The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-10-27
Enoch, Man Who
Walked With God
By REV. c. A. S. DWIGHT, D. D.

Text-And Enoch walked with God;
and he was not; for God took him.-Gen-
6:4.
God has many distinguished serv-
ants whose dignity is all derived
from their heavenly Master. The
names and histories Of many of these,
as portrayed in the Scriptures, are
coupled with tell-tale epithets or brief
characterizations, which have now
become familiar as household words,
that are significant of the peculiar
aptitudes and achievements of the
men to whom they are applied. OF
one man in the Bible phrase is used
applied elsewhere to one other, Noah)
which is strangely suggestive and
wonderfully inspiring-for it is said
Of Enoch that he walked with Cod
All men, good and bad, walk in the
sight of God, and all good men may
be said to walk before or in the pres
ence Of God-guided by his eye,
shone upon by mis- glory and sur
rounded by tokens of his love-but of
that primal, pre-eminent man Of an
early rude age it is declared that he
walked with Cod which must mean
something very illustrious, and denote
a nightly 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 4
pure white light almost, if not quite,
unearthly. Its CLEAN was never light
ened on man-made affairs, 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, far above that of his
fellows, or the uneXampled honor Of
walking with God" and of being
translated without hint or hurt of
death would never have been given to
Kim. BE We holy. for am holy" must
have been fulfilled in marvellous de-
.
as were others of mis- 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 filled with
the very spirit of heaven.
Enoch walked with God it appears,
as a prophet. God may have revealed
to him in quiet, tender converse many
did Enoch see in prophecy? Who
knows but that in those ecstatic 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 coming
history of the ages, exhibited as it
were, in an elongated panorama, all
illustrating the wonders of grace and
centering about the cross, whose dis,
tant CLEAN Enoch's quickened eyes
may have clearly seen? Paul, in a
later age, was taken up into the third
heaven - why may Enoch not have
been granted the visionsof a redeem
ed earth? We cannot saoy that it was
so-but We may wonder whether such
dreams and visions did not come to
that holy and unique man.
We are told, at apv rate. in 'Nn
OF the United States Senate, spent d
Vcw days this week as the guest Of his
lister, Mrs. Edward f. So!lars, mean
NaEland. Mr. Keller has occupied q
Position in the capitol for nearly thirty
i've years and has been steadily advan-
led from policeman to the very respon-
6i5le posltion.he now holds.