The Globe-republican., 1901-06-20

the Old Testament was when an infant |
hidden in cave because of the perse- |
cutions of Nimrod- The first time the
child came out of the cavern it was
night and he looked up at the star
and cried. This is my God.'' but the
star disappeared. and Abraham said,
No. that cannot be my God" After
awhile the moon rose, and Abraham
said, That is my Cod but it set, and
Abraham was again disappointed At
ter awhile the sun rose, and he said,
Why, truly, here is my God,' but the
sun went down, and Abraham was sad
dened- Not until the God of the Bible
appeared to Abraham was he satisfied,
and his faith was so great that he was
called the Father of the Faithful"
All that the theolOgians know of Gods
wisdom is insignificant compared with
the wisdom beyond human comprehen-
SION The human race never has had
and never will have enough brain or
heart to measure the wisdom of God
l can think OF only two authors who
have expressed the exact facts The
one was Paul who says, --Oh, the depth
of the riches. both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God. how unsearchable
are his judgments and his ways past
finding out The other author was
the scientist who composed my text.
L think he wrote it during a thunder
storm, for the chapter says much about
the clouds and describes the tremor
of the earth under the reverberations-
Witty writers sometimes depreciate the
thunder and say it is the lightning
that strikes, but am sure God thinks
well OF the thunder, he would not
make SO much of it. and all up and
down the Bible he uses the thunder
to give emphasis. It was the thunder
that shook Sinai when the law was
given. It was with Thunder that the
Lord discounted the Philistines at
Eben-ezer- Job pictures the warhorse
having neck clothed will thunder
( ST. John. in an apocalyptic vision,
again and again heard the thunder
The thunder, which is now quite we'll
explained by the electricians, was the
overpowering mystery of the ancients.
and standing among those mysteries
Job exclaimed 10, these are parts
of his ways. But how little portion
| is heard of him? But the thunder of
The Omnipresence OF God.
We have all been painfully reminded
| in our own experiences that we can
not be in two places at the same time.
| Nader, the astronomer, went on with
| his explorations until he concluded
| that the star Alcyone, one Of the
| Pleiades, the center of the uni
| verse and it was fixed world, and
| all the other worlds 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 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 yet been found where
God is not present by sustaining
power omnipIessaee: Who fully
| appreciates It? Not 7. Not you
| Sometimes we hear him in a whisper
Sometimes we hear him in the voice
| of the storm that jars the Adriondacks
| But cannot swim across this ocean
The finite cannot measure the infinite
| We feel as Job did after finding Goo
| in the gold mines and the silver mines
of Asia, saying, There is a vein fol
| the silver and a place for the colo
| where they fine it, And after ex-
ploring the heavens as an astronomer
| and finding God in distant worlds and
| becoming acquainted with Orion and
| Mazzaroth and ArctuFus and noticing
| the tides of the sea the inspired poet
expresses his incapacity to understand
such evidences of wisdom and power
| and says: 10, these are parts of his
| ways But how little portion is
heard Of him? But the thunder Of his
| power who can understands
So every system of theology has at
| tempted to describe and define the di-
| vine attribute of love Easy enough
| is it to define fatherly love, motherly
| love, conjugaI love, fraterna1 love- sis
| terly love and love of country, but the
| love OF God def1es all vocabulary. For
| many hundreds Of years poets have
! tried to sing it and painters have tried
| to sketch it and ministers of the gospel
| to preach it and martyrs IN the fire and
! Christians 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 Men speak of the love of Goo
| as though it were first felt between
| the pointing of Bethlehem star and the
| pounding of the crucifixiOn hammer
NO EofC hot cfe he
love of God
Seeing 70 Face.
Only glimpses of God have We in
| this world. but what an hour it will
be when we first see him, and will
| have no more fright than l feel when
| now see you 1t will not be with
| mortal eye that we will behold him
| but with the vision of a cIeansed 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 he is.
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