Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-30

AND MOST WONDERFUL.
"The Heavens Declare the Glory OF God
BROOKLYN, N. Y, May 5.-Dr. Tai
mage yesterday preached from the text:
Genesis i, 81: "And the evening ana
the morning we're the sixth day."
From Monday morning to SATURDAY
night gives us weeks work. III we
have filled that week with success we
ore happy. But am going to tell you
what God did IN one week. Cosmogony, |
geology, astronomy, ornithology, itchy
ology. botany, anatomy, are such vast
subjects that no human life Is long
enough to explore or comprehend any
one OF them. But have thought that
/ might in a usual way tell you a little
of what God did in one week, and that
the first week. And whether you make
il a week OF days or week OF ages
care not. for | shall reach the same
practical result OF reverence and wor-
ship.
The first Monday morning found
swinging in space the piled-up LUMBER
of rocks and metal and soil and water
from which the earth was to be builded.
God made up His mind to create
human family and they must nave u
house to live in. But where! Not
roof, not wall, not q door, not room
was fit for human occupation: There Is
not pile OF black basalt in Yellowstone
park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu
SO inappropriate for human residence US
was the globe at that early period.
Moreover. there was no human archl-
tect to draw plan, no quarryman 10
blast the foundation stones, no carpen-
ter TO hew out beam, and no mason
TO trowel O wall. Poor prospect.
But the time was coming when be-
ing called man was to be constructed
and he was to have bride; and where
he could find q homestead to which he
could take her must have been q won
derment to angelic intelligences. There
had been earthquakes enough, and vol
canoes enough, and glaciers enough,
but earthquakes and volcanoes and gla-
ciers destroy instead OF build. A worse
looking world than this never swung.
II was heaped up deformities, scaritlca-
tions and monstrosities. Inc blole
saws it was without form. That is' was
not round, it was not square, II was not
octagonal, it was not rhombold. God
never did take any one in His counsels,
but IL lie had asked some angel about
the attempt to turn this planet into n
Mace for human residence, the angel
would have said: mo, no; try some
other world; the crevices OF this earth
are too deep, its crags are too appalling,
its darkness is to thick" But Monday
morning came. think it was spring
morning and about half past four
o'clock. The first thing needed was
light. It was not needed for God to
work by, for He can work as we'll in the
darkness. But light may be necessary
for angelic intelligences are tosee In It's
full glory the process OF world building.
But where are the candles, where are
the candelabra, where is the chandelier:
No rising sun will roll in the morning
for if the sun is already created, its
light will not yet reach the earth in
three DAYS. No moon or stars can
brighten this darkness. The moon and
stars are not born yet, or, II created,
their light will not reach the earth for
some time yet. But there is need oil
immediate light. Where shall 1t come
from? Desiring to account for things
in natural way you say, and reasona-
bly saw that heat and electricity throw
out light independent OF the sun. and
that the metallic bases throw out light
independent OF the sun. and that aka
lies throw out light Independent OF the
sun. O, yes, all that is true, but l do
not think that is the way light was
created.
The record makes me think that,
standing over this earth that spring
morning, God looked upon the darkness
that palled the heights OF this world,
and the chasms OF it, and the awful
reaches of it, and uttered, whether in
the Hebrew OF earth, or some language
celestial | know not, that word which
stands for the subtle, bright glowing
and all pervading fluid, that word which
thrills and garlands and lifts everything
it touches, that word the full meaning
OF which all the chemists OF the ages
have busted themselves in exploring,
that word which suggests q force that
flies 10000 miles in second and by
fluctuations 727, 900, 600, 900, 600 in q sec
ond. that one word God utters-Light
And Instantly the darkness began Il
simmer, and the thick folds oil olacR
ness to ift,and there were scintillation:
and coruscations and flashes and bill
lowing up of resplendence, and in great
sheets it spread out northward, south
ward, eastward, westward, and radi
ance filled the atmosphere until 1t could
hold no more OF the brilliance.
Light now TO work by while super
natural intellipences look on. Light
the first chapter OF the first day OF the
week. Light, the joy OF all the cen
turtles. Light, the greatest blessing
that ever touched the human eye. The
robe of the Almighty is woven out OF it
for it covers Himself with light as will
a garment. Oh! blessed light! Blu
now the light Of the first Monday is re
ceding. The blaze Is going out. TIT
colors are dimming. Only part OF INT
earthis surface Is visible, 1t is 6o'clock