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Humanity does not yet say, I am God: such a usurpation would shock its piety; it says, God is in me, IMMANUEL, nobiscum Deus. And, at the moment when philosophy with pride, and universal conscience with fright, shouted with unanimous voice, The gods are departing! excedere deos! a period of eighteen centuries of fervent adoration and superhuman faith was inaugurated. But the fatal end approaches.
I praise God who made day and night: Day thy countenance, and thy hair the night. Long before him the Hebrew poet Abraham ibn Ezra had written, On thy cheeks and the hair of thy head I will bless: He formeth light and maketh darkness. In the thirteenth century the very same witticism meets us again, in the Hebrew Machberoth of Immanuel.
But if Immanuel allots you a home here, do not fear; some of the sweetest fruits and flowers of Canaan grow right here. "My hardest battle was with Giant Bad Feelings. Beware of him! "I was very happy when I crossed the Jordan into Canaan, and set up my memorial stone with a shout. I advanced into the land to explore it at once.
His voice rose. "Immanuel Kant!" The familiar name caught my ear, and I attended. "To him Heaven gave it to solve the problem. Think what Reason is! Be men for once and attend to one deep matter! Think what Reason is! the divinest part of us, and common with the Divine, as with every Intelligence; speaking not of the voice of the individual, but one sound everywhere to all.
This circumstance, coming on the back of the monstrous improbabilities of the sale, was enough to have shaken the reason of Immanuel Kant. The earth seemed banded together to defeat them; the stones and the boys on the street appeared to be in possession of their guilty secret. Flight was their one thought.
The comparison, for example, which is here drawn with such lofty, poetic force between the quiet river which 'makes glad the city of God, and the tumultuous billows of the troubled sea, which shakes the mountain and moves the earth, is drawn by Isaiah in regard to the Assyrian invasion, when he speaks of Israel refusing 'the waters of Shiloah, which go softly, and, therefore, having brought upon them the waters of the river the power of Assyria 'which shall fill the breadth of Thy land, O Immanuel! Notice, too, that the very same consolation which was given to Isaiah, by the revelation of that significant appellation, 'Immanuel, God with us, appears in this psalm as a kind of refrain, and is the foundation of all its confident gladness, 'The Lord of Hosts is with us. Besides these obvious parallelisms, there are others to which I need not refer, which, taken together, seem to render it at least probable that we have in this psalm the devotional echo of the great deliverance of Israel from Assyria in the time of Hezekiah.
So with us, the host of our King's enemies comes up like a river strong and mighty; but all this world, held though it be by the usurper is still 'Thy land, O Immanuel, and over it all Thy peaceful rule shall be established! Many things in this day tempt the witnesses of God to speak with doubting voice.
"By this time my arm was free enough to grasp the sword, and I gave the giant a close thrust. At this he dropped me and ran as fast as he could. "'Poor pilgrim, said Valiant. 'How fortunate for you that you shouted! We heard the call. Praise and honor to Immanuel. And Valiant reverently lifted his hands and eyes heavenward. "'Where did the old, evil giant overcome you? asked Faithful.
"I know," says Immanuel Kant, "of but two beautiful things; the starry heavens above my head, and the sense of duty within my heart." But, is the sense of duty beautiful to apostate man? to a being who is not conformed to it? Does the holy law of God overarch him like the firmament, "tinged with a blue of heavenly dye, and starred with sparkling gold?" Nay, nay.
Wallace most truly remarks, "for those who remember, amid the decline of the flesh, the noble spirit which inhabited it, it is a sacred privilege to watch the failing life and visit the sick chamber of Immanuel Kant."
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