The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-18
WHO MADE THE WORLDS7


In the gladness and rapture of Heaven.
REV. L. d. Santee, In Mid Continent.
WHO MADE THE WORLDS?
The Bible Answer the Only True One
The Being Of God Proved by All Ac-
knowledged Existence.
In the planetary system where our
world fills it's appointed place, and per-
forms its assigned part, we may, in
deed, behold the empire of God; for it is
only as we see His hand in the forma-
ton and control of these worlds that we
can arrive at any satisfactory conclusion
respecting the problems involved in the
contemplation of these wonders of crea-
ton. 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 de-
mand for such q cause. 1t is the great
est Of all absurdities to suppose that the
stars which glitter in the armament,
and this globe ON which we dwell,
were stncaused, or that they are the
outcome of chance The appeal Of
Thomas Creech may we'll be made:
Atheist, use thine eyes,
And having viewed the order of the skies,
Think, II thou canst, that matter blindly
hurld
Without guide should form the wondrous
world.
This absurdity was illustrated by
the learned Athanasius Kircher, to an
acquaintance who denied the existence
OF God. Having procured very hand
some artificial globe, with rep
resentation of the starry heavens,
he placed it in a corner Of
his room to attract his friends
observation, as it did, and he
was asked by the observer from whence
the orrery came and to whom it be-
longed. mot to me-" said Kircher, NOR
was it ever made by any person, but
1t came here by mere chance" THAT"
replied his skeptical friend, ''is abso-
lutely impossible; you surely jest"
Kircher, however, seriously persisting
in his assertion, 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 a faint resemblance,
came into existence without any order
or design" Pursuing this train Of rea-
soning. his friend was at first confound.
ed, next convinced, and at length he
cordially confessed the absurdity Of de-
nying the existence Of God.
Saying that there is no God surely can
not explain the existence of what we
behold in 1.-THE heavens and the earth"
Something exists, and therefore God ex-
lists. The existence Of God is proved by
all acknowledged existence. All exist
ence is not self-existent. That which
we see existing began to exist. Its ex-
istence was not uncaused. There was q
cause, and that cause is God. In the
great temple of nature It becomes us to
bow reverently at the footstool Of nat
ure's God, whose presence is always
seen there in the wonderful creations
and adaptations which rebuke the folly
Of him who says: There is no God. I"
A right state of heart might find utter
ance in saying:
Oh tell me not that live In q world
Over which no God bears sway
For I've sscx the trace Of His mighty hand
On all sides, by night and by day.
Yes, I've marked the myraid host Of
Heaven,
The glittering stars 90 bright.
Like gems in monarch's diadem,
At the Silly hour Of night.
And each Of these diamonds has seemed to
say.
For they spoke by their twinkllng light,
That they stand in the sky as letters Of gold,
10 teach Of . God at night.
In the spirit Of these words, some one
has made vivid appeal, saying: go
out beneath the arched heaven in
nights profound gloom and say, If you
can: There is no Godv Pronounce that
dread blasphemy, and each star above
will reprove you for your unbroken
darkness Of soul; every voice that floats
upon the night winds will bewail your
utter hopelessness and despair. Is there
no God? Who, then, unrolled that blue
scroll, and threw upon its high fronts
piece the legible gleamings of immortal.
ity? Who fashioned this green earth,
with its perpetually rolling waters, and
, its expanse of island and main? Who
, settled the foundations Of the mount
aims? Who paved the heavens with
clouds and attuned amid banners Of
storms the voice of thunders. and un.
, chained the lightnings that finger and
> Turk and flash in their gloom?"
, These are questions to be asked, and
, there is but one answer that can be
! Riven to them. That answer is found
, | In the first words of the Bible: "In the
beginning God created the heavens and