The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-19

| OF the Almighty and say: HAST thou ar
arm like Godw The contemplation also en-
courages US with the thought that IL God
made all these worlds and populated them
1t will not be much Of an undertaking fol
him to make our little world over again
and reconstruct the character Of It's popula
tions as by grace they are 20 be recon
| structed.
| What a monstrosity Of ignorance that tn,
! majority of Christian people listen not to
| book says. THE heavens declare the glory
| Of God" and again, 1.-The works of the
| Lord are great and to be sought out" How
much have you sought them out? You have
| been satisfying yourself with some things
| about Christ, but have you noticed that
| Paul calls you 70 consider Christ as the
creator Of other worlds, "by whom also be
made the worlds" 1t is time you Christians
| start on q world hunt. That is the chief
reason why God makes the night, that you
may see other worlds Go out tonight
and look up at the great clock Of the
! heavens. Listen to the silvery chime OF
the midnight sky. See that your children
and grandchildren mount the heavens with
telescope for alpenstock, leaping from &C
| clivity Of light to ecclivity Of light. What
| a beautiful and sublime thing that John
| Quincy Adams, the exPresident, borne
| down with years undertook, at the peril OF
his life, the journey from Washington TO
| Cincinnati that he might lay the corner
| stone OF the pier of the great refTactlng
telescope, and there making his last GRAFTON.
| What a service for all mankind when In
| 1899 Lord Rose lifted on the lawn of MS
castle eighty miles from Dublin telescope
that revealed worlds as tasG as they could
roll In, and that started an enthusiasm
| which this moment cOncenters the eyes OF
| many Of the most devout in all parts Of the
/ earth on celestial discovery.
Thank God that we now know where our
own world is bounded on all sides by realms
of glory instead Of being where Hesiod in
| his poetry described it to be, namely, half
way between heaven and hell, an anvil
hurled out of heaven taking ten days to
strike the earth, and hurled out OF earth
taking ten more days TO strike perdition:
From the high heaven brazen anvil cast,
Nine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last;
| And reach the earth the tenth, whence strongly
hurled,
The same the passage to the Internal world
thank God that we have found out that
our world is not half way between heaven
and hell, but is In sisterhood of light, and
that this sisterhood joins all the other sister
hoods of worlds, moving round some great
homestead, which is no doubt heaven, where
God is and our departed Christian friends
are, and we ourselves through pardonipg
mercy expect to become permanent resi-
dents.
Furthermore, / get now from all this an
answer to the question which every intelli-
gent man and woman since the earth has
stood has asked and received no answer.
Why did God let sin and sorrow come into
the world when he could have prevented
them from comingi | wish reverently TO
say think I have found the reason. To
keep the universe loyal TO a Holy God, 1t
was important in some world somewhere to
demonstrate the gigantic disasters that
would come upon any world that allowed
sin to enter. Which world should it be!
Well, the smaller the world the better, for
less numbers would suffer. So our world
was selected. The stage was plenty large
enough for the enactment of the tragedy.
Enter on the stage Sin. followed by Muir
der, Pain, Theft, Fraud. I'm
purity, Falsehood, Massacre, War and
all the denominations and horrors and
agonies of centuries. Although we know
comparatively little about the other worlds
lest we become completely dissatisfied with
our own, no doubt the other worlds have
heard and are now hearing all about this
world in the awful experiment of sin
which the human race has been making
In some way interstellar communication is
open and all worlds, either by wing of fly
luk hDilAbb pJ ulT6Cb COMMUNICATION
from God, are learning that disloyalty aud
disobedience doom aud damn everything
they touch, and the spectacle practically
SAYS TO all the worlds: "ObeY God, keep
holy and stay in the orbit where you
were intended to swing, or you will suffer
that which that recreant world out
yonder has been suffering for thousands
Of years." 1t is no longer to me a mys-
terry why so small a world as ours was
oh tha frao A ON
demonstrate all the laws of earth and
heaven in q small laboratory, ten feet by
five, and our world was not too small to
demonstrate to the universe the awful
chemistry of unrighteousness, its explosive
and irving and consuming power. do not
believe there is a world that has been in
existence from the time when Copernicus,
the astronomer, knocked on the door of
heaven, to the world that last week came
within sight of the observatory at Green
witch, but has heard of our terrific terrestrial
experiment, and the awful object lesson has
thrilled the multi-millions OF stellar popula-
ton, especially when they heard that in
order TO arrest the disaster of centuries the
WorldMaker and the World Starter and
World-Upholder must give up his only son
TO assassination to explate and restore and
save the victims of the planetary ship
wreck.
On the tower Of Pharos, Egypt. metallic
mirror was raised which reflected all that
occurred both on land and sea for distance
of three hundred miles. aud so Egypt was
informed Of the coming of her enemies long
before their arrival. By what process
know not. but In some way this ship of a
struggling earth I think is mirrored TO dis
tant worlds. Surely this one experiment
of world unloosing itself from God will be
enough for all worlds, and all eternities
But notice that as other worlds rolled
into the first book of the Bible, the book OF
Genesis, they also appear in the last book OF
the Bible, the book of Revelation. They
| will take part IN the scenes OF
that occasion which shall be the
earth's winding up and a tremendous
occasion for you and me personally. My
| father was on the turnpike road between
Trenton and Bound Brook, N. j. He was
coming through the night from the legis.
larive halls, where he was serving his state,
to his home, where there was sickness.
often heard him tell about it. 1t was the
night of the 18th and the morn
| ing of the 18th of November, 1888
The sky was cloudless and the all
clear. Suddenly the whole heavens be-
came a scene never to be forgotten. From
the constellation Leo meteors began to
shoot out in all directions. For the two
hours between four and six in the morning
it was estimated that a thousand
meteors a minute flashed and ex.
pired. 1t grew lighter than MONDAY
! Arrows of fire. Balls OF fire. Trail: