The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-10-13
Enoch, Man Who
Walked With God
BY REV. C. A. S. DWIGHT, D. D.

from their heavenly Master. The
names and histories of many of these,
as portrayed in the Scriptures, are
coupled with telltale epithets or brief
charactCri2ations, which have now
become familiar as household words,
that are significant of the peculiar
aptitudcs and achievements OF the
men TO whom they are applied. OI
one man in the Bible phrase is used
applicd elsewhere TO one other, Noah
which is strangely suggestive and
wonderfully inspiting-fUr it Is said
Of Enoch that he walked with God
All men. good ard bad. walk In the
sight OF God. and al gcod men may
be said TO walk before or in the pres
ence Of God-guided by his eye,
shone upon by mis- glor., and sur
rounded by tokens of his loye-but OF
that primal, pre-eminent man OF an
early rude age it is declared hat he
walked with God" which must mean
something very illustrious. and denote
a nignity almost If not quite. uneX
ampled in the whole course OF human
history.
The character of Snoch, as viewed
through the heightened vistas of the
varying ages, seems to shine with a
pure white light almost, II not quite,
unearthly. Its CLEAN was never light
ened on man-made altars, the sheen is
not dimmable by earth-born mists or
garish glare or historic contraven.
tions. We cannot know just what
were the psychologist qualities of this
holy, happy man, but we may be sure
OF one thing, that his character was
singularly Pure, lar above that of his
fellows, or the unoXampled honor Of
walking with God" and of being
translated without hint or hurt of
Death would never have been given to
Tim. BE ye holy, for am holy" must
have been fulfilled in marvellous de-
gree in Enoch's case. He was a sinner
as were others of his contemporaries.
but somehow, In close contact with
the fires of the Divine holiness, the
dress of his own humanity was burn.
ed away so that even before he was
caught aawy to paradise. he became
detached from earth and filed with
me very spirit OF heaven.
Enoch walked with God it appears
as prophet. God may have revealed
to him in quiet. tender converse many
wonderful secrets of his plans. What
did Enoch see in prophecy? Who
| knows but that in those ecstatlc 300
years there may have passed be
/ fore his vision, revealed by the di
rect will and wish of Jehovah, the
| outlines of redemption-the comine
| history Of the ages, exhibited as II
| we're, In an elongated panorama, al
| illustrating the wonders OF grace anc
! cenl ering about the cross, whose dis
tant CLEAN Enoch's quickened eye.
may have clearly seen? Paul, in
later age, was taken up into the thirC
heaven why may Enoch not hay,
been granted the vision of q redeem
ed earth? We cannot saoy that it wa,
so-but we may wonder whether sucl
dreams and visions did not come Il
that holy and unique man.
We are told, at any rate, in tn,
epistle OF Jude, Of wonderful visiol
which Enoch had of the consumma
ton of human history, when the Lort
will come with ten thousand OF hi
angels to visit a dire punishment OF
ungOdly mein--a message which seem
to have been q quotation from or al
adaptation OF, prophecy in the Boo
OF Enoch. which last Is a collection O
apochryphal stories regarding mon
matters in nature and in life whic
the chruch has declined to introduc
nto the canon, and does not recely
as veritable Scripture. The genera
truth holds good at all events tha
the nearer one walks with God an
the more Transparent: Is the mora
nature of any believer the broade
and grander is the vision which sue
one enjoys of eternal things-for |
the highest ranges of Christian e
perlence being is seeing.
There is need today for the tram
parent, guileless. reverent. meditatiy
Enoch-like type Of character--a fran
or fashion Of moral being which ma
seem, indeed, quite foreign to III
"zeitgeist" or prevailing spirit of tn
times. Yet in a rushing age. more,
anything. than In any other, ra me
need the close converse with the
Maker to KEEP thein poised amid s.
cial agitations steadily against Ii
: assaults of temptation. and clea
. eyed amid the whirl and swirl
, numberless worldly distractions.
should not be thought, because Enoc
/ lived in simple age, that, therefor
he enjoyed exceptional opportuniti,
Z for being religious, while In this cha
= acteristically worldly day II Is qui
/ out OF the question 20 maintain
0 spiritual frame. The fact is tn
9 Enoch lived In ar age that was rud
| riotous and coarse, when vice WI
3 rampant. VIII IN the sanctions OF 3
d ciety itself wtre largely lacking. VIII,
a there we're no Bibles. churches, e
/. deayor societies, religious clubs
8 religious books or weeklies. an
y therefore. It was all the more to b
q praise that. under conditions ev,
e more unfriendly. perhaps, to rigl
N eousnegs than those that obtain
! day, he walked with God and co
ported himself az BETTER a saint
the Most High.
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