Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-19


! thumb nail and you can hardly find a
souvenir large enough to remind you
! of your visit. The city of Tyre is un-
der the sea which washes the shore.
on which are only 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
| TO go back To their usual channels as
rivers and lakes and oceans. At
Omnipotent command the waters
bouncing 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 hnd ourselves at the foot of
mountain we cannot climb. towering
over 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 HAT upon our faces as we exclaim:
"Lo, 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 wisdom which can know the end
from the beginning. that knows the
thirtieth century as we'll as the first
century. We can guess what will hap
pen. but it is only a guess. Think of
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 universeI Think of
wisdom that can learn nothing new,
a wisdom that nothing can surprise,
all the facts, scenes and occurrences
or all time 10 come as plainly he fore
1t as though they had already trans
pired! He could have built all the ma
terial universe into one world and
swung it a glorious mass through inn
mensity, but behold His wisdom in di-
viding up the grandeurs into innu-
merable worlds. rolling splendors on
all sides. diversity. amplitude. ma J.
esty, infinity! Worlds! Worlds,
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 a human race
and, before il started. built for it a
world like this; pouring waters to
Stake 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 archanpel
! and in molluSk. Think of 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 organs! No wonder that
Galen, the most celebrated of medical
authors among the ancicnts. fell on
his knees at the Overwhe lining wisdom
of God in the constitution of the hui
man frame. Our libraries are filed
with the wisdom of the great think
ers OF all time. Have you considered
the far superior wisdom which fash
Toned the brain for all those thoughts
of the Infinite Mind that built those
intellects? But il 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 whe- an in
FAINT hidden in a cave because of the
prosecutions 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 Cod" 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
IL set, and Abraham was again dfsap-
pointed. After awhile the sun rose,
! and he said: why, truly, here Is my
Cod but the sun went down, and
Abraham was saddencd. Not until
the God Of the Bible appeared 10
Abraham was nc satisfied. and his
faith was so great that he was called
"thc 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 10 measure the wisdom OF
God. ] can think of oniy two authors
who have expressed the exact facts.
The one was Paul. Hho says: ooh.
the depth Of the riches, both Of the
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