The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-26

snd put them under. The sntediluvian
world was able to send to the pcstdiluvian
world only one ship with a very small pas
seDger list. Omnipotence first rolled the
seas over the land, and then told them TO 60
back to their usual channels as rivers and
lakes anu oceans At omnipotent command
the waters pounciDg upon their prey, and at
omnicote command Sinking back into
their appropriate places. By such rehearsal
we try to arouse our appreciation Of what
omnipotenceis, and ou~Teverence IS excited,
and our alteration IS intensified, but AFTER
all We find ourselves st the foot Of noun
tain We canuot climb, lowering overa depth
We carno. fathom, st the rim Of circum-
ference we cannot compass, and We feel like
first going down or our knees aod then fall
ing II L upon oar faces ss We eycIa:m: ''Los
these are parts Of his wsys. But how little
q portion is head of him? But the thunder
of his 90 ver who can understand?
So al these who hsve put together sys'
TENS of theology have discoarsd slso about
the wisdom Of God. Think Of wisdom
which can know the end from the beginning.
that knows the tbirtieth century as well IS
the i7st o-ntury We csn guess what will
happen, but it is only guess. Think of a
mind that can hold all the past and all the
present and au the future. We can contriTe
and invent on small scale, but think Of a
wisdom that could contrive 8 universe!
Think ofa 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 transpired. He cou d have
built all the material universe into one
world aud swung it aglorious mass through
immsnsity, but behold his wisdom in divid
ing up the graadeurs into innumerab!e
worlds, rolling splendors on all sides, diver
sity amp itude, majesty, inini,y! Worlds!
Worlds! Moving in complete order, shining
with complete radiance. Mightiest teIe-
scope on one hand aad most powerful micro
scope on the other, discovering in the pan
ofGoi not one iupecfect!on. What bat di
vine wisdom could ksve planned human
race and before it started build tor it o wctld
liSe this; pouring waters " s'ako human
thirst sno giving soils capacity To produce
such fooi end lifting such canopy ofclouis
embroidered with such sun light snd sur
rounding the world with such won iers that
all the scientists of the ages have only be-
gun to unrel! them? Wisdom iu magnitude
and in atom, in archengel and in moilusk.
Think Of wisdom that was able to form
without any suggestion or any model 10 work
by the eye, the ear, the hand, the foct, the
vocal organs, No wonder that Galen. the
most celebrated OF medical authors aclong
the aucients, fell on his knees al the over
whelming wisdom of God in the constitution
of the human frame. Our libraries are
filed WITH the wisdom OF the great thinkers
of all time. Have you considered the far
superior wisdom which fashioned the brain
for all those thoughts of the Infinite Mind
that built those intellects? But it is only
the miuionth 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 specimens. What We know is
overwhelmed by what we do not know.
What the botanist knows about the flower is
not more wonderful than the things he does
not know about the flower. Whist the geolog-
ist knows about the rocks is not more amsz-
ing than the things which he does not know
about them. The worlds that have been
counted are only small regiment Of the
armies oflight, the hosts Of heaven, which
have never passed in review before mortal
vision. What God We have!
We have all been painfully reminded in
our own experiences that we c,nnot be in
two places s, the same time, and yet here
comes the thought that God can be in al
pisces st the same time. Nader, the as
tronomer, went on with his explorations un-
til he concluded that the star Alcyone, one
of the Pleiades, was the center Of the uni
verse, and it was fixed world, and all the
other vor' ds revolved around that world
and some think that that world is heaven and
Gods throne is there, and there reside the
nations of the blest. But he is no. 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 Jet been found where God Is
not present by sustaining power. Omnipres'
ence. Who fully spprecis!es 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 Adircndscks.
But we cannot swim across init 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,
s'There is vein for the silver and place
for the god where they fne it." Aod after
exploring the hes 7eIs as an astronomer and
finding God in distant worlds and becoming
acquainted with Orion and Mazzaroth and
Arcturus and noticing the tides Of the ses the
inspired poet expresses his incapacity to un-
derstand such evidences Of wisdom and
says: "Lo, these are parts OF his ways. But
how little portion is heard of him? But the
thunder Of his power who can understaud?'
So every system cf theology has attempted
to describe and de fine the divine attribute OF
love. Easy enough is it to define fatherly
love, motherly 10 7e, coojugal love, fraternal
love ana love Of country, but the love Of God
defes all vocabulsry. For many hundreds
Of years poets have tried to sing it and pain
teEs have tried to sketch it and ministers Of
the gospel to preach it and martyrs in the
FIRE and Christians on their deathbeds have
extolle5 it, and we can tell what it is like,
but no or e has yet fully told what it is. Men
speak of the love of GOD as though it were
first felt between the pointing Of the 6ethle-
hem star and the pounding Of the crucifIion
hammer. But no! Long before that ex-
listed the love OF God
The nature of God never changes, and
from all eternity that holy passion glowed
in the Infinite, and think he was throwing
out worlds into space and inhabitiag them
and more worlds for the application of that
love. be msy not have tod the ether
worlds what he did for this world, as he has
not told Us what ne did for them l think
the love Of God vas demonstrated il nightier
worlds Before our little word was fitted m
for human residence. Will q man oTning
5O,000 acres Of land put all the cul,isation
Oh half acre? Will God make million
worlds and put his chief affection on one
small planet? Are the other worlds and
larger wo Ids standing vacant, uninhabited,
while this little world is crowded with inGa-
bitants? No, it taxes universe of w,rids
to express toe love of GOd. And there are
other ransoms ard other rescues and other
redemptions, as there may he otter millen-
riums and other resurrection mornings and
judgment days than those cfour world. But
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