The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-28

and put thcm undor, The antediluvian
world was ablo to send to the postdiluvian
world only one ship with worry small pas.
seDgor list. Omnip0tonce first rolod the
soss oTcT .hc land, and :hcn to!d :hc;; &c 20
back to their usual channels as riyors and
lakes and oceans At omnipotont command
tho waters pounoiDg upon their prey, and at
omniqotent command Sinking back into
thoir appropriate places, BY suoh rehearsal
we Try to arouse our appreciation Of what
omnipotenco is, and our royeronoo is excited
and our alteration Is intensified, but after
oil we find ourselves at the foot of noun.
tain wc cannot climb, hovcring oyor depth
ws cannot fathom, at tho rim OF q olroum
ference wc cannot compass, aud wo fsol like
first going down on our knocs aud then fall.
ing fl 1t upon our faoes as wo exolaim: 'sLo,
these arc parts Of his ways. But how littlo
a portion is hoard Of him2 But the thunder
of his powor who can understand?
30 all those who h,vo put together sys.
tens of theology have dsooursd also about
thu wisdom of God. Think OF a wisdom
which can know tho end from tho beginning.
that knows tho thirtioth century as we'll as
tho first century Wo can guess what will
happen, but it is only guess. Think Of n
mind that can hold oil tho past and all the
present aud all the future We can oontriyo
and invent on o small soalo, but think OF n
wisdom that could contriyo universal
Tbiuk ofa wisdom that can learn nothing
now, wisdom that nothing can surprise. all
the facts, scenes and occurrences Of oil time
TO come as plainly bcforo ii as though they
had already tranBpired! Ho cou havc
built all the material universe into ono
world and swung it aglorious mass through
immcnsity, but behold his wisdom in divd
ing up tho grandeurs into innumorabio
worlds, rolling splcndors OH oil sidos, diver
sity amplitude, majesty, ininity! lYorlds!
Worlds Moving in complete order, shining
with complete radiance. Nlightiost teie-
scopo on ono hand and most po Wcrful micro.
scope on tho othor, discovering in tho plan
of God not ono imporfcotion. What but di
vino wisdom could have planned q human
raco and boforo it started build for it world
like this; pouring waterS TO sake human
thirst and giving soils capacity to produce
suoh food and lifting suoh canopy Of clouds
embroidered with such sunlight and sur.
rounding the world with such wondors that
oil tho scientists Of tho ages have only be.
gun to unroll them2 Wisdom in magnitude
and in atom, in archnngel and in molusk.
Think Of q wisdom that was able to form
without any suegostion or any model to work
by the eye, tho ear, tho hand, tho foot, the
vocal organs! No wonder that Galen, tho
most celebrated Of medical authors among
tho ancicnts. foil on his knees at tho over
whelming wisdom of God in tho constitution
of tho human franc. Our libraries are
filled with the wisdom of tho great thinkers
Of oil timo. IIavo you considered tho far
superior wisdom which fashioned the brain
for oil those thoughts of the Infinite Mind
that built those intellcots? But il is only
the millionth part Of that wisdom that has
como to mortal appreciation. Close next to
oyory discovery is a wonder that has not
been discovered. We SEQ only ono specimen
| among 10000 specimens What wo know is
| overwhelmed by what VIC do not know.
What tho botanist knows about tho flower is
not moro wonderful than the things he does
not know about the flower. What the geolog.
ist knows about the rocks is not moro amaz-
ing than tho things which he docs not know
| about thom. The worlds That have boon
counted arc only o small rcgimont of tbe
armies oflight, tho hosts Of heaven, which
have ncgor passed in review before mortal
| vision. What God wo hayel
We have all been painfully reminded in
our own experiences that we o,nnot be in
| two places ct tho samo time, and yet here
comes tho thought that God cnn be in all
places at the samo time. Nader, the as
tronolhcr, went on with his explorations un-
til he concluded that tho star Aicyone, one
| Of tho Plciadcs, was tho center of the uni
verse, and it Was q fixed world, and all tho
other words rovolvcd around that world,
and aomc think that that " orld is heayon and
! Gods throne IL thero, and there reside the
nations Of the blcst. But he is not no moro
there than ho Is horo Indeed Aloyouo
has boon found 10 be in motion, and it also ia
revolving around somo great center But
no plaoo has yet boon found where God is
not present by sustaining power. Omniprcs,
once! Who fully appreciates il? Not l..
| Not you. Sometimes we hear him in q
whisper. Sometimes wc hoar him in tho
voico of the storm thac jars the Adirondaoks.
But VIC cannot swim across tht ocean. Tho
finite cnnot measure the Infinite. We feel
as Job did after finding God in the gold
mines and the silver mines Of Asia, saying
"Thcre il vein for tho silver and place
for the gold where they fine it," Add after
exploring the hen Jeus as an astronomer and
finding God in distant worlds and becoming
| acquainted with Orion and Mazz aroth and
| Arcturus and noticing the tides of the sea the
inspired poet expresses his incapaoiy to un-
| derstand such evidences of wisdom and
| says: Lo, these are parts OF his ways. But
how little portion is hoard of him? But tho
thunder of his powor who can UNDERESTIMATE
80 every system Of theology has attempted
to describe and dc fine tho divine attribute of
lovo. Easy enough is it to define fathcrly
love, motherly love, coDjugal love, fratcrnal
love and love of country, but the love of God
deios oil vocabulary. For many hundreds
of years poets have tried to sing it and pain
tcrs hayo tried 10 skctoh it and minister's of
tho gospel to preach it and martyrs in tho
fire and Christians on their dcathbcds havo
extollcd ii, and wo can tell what it is like,
but no one has yet fully told what it is. Mon
speak Of tho love of God as though IL wore
first felt between The pointing Of the Bethle.
hem star and the pounding Of the orucifxion
hammer. But no! Long before that ex-
istcd The love Of God
Tho 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 inhabiting them
and moro worlds for The application Of that
love. He may not have told tho othor
worlds what he did for this world as he has
not told us what hc did for thom I think
the love OF God WAS demonstrated in mightier
worlds before our littlc world was fittod IN
for human residence. Will man owning
10000 acres Of lond put all tho cultivation
on half acre? Will God mako q million
worlds and put his chief affection on ono
small planet? Are the other worlds and
larger worlds standing vacant, uninhabitod,
while this little world Is crowded with inha-
bitants? No, IL takes universe of worlds
to express the love of God And there are
other ransoms and otker resoues and other
redemptions, as there may be othcr million
NUNS 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 God 8 lovo that any
world ever saw or ever will see. Compressed on
Two plRnks joined together as oross There