, 1880-08-30

try and follow the Omnipotent and
obey His command as given by the in
spired words of Solomon, when he
says: Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore get wisdom; and with
all thy gettings, get understanding"
As we turn our telescope into the re-
merable stars not visible to the naked
eye. but never do we see the outside
limit of space. If it is limited we Can
not see where. If it is not, we cannot
comprehend how it can be without
limit. Beyond the utmost limit of tel.
escopic vision, God only knows what is
there; but as the telescope has shown
us innumerable stars beyond the ken
of mortal eye. SO, could we improve
our instruments, or look with the eye
of God, we have every reason to sup
pose that we should still see cluster
upon cluster of worlds. Amid those
clusters Of stars in open spaces we
sometimes find luminous fields. They
are where q system of worlds might be
expected, yet it is simply luminosity.
or fire mist. In other words. chaos.
| In other places we see amid this mist
aggregations or points of greater den
sity, which La Place considered the
nucleus of coming worlds. In others
there was division into rings.
We see in our system the planet Sat
urn surrounded by rings, dense enough
to reflect light, and to cast a shadow,
yet not dense enough to blot out the
light of a bright star beyond, though
they much obscure such. These may
break up into additional satellites for
Saturn, and the fire mist may be new
systems in process of creation. and it
is supposed they are. La Places the
ory was here explained with diagrams. !
This supposes the fire mist at first to
be vaporized material, from heat, and
the worlds or suns first formed would
be extremely hot. Our sun is SO now
Our earth is cool outside. but if this
theory is true it cannot be cool inside
So we are living upon the cooled sur
face of an intensely hot globe.
Let us see if reason is OF our side ID
this: Prominent among the facts tha
go to show that the interior of our
earth is hot as represented, is thai
whenever we descend beneath its sur
face to any considerable depth. We fiud
a regular increase of temperature, the
meau rate of increase being one degree
for every fifty feet.
With this regular increase it would
become red-hot at a depth of twelve
miles, and at the depth CT fifty miles
every thing would be hot enough to
melt. and become liquid if it was not
for the immense pressure npon it,
which must render it dense and hard,
although intensely hot; and thus it
goes on toward the center. not perhaps
with regular increase, as the hot mate
rial. pressed SO closely together, may
conduct heat as metals do electricity
aud consequently not have an increased
rate toward the center. In connection
with tLis, as additional proof, come
boiling springs and numerous volca
Eoes ejecting lava, which is melted
rock. thus seemingly making the testi-
mony conclusive.
But be it as it may in creation, it is a
tangible fact that We are sailing through
the region of space with immense We
locity-some have thought without a
pilot, and that We should be dashed
into the face of some comet or other
stroller in space, and sometimes there
has been a dread of some such catastro-
phe. But they forget that there is a
Power to guide as we'll as to create, and
that our world with its living freight is
safe in His hands.
But we live on o wonderful planet.
It is not a mere agglomeration of rocks
and mountains, seas and lakes, as by
the telescope we see in Venus or Mars,
but here as on no other planet we can
look into the minutie. OF course there
is no promise in the rock Of plant life,
and none in the plant of the animal
and were we to examine our earth from
Venus, we could not make more of ii
than we now can of Mars. But we can
reason from analogy and probably be
right when we say that Mars, at least,
is similar to our earth. It is true that
vegetation there may have red leai
instead of green. but that does not mat.
ter. 1t requires no telescope to show
us that rocks produce soil here, and
why not there2 We grind every year
, thousands of tons of rock, and sell il
under the name of "plaster," to i'm.
prove our soil. We know that the
vegetable is the outgrowth of the soil
, and that vegetation is the source from
which animal life draws its resources
that to it they owe their subsistence,
not only as food but portion of the
air so necessary to our existence. YET
! directly or indirectly all animals musi
eat. Under the same law of nourish-
. ment the plant eats and drinks from
, the soil, and reasoning upon the same
ground other planets must have in.
habitants; must at least have vegeta-
, bic and animal growth. The telescope
shows us on them mountains and rocks,
, as we'll az water, so We have no other
/ just conclusion to draw. God creates,