If I say, Peradventure the darkness shall cover me, then
shall my night be turned into day.'
Yes, God he will see is everywhere, over all, and through all, and in
all; and from God there is no escape. The only hope, the only
wisdom, is to open his heart to God as a child to its father, and cry
with the Psalmist--'Try me, O God, and search the ground of my heart;
prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of
wickedness in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.'
My dear friends, take these thoughts home with you: and may God give
you grace to ponder over them, and so make your Whitsun holiday more
quiet, more pure, more full of lessons learnt from God's great green
book which lies outside for every man to read. Of such as you said
the wise heathen long ago--'Too happy are they who till the land, if
they but knew the blessings which they have.'
And it is a blessing, a privilege, and therefore a responsibility
laid on you by your Father and your Saviour, to have such a fair,
peaceful, country scene around you, as you will behold when you leave
this church,--a scene where everything is to the wise man, where
everything should be to you, a witness of God's Spirit; a witness of
God's power, God's wisdom, God's care, God's love. Go, and may God
turn away your hearts from all that is mean and selfish, all that is
coarse and low, and lift them up unto himself, as you look upon the
fields, and woods, and sky, till you, too, say with the Psalmist--'O
Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
the earth is full of thy riches.
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