Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-01

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more worlds than our little
earth. That is, our small planet must
be only leaf from vast forest, and
not cosmos in itself. 1t is only note
in the large piece OF world-music. As
Science proceeds in its analysis OF light
and air, and in its estimates Of the
masses of the steller bodies, it finds our
globe to be only one of millions in some
OF the essential elements of nature, and
from these facts of science, and from
the general law Of unity, we may infer
that upon millions of planets revolving
around other suns there is to-day mar
velous continuance of our phenomena
Of fields, and verdure, and bird-song,
and all the infinite variety of organic
life. To imagine that our little world
grows all the roses of the universe, and
sings all the bird-songs, and speaks all
the words, and writes all the poems,
and builds all the homes, and sails all
the ships, and has all the wit and smile
Of the whole universe, is to make an as
sumption for which there is not the least
possible basis in reason.
The assumption that our universe
came from an Infinite Mind. which built
palace for Itself, destroys the idea
that all the bodies in the depths of space
are mere deserts until one comes TO our
little earth. The absolute truth must
be that there are thousands of worlds
where dwell intelligent beings, and hap
py, and perhaps sorrowful, beings like
man. And since the laws Of the universe
are all of one quality so far as science
has studied them, it is almost demon
strated verify that upon other planets
around other suns there are men who
till the ground, and who sail the seas
with ships, who build cities-other chill
dren who laugh with joy, and who
pluck wild flowers on other hills than
those of these earthly shores. For the
joy and laughter of the young heart is
too glorious thing to be confined to
such an insignificant star as our earth.
Our world has been so often shaken by
the cannons of war, and sprinkled by
the blood of fathers, leaving the chill
dren TO weep orphans tears, that we
may well hope that there are worlds
where nothing comes between the young
hearts and the sparkle in their eve, and
the roses on their cheek
This will we all confess, that, if God
mace the universe for His own pleasure,
the greatest part of such a universe is
such conscious intellectual being as
man. Man is the sublimest witness OF
the power and wisdom of his Maker,
and it is not probable that in no world
but this little one did the Creator give
being to that kind of soul which we
see upon this little globe. II seems al
most certain that man repeats himself
upon ten thousand worlds, and may be
here in his smallest nature, in the least
of intellects and the least of morals, Just
as he is dwelling upon the smallest OF
Gods globes.
Let US now abandon the fate of other
stars and return to our own. In our
first and largest proposition it was af
tirmed that the Creative Mind fashion
ed the material world because of its re-
fiexive action upon Himself. He was the
end to be blessed. Ii is the Sculptor,
not the statue, that is bless
ed. 1t must therefore follow
that the material is formed
to bless the mental, and man having
been made mental and spiritual being,
the external world becomes great min
lister to his education and happiness. If
Jehovah himself needed heaven and
an earth, the land and sea, and all these
innumerable contents of the Cosmos.
needed them because He was Mind;
then man, the child and image of God,
is picked up by the arms of the same
law and is borne rapidly forward into a
higher mental power and deeper happi-
ness. The heavens, which declare and
contain and cause the glory of God, re-
veal the path of man and treasure up
much of his mental and spiritual great
ness.
The material world comes to man and
helps furnish him with language. HIS
words are made opt Of its qualities and
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