The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-09-06


souvenir large enough to remind you
Of your visit. The city of Tyre is un-
Ter the sea which washes the shore,
IN which are only a few crumbling
pillars left. Sodom and Gomorrah
are covered by waters so deathful
that not a fish can live in them. Baby
Ion and Nineveh are so blotted out of
existence that not one uninjured shaft
of their ancient splendor remains.
Nothing but Omnipotence could have
put them down and put them under.
The antediluvian world was able to
send TO the postdiluvian world only
one ship with very small passenger
list. Omnipotence first rolled the
seas over the land, and then told them
10 go back to their usual channels as
rivers and lakes and oceans. At
Omnipotent command the waters
pouncing upon their prey, and at
Omnipotent command Sinking back
into their appropriate places. BY
such rehearsal we try to arouse our
appreciation of what Omnipotence is,
and our reverence is excited, and our
alteration is intensified, but after all
we find ourselves at the foot of
mountain we cannot climb, lowering
over a depth we cannot fathom. at
the rim of a circumference we cannot
compass, and we feel like first going
down on our knees and then like fall
ing fat upon our faces as we exclaim:
40, these are parts of His ways. But
how little a portion is heard of Him?
But the thunder of His power who
can understand"
So all those who have put together
systems of theology have discoursed
also about the wisdom of God Think
of a wisdom which can know the end
from the beginning, that knows the
thirtieth century as well as the first
century. We can guess what will hap
pen. but It is only a guess. Think OF
a mind that can hold all the past and
all the present and all the future. We
can contrive and invent on small
scale, but think of a wisdom that
could cOntrive universel Think of
a wisdom that can learn nothing new,
a wisdom that nothing can surprise,
all the facts, scenes and occurrences
of all time TO come as plainly before
IT as though they had already trans
piredl He could have built all the ma
terial universe into one world and
swung It q glorious mass through i'm
mensity, but behold His wisdom In di
viding up the grandeurs iBto innu-
merabe worlds, rolling splendors on
all sides. diversity, amplitude, maj
esty, infnityl Worldsl Worldsl
Moving in complete order, shining
with complete radiance. Mightiest
telescope on one hand and most pow
erful microscope on the other, dis
covering in the plan of God not one
imperfection. What but Divine wis
dom could have planned human race
and, before il started, built for il a
world like this; pouring waters TO
slake human thirst and giving soils
capacity to produce such food and lift
ing such a canopy Of clouds embroid
cred with such sunlight and surround
ing the world with such wonders that
all the scientists of the ages have only
begun to unroll them? Wisdom in
magnitude and in atom. in archangel
and in mollusk. Think of a wisdom
that was able to form without any
suggestion or any model to work by
the eye, the ear, the hand, the foot,
the vocal organsl No wonder that
Galen, the most celebrated of medical
authors among the ancients, fell on
his knees at the overwhelming wisdom
of God in the constitution of the hui
man frame. Our libraries are filled
with the wisdom of the great think
ers of all time. Have you considered !
the far superior wisdom which fash
ioned the brain for all those thoughts
of the Infinite Mind that built those
intellects? But it is only the mil
lionth part of that wisdom that has
come to mortal appreciation. Close
next to every discovery is a wonder
that has not been discovered. We see
only one specimen among 10000 speci-
mems.
A tradition says that Abraham of
the Old Testament was when an in
fant hidden in cave because Of the |
prosecutions of Nimrod. The first |
time the child came out of the cavern |
1t 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; This is my God" but
it set, and Abraham was again disap- |
pointed. After awhile the sun rose,
and he said: "Why, truly, here is my |
God" but the sun went down, and /
Abraham was saddened. 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 compre-
hension. The human race never has /
had and never will have enough brain /
or heart to measure the wisdom OF /
God. 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
are His judgments and |
His ways past finding out" The
other author was the scientist who |
composed my text. think He wrote