The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-07
The GLORY OF IHELoRp.

as live; will sing praise 70 my GGd
while have my being.'-Psalm CIV, Fl,
80.
Face to face with God! How fac slall
we go to find ourselves face to face with
God? ST. Paul tells US that God is mot
far from every one Of US. for in Hin we
live, and move, and have our peins.
Men have thoughts of God .4far off.
somewhere in the skies, beyond the sun
and stars. But rather in the deepest
sense He contains them. In God the
sun and stars and all the host Of heaven
live and move and have their being, and
if He chose to destroy them all still God
for evermore.
He is the self-existent IT Am who needs
naught but Himself. He is the infinite,
whom nothing however vast or stlons
can entirely comprehend. He gites to
each thing form according to its own
kind, life and growth according to it's
own law. If they be rational creatures
Gas we are) they may feel after the
Lord and find Him." and il they be ir
rational creatures like the animals and
the plants, mountains and streams.
clouds and tempest. sun and stars, they
still serve Gods gracious purpose in the
economy of His world.
Therefore everything which you SEQ is a
message TO you from God. You cannot
look at anything in the earth without
seeing God Himself at work thereon.
You can look neither at the sun in the
sky nor the grass beneath your feet
without being brought face to face with
God, the ever blessed Trinity.
The tiniest gnat which dances in the
sun was conceived by God the Father,
in whose eternal bosom are the ideas and
patterns OF all things past present, and
to come. 1t was created by God the Son,
by whom the Father made all things,
and without whom nothing is made. and
it is kept alive by God the Holy Ghost,
the Lord and giver OF life of Whom 1t
is written Thou sendest forth my
Shirt they are created, Thou renewest
the face of the earth.
Oh that we could remember this! When
we walk across the field or go INTO the
Garden or street, that we could have the
wisdom TO remember and feel, "Whlther,
q God can I so from Thy presence
Thou art looking down on the opening o.
avery bud and flower, and without Ihee
not a sparrow falls to the ground.
..ybither can / flee from Thy spirit. my
enir;t IS giving life pcrpetually alike 10
RE and to all. Shall l forget lhee: VI
sisobev Thee or neglect to praise ana
honor and worship Thee? or serve Ihee
6lav and night for Thy great glory?
II we could but remember this there
would no longer be any fear of one beng
yucodlv or irreligious. We look day after
dav upon the world around US Just as the
dumb beast does, as a place out OF "hlch
he can get food and comfort. But We lor-
ret that it is also a place out OF winch
,-a can get something to admire, to adore
and 70 worship; as we dwell upon Gods
wisdom His power, His goodness, his
oicry. Oh! blind and needless that we
are, It is not IN great things only but III
the very smallest that is seen the great
ost glory of the ever blessed Trinity Ay,
most. perhaps in the smallest,w one
oo,s.aers the utterly inconceivable wis
dom, which can make the tiny animal, al
most invisible under the strongest micro
soope. as perfect in all its organs as the
huge elephant.
And not only make these tiny living
things but moro wonderful still, make
them make themselves Fer what is
growth, but a thing making itself? What
is the end growing into a plant. the plant
into a flower the flower into a seed again,
but that thing Transforming itself by gan
inward law of life given by Gods spirit.
The more earnestly and carefully you
thing-even of the daisy or the grass; the
more you inquire what it really is, how it
came to be like what it is. how it is,
where it is-you will be led awaq into
| questions which may we'll make you dizzy
with thinking. So vast, so strange. 50
| truly miraculous is the history of every
! organized creature upon earth.
| When such thoughts as these crowd
| upon you, then what can any rational
nan do, but bow his head and worship
in awful silence Him who sits upon tire
| throne?
But if God be so awful in the material
world of which we know a part, how much
more awful is He in that spiritual and
| moral world OF which cur senses tell us
naught? That unseen world of justice,
truthfulness. of honor and duty, of rever-
ence and loyalty. of love and charity, of
purity and self-sacritice-that spiritual
world only seen by the eye and felt by the
heart of the soul. wherein the cherubirl
and seraphim veil their faces as they cry
/ continually, Holy, Holy. Holy.''
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In commenting on the statement made
| by Commissioner Carroll D. Wright thai
I the mine operators of PENNSYLVANIA are
/ unwilling to enter Unto an agreement