St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
The Maker of the Worlds,

The Maker of the Worlds.
In the planetary system, where our |
world fills it's appointed place and per-
forms it's assigned part, we may indeed be-
hold the empire of God for it is only as
we see His hand in the formation and con-
troll of these worlds that we can arrive at
any satisfactory conclusion respecting the
problems involved in the contemplation of
these wonders of creation. There must
be an intelligent First Cause of what we
behold in our world and in other worlds
with which ours is identified in the grand
system of which this world is part. In
no other way can we account for what we
thus see. To such effects there must have
been an adequate cause, and the idea of
God, the God of the Bible, alone meets the
demand for such cause. 1t is the greatest
of all absurdities to suppose that the stars
which glitter in the armament, and this
globe on which we dwell, were uncaused,
or that they are the outcome of chance.
The appeal of Thomas Creech may well
be made:
Atheist use thine eyes,
And having viewed the order of the skies,
Think if thou canst what matter blindly hurled
Without a, guide, should form the wondrous
world
This absurdity was illustrated by the
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lance who denied the existence of God.
| Having procured very handsome artificial
| globe, with a representation of the starry
heavens, he placed it in corner of his
room to attract his friends observation. as
it did, and he was asked by the observer
from whence the orrerv came and to whom
! it belonged. ''Not to me-" said kircher,
NOR was it ever made by any person, but
it came here by mere chance" ''That,
replied his skeptical friend, ''is absolutely
impossible; you surely jest" hircher,
however, seriously persisting in his asser-
ton, took occasion to reason with his
friend on his own atheistical principles.
you will not believe" said he, 'that this
small body originated in mere chance, and
yet you would contend that those heavenly
bodies of which it is but faint resem-
blance came into existence without any
order or design" Pursuing this train of
reasoning, his friend was at first con-
founded, next convinced, and at length he
cordially confessed the absurdity of deny
ing the existence of God.
Saving that there is no God surely can
not explain the existence of what we be-
hold in ''the heavens and the earth. "
Something exists, and therefore God ex-
lists. The existence of God is proved by
all acknowledged existence. All existence
is not self-existent. That which we see
existing began to exist. Its existence was
not uncaused. There was cause, and
that cause is God. In the great temple OF
nature it becomes us to bow reverently at
the footstool of natures God, whose pres
ence is always seen there in the wonderful
creations and adaptations which rebuke
the folly of him who says, ''There is nc
God" A right state of heart might fine
, utterance in saying:
'Oh tell me not that live in a world
Over which no God bears sway;
; For I've seen the trace of His mighty hand
On all sides, by night and by day.
Yes I've marked the myriad host of heaven,
The glittering stars so bright,
Like gems in mOnarchs dladem,
At the Silly hour of night.
''And each of these diamonds has seemed to say
For they spoke by their twinkIing light,
That they stand In the sky as letters of gold,
, To teach of God at night"
In the spirit of these words, some ont
has made vivid appeal, saying $50 GU
? beneath the arched heaven in nights pro
r found gloom and say, if you can, There il
, no God ? Pronounce that dread blasphe
r my, and each star above will reprove yot
i for your unbroken darkness of soul; ever.
/ voice that floats upon the night winds will
, bewail your utter hopelessness and despair
S Is there no Gid? Who, then, unrollet
s that blue scroll, and threw upon its higl
frontspiece the legible gleamings of i'm
s mortality? Who fashioned shis greer
earth, with it's perpetually rolling waters
: and it's expanse of island and man? WIZ
settled the foundations of the mountains
Who paved the heavens with clouds ant
attuned amid banners of storms the voic
u of thunders, and unclaimed the lightning
that linger and lurk and flash in thei
gloom?"
: These are questions to be asked. ant
there is but one answer that can be givel
to them. That answer is found in tn
first words of the Bible, Gin the beginnin!
God created the heavens and the earth,
and in the apostolic words concerning tn
Son of God, ''By whom also He made tn
worlds" 1t is the almost irrepressible ex
E clamation of unperverted reason:
NO God! With indignation high
The fervent sun is stirred,
Q And the pale moon turns paler still
At such an lmpious word;
And from their burning thrones the stars
Look down with angry eye,
J. That thus worm or dust should mock
= Eternal Majesty"