Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-09
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 Rev. pr. McChesney as Trinity M. E.
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 Rev.. Dr. Mcchesney of Trinity M. E. church began the first of . series of sermons last evening. Tho discourse was upon "God Revealed in the Material Heavens"
 Man, said he, has been the inhabitant of tho earth for 5000 years and more. Why has he not found out more about the heavensi The rapid march of the present is but . TO. proof to the slowness of the past. The heavens remind us of our weakness as.well as Gods glory. The heavens all declare the glory of God. The voices of the heavens are never silent. Night unto night showeth wis dom. Like Humboldt, some men maintain . studied silence about God when speaking of the heavens. They think that all refer- ence to God is not scientific. They delight to spell Nature with capital N. But who created all thisi Who keeps the sublime uni verne in motioni All the great mechanical arts proceed upon the assumption that ell forces of nature are constant. If you could succeed in proving that all gravitation was self-sxistent, 1t would only be proving the sslf-existepce of God. Every man is known by his work.
 The physical heavens reveal the architect, God. First, the heavens declare the glory of self-sxistent God. Geologists treat of the origin and growth of the world. Then the world had an origin. The first link in the chain must be un originated power, Real intelligence stands in awe of invisible power. What shall we say of the power which cre- ates worlds and holds them forever in mo- tion2 Is it because the magnitude of the heavenly motions are beyond our grasp that we fail to recognize and appreciate the mag nitude of their Goda And this accomplished in state of calm repose. It is @ quiescent God. The very thought of this tranquil power strikes the mind dumb with awe. If we could for once detect the full measures of this omnipotence God would cease to be God, the infinite would become finite and there would be no divinity above man.
 If God is the creator of all worlds he is the creator of time. If he created time he Is eternal. Travel backward in thought to that time when there was no universe. Stand alone in thought before the presence of the eternal God. Travel forward till day, hour, are all obliterated, swept from the dial of the universe, and stand in the presence of the eter- nal God, the beginning and the end, and be- hold the natural turned to the spiritual. The heavens declare the glory of Gods immensity in other words, His immensity. They de- clare the unity of God. The spectro- scope proves that ~al! worlds con- tain the same elements as ours. Iron here is iron there; sodium here is sodium there. The heavens above us have been for centuries telling the world just what Christ told his apostles: In my fathers house are many mansions.
 There is still another lesson the heavens teaches: The comparative insigniicance of our present State. As draw to a close, will call attention to what the heavens do not tell us. I have told how magnifcently good is his character and how nothing hu- man can escape the bounds of his jurisdic- tion. What the heavens do not tell is that God can save sinner. The heavens are tha ss saey gO nr. .ns aeofy IS nate, then, that God has opened other vol- tunes for our perusal. Next Sunday we will examine what the works teach us.