Creation
The speaker is God . The time is before time was. The word is omnipotence . The result is the grandest of all gifts . Darkness heard and vanished. "God said , Let there be be light , and there was light ." Strive to imagine this scene , when the first voice called the first blessing into being . This world of full delights was one huge mass of unarranged material . It had no form , therefore it had no beauty . It was vacancy, and vacancy wants all that pleases . It would have been cheerless , even if robed in cheering light . But impenetrable night shrouded the lifeless void .
From this rude quarry, however , the home of man is to be built . This waste is to be peopled with beings , whose age is immortality. It is to be the field , from which heaven's garner is to be stored. Therefore deformity must assume form:- disorder must melt into order :-shapelessness must be shaped into loveliness.
How shall this be done ? -God had but to will , and in one instant creation arises in full blown perfection. But it is not so . He works by gradual process,- He works . Let us therefore learn the wisdom and the need of effort . He works by gradual process . This teaches , that patient diligence is the path to all well-doing.
But what is the eldest wonder , which steps forth to usher in the train of harmony and grace ? It is light . Do you ask what is the chamber of its birth ? and what the art , by which it is composed ? The reply is , " God said ,let there be light : and there was light."
To know more is impossible . And it is impossible because , more knowledge would neither tend to profit , nor to good. Henry Law.
From this rude quarry, however , the home of man is to be built . This waste is to be peopled with beings , whose age is immortality. It is to be the field , from which heaven's garner is to be stored. Therefore deformity must assume form:- disorder must melt into order :-shapelessness must be shaped into loveliness.
How shall this be done ? -God had but to will , and in one instant creation arises in full blown perfection. But it is not so . He works by gradual process,- He works . Let us therefore learn the wisdom and the need of effort . He works by gradual process . This teaches , that patient diligence is the path to all well-doing.
But what is the eldest wonder , which steps forth to usher in the train of harmony and grace ? It is light . Do you ask what is the chamber of its birth ? and what the art , by which it is composed ? The reply is , " God said ,let there be light : and there was light."
To know more is impossible . And it is impossible because , more knowledge would neither tend to profit , nor to good. Henry Law.
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