The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-07

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which are drawn from the world around
us ard within us. The universe is an
effect Of which God only is sufficient
cause.
tcontradict poly tbeism. Itintroduc.
es us to one God as the Creator of the
heavens and the earth, and therefore
leaves room for no other. Even the
dualem which accounts for the good
and the evil in the world, by two corr
responding intelligencss, who are con-
tending for the supremacy, is excluded.
It contradicts pantheism. The fun
damental principle OF psntheism both
ancient and modern is that God and the
uaiverse are one. Heis supposed to be
it's soul, and it is supposed to be the
phenomena under which he msnitests
himself. The universe, therefore, would
be a part OF the deity. Practically it
amounts to atheism, for God who has
no personality is not God. 1t strikes at
the very root OF morality by virtually
denying our personality aud asserting
that there is NO inherent difference be-
tween good and evil, Size both are alike
the phenomena OF the deity. But by
this declaration we are informed that
God is an existence distinct from the
universe. By an exercise OF his own
free will he called it into being.
1t contradicts malerialism which
teaches that there is no such thing as
mind in distinction from matter. We
are by this record introduced to an
sxtra-mundaue and personal God. We
are pointed to a supreme intelligence,
who was before the material universe
and who created it, OF course il there
10 one pure-inteiligence, there may be
others interior to him.
And per contra, it contradicts ideal'sm
which denies the reality OF the materl-
al universe We are told tLst God truly
called heaven and earth into being.
In the statement that God created the
universe there are also certain elements
of character clearly attributed to him
The heaven and the earth" here evident
ly mean the whole universe. 1t includes
the over-arching dome of space, with
all it's revolving orbs. and the world on
which we dwell. A glance at the uni
verse, or rather it should be said, at the
small portion Of it OF which VIC know
anything, will unable us to understand
what these elements in the character OF
the Creator are.
Our globe is about $4,000 miles III
circumference 1t is revolving annual
ly at distance OF about 81 ,OOOCGO
miles around the Gun, and consequently
With inconceIvable rapidity. The sun
ism volume ] 100000 times larger thaa
the earth. Around it seven other pIaoets
of various SIZES, besides the earth, with
their satellites and the fragments knows
as the asteroids, are moving ct different
distances. Neptune. Tor example, .
thirty times farther than the earth from
the gun and completes its clrcui. III q
period OF 1851 OF cur years. Comets
more than hundred millions OF mles
in length, sweep around the FUN and
recede TO incopceivsble distances. Such
is the solar system to which our world
belongs. But far beyond lie the fixed
stars which have by the aid OF the tele
scope been counted up to many milliona
In a quarter Of an hour ll6 900 in the
Milky Way are taid to have passed the
field OF Sir John Herschelrs telescope.
He supposed that in that nebula alone
there are 100000 resolNabIe by bis
instrument. The nearest is so far DIS
tant from US tina. it would take
ray OF light, travelling st
the rate of 100000 miles
per minute, several years 10 reach our
world. And it is known that these
fixed stars are suns like our owe, and
that in all probability in like manner
they are the centres OF systems oil
worlds. Besides, the portion OF the
universe which is visible TO us may be
reasonably assumed to be but an IN
finitesimal fragmen. OF the whole
What we can see revoIves through
space around great centre, and is no
doubt part OF still grander system.
And perhaps this again is part Of
another, and that OF another, until the
whole sweeps round what the Almighty
has 10 some mannsr constituted pecu-
liarly his throne.
This is the universe which in the
beginning God created. II follows that
He 10 omuipo,ent. How omnti; the
voice which spake aud it was done
How mighty the arm which built toe
pillars OF this edifcs and still upholds
them!
HIS wisdom also must be equally I'M
bounded. In all this vast mechanism,
from it's most immense TO it's most mi
mute paris, there is not Ar. Nota cog
10 the wheels so much as ruos. Here
is a harmony out of which has grown
the beautiful poeticsl conception OF
the music OF the spheres. 1t is SO loud
tina. no created ear can take it in, but 80
sweet that only the symphonies OF
angels and the songs OF redeemed men
are more pleasing to the Creator.
Here too we may recognize the divine
goodness, 1t is plain that the universe
was intended from the first to be the
abode OF Intelligent beings. 1t was
evidently prepared for this purpose.
And in it The meanS Of happiness are
sbuudau,ly furnished. God has not
only provided for the necessities;
but also for the comforts and
epioyments Of his Intelligent
creatures. tits true thst in our world
there are also elements which can be
made the instruments of evil. But in
this he mas only fitted ii 10 be the abode
OF a race which is for themselves to de-
term,ue what shall be their destiny
whether they shall be sinful and mis-
cradle or holy aud happy.
The Creator OF the heavens and the
earth also plainly is eternal and aoso'
Int. as to his own being. lie is be-
tore all things and therefore without