The fool-killer., 1920-01-01
GOD AND

IOOSClHg dICuLQ Ill the corners
Of my brain which [ have never
dared to express publicly. 1t
looked to me like it might be a
reasonable idea, but [ thought [
was the only person on earth
who ever entertained such a
thought. But | have just now
discovered another man who has
been thinking about the same
thing. MI. B. F. Vance, of Bris-
tol, Tenn, writes as follows:
"The more I,think on the sub
ject the more [ am convinced
that God is Electricity, for
where in all the universe is there
and element that will come so
near representing God? Nahum
says the thunder is Gods voice,
and it is electricity that speaks
the thunder. When that voice
of God came from heaven to
Jesus, some said it thundered.'
Since the greatest of elect1 icians
do not know what electricity is,
why, then, may it not be the
Spirit Of God? Jesus, the ex-
press image Of his Father, says
that when he comes again he
will come as the lightning and
will destroy the wicked with the
brightness of his coming"
The writer Of the above does
not state anything as a fact. He
merely offers a suggestion and
speculates q little as to what
might be. And | wonder if any
other human being besides
Vance and myself have ever had
such a thought?
[ remember very distinctly
how the impression first came to
me. [ was out walking one
moonlight night in the suburbs
of a town. It was just light
enough to make the electric
power poles with their single
cross-arms look exactly like a
row of crosses, I stopped and
said to myself: Out there in the
dim moonlight, and reaching on
around the world, are a great
number of crosses. And there
IS a power on them that men con-
fess they don't understand. Two
thousand years ago men put on
a cross a power that they didn't
understand, and now they have
done it again. And maybe it is
the same power!
In the religious thought of the
world the Cross has become an
emblem of Divine Power. And if
there is no special connection be-
tween the two, why has the cross
again come to us as the emblem
of eletcric power?
The Bible tells us that God is
present everywhere, that He is
all in all. The men of science
tell us that electricity is present
everywhere, and that every atom
of matter in the whole universe
is in fact composed of electrons.
So if God and electricity are both
omni-present and, omni-potent,
as we're taught, then it follows
that they must be one and the
same.
I don't like to believe that
God causes the storms and the
evil things that come upon us,
It has always seemed to me more
likely that the devil does that
But what are we going to dc
with Nahum 1:3, which says:
"The Lord hath His way in tn.
whirlwind and in the storm, and thu
clouds are the dust of His feet"
Light and power are two OF
the attributes of God, and the
same is true of electricity. Al
present we must have materia
fixtures in order TO get electric
light, but the time may come
when:we can have the light with
out the fixtures, just as we cal
already send a message withou'
wires. Speaking of the New
Jerusalem, in Rev. 21:23 thu
Seer of Patmos says:
"And the city had no need Of tn
sun neither OF, the moon, to shine il
!, it: for the glory of God did tighten il
! and the Lamb is the light thereof"
And who knows but what tina
means electric light? You see w
5 don't know but very little abou
electricity yet. Edison and al