Mystery And Faith

Tbcrc is an almost irresitable fascination in the mysteries that bafflo us. We flit about them and liovcr over tbem like bees around a flower-bed. Tbe future world lies before us like a shadowy landscape. We can see only its dim outlines, but we seek to know more. The dealings of God with man are very mystcrious. There is a high and larreaching plan wliose details we cannot un ler.itani. And, bucau.se wc cannot eouiprehend God and bis Wajs, wü fonjetiiDcs tmnia thcories and conduct doctrines that are uttcrly at variance with the Word of God. We give a great deal of trouble about mattere thal re above and beyoni! 08. Forexftmple : W'hy should weknow wh;it God will do with the heathen '! Why sliuuld we know how he will adju-t their relations in the general plan ? Wia are not cbr?ed with the government of the world. Ho wiil sttcod to that hiinself. Fie will do rignt - tbia we know. And if we knew all the detalla of hia plan, we would know no more than what is cov(nd :y the certairily that God i!l do riht. The littlo bird olínga to frail twig wlien the tempest rocka the tree though surrounded with ilarkm-ss and daogers. So may the child of Grod, olinin with nublimc and .-implu irust to the divine proniises, rot seeurely and calmly, tliough darkness and tempeste f'all thick upon him. The "secret thinga bélong unto God," but the "secret of the Lord is with theni that fear him," and the nysisry ai' peace is revealed to their souls.