The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-29

The Heavens Declare the Glory of God =
BROOKLYN, n. Y, May 25.-Dr. Tai
mage yesterday preached from the text:
Genesis i. 81: "And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day
From Monday morning to Saturday
night gives US weeks work. II We
have filed that week with success we
are happy. But am going to tell you
what God did IN one week. COsmOgony.
geology, astronomy, ornithology, itchy
0logy. 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
l might in a usual way tell you little
OF what God did in one week, and that
the first week. And whether you make
it week Of days or week Of ages |
care not for l 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 a
human family and they must have a
house TO live in. But where? Not. a
roof. not a wall. not door, not q room
was fit for human occupation. There Is
not pile of black basaIt in Yellowstone
park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu
so inappropriate for human residence As
was the globe at that early period.
Moreover. there was no human archi-
tect to draw plan. no quarryman to
blast the foundation stones. no carpen-
ter to hew out a beam, and 40 mason
to trowel a wall Poor prospect.
But the time was coming when be-
ing called man was 10 be constructed
and he was 70 have bride: and where
he could find a homestead to which he
could take her must have been 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.
Il was heaped up defOrmities. scariica-
tons and mOnstrOsities. The Bible
saws il was without form. That Is. was
not round. it was not square. it was not
octagOnal. it was not a rhomboid. God
but if he had asked some angel about
the attempt to turn this planet into
place for human residence. the angel
would have said: NO. 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. I think it was a spring
morning and about half past four
o'clock 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 intelligences are to see in its
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 vet, or, if created.
their light will not reach the earth for
some time yet But there is need Of
immediate light. Where shall it come
from? Desiring TO account for things
in a natural way you say. and reasona-
bly, say 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 l 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 a force that
flies 10000 miles in a second and BY
undulations 727, 900. 600. coo. 600 in a sec
ond, that one word God utters-Licht,
And instantly the darkness began to
simmer. and the thick folds of black
ness TO lift, and there were sciatillations
and coruscatiOns and flashes and a bill
lowing up of resplendence, and in great
sheets 1t spread out northward. south
ward. eastward. westward, and a radi-
ance filed the atmosphere until it could
hold no more OF the brilliance.
Light nov to work by while super
natural intelligences look on. Light.
the first chapter Of the first day of the
week. Light. the JOY OF ali the CEN
turtles. Light the greatest blessing
hot haH 10
robe of the Almighty is woven out of it.
garment. Oh, blessed light, But
now the light of the first Monday is re-
ceding- The Glaze is going out. The
colors are dimming. Only part of the
earth's surface Is visible. 1t is 6o'cIock.
o'clock, SO'clCck: observation and
darkness. L Is Monday night. And
the evening and the morning were the
first day"
Now il Is Tuesday morning. 4 deli
cate and tremendous undertaking Is set
az art for this day. There was a great
superabundance Of water. God by the
wave OF his hand this morning gathers
part Of il in his suspended reservoirs
and part OF Ii he orders down into the
rivers and lakes and seas. How 10 hang
whole Atlantic oceans in the clouds
without their splitting over except in
right quantities and at right times was
an undertaking that no one but Omnip-
offence would have dared. But God
does it as easy as you would lift q glass
Of water. There he HOSTS two clouds
each thirty miles wide and five miles
high and balances them. Here he lifts
the cirrus clouds and spreads them out
in great white hank as though it had /
been showing in heaven. And the cir /
ro-stratus clouds in long parallel lines
50 straight yOu know an infinite geome- /
ter has drawn them. Clouds which are
the armory from which thunderstorms