The Penn's Grove record., 1891-05-29
REV. DR..
THE BROOKLYN DIvINEs SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject, "one Weeks Work."

Subject, some Weeks Work."
TKxr: aAnd Tie evening and the morn
ing tcere the sinth ddy!y|Genesis L., 81.
From Monday morning to Saturday night
gives IFS a weeks work. IL we have filed
that week with Successes we are happy. But
I am going TO tell you what God did in one
week. Cosmogony, geoiogy, astronomy. or
orthodoxy, ~ichthyoIogy, botany, anatomy
are such vast subjects that no hn-'ai hte is
long enough to explore Or co'nprstsn l auy
one Of them. But 1 have Ia ~ .hs / might
In an unusual way tell you n iitt'e Of what
God did id n week. And wnesher you
make it d week OF days or a week of ages, l
care not, for l shall reseli tbs am, practi-
cal result of reverence aud Worship.
The first Monday morning forsnd swinging
in space the piled up lumber OF rocks and
metal and soil aud water from which tho
earth was to be builded. God made up HIS
mind to create a human family, and they
must hsve a house to live in. But wnere'
Not a root, not a wall, not a door, not q
room was ft for human occupancy. There
is not a pile OF black basalt in Yellowstone
Park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so
inappropriate for human residence as was
this globe at that early perio1. Moreover,
there wasno human architect to draw a plan,
no quarryman to blast the foundation stones,
no carpenter to hew out a beam, and NO
mason to trowel q wall.
The first thing needed was light. 1t was
not needed for God to work by, for He can
work as well in the darkness. But light may
be necessary, for angelic i~nteIligences are to
see in its full glory the process OF world build
ing. But where are the candles, where are
the candelabra, where is the chandelier? No
rising sun will roll in the morning, for IL ths
sun is dlready created its light will not yet
reach the earth in three days. Nor moon
nor stars can brighten this darkness. The
moon and stars are not born yet, or il
created their light will not reach the earth
for some time yet. But there is need OF linz
mediate light. Where Shalli it come from?
The record makes me think that. standing
over this earth that spring morning, God
looked upon the arkness that palled the
heights Of this world, aud the chasms Of it,
and the awful reaches Of 1t, and uttered.
whether in the Hebrew Of earth or some
which stands for the subtle, bright, glowing
and all pervading fluid, that word which
thrills aid garlands and lifts every thing it
touches, that word the full meaning OF which
all the chemists OF the ages have busted
themselves in exploring, that word which
suggests a force that flies one hundred and
ninety thousand miles in a second, and by
unuuldLOuS seven uuuuI6u ~
~trillions in a second, that n word that God
utters-Lighti
And instantly the darkness began to SHIN
mer, and the thick folds of blackness to lift,
and there were scintillations and cornsca-
tions and flashes and billowing up OF resplen-
dence, and in great sheets it spread out
northward, southwark, eastward, westward,
and a radiance filed the atmosphere until it
could hold no more of the brilllance. Light
now to work by while supernatural intelli-
gences look on. Light, the first chapter OF
the first day of the week. Light, the joy of
the centuries. Light, the greatest blessing
that ever touched the human BYE. The robe
of the Almighty is woven out OF IT, Tor he
covers Himself with light as with q gar
msnt. oh, blessed light l am so glad this
was the first thing created that week. For
lack of it the body stunnbles. U thou Father
of Lights, give us light!
Now it is Tuesday morning. A delicate
and tremendous undertaking is set apartfor
this day. There was a great ~superabun-
dance of water. God. by the wave of His
hand, this morning gathers part of it in sus-
pended reservoirs, and part OF it He orders
down into the rivers and lakes and seas.
How to lang whole Atlantic oceans in tho
clouds without their splitting over except IN
right quantities and at right times wa an
undertaking that 10 one but Omnipotence
would have dared. But God doesit as easily
as you would lift a glass of water. There lie
HOSTS two clouds, each thirty miles wide and
five miles high, and balances them. Here
He lifts the cirrous clouds and spreads them
out in great white banks as though It had
been showing in heaven. And tho GIRO
stratus clouds in long parallel lines, so
straight you know an infinite geometer mas
drawn them. Clouds which are the armory
from which thunder storms get their bayo-
nets of fire. Clouds which are oceans on
the wing. No wonder, long after this iirst
Tuesday of creation week, Elihu COMPOUNDED
Job VITA the question, "Dost thou know the
balancing of the c,ouds?'
Half OF this Tuesday work done, the other
half is the WORK of compelling the waters to
lie down In their destined places. So God
picks u , the solid ground m packs it upin-
TO the five elevations. which are the CONT
nents. With his finger he makes deep de
pressions in them, and these are the lakes,
while at the piling up of the A~lleghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alps and
HimaIayas the rest OF the waters start by
the law of grayitation to the W places,
and i'll their run down hill become the
rivers, and then all around the earth these
rivers come into convention and become
oceans beneath, as the clouds are ocean,
above.
Now it is Wednesday morning of thu
worlds first week. Gardening and horticui
ture will be born to-day. How queer tht
hills look, aud so unattractiye they seem
hardly worth having been made. But nov
all the surfaces are changing color. Some
thing beautiful is creeping all over them. L
has the color of emerald, Ay. it is heritage
Hail to the green guest! Gods ~favorite colo
and Gods favorite plant, as 1 judge from
the fact that he makes a larger number o
them than OF anything else. But look yon
derl Something starts out of the gronnf
and goes higher up, higher and higher, au.
spreads out broad leaves. 1t is a palm tree
Yonder is another growth, and its leave
hang far down, and it is a willow tree. An
yonder is a growth with a mighty sweep o
branches. And here they come-the pear,
and the apple, n the peach, and the pome
g~ranate. and groves, and orchards, and for
ests, their shadows n Their fruit girdiing
the earth.
Now it is Thursday morling OF tis W orld's
first week. Nothing will be create today.
and mists AMI vdpors. Tn' atuoSDlsrs
must be swept clean. Osher worids are t.
heavs In sight. This li5tle ship OF thu earsh
has seemed to have all the ocean of i'm
mensity to itself. But mightier craft are "a
be hailed to-day on the higu seas OF solca.
First, the moons white sail ap2slrs All
does very well until the sun bursts upon the
scene. The light that on the previols three
mornings was struck from m especial word
now gathers in the slu, InoJl an1 stars.
One for the day, tbs other for the hight.
And tn sun now APPEARS, atberwdrd tn bs
found eight hundred and lightweight thou,
sand miles in diam ,ter, AMI, put in ASH,
nomical scales. to DO found to we, III nearly
four hundred thousand times heayisr THAI
our earth; a mighty furnace, its heat kept
up by rneteors pouring into it as fuel, a wo"li
dsvourlng other worlds VITA Its Jaws or
flame. And the stars coma out, thos, stre,
lamps OF heaven, thoss keys of psarl, upon
which Gods fingers plav the music OF thq
spheres, How bright tiev LOOK in thts ORR
entail EVENING" Constellations! GallHiesl
What a twenty-four hours of this frat week
solar, lnnar, stellar aposaranc,s All this
Thursday and the adjoining nights enoloye
in pulling aside the curtain Of vapor from
these flushed or pale-facel worlds.
Now it is FRIDAY morning in the first wee;
OF the worlds history. Water. but not a fin
swimming it; air. but not a wing hviny it,
II is a silent world. Can it bs that 1t wa
made only for Vegetables But harsl Thera
Is a swirl and a splashiug in all TIL, four
rivers of Pison, Gihon. Hidekel aud Enohra.
tes. They are all aswim with life, SONS
darling like arrows through s,lit crystal.
and others quiet in dark pools like shsl,ws.
Everything, from spotted trout to bshsnoth,
all colored, all shaued. the ancestors o.