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A SERMON,
*y Ret. W. A. Bishop, Carthage, Alabama.
“ Canst thou by searching find out God ?
Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfec
tion?”—Jobxi:7.
Job, though a good man, perfect and
upright, was deeply and sorely afflicted,
and while so sadly afflicted, three of his
friends went to comfort him. They all
expressed the belief that his sins were
the cause of this sad visitation of Prov
idence, and then Zophar, one of the
comforters, addressed him in the lan
guage of the text. Job in his reply,
recognizes the hand of God in his afflic
tion, but rejects the charge of ungodli
ness. He has never forsaken his God,
nor the mercy seat. Job asserts the
unsearchable wisdom and irresistable
power of God, and then shows how he
had evinced that power and wisdom in
overruling the counsels and overcom
ing the acts of the nations of the earth.
“ Canst thou by searching find out
God ?” As we live upon His bounties,
as we shall fall into His hands to be
judged by Him, we should search “ to
find Him out,” to the utmost of our
ability. And now, let us address our
selves to the task. We can know noth
ing more of God than it has pleased
Him to reveal to us in Hfs works of
creation, in His works of redemption,
in His providence, and in His book,
the Bible, in which He has made won
derful and interesting revelations of
Himself; but as He is a being infinite
in all of His attributes, we cannot find
Him out; we may seek and find Him,
but we cannot find Him out to perfec
tion.
If all the wisdom of theworld blended
with the wisdom of angels, had been
engaged from the morning of time in
searching out any oneof God’s attributes
it would not yet be known unto perfec
tion. Yea, give it eternity, and the
task would still be unfinished—
The ages of His eternity cannot be numbered,
The brightness of His glory described,
The ocean of His love bounded,
the power of His arm conceived,
nor the depth of His wisdom fathomed,
and yet He invites us to study His
nature and character. He says, “search
the Scripturos, for in them ye think ye
have eternal life, and they are they that
testify of Me.”
In Isaiah we find this language so
beautiful and significant, leading us to
high and sublime views of God. “For
thus saith the High and Lofty One that
inhabiteth eternity, whose name is
holy; I dwell in the high and holy
plate with him also that is of an~hum
ble and contrite spirit.” And as David,
the sweet singer of Israel, says,
“ clothed with honor and majesty,
covered with light as with a garment,
He maketh the clouds His chariot and
walketh upon the wings of the wind.”
But, “ thus saith the High and Lofty
One,” there are others that are high
and lofty saints, glorified spirits and
angels, but they were exalted by Him
and He is so far above them in dignity,
holiness, power, wisdom, and ages, that
He is styled the High and Lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity infinitely
above others. Do you think of dig
nity ? His throne is above every throne
and He sways His scepter over the
universe. Do you think of wealth?
The earth, and the fulness thereof, is
the Lord’s; all the gold and silver,
jewels and diamonds are His; the
treasures of heaven, the wealth of the
universe and the riches of eternity are
His. Do you think of holiness ? His
name is holy, and He is so pure and
holy, that the stars are said not to be
pure and the heavens not clean before
Him. Do you think of time, ages and
centuries ? He is the Prince of Eter
nity, the High and Loity One that in
habHeth eternity, and the only one of
whom it can be said. It is true,
there are spirits, souls in heaven, on
earth, and the world of despair, pos
sessing the powers of an endless life,
and will never die; but there was a
time when they had no being; there
was a time when there was no being in
the universe but God. No sun, nor
moon, nor planets, nor stars, nor
angels, nor men, when God sat alone
in His dignity, wisdom and power.
Now, you think, if you had been before
His Throne, how closely He would
have viewed you, and how He would
have scorched your heart; how He
would have marked your thoughts and
weighed your acts, and with what in
terest He would have regarded your
faith, hope and prospects. With the
same degree of interest does He re
gard you as if there was no other
being in the world or universe but
yourself. He knows you unto perfec
tion.
“ Canst thou by searching find out
God ?” Think of His eternity ; what
mind can grasp it? None. An in
finite, unknown something that no lan
guage can describe, but we must think
about it and act in reference to it; we
are on our career to it and will Boon be
there. What idea will give us the
faintest conception of its ceaseless
course, its untold ages ? Let us sup
pose that at the end of every thousand
years one grain of sand is removed
from earth, at some time far off in
eternity no land would remain; in like
manner let the water of the world be
removed at intervals of one thousand
years, drop by drop, at some period no
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water would remain; but the unbounded
ocean of eternity is none the less. But
suppose again, the earth to be en
circled with a narrow ribbon, again and
again till the whole earth is enveloped,
let the ribbon be figured from one end
to the other, now you have a line of fig
ures about six million miles long, and
we can scarcely read a line that we
1 can span; at the end of every thousand
years remove one figure, and you will
at last have reached the end of the
ribbon, but not the end of eternity: it
still rolls on, there is no end to it. A
ring is its fit emblem. God is un
changeable, “the same to-day, yester
day and forever.” You can’t number
the ages of His eternity. Can you set
a boundary the reaches of His power;
can you measure His arm ? In the
morning of time He said, “ I am the
Almighty.” Think of His power, as
it appears in the creation of all things.
He had but to say “ Let there be,” and
it appeared; “He spake and it was
done; He commauded and it stood
fast” ; He said, “Let there be light and
there was light.” With Him it is a
word and a world ; He spake, and where
there was naught suns and planets ap
peared, shining in their respective or
bits in the heavens. He spake, and
where darkness and silence reigned
legions of bright angels flashed into
being to sing His praises.
All power is His. It is true, we see
power manifested by thousands of
agents in thousands of ways. The eye
has power to see, the ear to hear, the
tongue to speak, the mind to reason—
but God gave it. Flowers delight, music
charms, and beauty captivates—but He
gives the power. Light flies and illu
mines all things; lightning rends all
things in its course; death puts all
things under its feet, but it is all the
manifestations of His power. He
speaks and nations are born; He
speaks and nations die; He speaks and
the earth quakes, and cities, the pride
of nations and the work of ages, in a
moment are engulfed and lost forever.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are
astonished at His reproof. The incar
nate God stood by the grave of Laz
arus and with a loud voice said, Lazarus
come forth, and he came forth. Neither
was that the neplus ultra of His power—
there was power enough in that word
to have resurrected the world if the
last man on earth had been dead and
buried with Lazarus.
“ Marvel not at this : for the hour is
coming, in the which all that are in the
graves shall hear His voice and shall
come forth.”—John v : 28. Let our
souls stand in godly awe of Him whose
frown would hurl all the angels from
heaven into the bottomless pit; whose
smile would raise up all the faithful
from earth to heaven. He st^v g u a “I am
the Almighty God, walk tifiou J. Tota
Me and be thou perfect.” He is the
Omniscient One; canst thou fathom
that thought—omniscience ? As well
might one attempt to number the ages
of His eternity or to scale the heavens
and bind the Almighty upon His
Throne ; His wisdom is infinite, eternal
and perfect.
The Apostle Paul, in contemplation
of the fact, exclaimed, 0, the depth of
the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God ; how unsearchable
are His judgments, and His ways are
past finding out.”
“Who hath known the mind of the
Lord, or who hath been his counsellor ?
That would be like lighting a candle to
the sun.” The wisdom of this world,
worldly wisdom, policy and oratory, are
to Him foolishness.
We judge of a man’s knowledge and
wisdom by his acts, by his productions
in the arts and sciences. You read a
book, it is the thoughts of a good and
wise man. As you turn and read you
say here is brightness of imagination,
there depth of thought, here a correct
judgment, there stability of character,
here purity of heart, there is warmth of
soul, a towering intellect, a gigantic
mind. Then if you would know God
read His autograph, His own hand
writing as it is seen in the works of
creation, in providence and the Bible.
“The Heavens declare the glory of
God, the firmament showeth His handy
work, day unto day uttereth speech and
night unto night showeth knowledge.
There creation glorified his power; there
beauty, order and preservation glorified
His wisdom. When this world was
made and fitted up for the reception of
man, then the morning stars sang to
gether, and all the sons of God shout
ed for joy ; all the works of creation
declared God’s glory, but not in the
highest degree ; that remained for the
work of redemption. When He brought
the first begotten into the world,
He said, “And let all the angels of God
worship Him.” Then the angels ap
peared tp, the shepherds of Gallilee,
praising God and saying, “glory to God
in the highest, peace on earth and
good will to men.”
Many of the attributes of God were
manifested in the works of creation
and providence, but only in the work
of redemption, as it is shown in the
Gospel his full character to be seen.
Here c attribute has full scope to
em p If in concert with each
other. G; at it. the mystery of godli
ness. “Canst the u v y searching find
out God ?”
We form an estimate of a man’s true
greatness by his works. You see a
machine, it is wonderfully made, beau
tifully constructed,answering admirably
the noble purpose for which it was de
signed. You look at it with admira
tion, and say here is enl us, the work
of a master mind. God made man;
he is wonderfully and fearfully made,
made a little lower than the angels,
made in His own image, and stamped
with immortality; gave him a spirit
that might be inspired by His, and
thus attuned for His love and praise.
A soul with such large desires and
noble aspirations that this world with
all of its beauties and pleasures, honors
and riches, will not satisfy it. The
world is too poor and time too short;
it demands God and Heaven for its
possessions and eternity for its progress
and development. But God’s wisdom
and love is better shown in the scheme
of pardoning mercy—the plan of salva
tion. After man had lost the last ves
tige of the Divine image, the last
spark of love for God and holiness,
His love followed him up far out from
the gates of Eden, and open up for him
a way of return, a way of reconcilia
tion and peace, through the incarna
tion, death and resurrection of His
son. Was there ever wisdom like this?
It is infinitely above the conception of
men or angels. Was there ever love like
this? Who can comprehend it in all
of its dimensions ? “Canst thou by
searching find out God?” “Known
unto God are all His works, from the
beginning of the world.” Before He
said, “let us make man,” before He
took up the first handful of dust of
which to make man, from whom all the
human race sprang, all the nations of
the earth stood before Him, as it were,
and He read the history of each nation,
of each family, of each individual; He
scanned every thought, heard every
word, and marked every act of every in
dividual that should ever live on this
earth. As Watts wrote:
“Eternity with all its years
Stands present in Thy view.
To Thee there’s nothing old appears, '*
Great God there’s nothing new.”
In the language of the Psalmist we
say, “such knowledge is too wonderful
forme; it is high, I cannot attain
unto it.” “Canst thou by searching
find God, etc.”
Thus far we have been treating prin
cipally of God’s character, but doubt
less Zophar bad reference to the deal
ings of God, in His providence, with
Job. Why, Job, were your servants
s'ain, your oxen stolen, your sheep
burnt with fire from Heaven, your cam
els carried away, your children killed
by the whirlwind, and you covered with
boils ? These, why all these 1 Who at
times has not been at a loss to read
Providence ? and pray with the Psal
mist, “Show me thy ways, O Lord,
teach me thy paths.” Clouds and
darkness are round about him but
righteousness and judgment are vatL
habitation of Thy throne.”
The history of Job has been a won-,
der to Jeekers.^tfrot'^l
'None like him in the earth, “A per-'
feet and upright man, one that feareth
God and escheweth evil, and y€t none
in earth so deeply afflicted.” Why did
God give satan leave to afflict him so,
is the question—one that has interested
many. God had declared him the best
man living. We are taught that He
did it for His own glory, the honor of
Job, and the perfecting of his moral
character, the explanation of provi
dence, the encouragement of His afflict
ed people in all ages, and to make a
case, which, being adjuged, might for
ever be a useful precedent. His histo
ry is full of instructive (and to the
afflicted, tempted saints,) comforting
thought, that whatever God allows to
happen to His people is for His glory
and their honor. Job realized that it
was good to be afflicted. But it teach
es that riches, friends and honor are
no security against poverty, disgrace,
ruins and affliction; that earthly pos
sessions are all uncertain ; that to-day
a man may be a prince, to-morrow a
beggar; to-day many will cry hozannah,
to-morrow crucify him; to-day in
floried health, to-morrow sorely afflict
ed.
2. That the holiness and happiness
of the Christian is the torment of the
devil, and with all his malice he is
tempting him to dishonor God, but
that he has no power to defile and af
flict the saint but what is given him
from above.
3. That the Christian should not
think strange of temptation and afflic
tions. As Peter says : “Think it not
strarge concerning the fiery trial, which
is to try you”—the trial of your faith
being more precious than of” gold that
perisheth. St. James says: “My
brothren count it all joy when ye fall
into divers temptations, knowing this,
that the trying of your faith worketh
patience, but let faith have her perfect
work that ye be perfect, wanting noth
ing. We learn in the history of Job,
as we do elsewhere, that whom He
loveth them he chasteneth.and the se
quel of his life shows that all things
work together for good to them that love
the Lord. The last days of a good
man are sometimes his best days ; his
last comforts his best comforts; his
path, like that of the morning light,
shines more and more to the perfect
day. His pessessions were just
doubled. He had daughters, in
whom he took great pleasure, and, as
their names imply, his last days were
his best, full of hope, prosperity and
peace. His life was long; he lived
till he was satisfied—his end was peace.
Who would not live his life to die his
death? But the question is personal.
Canst thou find out God ? In making
the acquaintance of a good and wise
man you desire to know how he regards
you. Are you anxious to know how
God regards you ? He says, “I love
them that love Me.” The Lord taketh
pleasure in them that fear Him. Jacob
is the portion of his people, He has
kept him as the apple of His eye. “Be
thou faithful unto death and I will give
thee a crown of life.”
“Canst thou by searching find out
God?” *
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trict of the Friendship Association.
The General Meeting of the First
District of the Friendship Association
was held with County Line church,
.Macon county, Georgia, Friday and
Saturday, the 28th and 29th days of
January, 1876.
, The introductory sermon was preach
ed by brother W. F. Duncan, from
th/j Colossians, ii:18, 19. 18th verse
* f-Let no man beguile you of your
toward in a voluntary humility and
Worshipping of angels, intruding into
ihose things which he hath not seen,
(vainly puffed up by his fleshy mind.
•T9tli verse—And not holding the head
prom which all the body by joints and
bands having nourishment ministered
i and knit together increaseth with the
increase of God.
-■After a bountiful dinner had been
enjoyed, the body again assembled in
the house at 1:30 o’clock p.m. Prayer
by brother A. M. Rhodes. The meet
ing was organized by calling our aged
brother, James Horsley, to the Moder
ator’s seat, and A. M. Rhodes to act
as Secretary.
There being no trotker present from
the last General Meeting to give us in
formation upon questions ot debate,
the Moderator appointed brethren
Isaac Hart, W. F. Duncan and J. M.
Thornton to prepare business for the
body. These brethren presented the
following subject: Can the heathen be
saved without the Gospel ? Argued by
Elders Isaac Hart and W. F. Duncan.
The hour for adjournment having
arrived the Moderator appointed a
committee consisting of brethren J. B.
Howell, J. W. Sowter, J. S. Oliver and J.
M. Thornton to arrange for preaching.
Prayer by Elder Isaac Hart. Ad
journed to meet at 9 o’clock to-morrow
morning.
Elder A. P. Ashurst preached at
night, followed by A. M. Rhodes.
Saturday Morning, 9o’clock a.m.--
Met agreeably to adjournment. Prayer
iby Elder J. B. Deavours.
Elder A. P. Ashurst having arrived,
furnished us with the subject which
the last General Meeting had selected
•as query for the consideration of this
Mating; to-wit“ls the communion,
fs practiced by our churches, Ammon
ly known as close communion, Scrip
tural ?”—(Postponed). It was then
agreed to take up the subject of feet
washing: “Is it the duty of member
ship of the churches to wash feet ?”
Argued by Elders A. M. Rhodes, Isaac
Hart, J. B. Deavours, A. P. Ashurst,
W. F. Duncan, S. Maxwell.
The hour for preaching having ar
rived, (11 o’olock a.m.) Elder S. Max
well, from the Columbus Association,
preached from the fifth chapter and
twentieth verse Ephesians. Text—
“ Giving thanks always for all things
unto God and the Father in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Followed
by Elder W. F. Duncan.
12 o’clock—Recess, during which
the congregation partook of an excel
lent repast furnished by the brethren
and friends.
1:30 o’clock p.m.—Met agreeably to
adjournment. Prayer by Elder A. M.
Rhodes.
The question of feet-washing was
again taken up and argued at some
length by Elders J. B. Deavours, A.
P. Ashurst, I. Hart, W. F. Duncan.
It was moved, and agreed to that
business be suspended to allow Elder
A. P. Ashurst to urge the claims of the
Southern Baptist Publication Society,
located in Memphis, Tennessee; also
to allow Elder S. Maxwell, of the Col
umbus Association, to urge the claims
of Mercer University.
Business being resumed, the com
mittee on business submitted the fol
lowing questions for debate at the next
General Meeting:
Ist question—What are the causes
of the coldness and indifference on the
part of church members ?
2d question—When is the time for
revivals ?
3d question—What motives should '
prompt us to obedience to the com
mands of Christ ?
The hour for adjournment having
arrived, the meeting adjourned after
prayer by brother John Whichard*
Elder J. B. Deavours preached at
night. It was requested that the
brethren meet in prayer meeting to
morrow morning at 9 o’clock.
Sabbath Morning, January 30,1876
—After prayer, at 11 o’clock, the stand
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preached a moving Gospel sermon to
the edification of the brethren and con
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James Horsley, Moderator.
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1876. DREER’S GARDEN CALENDAR. 1876.
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