Connecticut western news., 1892-12-22

ing for thousands of years-the hywheel of all eternity.
 If an engineer can start a long train, it is not surprising that he can stop it. If God could make and move the uni verse, which is an express train drawn by an omnipotent engine, I am not sur prised that for part of day he could put down the brakes on two pieces of the rotating machinery. In6delity is hard up for ground of complaint against the Scriptures when it finds fault with that cessation of stellar and lunar travel. Here is my watch. 1 could not make a watch ifI tried, but I can stop it and start it again. ..s.
 My difficulty is not that God could stop two worlds and start them again, but that he could make them at all as he did make them. What pleases me and astounds me more is that each one of the millions of worlds has God given name. Only a comparatively small num- Der of them have names given them by scientists. If astronomers can give a name to a whole constellation or galaxy they think they do well, but God has name for each star in all immensity. Inspired David declares of God, "He telleth the number of the stars; he call eth them all by their names"
 They are not orphans that have never been christened. They are not waifs of the night. They are not unknown ships on the high seas of immensity. They belong to family of which God is the Father, and as you call your chil- dren Benjamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or Josephine so he calls all the infant worlds and all the adult worlds by their first name, and they know it as we'll as though there were only one child of light in all the divine family. "He calleth them all by their names," and when he calls, warrant they come.
 Oh, the starsl Those vestal fires kept burning on infinite altars. Those light houses on the coast of eternity. The hands and weights and pendulum of the great clock of the universe. According to Hrrschel, the so called fixed stars are not fixed at all, but each one sun with mighty system of worlds rolling round it, and this whole system with all the other systems rolling on around home other great center-mill.ons and mil lions, billions and billions, trillions and trillions, quadrillions and quadrilionsl THE INHABITED WORLDS.
 But what gladdens me, and at the same time overwhelms me, is that those worlds are inhabited. The Bible says SO, and what small idea you must have of God and his dominion if you think it only extends across this chip of a world which you and I now inhabit. Have you taken this idea of all the other worlds being inhabited as human guess work? Read Isaiah, forty-ffth chap ter, eighteenth verse, "Thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited" Now, if he inhabited the earth so that it would not be created in vain, would he make worlds hundreds and thousands of times larger and not have them inhabited? Speaking of the inhabitants of this world, he says, "The nations are as the drop ofsa bucket" If all the inhabitants of this world are as drop of bucket, where are the other drops of the bucket? Again and again the Bible speaks of the host of heaven, and the word "host" means living crea- lures. not inert masses, and the expres- sion "hosts of heaven" must mean in- habitants of other worlds. The psalm ist cries out, ''Thy mercy is great above the heavens" If there were no inhabi- tants above the heavens, what use of any mercy? Again, the Bible exclaims, ''Thy goodness is great above the heav- ens." What could be the use of his goodness above the heavens if there were no inhabitants to enjoy it2 Again, the Bible says, "He has set thy glory above the heavens" And here my text comes in with its idea of 8 mansion of many stories, "It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven"
 Is it possible that we who live on the | ground floor of this many storied build | ing are the only tenants, and that the larger rooms, and the more gorgeously l upholstered rooms, and the more bril- | liantly chandeliered rooms above it are uninhabited2 Beside this we are posi- lively told in the Bible that two other | worlds are inhabited-the world angelic and the world diabolic. Those two | worlds added to our own make it posi- tive that three worlds are inhabited. ! Why then stop with three worlds of liv- ing beings when there are not only mil l lions but billions of worlds? Are they
 all standing like expensively furnished
 houses in time of financial panic marked
 "To Let," and no one to take them? All around us in this world we see economy
 of omnipotence.
 | If Christ was going to feed the hun gry .even thousand in the wilderness,
 he made use of the boys five loaves and
 two fishes, expending no more of ere.
 ativs power than was needed. "Waste
 not,' God hath written all over this
 world. And do you suppose that God
 would waste world material in our solar
 system to the amount of what has been
 estimated as seven hundred trillion miles
 of solid contents, and that only small
 part as compared with other systems
 which go to make up this many storied
 mansion of the text, where it says, "It
 is he that buildeth his stories in the
 heaven?"
 Did Professor Herschel and his sister
 Catherine, in finding worlds find only
 worlds uninhabited and waste? Ii
 Ceres, which Piazzi discovered in 1901
 wasted? Is Vesta, that Olbers discovered
 in 1907, wastedf Is Prosperine, which
 Professor Luther discovered in 1853
 wasted? Is Urania, which Professo,
 Hind discovered in 1854, wasted
 Is Pandora, discovered in 1858 by
 Professor Searle, wasted? Are tht
 fifteen thousand stars recorded in ons
 year in the observatory at Washington
 wasted? Is all except the billionth par
 of the universe wasted9 My hearers, i.
 it possible that God would run such (
 splendid passenger train of parlor carr
 through the heavens and keep it runninf