Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-04-20

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there. God Is everywhere at once. How
can all this be and yet God be like
ourselves in n physical sense? Men In
capable of concelvipg pure spirit have
supposed that God has n human form,
as did the ancient antbropomorphites,
or an animal form. as did the ancient
idolaters. but the Bible doctrine as ex-
pounded by Jesus Is. God Is a spirit,
and they that worship him must wor-
ship him in spirit.
n PaSses Comprehension.
Not only does the omnipresence OF
God pass all human conception and
explanation. but his personality. called
the Trinity, also passes human ex-
PLANTATION. Here we have God the Fa-
Their, God the Son and God the Holy
Spirit. How can you Interpret It? A
dear friend Of mine told me how an
old Spanish artist once tried to explain
IL. Above one OF the affairs of q Next
can cathedral was picture amid
clouds. Out of these clouds appeared
the faces OF three men. These seree
faces were all the same. Under the
picture. In Latin, were the words. THE
Father. the Son and the Holy Ghost .
These three faces were all alike; they
were like three photographs of one
face taken from the same negative
But had that artist caught a true con
ceptien of the Trinity No. he no
more pictured the true Sod than did
the artist who tried 10 picture fhs facs
OF the Trinity as that OF Sne man. The
full conception OF Coos eternal exist
ence and OF Gods personality passes
all human grasp. Therefore say to
you. as Michael Angelo said to Raphael,
when thou art trying to reach out after
the personality of God. amplIfy and
keep on amplifying. God Is Spirit
infinite. That means no flight OF human
imagination can reach the heights or
plumb the depths or touch the bounds
of fhe realms Of his presence. We
must accept Gods personality as In
Hnitely more comprehensive than we
can prove him to be or else we shall
never accept him at all.
But, though have dwelt long upon
my first point. believe it is the least
important OF any shall present, for II
is almost an impossibility for any one
of us to get away from our belief In an
overriding God who was the creator OF
the universe after we have studied the
wonderful harmonies OF the natural
world We are like the student OF skep-
teal tendencies who was seated at the
feet of that master of anatomy, DR..
Marshall. The great professor was ex-
planning to his class the marvels OF the
points Of the knee or OF the hand. Aft
er he had finished his talk this student
exclaimed. "a man must be n fool In
deed who. after duly studying his own
body. can remain an atheist" So we
say, "a man must be a fool who can
study the harmonies OF nature and not
believe that master mind, called the
Creator and the Ruler. is moldIng and
| influencing ALL" But. after we have
studied the signs and the wonders of
the heaven and the earth and have ac-
cepted n belief in God, the next ques-
ton which naturally confronts us Is
this: How do we know that this God
the Creator is tie God who Is the
author Of the book we call the Bi.
BILE. in which the coming OF Christ
Is foretold and the promises of for
| giveness of sin in Christ's blood are
! made TO dying human racer" How
do we know that God Is the author
OF the Bible? Why by the testimo
ny of the Bible Itself. The internal
evidences OF manuscript carry their
own proof OF genuineness. For centu
ries upon centuries the Bible has had
the test or internal criticism applied tc
1t The Bible lives as the word OF God
because its evidences have been proved
true. Its signs and wonders are IN
answerable
The Bible story OF Creation.
Let the first chapter OF Genesis come
forth and speak. That Is TO me one OF
the most wonderful OF all passages OF
the Bible. Have you ever carefully
studied Il? Suppose that Luther Bur
bank. California's wizard OF flowers
and fruits, should bring to us a new
kind OF fruit. This fruit may be diff
ferent from any other fruit ever grown
Then suppose he told US how he col
that fruit Perhaps 1t was developed
by grating an Italian grape upon q
certain kind of American grapevine. II
he told us al this. and we knew tha,
no other such grape had ever beer
grown, we would believe that he had
developed that grape. Well, in tho
same way thousands of years ago Coz
told Moses how he had created The
world. First came the water. then iths
land. then the grass, then thss livsnG
creatures In the wdtse. thea fh6 aSa'
mails. then man. "Oh," you say. s.that
Is simple story. !" Yes II II 80 .simpIs
| that for thousands or years the scfen.
lists were trying to discover the order
| or creation, and now. much to theit
surprise, the bioIogists have found ou4
that the order as written by MoseS
thousands OF years ago is the scientific
ally accepted order OF creation Of to.
day. Does not the first book Of the b.
Die bear upon 1T the stamp of Gods au-
fhorshipY Was not its story OF creation
told before science was born?
Then study the prophecies. Why. II
you begin TO study these prophecies
and their fulfIiments you have the
work Of lifetime. One night William
Herschel, the astronomer, was study
Ing the heavens. BY conditions reveal
ed there, Ire said to himself, There
must be a star In such and such
region" He pointed his telescope to
that region and found there the star.
but want to tell you that the causes
which proved to William Herschei the
fact that there was star in certain
region of the heavens are no more Ger.
tain in their results than are the full
ailments OF Scripture. In those re-
markable books OF John Cumming,