The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-15

walls of learning, at the bar and on
the bench, such man is indeed
spiritual fool who says in his every.
day life by refusing to acknowledge
and pay tribute to Divine Being,
There is no God
Gods word says he is fool. That
is testimony enough to condemn him,
but there is corroborative evidence to
sustain the direct testimony Of the
Bible. He draws the very breath
that prolongs his life from God, he
satisfies his hunger with food from the
hand of God, ne quenches his thirst
with water fresh from the hills Of
God, he enjoys the blessed fellowship
of wife and children, home and friends,
as giftfrom God, he lives and moves
through no merit of his own but
through the mercy Of God, upon
whom he is as dependent as new
born infant is dependent upon it's
mother. And yet, in his heart, this
spiritual fool says God has no claims
upon me.
If be is right Moses and the pro-
phets were wrong, the disciples were
misguided men, and the martyrs of all
the ages made fatal mistake in seal
ing their faith with their hearts
blood. If he is to be followed Divine
Providence is a failure, prayer is
will O the wisp, there is no pardon
for sin, man is no better than the
brutes of the earth, and the tears Of
sorrow flowing from eyes, pccriDg into
the gloom beyond the grave are vast
ed for there is nothing better than
that which comes to us in this little
life upon earth, few leeting days of
sunshine and shadow ere the darkness
of an eternal night comes on.
{ In opposition to the spiritual fool
who denies God in his life, we have
the heavens declaring the glory of
God. Show me the man whose heart
fails to respond to Whist the heavens
declare concerning God. The Bible
aays there is God. That is the
disoc: testimony. The heavens. the
space compassed by our natural Wis.
ion from horizon to horizon, they give
to man corroborative evidence 60
strengthen the direo: testimony Of the
Bible.
Watch the coming Of the sunlight
Of glorious summer day. Little by
little the darkness gives way to the
dawn and then the dsy comes on. We
watch the night away and are Impress
ed by the mystery that euvelops the
pathway Of our God. We turn our
eyes to the east, seeking to penetrate
the veil of darkness that shrouds the
sleeping earth in gloom. We hear the
shrill challenge of the char.ioleer,
taken up by another, and another ara /
another, until the darkness rings with
the music Of the barn. gard, the lowing
of cattle: the bleating of sheep. the
barking Of some dissolute cur, or the
mellow baying of hound out for an
early chase. We sit listening to these
sounds of the waking world about US /,
as we watch the stars 20 marching
with silent tread across the skies.
We turn our eyes again toward the
east. We see gleam and then a
glimmer Of light, and soon the Grim
son streaks from the coming sun shoot
upward through the gloom and the
trees, like silent sentinels of the
night, loom up against the sky. The
day comes on apace, little by little
forcing back the shadows, lights begin
to twinkle in the cottage windows and
men are going to their daily toll. The
east grows in brilliancy and we gaze
in rapture upon the aeecy clouds, tim
ged with gold, as they go floating, like
flaming ships across the azure sea that
flows above the earth. The last yes.
tige Of the night is gone save the fogs
in the lowlands over yonder that hug
The ssreamlet's course until tho great
SUI smiles upon the earth and the
change from darkness into light, a
change wrought by the hand of God
has been gloriously completed.
The same Almighty Hand brings on
the darkness. Having grown weary.
with the toilings cf the day, beneath
our own vine and fig tree, We watch
the'transformation from daylight into
darkness. The sun has passed from
view behind the hills, but the evening
sky is all agloH long after he has pass.
ed away. We see the workmen has
tening homeward and we hear the
laughing children shout to meet them
at the gate. We hear the happy
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