--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Clift, Frederic collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 6 number: 4 published: 1903-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Frederic Clift, "God’s Omnipresence," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 4 (February 1903): 282.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0604unse start_page: 282 end_page: 282 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse publication_year: 1903 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # God’s Omnipresence 282 IMPRO VEMENT ERA. heaven; encircled by dreary plains and barren bluffs; tasting of the pangs incident to this probation, and sensing most keenly the follies of the flesh. Fear now invaded the field of hope, while anxiety strolled the path of contentment. And all this was done not to satisfy the exigencies of chance, but to fulfill the purposes of a most benign Father, that in his glory, he might be sustained and upheld by the undying loyalty of an exalted, glorified, and immor- talized family. GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE. King David, speaking of "time," says: "A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday;" and Job asks the question: "Are thy years as man's days?" The compliment of this idea as applied to space is not found in so many words, but the Bible and the Book of Mormon teach that the same idea holds good. The infidel, the atheist and the skeptic laugh at the proposition that God is in more places than one at the same instant of time, and the average Christian is content to accept it as one of the miraculous powers of the Godhead without taking the trouble to investigate the why and the wherefore, or prove it as a fact. Do not the recent discoveries of Marconi and others along the same line provide a key to the mystery? If Marconi could at the beginning of the year eliminate a space of one hundred and ten miles between the steamships Etruria and Umbria, and at the close of the year a space of two thousand two hundred miles across the Atlantic, what possibilities open up to the mind of man? Today, pictures are transmitted from one end of a cable and reproduced at the other. Soon, no cable will be re- quired. We will talk across continents, oceans, and possibly to other planets, and see each other as if no space existed. I submit that this power is now, and has been throughout the past eternities, with God, and in a modified form with those who have put off mortality. Space is eliminated, and God sees us eye to eye, although his corporeal body is enthroned in his courts on high. It is no miracle, it is a law of the kingdom, but heretofore hidden from mortal man. There are many things our finite minds cannot understand. Let us not be impatient, but await God's own good time, when we shall know even also as we are known.—Dr. Frederic Clift, Lehi, Utah.