Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-29
TALNIAGE, ON CREATION.
rHEf GREAT DIVINE ON THE
WORLDS FIRST WEEK.
Tho Mountains, the Rivers, ana All the
Living ThIng1 over Which Man IL
ESaparor and Woman Empress
"A wonderfui Sermon.

night gives Us "A weeks work. III we have
hlied thai week with SUCCESSES we are hap
Ply. But am going 10 tell you what God
DID In one week. CO>omOgOny, geology,
astronomy, orn,thology, icuthyology, bot
any, anatomy are such vast subjects that
no human hfe Il long enough 10 explore or
comprehend any one OF them. But have
thought might IN an unusual way tell you
d little OF what God d d IN ono week and that
tue hrst week. And whether you make IL
week OF days or u week OF ages, l care not,
for shall reach tue same practical result
OF reverence and worship.
The iirst Monday morning found swing
ing in space the plled-up iunlber OF rocks
aud metal md sol and water from winch
the earth was to bo builded. God nude up
his mind &c create Il human family aud they
must have a house to live in. But where!
Not roof not wall. not door, not "a
room was lit for hum n occupancy. There
IS moi u pile OF black baSalt in Yellowstone
Park or an extinct volcano IN Honolulu -
inapproprlate for human residence as WAS
this globe ut that early period. Moreover,
there Was no human arGlitect 10 draw u
plan, no quarryman TO bliss. the foundation
stones, no carpenter 10 heW out beam, and
no mason u trOwCi Wall. Poor prospect
God never did take any one In isls counsels,
but II he had asked some angel about the
attempt To turn this planet into place for
human residence the angel would have
=
crevlces OF [hls earth are too deep; its crags
are too appalling; its darkness is too
thick" But Monday morning came.
thitk IL was u spring morning aud about
half past four O'clock. The FIRST thing
needed was llght.-Light! Aud instantly
the darkness began 10 simmer, and the
thick folds OF blackness 10 lift, ana there
were scintillatiOns, and coruscations, md
flashes anu a bllowing up OF resplendencc,
aud ia greats sheet IL spread lOut, NG.th-
wsrd, Southwark. Eastward, Westwar |,
md radiance FIJI II tho atmosphere until
It could hold M 'pore Of the brillIance.
Light now 20 weri. by while supernatural
intellIgenC0o leak on. Light the first
CASPER 9s tae tir,t day OF the week.
Now II is Tuesday morning. A delicate
and tremendous undertaking II set apart
for this day. There was a great super
abundance OF water. God 10y the wave OF
his h md this morning gathers part OF il In
suspended reservoirs and part Of II he orders
down into the rivers, aud lakes and seas.
How To hang wbols Atlantic Oceans in The
clouds without their spillins over except
in right quantities and at right tim was
AN Undertaking thai no one but OmnipO-
tence would have dared. But God does 1t
as easily a you would lift glass OF water.
There he HOSTS Two clouds each thirty
miles wide and live miles high and balances
them. Here he lifts the cirrus clouds and
spreads them out IN great white banks a5
Though II had been showing in heaven.
And the clrro.stratus clouds in
loug parallel lines so straight yod know an
infinite GeGmeter has drawn them. Clouds
which ar1 the armOry from which thunder
storms get their bayOnets of Dire. Clouds
whicn are Oceans on the wing. No wonder,
long alter this fist Tuesday OF Creation
week, Elihu COMPOUNDED Job with the ques-
tiOu, "DOst thou know the baancings OF tn .
clOudsI" Half OF his Tuesday work dOuc.
the other half N the work Oi compelling
the water, To lie down in their destined
places. 30 God picks up the solid ground
and packs 1t up INTO five elevations which
are the continents. With his finger he
makes deep depressiOns in them, and these
nre the lakes, while at the pilln5 up OF tho
Alleghanias and Sierra Nevadas aud Pyrcn-
ees and Alps aud Himalayas the rest OF tue
waters start by the law OF grsvItation TO
the lower places, and in their run dOwn-hill
become the rivers, anu then all around the
earth these river, come into convention and
become oceans beneath, rs the clouds are
Oeenns above.
Now It is Wednesday morning OF the
worlds list week. How queer the hills
look. aud 20 unattraolivo they seem hardly
worth having been made. but now all the
surfaces are changing color. Something
beautiful is creeping all over them. 1t has
the color OF emerald. Aye, II Ii heritage.
Hail to the green grass, Gods faYOrite color
aud Co.'s fayOritc plant AZ l judge from
the TACT he makes "a larger number Of them
than OF anything else. But look yonder !!
Something starts out OF the ground and goes
higher up, higher and higher, and spreads
out broad leaves. 1t is palm tree. IOnder
is another growth. and its leaves hang far
down, and II il n willow tree. And yonder
Is u growth with mighty sweep OF branches.
And here they cOme--tlIe pear aud the APP.
pie. and the peach AMI the pomegranate,
and groves and orchards and forests their
shadows and their fiutt girdlng the ear h.
We ARE pushing agriculture ami fruit cul-
ture to great excellence in the nineteenth
century, but we have nothing now 10 equal
what see on this first. Wednesday Of tue
worlds existence.
Now it u Thursday morning OF the
worlds first week. Nothing Will DO ere
aied to-day. The hours will be p -Ssed in
scattering logs aud mi>ts and vapOrs. The
atmosphere must DO swept clean. Other
worlds are to hove in sight. This little ship
OF the earth has seemed to have all the
ocean OF lmmenSity to itself But mightier
craft are TO be hailed to-day on the high
seas of space. First, the moons VIII g..
sail appears and does very
well until the sun bursts upon
the scene. The light that on the previous
three mornings was struck from un especial
word now gathers in the run moon and
stars. One for the day the otherr for the
night. IL seemed us II they had all within
twenty-four hours been created. All, III IL
is IA great time in the worlds first week.
The moon, the nearest neighbOr to our
earth appears; her photograph TO be taken
III the IIsetecnth century, when the tele-
scope shall bring her within one hundred
and twenty miles OF New
York. And the sun now appears,
ufterward to lie found eight hum
dred and eighty thousand miles In diam
eter, ind put in astronomical scales, to be
found to weigh nearly four hundred
thousand times heavier than our earth; a
mighty furnace, its heat kept up by
meteOrs pouring into it as fuel, "a world de-
vOurIng other worlds with it, ttws of
flame. And the stars come out, those street
lamps of heaven, those keys OF pearl, upon
! which Gods fingers play the music OF the
spneres. How bright thy look IN this
Oriental EVENING" Consultations GalnX-
les What twenty-fOur hours of this first
wcek-solar, lunar, stellar appearances.
All this Thursday and the adjoining nights
employed In pulling aside the curtain OF
vapOr from these nushed or pnie-faced
worlds. Enough "And tho evening and
the morning were the fourth day"
Now It N Friday morning. Water. but
not u IN swimming I'm ~; air. but not q
wing dying IL. IL is silent world. Can Il
be that IL was made only for Vegeiable>l
But hark! There Is a swirl and splash
Ing ~ all tho four rivers OF Pison, Gihon,
Hiddokel. aud Euphrates. They are all
a-swlm with liie some dartlng like arrows
through spit crystal. aud others quiet IN
dark pools like shadows. Every thing