The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-09


the whole from the one end to tue osher.
Ue came to the conclusion that all the heou'.e
were only different stages In the develop
mont from one to the other. Not lar from
the yamc time La Place brought the same
snh;cct into notice from q different point
~ view, He saw that the planets OF our
.,ar .vstem were moving around the
s,,n In nearly the same direction, 20 tha'
thora WAS an evident connection between
them. and from that he drew the co ,r,a,,,
sion that the sun had once empfaCcu .. ;,
all and that it gradually had been tn.""rmS
them off till 1t had come TO ats prcsenl ~" T.
In this connection is m interesting l'S mo
ia that there is a gradual ceinpfts ard
gaseous material which forms '"o s" ho,tor
That the sun is constantly s'uM.n r;,,nr
" ",,',, hotter. and, therefore, always giving
",,t Ware and more heat That cam OF E,s'
snr,vcr The time must come when 'ne
,,nrt;c,es of the sun will be drawn SO c'ose
Leather that chemical action Will lhierl'oSe'
wv 4 then there will be no further compress
";on and then the sun will cool on ~ u
,nt 4, thing we have to fear. but II IS phc,
o,nnnon that is certain 10 happcn; ana
tb,t tho sun will 90 ont and our whole s!s-
tom lust MS surely rs that you ana must
die, 50 must this earth die, and tins SOAR
system must die, and all the visible stars
must die. There must timc come "ntn
they must all cease to be. suppose ,ii'e W
happcn. Then you would nave icit l!lc
ncblla. And that nebula Weuld again peSin
to concentrate and to form new Sour -
TEN. and there would hanew w0rld loii,cu'
and YOU would have one worid succeeding
another. one universe, one starry unlfeIS.;
Sncrccdin~ another. with all its stars and
;ts solar systems to the end of time. Ihcre
could he n succession Of this without any
limit, and we should have the same thing II
re,,srd TO the nebula and worlds a. we nave
in 1be organic world. AS from the egg
comes tho eagle, and the eagle gives the egg
which produces another eagle. and so on
egg and eagle, egg and eagle alternately. so
II is ucbula and organized universe, neDu'a
and organized universe in succession lot
ever and ever. What possibility OF STUDY
there NAV he there we cannot know, Dut II
certainly is an a, g,lmcnt not entirely to be
6csniscd for the probability Of the perpet-
nation Of our own souls forever that we arc
ohln TO sec this fact and could not study it
| in its detail without we had Immortality.
II had time to go into the question OF
the power of the universe, l could show
YOU that the amount OF physical powcrm the
universe is the same now that 1t ever was
that there never has been any addition or
increase to it. If, then, everything Is gov
crned by Law, and il all the power IS IN the
physical universe that ever was there, Wncrc
| is God? 1t is in this intention by when Il
world tbct is ineligible has been actually
the result OF these laws; by which all these
laws put together constitute an intelllgl-
BILE whole, Il system, an organism. and
because there has been placed IN
this world an intelligent being capa-
bic of understanding it. This relation
OF the one to the other shows intention,
and the instant that you sec intention then
Won see i'm everything the Deity-then you
see God everywhere. When you know w no
wrote the works OF Shakespeare you see the
mind of Shakespeare in every line; ana So
knowing that there must be this great Beng
that must have intended the world, you see
Him everywhere, in every point OF the uni
verse. And so, when scientific men would
induce YOU to 60 back and say, Why, since
everything comes from the ncbula, why
isn't the nebula the powcr?" that Is going
back to the very doctrine which Moses re-
pud,ated Because there was light that
was the source OF the powers of the world,
he said, THAT light is not the thing 10
he worShipped, it is created"; and so be-
cause there is nebula in which there have
Deen placed llcSc NoHliciiui Laws, o"' VI
which has grown the universe by the lntcn-
ton of the Deity, it does not follow that that
nebula is its own manufacturer, and that 1t
is a Being to be worshipred. We are made
with capacity to worship, and is there not
a Being to be worshipped! Why should 1t
be that OF all the facts OF the universe this
is the only one that is false, and that there
is not God to be worshipped to supply the
want of worshipping soul?
say, therefore, that | think the result
will be of all this putting together OF the
present state OF science with religious forms
that it will only be to strengthen faith in G.
lieion; to show that the development theory
which is manifest in the physical universe.
and which might easily be shown to extend
to the intellectual world, and perhaps to
the religious world al>o-that is, that there
has been law according to which
thought has succeeded itself; that there
has been law according to which
religion has succeeded itself-to show
that at least the gospel didn't grow out
of paganism, but out OF religion in when
there was a faith in one God, Father
in heaven, which is the principal doctrine
OF the gospel. That could not have come
out OF paganism, where there are many
gods lighting together. 1t could only have
come out of religion, where there had been
really only one God, and this on the unlver-
salty and unchangeableness OF law.