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


on our side, the recOnciled God, the
sympathetic God. the omnipOtent God
we may defy all human and satanic
'antagOuisms. and when we are shut in
by Obstacles we can say, as did one of
Publishers men when the sailor was
describing low their ship was sur
rounded by icebergs in the Arctic sea,
The ice was strong. but God was
stronger than the ice And, whatever
opposition we may have. our God is
mightier than the opposition. All right
with God, we may have the courage of
the general dying on the battlefield.
He asked To be turned. and when they
! said, (which way shall we turn your
he said, Turn my face toward the en-
envy" What challenge that was ut
tered by the old missionary hero, IF
God be for us, who can be against u.s."
Think of it. God is the only being in
the universe who has power to do as he
pIeases. All human and angelic forces
have environments. There are things
they cannot do heights they cannot
scale, depths they cannot fathom.
Evidences of Divine Power.
We get some little idea of the divine
power when we see how it buries the
prOudest cities and nations. Ancient
Memphis it has ground up until many
of its ruins are no larger than your
thumb nail, and you can hardly find a
souvenir large enough to remind you
of your visit. The city of Tyre is IN
der the sea which washes the shore on
which are only few crumbling pill
lars left. SOdOm and GOmOrrah are
covered by waters SO beautiful that not
a fish can live in them. Babylon AMI
Nineveh are so blOtted out of existence
that not one uninjured shaft of their
ancient SplendOr remains. Nothing but
OmnipOtence could have put them
down and put them under. The ante
diluvian world was able to send to the
pOstdiluyian world only one ship, with
Il very small passenger list. OmnipO-
tence first rolled the seas over the land
and then told them to go back to their
usual channels as rivers and lakes and
oceans. At 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 appre-
our reverence is excited, and our adOra-
ton is intensified, but after all We find
ourselves at the foot of a mountain we
cannot climb, lowering over q depth
we cannot fathOm, at the rim of q cir
cumfe-ence we cannot compass, and
we feel like first going down on our
knees and then like falling fiat upon
our faces as we cNcIaim: "IO, these are
parts Of his ways. But how little a
portion is heard Of him? But the thun-
der Of his power who can understands
SO al those who have put together
systems OF theology have discOursed
also about the wisdom of God. Think
Of 4 wisdom which can know the end
from the beginning, that knows the
thirtieth century as well rs the first
century. We can guess what Will hap
pen. but it IS only q guess. Think Of
mind that can hold al the past and ali
the present and all the future We can
contrive and invent on a small scale,
but think OF a wisdom that could con
trive 4 universe. Think Of a wisdom
that can learn nothing new. 4 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 could
have built all the material universe
into one world and swung it, a glorious
mass. through immensely, but behold
his wisdom in dividing up the gran
deurs into innumerabIe worlds. rolling
spIendors Oh all sides, diversity, ampli- ,
tude, majesty, infinity. Worlds. worlds, .
moving in complete order, shining with
radiance Mightiest telescope .
on one hand and most powerful micro /
scope on the other, discovering in the
plan Of God not one imperfectiOn. What
but divine wisdom could have planned
Il human race and, before it started,
built for it a world like this, pouring
waters to Stake human thirst and Civ |
ing soils capacity to produce such food .
and lifting such a canopy of clouds, /
with such sunlight, and !
the world with such Won
ders that all the scientists of the ages
have only begun to unroll them? Wis
dom in magnitude and in atom, in arch
angel and in mOlluSk. Think of Wis /
dom 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 Gialen,
the most celebrated of medical authors
among the ancients. fell on his knees at
the overwhelming wisdom of God in
the constitution of the human frame.
Our libraries are filled with the wis
dom 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 millionth part of that wisdom
that has come to mortal appreciation.
Close next to every discovery is a Won