The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-06-22
GLIMPSES OF GOD.
Discourse of DR.. Talmase on the
Divine Saviour.
He Raises High Expectations Of Day
When That New Bat OinIy
Sees VIII ne Funy
Revealed.


Washington, June Is
In this discourse DIR. Talmay,
raises high expectations of the "a,
when that which is now only dimli
seen viii he fully revealed; text. Jol
20, II; 10, these are parts of Hi
ways. But how little a portion i
heard of Him. Bu5 the thunder o
Ills power who can understands"
The least understood eeing in IN,
universe is God. BiaSphemous woulC
ne any attempt by painting or sculp
ture 10 represent Him. Egyptian
heroglyphs tried to sugges Him on
putting the figure of an eve upon a
sword, implying that God sees anG
rules, but how imperfect the sug-
gesuon, When we speak of Him. it
IS almost always in language hgura-
tive. He is Light" or ~Daysprins
from on High, or He is a High
Tower or the Fountain of Living
Waters" His splendOr is so great
that no man can see Him and live.
When the group - great lheologians
assembled in Westminster abbey for
the purpose of making a system Of
religious belief, they frst Of all want
ed an nswer to the question: Who
Is God. No one desired 10 under
take the answering of that OvermaS-
tcring question. They finally con-
Guided 10 give the task 10 the Young
est man in the assembly. who hap
pened to be Rev. George Gillespie. He
consented 10 undertake it on the con-
oition that they would first unite
with him in prayer Tor Divine direc-
ton. He began his prayer by say
Ing; 20 God. Thou art a spirit. in
finite, eternal and Interchangeable in
Thy being. wisdom. power. holiness.
justice, goodness and truth" That
hrst sentence Of GilleSpie's PRAYER
was unanimously adopted oy the as
sembly as the best definition OF God.
But, after all, it was only q partial
success, and after everything that
language ran DO when put to the ut
most strain and all we can see Of God
IN the natural world and realize OF
God in the providential world we are
forced to err, out with Job in NV
text; 10, these are parts Of His
wsys. But how little a portion IL
heard Of Him? But the thunder OF
His power who can understand?"
Archbishop Tillotson and DIR. Dick
and Timothy Dwight and Jonathan
Edwards Of the past and the might
lest theologians Of this young CEN
fury have d~iscoursed upon the power
God, the attribute OF omnipotence.
And we have all seen demonstrations
Gods aimightiness. 1t might have
far out at sea when in an
equinoctial gale God showed what He
eouId do with the waters. It might
been in an August thunder
storm in the mountains when God
showed what He could do with the
hg~htnings. II might have been in
eouth America when God showed
WA He could do with the earth
ouakes. Ii might have been among
Inc Alps when God showed what He
rould do with the ~avalanches. Our
rheek was blsnched, our breath
our pulses fiuttered. our
whole being was terrorized. but We
hao seen only an instance of Divine
'trength. What was the power OF
mat storm compared with the power
Which holds all the oceans? What
W. the power that shook the hills
'ompared with the power that swings
he earth through all the centuries
for 5000 years aud in a forma-
i've and incomplete shape for hun
ireds of thousands of years? What
: that power that sustains our world |
'ompared with the power which rolls
trough immensely the entire solar |
aud all the consultations and
and the universe? The
nightiest intellect OF man would
rive way II for a moment there came !
lpon it the fun appreciation Of what
,mnipotence is. VI
We try TO satisfy ourselves with |
at is natural law that con-
Irols things. g~ravitation is at work.
,entripetsl and centrifugal forces re-
lpond to each other" But what is '
natural law? 1t is only Gods way of
ioing things. At every point in the
universe it is Gods direct and con-
tinuous power that controls and har-
monizes and s~ustains. That power
withdrawn one instant would make
The planetary system and ell the !
which astronomy reveals one
wreck, bereft hemispheres,
Sunsets, dead ~consteiIa-
lions, debris of worlds. What power
Il must be that keeps the internal
fires Of our world imprisoned-only
here and there squirting from a Coto-
paxi. or a Stromboli. or from a vesuvi-
MS, putting Pompeii and H~erculaneum
INTO sepulcher. but for the most part
The internal fires chained in their
cages of rock, and century after cen
tury unable to break the chain or
burst open the door. What power to
keep the component parts OF the