The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-12

The nebular theory originated with the
greatest of asGronomers-Sir William
Herschel. He observed that in all the
other sciences, In botany. in zoology,
there had been division OF the study,
and he examined the stars TO divide,
them, bat he found be could not, as
there was lin OF continuity throughout
the whole from the one end to the other.
He came to the conclusion that ali the
nebula were only different stages IN the
development from one to the other. Not
tar from the same time La Place brought
the same subject into notice from differ
ent point OF view. He saw that the
planets of our solar system were moving
around the sun in nearly the same dlrec-
ton, so that there was An evident con-
nection between them, and from that he
drew The conclusion that the sun had
once embraced them all, and That it grad
usily had been throwing them OF Till 1t
mad come to its present form. In this
connection is an interesting TACT. 1t
is that there is gradual compression OF
the gaseous material which forms the
sun, and that the sun Is constahtIy
growing hotter and hotter, and, therefore,
always giving out more and more heat.
rha. cam Il last forever. The time
must come when the particles OF the sub
will be drawn SO close together that
chemical ACTON will interpose, and then
there will be no further co IMPRESSION, and
then the sun will cool off. 1t ls not II
thing we have to fear, but it Is phe
uomenon that is certain to happen; and
that the sun will go out and our whole
system. Just ~ surely rs that you and
| must die, SD must this earth die,
and this solar system must die
and all the visible stars must die.
There must q time come when they
must all cease to be. Suppose that to
happen. Then you would have left the
nebula. And that nebula would again
begin to concentrate and TO form new
solar system, and there would be new
world formed, and you would have one
world succeeding another, one universe,
one starry universe, succeeding another,
with all its stars and its solar systems to
the end OF time. There could be sue.
cession OF this without any limit, and we
should have the same thing IN regard to
the nebuIa and worlds as we have In the
orsauic world As from the egg comes
the eagle, and the eagle gives the egg
which produces another eagle and so on,
eyr and cag @, egg and eagle, alternate
~. so it Is nebuia and organized
universe in succession forever and
ever. What possibility of study
there may be there we cannot know, but
II certain Is IN argument not entirely
to be despsci for tue probability OF the
peructuution OF our own souls forever
That we are abe to see this fact and could
rot study it in It's detail without we had
immortality.
If had time to 90 into the question
OF the power OF the universe, L could
show YOU that the amount OF physical
mower in the universe is the same now
That it ever was--that there never has
been any addition or increase to it. IL,
then, everything is governed by law, and
# ali the power Is Iii the phys Cal uni
verse that ever WAS there, where Is Godf
Ii is IN this intention by which word
that is Ineligible has teen actually the
result of these laws; by which ail these
laws put together constitute an inteIIlgi-
bic whole, n system, an organism, aud
because there has been placed IN this
world an in elIgent beng capable OF
understanding it. This relation OF the
one TO the other shows Intention, AND
the instant that you see intehtIon then
YOU see in every thing the Deity-thrn
Won see God everywhere. When YOU
Know who wrote the works OF Shaks-
pesre vu see the mind OF Shakespeare
IN every line; and SO knowing that there
must be- this great Being that must nsve
intended the world you see Hin every
where, in every point ot'the universe
AND so, when scIcutIhc men would IN
duce you TO 20 back and say
why, since everything comes from
the nebuls, why isn't the nebu!s
the power 2" that Is gong
back to the very doclrlne which Moses
repudiated. B cause there was light that
WAS the source III the powers OF the
world, he said, That light Is not the
thing to bo worshipped, 1t 10 created;
and SO because there Is nebula IN wnlc6
there have been placed these wonderful
laws, out vi which has grown the uni
verse by the Intention o! the Deity, Il
does MT follow that that Dcbula Is 1t:
own manufacturer, and that II Ii Being
TO be worshlpped. We are made with !
capacity 10 worship, and is there not
Beng to be worshipped? Why should
Il be that OF al. the facts of the unIvers'
tnIs is the only one that l. false, arc
tina, there is not II Goa 10 be worshlpprc
to supply the want OF woFshipPins
soul?
say. therefore, that think the resul
will be Of all this putting together OF th'
| nreseut state of science with religion:
! forms tha, It Will only be 10 siren gthel
latin in religion; TO show that the devo!
/ opnent theory Which Is m4nIIe>t In tn
I physlcal universe, Snd which nigh
! easily be shown 10 extend to the lnteliec
tual world, sno perhap, TO the religion
world also-that Is, that there ha
been law according = when though
has succeeded itself; that taer
has been law according 10 whic
religion has succeeded Itself 10 sho'
that at less, the gospel didn't grow GU
OF psgsni,m, but on; OF religion i
which there Was faith in one God,
Father IN Heaven, witch Is the princ>
pal doctrine OF the gospel. That cou.
lot have come out oi paganlsm, wher
there are many gods lighting together
II could only have come out of religion
where there had been really only on
God, and this on the universally and Ut
changesbleness OF law
Ell GOVERNOR SEYMOUR OF Me-
! York, says thst there is more nutrition