February 25 Today in OPC History

In an editorial that appeared in the February 25, 1959 issue of the Presbyterian Guardian, Robert Nicholas challenged the folly of recent claims that the universe presented no evidence for the existence of God:

It Was Bound to Be Said

It was inevitable that someone would make the announcement. The Communists of course did it. Their probes into outer space gave no evidence of the existence of God or heaven: so blared their radios. After a rocket was sent beyond the moon and supposedly into orbit around the sun, the blasphemous claim was made that this “proves that Communist-inspired science and man can and do create their own worlds and heavens!”

One is reminded of the story of some famous surgeon who is reported to have said that in all of his probing into the human body he had never found any evidence of a soul: there is therefore no soul!

Even a child who has learned his beginner’s catechism can tell those who draw such conclusions that “God is a Spirit and has not a body like men.” Space cameras will never photograph the invisible God, Creator of heaven and earth, whose Being mortal eye cannot see, any more than the surgeon’s knife can discover that immaterial and spiritual part of man which is his soul.

Those who have eyes to see—the eyes of faith—will recognize the handiwork of God everywhere. Others will see Him nowhere at all. For he who cannot discern the Creator’s touch in the flowers of the field or in the face of a little child will never find His power manifested in the starry universe though he pierce a thousand galaxies.

All such are like those who did not recognize God even when He revealed Himself in the face of Jesus Christ, yet Jesus said, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.” Then and now unless we first see God in His Son, the Lord Jesus, we won’t see Him anywhere. Once we have found Him in His Son as our Savior, then we shall know that God is indeed everywhere, and that all things near and far portray His glory.