The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-06-21

have built all the material universe INTO
one world and swung It, glorious mass,
through immenslty, but behold His WIS
dom in dividing up the grandeurs into IN.
Vulnerable worlds. rolling sp,endors on all
sides. diversity, amplitude, majesty, in
tinlty. Worlds. worlds, moving in COM
plete order, shining with complete ra-
dance. Mghtlest telescope on one hand
and most powerful microscope on the
other, discovering IN the plan OF God not
one imperfection.
What but divine wisdom could have
planned human race and, before il
started, built for it a world like this,
pouring water 10 slake human thirst and
giving soils capacity 10 produce such food
and lifting such a canopy OF clouds, em'
broldered with such sunlight. and sur
rounding the world with such wonders
that all the scientists OF the ages have
only begun 20 unroll themy Wisdom IN
magnitude and In atom, IN archangel and
IN mollusk.
Think OF wisdom that was able 20
form without any suggestion or any model
to work by the eye, the ear. the hand, the
foot, the vocal organs. No wonder that
Galen. the most celebrated Of medical au.
thors among the ancients, tell on his knees
az the overwhelming wisdom of God IN
the constitution of the human frame.
Our Libraries are filed with the wisdom
of the great thinkers of all time. Have
YOU considered the far superior wisdom
which fashioned the brain Tor all those
thoughts of the Infinite mind that built
those lntellectsy But IL Is only the mil
honth part of that wisdom that has come
TO mortal appreciation.
Close next TO every discovery Is won.
der that has not yet been discovered. We
see only one specimen among 10000 specl.
mems. What we know Is overwhelmed
by what we do not know. What the bot.
anist knows about the flower Is not more
wonderful than the things he does not
know about the flower.
Witty writers sometimes depreciatc the
thunder and say 1t Is the lightning that
strikes, but l am sure God thinks well OF
the thunder or He would not make so
much of 1t. and all up and down the Bible
He uses the thunder to give emphasis. IL
was the thunder that shook Sinai when
the law was gwen. lt was wUn thunder
that the Lord discounted the Philis.
tines at Eben-ezer.
job pictures the war horse as having a
neck clothed with thunder. st. John in
an apocalyptic vision again and again
heard the thunder The thunder, which
is now quite well explained by the elec.
tricians. was the overpowering mystery of
the ancients, and, standing among those
mysteries, job exclaimed: "Lo, these are
parts of His ways. But how little por.
tion is heard of Him. But the thunder
of His power who can understand"
So, also, all systems OF theology try to
tell us what is ipotence-that is,
Gods capacity TO be everywhere at the
same time. Where Is Gody' said a
heather philosopher 10 Christian man.
The Christian answered Let me ask you
where He is not" The child had It right
when, asked how many Gods are there,
and he answered, One" How do you
know that" he was asked again. lie an
swered, There is only room for one, for
He fills earth and heaven" An author
says that II a man were set in the highest
heavens he would not be any nearer the
essence of God than If he were IN the
centre of the earth. / believe it, IL this
divine essence does not reach all places,
what use IN our prayer, Tor prayers are
being offered To God on the other side
of the earth as well as here. and God
must be there and here 10 take supplica.
tions which are offered thousands OF miles
apart Ubiquityl No one has It but God.
And what an alarm to wickedness, an
everywhere present Lord, and what re-
enforcement when we need help! God
on the throne and God with the kneeling
child saying his evening prayer at his
mothers lap. God above you, God be.
meath 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 az close to you az the food
you put 10 your lips, as the coat you put
upon your back, as the sunlight that
SHINES in your face. Appreciation OF that,
II through Jesus Christ, the atonlng Sa'
viour we are right with God, ought 10
give US a serenity, a tranquility, that
nothing could upset. Would it make us
gloomy? No, for God is the God OF Joy
and wall augment our happiness.
We have all been painfully reminded IN
our own experiences that we cannot be IN
two places at the same time and yet here
comes the thought that God can be IN all
places at the same time. Nader, the as
tronomer, went on with his explorations
OF the heavens until he concluded that the
star Alcyonc, one OF the Pieiades, was the
centre OF the universe and it was a fixed
world, and all the other worlds revOlyed
around tEctti )rld, and some think that
that world is heaven and Gods throne ~
there and there reside the nations OF the
blessed. But lie Is no more there than He
is here. Indeed Alcyone has been found
TO be IN motion, and IT also ~ revolving
around some great centre. But no place
has yet been found where God is not
present by sustaining power. Omnipres-
ence! Who fully appreciates ity Not i;
not you.
sometimes we hear Him IN the voice Of
the storm that jars the Adrondacks. But
we cannot swim across this ocean. The
finite cannot measure the infinite We
feel as job did after finding God m the
gold mines and the silver mines OF Asia,
saying. There Is a vein for the silver and
q place for the gold where they fine it."
Men speak OF the love OF God az though
n were first felt between the pointing Of
the Bethlehem star and the pounding OF
the cruclhxion hammer But no. Long
before that existed the love OF God
The nature OF God never changes, and
from all eternity that holy passion gIowcd
m the Infinite and | think He was throw.
ing out worlds INTO space and inhabitlng
them and more worlds for the application
OF that love He may not have told the
other worlds what he did for this world,
as lie ha8 not told Us what lie did for
them. ! think the love OF God was Dem.
onstrated IN mightier worlds before our
little world was htted up for human resi-.
Gence. Will q man owning 5000 acres OF
land put all the cultivation on a half
acre? Will God make q million worlds
and put His chief affection on one small
planet; Are the other worlds and larger
world. standing vacant uninhabited,
while this little world ~ crowded with IN.
habitantsy No, u takes universe IL
worlds 90 express the love OF God And
there are other ransOms and other rescues
and other redemptlOns, as there may be
other millenniums aud 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 Gods love that any world
ever saw or ever will see. Compressed on
two pianLs joined together a. cross,
there was enough agony there concen.
trated. n distributed, 10 put whO.e ma
tions into torture That God allowed the
assas-ination of His own Son for the res.
cue Of our world ~ an the evidence needed
that He loved the world Go ahead, y
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