Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-21


might fall in a straight line during
whole eternity, nor ever reach the DOL,
tom If is infinite in all directions.
Ga wherever we go into the past let
us always think Of God as farther DacK'
Not only must we amplify our ideas
IN reference to Gods eternal EXISTENCE
hut we must also amplify them IN rel'
orence to Gods personal presence. Inc
Rible tells us that we are maze al'ei
cod,s image. $50 God created man ia
his own image, In the image Oh uou
created he him, male and temale Gre
o+od no them" Does this imply that
God is like unto US physically-tlat nc
hoe two evcs. two hands, two feet ana /
a heating heart? Just as | find queen
yictorla's face stamped upon the Eng
fish shilling, so some people thinK "ou
face in a physical sense, IS stahpeu
mon ne But is this true? Nay. Am
niirv, Amplify your idea Of Gods per,
lite In the One Hundred ana
Tbirtv-ninth Psalm read these "orus:
aIvhither shall go from thy spirlV
or ,vbitbcr shall | fee from thy pres
once9 If ascend up into heaven, thou
ort there; If make my bed IN NELL
hoIoId thou art there; if l take the
,,,,ngs Of tbe morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts Of the sea, even there
tl,v right hand shall hold me. Yea, lne
darl<ncss hideth not from thee, but inc
nicht shineth as the day. The darkness
ond the light are both alike to thee.
In other words, God is here, Goa is
thore Cod is everywhere at once. HOW
: CON o1l this be and yet God be IKE
r ourselves in a physical sense? Men III
l conohlo Of conceivlng pure spirit have
eunnosed that God has n human 1orm'
e "a did the ancient anthropomorphlteS,
s or an animal form. as did the ancleh'
+ fdoIotcrs. but the Bible doctrine as eN
y rounded bv Jesus is, God is a spirit
f and tbov that worship him must wor
l. ship him in spirit.
r 1t Passes Comprehension'
T. Not only does the omnipresence O
IS God pass all human conception un'
% exclamation. but his personality calle'
ID tbe Trinity. also passes human %
s nlanation. Here we have Goa tlc
,e thor cod the Son and God the HoI
10 cn'rit How can you interpret itE
Of DOM friend Of mine told me how a
d. old Suanish artist once tried to e1plai
no r. Above one of the altars Of Mex
n can cathedral was picture an
bo clouds out Of these clouds appeare
"a tbc faces of three men. These lnr'
% fooos wore all the same. Under u
or r,cture in Latin, were the words, IL
- rather the Son and the Holy Ghos'
81 These three faces were all alike; ul'
w. wore like three photographs OF ol
foco taken from the same negat'
no Rut had that artist caught true ~
.ne contion of the Trinity? No. de
lno moro nictured the true God than u
- ." tbe artist who tried to picture 'ne ID u,
60 Of the Trinity as that Of one man. 1
Io' fIll conception Of Gods eternal eAl
I'm aT:co and Of Gods personality pass
fy' al humasn grasp. Therefore | say
l, pn, you. as Michael Angelo said 70 hapne O
ne ne when thou art trying to reacn out a.
ave the nersonality Of God, ampllfy q
ID l,aan ON simplifying. God is a sp
we ,nfnito. That means no flight OF nun
ons' imagination can reach the heights
our nlnmb the depths or touch the Doui
n Of tbe realms Of his presence
our must accept Gods personality as
hui fnitelv more comprehensive thah
can nrove him to be or else we 81
ou never accept him at all.
rnal Rut though l have dwelt long u
first nv first point, 1 believe it is the II II
gin ,mnortant of any I shall present. IL
the is almost an impOssibility for any
nply Of us to get away from our Denel j
orld overruling God who was the create
did the universe after we have stuuleu
res, wonderful harmonies Of the nat
ted. world. We are like the student oil ;
ysF +;ool tendencies who was seated at
ge- feet of that master OF ahdloln9'
the 1rorshal The great professor was
the nlaining to his class the marVels u
e six roints Of the knee or Of the hahu'
rs OF or he had finished his talk TINS stu
each exclaimed. "a man must be lou
s of deod who. after duly studying ms
ne OF body. can remain an atheist -
y the cav "a man must be fool VINO
lsand et1dv the harmonies of nature an'
erday holieve that a master mind, calleC
Il the creator and the Ruler, is moldlhe
world ,n61oncinc ALL" But, after we
, ana studied the signs and the Wonue
hours tho heaven and the earth ana nav
upon oontad = belief in a God, the next
, falls tinn which naturally cOnfronts
Il you tbis. GLOW do we know that thlS
away tbe Creator is the God VINO l.
Then author of the book we can VI
n the blo in which the coming Oh
show is foretold and the promises VI
dually c,ivoness Of sin in Christs Dloo
waters node TO a dying human racer
'se ge- do we know that God Is 'ne
IF the ~ the Bible? Why, by the te
rocks nv Of the Bible itself. The III
k ages oyidonces of a manuscript carry
we go own proof of genuineness. For
DIS Of ries upon centuries the BlDle I'D
ID, you the test of internal crlllclsul "PP
Gods r. The Bible lives as the Word
ed be- because its evidences have been
true. It's signs and wonders d
answerable.
ot Gou The Bible Story of Cre"'i'
ed luah Let the first chapter OF GeheSD
annie forth and speak. That is to me
strono- the most wonderful of all pass'
II says the Bible. Have you ever ca
app! studied it? Suppose that Luthe
inag, bank. Californ.a's wizard Oh
rs "i'n and fruits, should bring TO us
miles kind of fruit. This fruit may
OF W .ne ferent from any other fruit ever
ick ihl IN, Then suppose he told us how
!onuol that fruit. Perhaps it was de
! Il u thorp. mn by grating an Italian grape
'neln certain kind of American grape
u Se"IS' be told us all this, and we XII