The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-21

quite well explained by the electric
clans, was the overpowering mystery
of the ancients, and standing among
those mysteries Job exclaimed: ''Lo,
these are parts of His ways. But how
little 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
God?" said a heather philosopher to
q Christian man. The Christian an
swered: Let me first ask you where
He is not?" The child had it right
when asked how many Gods are there
and he answered: cone" "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 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. 1 believe it. If this
Divine essence does not reach all
places, what use in our prayer, for
prayers are being offered to God On
the other side of the earth as well as
here, and God must be there and hero
to take applications which are Of
fered thousands of miles apart.
Ubiquityi No one has it but God.
And what an alarm to wickedness, an
everywhere present Lord, and what a
reinforcement when we need help!
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
probation of that, if through Jesus
Christ, the atoning Saviour, we are
right with God, ought to give us q
serenity, 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 Examinations.
So every system of theology has
attempted to describe and define the
Divine attribute of love. Easy
enough is it to define fatherly love,
motherly love, conjugal love, frater-
nal love, sisterly love and love of
country, but the love of God defies
all vocabulary. For many hundreds
of years poets have tried to sing 1t
and painters have tried to sketch it,
and ministers of the Gospel to preach
it and martyrs in the fire and Chris
tians on their deathbeds have ex-
tolled it, and we can tell what it is
like, but no one has yet fully told
what it is.
Only glimpses of God have we in
this world, but what an hour it will
be when we first see Him, and we will
have no more fright than L feel when
1 now see you. 1t will not be with
mortal eve that we will behold Him,
but with the vision of a cleansed, for
given and perfected spirit. OF all the
quintillion ages of eternity to us the
most thrilling hour will be the first
hour when we meet Him as He is.
This may account for something you
have all seen and may not have I'M
derstood. Have you not noticed that
after death the old Christian looks
young again or the features resume
the look of 20 or 30 years before?
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 it's impression
on the countenance. / think that is
what gave that old Christian face
after death the radiant and triumph
ant look. The bestormed spirit has
reached the harbor; the hard battle
of life is ended in victory. The body
took that look the moment Heaven
began, and the curtain was completed
| lifted and the glories of Jehovah's
presence rushed upon the soul. The
departing spirit left on the old mans
face a glad good-by, and that first
| look gave the pleased curve to the dy-
| ing lips and smoothed out the wrin-
kles and touched all the lineaments
with an indescribable radiance. y ',
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 it was half past IL
o'clock at night, then it was Is min
utes of IL, 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 IL, 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
refulgence that turned the arctic sea
into 20 miles of pearls and rubies and
diamonds and emeralds and overpow-
ering us with glory that left us with
| body all a-tremble, and a mind full of
all ecstasy, and a soul full of all wor-
ship. Thank God we saw 1.-THE mid
night sun. So with that departing
| Christian soul; the voyage of life has
been long and rough and tempest
uous; chilling sorrows have again and
again showed down upon him, and it
is an arctic sea. Many clouds have
filled the sky. 1t is approaching IL
o'clock, and the close of life's day.
Friends stand around and count the
parting moments. The clock strikes
II, and God breaks through the clouds
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