The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-22

4 "nen we COnSiuer our great SOAR SYSTEM,
ATTRACTED by ITS fiery centre, and moving in its
several orbits, with regular. majestic and peri
odical revolutions, we are charmed at the pros
pect and contemplation Of those worlds of mo.
tion, and adore the wisdom and power by
which they are attracted, and their velocity
regulated and perpetuated. And when we re-
feet that the blessings of life are derived from,
and dependent on the properties, qualities, con-
structious, proportions and movements of that
stupenduous machine, we gratefully acknowl-
edge the divine benefcence. When we extend
our thoughts Through our external sen sa-
tions), to the vast regions Of the starry heav-
ems, we are lost in the immensely of Gods
works some stars appear fair and luminous,
and others scarcely discernable TO the eve,
which by the help OF asses make brilliant
appearance, bringing the knowledge of others
! far remote, within the range of our feeble dis
coveries, which merely by the eye, could not
have been discovered or distinguished. These
discoveries of the works Of God, naturally
prompt the inqu;sitive mind TO conclude that
he author of this astonishing part of creationt,
which is displayed to our view, has still ex-
tended his creation SO that if il were posi-
BILE that any of us could be transported to the
fartherest extended star, which is perceptible
to US here, we should from thence survey
worlds as distant from that, as that is from this,
and so on ad inffnitum. Furthermore, il is alto
gether reasonable to conclude, that the heav-
emily bodies, alias worlds, which move or are
| situate within the circle Of our knowledge e, as
well as all others throughout immensely, are
each and every one Of them, possessed and in
habited by some intelligent agents or other,
however different their sensations or manners
Of receiving or communicating their ideas may
be from ours, or however different from each
other. For why would it not have been as
wise or as consistent with the perceptions
which we adore in God, to have neglected
giving being to intelligence in this world, as
in those othe. worlds, interspersed with either
ofthe various qualities in his immense creation?
And, inasmuch as this world is thus replen-
ished, we may, with the highest rational GER
tainty infer, that as God has given us to re-
joice and adore him for our being, he has act
ed consistent with his goodness, in the display
of his providence throughout the university of
worlds
Tosuppose that God Almighty has confined
his goodness to this world. to the exclusion of
all others, is much similar TO the idle fancies
Of some individuals in this world, that they,
and those Of their communion and faith, are
the favorites of HEAVIER exclusively but these
are narrow and bigoted conceptio rs, which are
degrading to rational nature. and utterly I'M
worthy of God, of whom we should form the
most exalted ideas.
1t may be objected that man canuot sub
sist in the sun bnt does it follow from thence
that God cannot or has not constituted nature
peculiar to that fiery region, and caused it to
he as natural and necessary for il to suck liz
and breathe out flames of fire, as it is for US
to do the like in air, Numerous are the kinds
Of animals which can no other way subsist but
in the water, in which other animals would
perish, (amphibious ones excepted), while
other animals, in variety OF forms, either
swifter or slower move on the surface of the
earth, or wing the air. OF these there are sun
dry kinds, which during the season of winter
| live without food; and many of the insects
! which are really possessed of animal life, re-
main frozen, and as soon as they are let loose
by the kind influence of the sun, they again as
sumo their wonred animal life; and if animal
life may differ so much in the same world,
what uncomfortable variety may be possible in
worlds innnmerable, as applicable to mental
cogitation, and organized beings. Certain it
is, that any supposed distinctions, concerning
the quality or temperature of any. or every one
Of these worlds, could not have been any bar
in the way of God Almighty, in regard to his
replenishing his universal creation with moral
agents. The unlimited projections of God,
could perfectly well adapt every part of his
creation to the design Of whatever rank or spe-
cies of constituted beings, his Godllke wisdom
and goodness saw fit to impart existence to
So that as there is no deficiency of absolute
perfection in God, it is nationally demonstra-
tive that the immense creation is peopled with
rational agents or beings.
SILVER THIMBTE.
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