ates subjects,
ministers, trustees and others subordinate to sovereignty. Could there be
a king without country, subjects and armies? If we conceive of a time when
there were no creatures, no servants, no subjects of divine lordship we
dethrone God and predicate a time when God was not. It would be as if He
had been recently appointed and man had given these names to Him. The
divine sovereignty is ancient, eternal. God from everlasting was love,
justice, power, creator, provider, the omniscient, the bountiful.

As the divine entity is eternal, the divine attributes are co-existent,
co-eternal. The divine bestowals are therefore without beginning, without
end. God is infinite; the works of God are infinite; the bestowals of God
are infinite. As His divinity is eternal, His lordship and perfections are
without end. As the bounty of the Holy Spirit is eternal, we can never say
that His bestowals terminate, else He terminates. If we think of the sun
and then try to conceive of the cessation of the solar flame and heat, we
have predicated the non-existence of the sun. For separation of the sun
from its rays and heat is inconceivable. Therefore if we limit the
bestowals of God we limit the attributes of God and limit God.

Let us then trust in the bounty and bestowal of God. Let us be exhilarated
with the divine breath, illumined and exalted by the heavenly
glad-tidings. God has ever dealt with man in mercy and kindness. He who
conferred the divine spirit in former times is abundantly able and capable
at all times and periods to grant the same bestowals. Therefore let us be
hopeful. The God who gave to the world formerly will do so now and in the
future. God who breathed the breath of the Holy Spirit upon His servants
will breathe it upon them now and hereafter. There is no cessation to His
bounty. The divine spirit is penetrating from eternity to eternity for it
is the bounty of God and the bounty of God is eternal. Can you conceive of
limitation of the divine power in atomic verities or cessation of the
divine bounty in existing organisms? Could you conceive the power now
manifest in this glass in cohesion of its atoms, becoming non-existent?
The energy by which the water of the sea is constituted, failing to exert
itself and the sea disappearing? A shower of rain today and no more
showers afterward? The effulgence of the sun terminated and no more light
or heat?

When we observe that in the kingdom of minerals the divine