what a
reinforcement when we need helpi
God on the throne and God with the
kneeling child saying its evening
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 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 sun
light that shines in your face. APP
preciat ton 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.
God in full possession of us is a
thought out of which you ought TO
make anthems and entwine garlands
and kindle Nominations.
So every system of theology has
attempted TO describe and define the
Divine attribute of love. Easy
enough is it 70 define fatherly love,
motherly love. conjugal love, frater-
nal love. sisterly love and love o;
country. but the love OF God defes
all vocabulary. For many hundreds
of years poets have tried TO sing L
and painters have tried to sketch il.
/ and ministers of the Gospel 20 preach
/ IL and martyrs in the fire and Chris-
tians on their deathbeds have ex-
tolled it. and we can tell what il il
1 like. but no one has yet fully told
what it is. :.
Only glimpses Of God have -Sin
/ this World, but what an hour ii will
be when we first see Him. and we will
have no more fright than ! feel when
now see YOU. 1t viii not be with
mortal eve that we viii behold Him.
( but with the vision of a cleansed. for
given and perfected spirit. OF all the
I quintiliion ages of eternity to us the
most thrilling hour will be the first
/ hour when we meet Him as He is.
4 This may account for something you
/ have all seen and may not have I'M
/ derstOod. Haze you not noticed that
/ after death the old Christian looks
/ young again or the features resume
I the look of 20 or 30 years before?
I The WEAKNESS is gone out of the face:
/ there is something strikingly reStful
and placid; there is a pleased look
where before there was a disturbed
/ look. What has wrought the change?
/ | think the dying Christian saw God.
/ At the moment the soul left the body
what the soul saw left its impressio
! on the countenance. | think that is
what gave that old Christian face
/ after death the radiant and triumph
Z ant look. The bestormed spirit has
reached the harbor: the hard battle
/ of life is ended in victory The body
I took that look the moment Heaven
! began, and the curtain was completely
/ lifted and the glories of Jehovah's
presence rushed upon the soul The
, departing spirit left on the ola mans
face glad good-by, and that first
4 look gave the pleased curve to the dy-
| ing lips and smoothed out the wrin-
/ kles and touched all the lneaments
with an indescribable radiance. . ,
Last summer we journeyed thou
sands of miles to see the midnight sun
from North Cape. Norway. We stood
on deck in the arctic seas, our watches
in our hands, and it was IL o'clock
at night. but light as an ordinary
MONDAY. Then il was half past II
o'clock al night, then it was Is min
utes of -, but long, wide, thick
cloud hung over the sun. Are we to
be disappointed as thousands have
been and the journey here failure :?
, Ten minutes of II. and the sun is still
hidden. But about five minutes of IL
the cloud lifted, and the midnight sun.
the most wondrous spectacle of all
the earth. appeared, pouring forth a
reful0anna that turned the arctic sea
into
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