Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest
away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest
forth thy Spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of
the earth.
You may not understand why I read this morning, instead of the Te
Deum, the 'Song of the three Children,' which calls on all powers and
creatures in the world to bless and praise God. You may not
understand also, at first, why this grand 104th Psalm was chosen as
one of the special Psalms for Whitsuntide,--what it has to do with
the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Spirit of God. Let me try to
explain it to you, and may God grant that you may find something
worth remembering among my clumsy words.
You were told this morning that there were two ways of learning
concerning God and the Spirit of God,--that one was by the hearing of
the ear, and the Holy Bible; the other by the seeing of the eye--by
nature and the world around us. It is of the latter I speak this
afternoon,--of what you can learn concerning God by seeing, if only
you have eyes, and the same Spirit of God to open those eyes, as the
Psalmist had.
The man who wrote this Psalm looked round him on the wondrous world
in which we dwell, and all he saw in it spoke to him of God; of one
God, boundless in wisdom and in power, in love and care; and of one
Spirit of God, the Lord and Giver of Life.
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