Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-02-09
RICHES OF GOD.
By Rev. Russell H. Conwell.

By Rev. Russell H. Conwell.
Text: "Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God" Romans Xi:33.
When the other day a man who con-
sidered himself useless to the world,
and who, in an inventive frame of
mind, had tried to create many things
that were failures, his friends urged
him to abandon it altogether, one wise
little girl advised him to ''invent some
thing useful" That thought, as re-
buke, came to him to be his guide, and
he decided to invent something use
full. To show how right at hand are
the discov cries sand the necessities of
life, we need only say that the mans
wonderful inventions for cleaning pub
lie buildings and cleaning private
homes have been an advance upon san
itary work, and an advance upon
health that must be marvellous in its
uses, showing that the simple thing
right at hand is really the great dis
cOvery that the world most needed,
and the explorations into the line Of
discoveries for the benefit of mankind
have just been touched upon. We are
only encouraged by what steam and
electricity have done; we are simply
advised to 90 on, by what we know
from the miscOscope and from the tel
escope. We are simply on the verge of
the explorations yet to be. "Oh, the
depth of the riches of the wisdom and
the knowledge of Godw
The nature of our extended knowl-
edge and what lies possible before it
struck me with great force when |
read that they have now discovered a
process of raising seedless apples and
seedless oranges. The influence OF
the horticulturist upon the fruits of
the world-see how he is able to make
them more luscious in taste, more nu-
tritious, more beautiful in exterior
and how he is able to preserve them.
He takes trees of the north, that have
only borne fruit at certain season, in
the fall, and guides them through cul-
ture and transference until they bear
fruit like the orange, all the year
round ask, What is not possible to
man? BY and by all these things shall
be raised in every cline, and shall be
adapted to every place, as we are only
on the verge Of discovery. l think it
must seem almost miraculous to those
who have raised apples all their years
upon their farms to find that 1t is pos
sible now to raise seedless apple, in
which there is no core, but all is nu-
tritious and luscious pulp; and yet that
is merely the Primer of what is to
come in this direction.
By and by, they tell us, they will
make vegetables as needed; that If you
want potatoes, or turnips, or peas, or
beets, you will just mix them up in
the kitchen from the original sub
stances which nature now extracts
from the air, with very little from the
earth. Chemistry, In It's marvels, is
able to analyZe entirely the potato and
tell us just what is the composition,
and tell us so nearly the proportion of
the combination that it seems to re-
quire but one little step farther-an-
other discovery-to make potatoes, to
manufacture them in our own cellars
or our own kitchens, and to make them
Of any quality that we may require.
That is not so far ahead, and thus sug-
gests the depth of the riches of the
knowledge of Gods laws, of the knowl-
edge of what He has done.