Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22

lures when II finds fault with that eessa-
tion Of stellar and lunar travel. Here Is
my watch. ] could not make a watch II
tried, but can stop It and start 1t again.
Ny difficulty is not that God could stop
two worlds and start them again, but that
be could make them at all as he did make
them. What pleases me and astounds me
more is that each enc Of the millions OF
worlds has a God given name. Only a
small number Of them have
names given them by scientists.
II astronomers can give q name TO
whole constellation or galaxy, they think
they do well, but God has a name for each
star in all immensity. Inspired David de-
clared of God, HE telleth the number OF
the stars; he calleth them all by their
names" They are not orphans that have
never been christened. They are not waits
of the night. They are not unknown ships
on the high seas of immensity. They be-
long to a family Of which God is the
Father, and as you call your children Ben
jamin 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 well 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.
THE STARRY HEAVENS.
Oh, the stars, 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 Her
schel the SO called fixed stars not fixed at
all, but each one sun with a mighty sys-
TEN of worlds rolling around it, and this
whole system with all the other systems
rolling on around some other great center!
Millions and millions, billions and billions,
trillions and trillions, quadrillions and
quadrillions!
But what gladdens me and at the same
time overwhelms me is that those worlds
are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what
a small idea you must have of God and his
dominion if you think it only extends
across this chip of world which you and
now inhabit! Have you taken this idea
of all the worlds being inhabited as human
guessworkP 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 es-
tablished it; he created it not in vain; he
formed it to be inhabited" Now, if he in
habited 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 of bucket
If all the inhabitants of this world are as
drop of bucket, where are the othel
drops of the bucket? Again and again tht
Bible speaks of the hosts of heaven, anC
the word "host" means living creatures
not inert masses, and the expression Ghost!
of heaven" must mean inhabitants of othel
worlds. The psalmist cries out, "Thy
mercy is great above the heavens" If thert
were no inhabitants above the heavens
what use of any mercy? Again, the Bibl'
exclaims, "Thy goodness is great above th'
heavens" What could be the use Of hi
goodness above the heavens If there wer'
no inhabitants to enjoy iti Again, th'
Bible says, "He has set thy glory abov,
the heavens" And here my text comes IL
with it's idea of mansion of many stories
IL Is ut blttU UulLuCIA A1o oIOLACo III bA
heaven"
Is it possible that we who live on tn
ground floor of this many storied building
are the only tenants, and that the large
rooms and the more gorgeously upholsteret
rooms and the more brilliantly chande
| Iered rooms above it are uninhabited
Besides this we are positively told in tn
Bible that two other worlds are inhabite
the world angelic and the world diabolic
Those two worlds added to our own max
it positive that three worlds are inhabited
Why then stop with three worlds of livin
beings when there are not only million
but billions of worlds? Are they all stand
ing like expensively furnished houses i
time of financial panic marked ITO Let
and no one to take them?
THE DIVINE ECONOMY.
All around us in this world we see ecor
cmy of omnipotence. If Christ was goin
to feed the hungry seven Thousand in th
wilderness, he made use of the boys fiv
loaves and two fishes, expending no MOI
of creative power than was needed. "Wast
not" God hath written all over this work.
And do not suppose that God would vast
world material in our solar system to th
amount of what has been estimated 6
seven hundred trillion miles of solid col
tents, and that only small part as con
pared with other systems which go
make up this many storied mansion of I'll
text where it says, 1T is he that buildet
his stories in the heaven" -
Did Professor Herschel and his siste
Catherine, in finding worlds find onl
worlds uninhabited and waste? Is Cere
which Piazzi discovered in 1901, wastet
Is Vesta, that Olbers discovered in $50
wastedi Is Prosperine, which Profess
Luther discovered i'll 1858, wasted?
Urania, which Professor Hind discovere
in 1854, wasted? Is Pandora, discovered
1858 by Professor Searle, wasted? Are IL
fifteen thousand stars recorded in one yei
in the observatory at Washington WASTED
Is all except the billionth part of the ur
verse wastedS
My hearers, is it possible that God wou
run such splendid passenger train of pa
: lor cars through the heavens and keep
running if there were no passengersp Jud
ing from the extent of the universe, do yC
think God would put all his family on sui
limits as this world marksi If XIII
have palace of one hundred rooms, w.
, he put all his princes and princesses in OF
comparatively small room? AS the hig
est happiness is in making Others happ
is it not certain that God would occul
larger places than our small earth wi
beings capable of happinessH Besides tht
why are all the worlds farthest on al
farthest up covered with light? What
the use of light if there are no eyes of i
: habitants to enjoy and employ that light
I l admit that scientific exploration b
{ discovered that around many worlds the
e Is an atmosphere in which lungs like ou
e could not breathe, and there are heats
5 colds that physiques like ours could not e
l dure. But do you suppose that we ha
: the only kind Of lungs that God can max
i, Do aur bodies exhaust divine ingenuit
= aad must he make all intelligent creatur
with our respiration or pulsation or ma
= tication or digestion or habitude or n
make them at all? Because organisms II
I nurs cannot live in Mercnrv or Saturn