The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25


threSner, can he not start it and stop it, and
start il again and stop it agains II God
have strength and wisdom to make the clock
of the universe, the great machinery Of the
worlds, has he not strength enough and
wisdom enough TO start it and stop it. and
start it again and stop it again? Or stop
one wheel, or stop twenty wheels, or stop
all the wheels7 Is the clock stronger than
the clock maker? Does the corn thresher
know moro than The machinist! Is the
universe mightier than its God? But peo-
pie ask how could the moon have been
seen to stop in the daytimeg Well, il YOU
have never seen the moon in the daytime. it
is because you have not been a very diligent
observer of the heavens Bes ide that,
literally to stop. By unusual
refraction of the suns rays the day might
have been prolonged. So that, while the
earth continued on its path in the heavens,
it figuratively stopped. You must remem-
Der that these Bible authors used the
vernacular Of Their own day, just as you
and say the sun went down. The sun
never goes down. We simply describe
what appears to the human eye. Besides
literally stopped without throwing
the universe out of balance
Our world has two motions-the
one around the sun and the other on its
own axis. 1t might have stopped on its
own axis, while a. the same time it kept on
its path through the heavei IS. So there was
no need Of stellar confusion because our
world slackened its speed or entirely
stopped in its revolution on its own axis.
That is none Of the business of Jupiter, or
Mars, or Mercury, OF Saturn or the DIpper.
Beside that, within the memory OF man
there have been worlds that wer
born and that died. A fe years ago
astronomers telegrapbed. through the Az
ISOLATED Press, to all the world-the
astronomers from the CITY of Wa shngton-
that another world had been discovered.
Within a comparatively short space OF
time, astronomers tell US, thirteen worlds
have burned down. From their observatory
they notice ii st that tie worlds look Ike
other worlds, then they become a deep red
showing they were on fire; then they became
ashen, showing they we burned
down; then they tirely disappeared,
showing that even the ashes
were scattered. Now, / say, If
God can start world and swing a world
and destoy world, he could stop one or
two of them wit iou5 a great deal of exer-
ton, or he could by unusual refrac ion of
the suns rays continue the illumination.
But iufidel scientists say it would have
been belittling for other worlds to stop on
account Of such a battle. Why, sirs. what
Yorktown " as for revolutionary times,
and what Gettysburg was in our civil co
test, and what Sedan was in the
Franco-German war, and VIII Waite loo
was in the Napoleonic destiny-that
was this battle of Joshua against
the five allied armies Of Gibton. 1t was
that hattle that changed the ntire course
of history 1t was a battle to Joshua as
important as though battle now SHOULD
occur in which England ard the United
States and France aud Germany and
Italy and Turkey and Russia should fight
for victory or aunihilaUion. However much
any other world, solar, lunar or stellar
might be fastened in its errand of light, it
would be excusable if it fingered in the
heavens for a little while and pat down its
sheaf of beams and gazed on such an Arm
ageddon.
In the early part of this century there
was what was called the Dark day. Some
of these a led men perhap, NAV remember
it. 1t is known in history as the Dark
day" WCrkmen at noon went to their
homes, and courts aud legislatures I'D
jourEed. No astronomers have ev-r been
able to explain that dark dat. Now, if
God can advance the night earlier than its
time, can he not adjourn the night until
after its time? | often used to hear
my father describe a mig tt thiak
he said it was in 1S33-when his
neighbors aroused him in great alarm. All
the heavenly bodies seemed to be in mo-
ton. People thought or eai tn wa COM
ing to its destruction. Tens of thousands
of stars shooting. No astronomers have
ever been able to explain that tar shooti e.
Now, does not your common sense teach
YOU that if God cOul start and stop tens Of
thousands of worlds or mete9rs be could
start and stop two worldsl If God can
engineer a train of ten thousand
worlds or& meteors, and stop them
without accident or collision, cannot @ con-
troll two carriages of light, and by putting
down a golden brake sop the sun, AMI bv
putting down silver brake stop the moon2
Under this explanation, instead of being
skeptical about this sublime passage of the
Bible, you will, when you read 1t, feel more
like going down on your knees before God
as you read: "Sun, stand thou still above
Giueon, and thou moon in the valley of
Ajalon."
Then there is the Bible Statement that a
whale swallowed Jonah and elected him
upon the cry ground in three DAYS. L. YOU
viii 60 to the museom at Nantuc let, Mass,
you will find the skeleton of a whale large
enough to swallow a man. l said to the
ianitor, VIII lie | was standing in the
museum, "Whv, it does not seem from the
looks of this skeleton that that story in the
book OF Jonah IS so very improbable, dos
i'll" "O1, no." be replied, sit does not.n
There is a cavity in the mouth Of the common
whale large enough n a man to live in.
There have been carks found again and
again with an entire human BODY in them.
Besides that, the Bib!e says nothing about
a whale. 1t stys, 1.-THE Lord prepared a
great fish" and there are SCIENTISTS who tell
us that there were sea monsters in other
days that make the modern whale seem
very Insignificant / know in one place in
the New Testament it speaks IF tn whale
as appearing in the occurrence / have JUS
mentioned, but the word may just as well
be translated sea monstern-any kicd Of a
sea monster. Procopius says, in the yea
532, a sea monster was slain W lich had for
fifty years destroyed ships. l suppose the
sea monster thar took care Of Jouah NAV
have been one Of the great sea mo sters
that could have easily taken down prep ct
and he could have lived there three dsys
II he had kept in motion So as to keep the
gastric juices from taking hold of hi n aud
destroying him, and ut the end Of three
days the monster would naturally b. sick
enough to regurgitate Jonah. Besides that,
my friends, there is one word which
explains the whole thing. 1t says, The
Lord prepared great fish," If shiD car
penter prepare vessel TO carry Tex
eeves TO Glasgow, | suppose it can carry
Texan beeves; II ship carpenter prepare
vessel TO carry coal to one OF the northern
ports, / suppose it eau carry 1al if a ship
carpenter prepare vessel 20 carry pasyen-
gers 10 Liverpool, 1 suppose il cln carry
passengers to Liverpool; and il the Lord
prepared fish TO carry one passenger, |
SUPP lse IL could carry a Dasseu ger and tha