The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-08
ALL SEEING EYE



INTO night showelh knowledge" along
these lines, 10 those who have tie eyes
81 understanding 70 see. i is time
flat these great tfitls were being en-
phasI d and that the boastfnl gentle
nien Who ignore them should hive
fbeIr true Iiea sure taken; regardless sof
iiow many titles may follow their lelE
names The moderately educated as
iWelllas the illiterate need such q testi.
niohy to come from every pulpit: And
II II does not soon come our. ciyiliza-
dor Will be wrecked
EbsiAIl. sseins Eye Not omnipressnss
Z ,Thou. God, seest me; The eye of
file Lord is in every place" These
Scriptures give us the proper concer.
lion Of the Almighty As with the tele;
scope, the microscope, the telephone,
etc, man can enlarge his range q
vision and hearing 80 by powers stiH
more wonderful the Almighty Is cog
INFANT OF all the affairs of the Uni
verse. we grant that our feeble minds
are unable to comprehend so great, so
universal an Intelligence.
We cannot know in what manner the
angels, the spirit servants Of God. are,
as His eyes, in every place. to take
cognizance Of our affairs. We cannot
know in what manner the electric or
| lightning fash serves,as Divine mes
sepger. But we can believe that a
Soul so Infinitely high above Us pos
sesses powers of information as far
beyond our comprehension as the tele-
phone and wireless teiegraphy and
electric light were beyond the compre-
henslon which our forefathers had Of
these things in their day. It Is easier
to believe that so great a Being as
\ the One who formed man should. have
All wisdom and all power than to be-
lieye Him deficient of these. The
ScriptIral argument is good one:
.sHe that formed the eye, shall he not
1.see? He that formed the ear shalEHe
not hearT
God In Heaven and In He'll.
The creeds handed down to US from
tho dark past declare that God is ey-
erywhere present-omnipresent. This
| IS as unthinkable as It is foolish and
.urscriptural. Taking advantage Of
| this error of Orthodoxy" the Adyer-
sary. has turned many away fromta pc
lief in a personal God He who Is ey-
erywhere is nowhere, The result is
the absurd view which has taken hold
1 on some otherwise intelligent people.
to the effect that good and God are
synonymous. Hence log of wood
/ that is good for something, that can be
made into something useful, is said to
have good in 1t. and, hence. to have
God in it-ditto, a piece of iron, bed,
a chair. a table. The folly grows into
saving that God is everywhere and Is
in everything. Thus filth in a god
Of nature and happen=so" takes the
place Of faith in the God, of the Bible
whose residence is in heaven, but
whose intelligence and power extend
throughout the Universe, in thousands
of ways OF (which we are only learning
/: Through. electricity, radio activity
! ETC., besides angelic messengers that
can come and go like the wind.
\ Our text, misunderstood, is supposed
to teach Divine omnlpresence, whereas
It really teaches Divine omniscience
and Almighty power. The Lords pres
ence, as Represented in His intelligence
and power, are everywhere. Nowhere
could we 60 to be beyond Bis reach
and beyond His knowledge. Were this
thought thoroughly impressed upon
every human mind, what a vast dlf'
ference 1t would make In human con
duct from that now seen-in Wall
!. Street, in banks, in palaces. in novels
in saloons, in gambling ouses-eyeryt
4 where. 1t is the great lesson needed
), by the whole world. Everyone who
:: believes this should join with nature
in attesting Divine Wisdom, Power
Justice and Love. Z,
! But really the undermining OF falth
in the God of the Bible has been ac'
complished largely by the misrepre
sentation of the Bibles teaching. oll
text, for instance, Is supposed to teact
that God is in heaven with the sanity
rejoicing with them and enjoying theil
pleasure and that He also is in bel
with the insanity, looking upon thell
sufferings and tortures and planning
with devils for their everlasting con
tinuance. Thinking minds are reject
ing such nonsense, but, alas, they art
rejecting the Bible, too, hence have nt
foundation for a better, truer faith
Eve j educated minister knows tha'
/ tell the Truth to the common people
when j say that the word hell in oul
text, Inns not the slightest reference t
a place Of torture, or even Of conscious
ness, Indeed this Is true Of every oc
currence Of the word he'll, from Gene
sis to Malachi. In every instance tn
translation is from the same Hebrew
word, sheol, which signifies the 0rate
tho tomb, and is thus most frequently
translated.
/ urge upon all ministers of educa
ton to join with me in explaining y
the public the true meaning Of the &c
!. hrew word sheoI and the Greek Wort