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Excerpt from The Way of the Lord in the Discovery of America: A Sermon Preached Before the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the Unites States, and the Professors and Students of Franklin and Marshall College and Theological Seminary, in the First Reformed Church, on "Columbus Day," October 21, 1892
Psalm lxxvii: 19. Thy way is in the sea and thy path is in the great waters.
In the text the Psalmist, in strains of exalted poetry, praises the inscrutable power of God. The direct allusion is, of course, to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, when it could be literally said that the way of Jehovah, as the deliverer and conductor of His people, was in the sea and his path was in the deep waters. But the eye of the sacred poet takes in a wider range, and he recognizes the fact that the deliverances of the Almighty are constant and His power supreme. To him the wonders of nature, no less than the revealings of history are one glorious theophany. From the mountains of Palestine, we may suppose, he beholds the sailing of the treasure-ships to Ophir and Tarshish - he sees the white sails of Phoenician ?eets on their way to lands mysterious and unknown - and to his enlightened vision all this is no less miraculous than the grand revelations of the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt. As he says elsewhere They that go down to the sea in Ships, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. It is God who holds the tiller it is God who reefs the sails. The sailor to distant lands is as certainly guided by Divine power as was Moses when, with Israel's hosts, he passed through the depths of the sea.
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