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

'ommpotent scare JnaJ ne taxes onU one
verse to tell CT this stellar and lunar man
'ufacture. Yea, in three words all the ether
worlds are thrown in. The record says,
The stars ats5l7
1t takes whole pages for man to sxtol
ths making ufsa telescope or microscope,
-ior magnetic telegraph, or a thrashing
smachine, or to- describe fine painting or
+>statue, but it WAS so easy for God to hang
7the celestial upholstery that the story is
F,compassed inAcne verse: "God made two
great lights-the greater light to rule the
! day and the aesser light to rule the night
The stars alsdT' Astronomers have been
trying to call the roll of them ever since,
and they havecounted multitudesrof them
passing in review before the obsepvatories
built at vast expense, and the size and
number of those heavenly bodies have
taxed to the utmost the scientists of all
ages. But God finishes all he has to say
about them in three words, +'Ebe stars
alsov'
That is Mars, with its more than fifty
{ five million square miles, and Venus, with
/ its more than one hundred and niHety-one
million square miles, and Saturn, with it's
more than nireteen billion square miles,
and Jupiter, with its more than twenty
-four billion square miles, and all the plan
let's OF our system of more than seventy
eight billion square miles, and these stars
lof our system, when compared with the
stars of the ether systems, as a handful
of sand compased with all the Rocky noun
tains and all the Alps '4The stars also!
For brevity, for ponderosity, for snlendor,
ffN,. i've fs1,, ii
sublimity, these words excel all that hui
man speech ever uttered or human imagi-
nation ever SCARED after, 'The stars also!'
it is put in as you write a postscript
something you thought of afterward as
hardly worth putting into the body of
letter. "The stars alson'
SCIENCE III THE BOOK OF JOE
Read on in your Bibles, and afterawhile
the Bible f1ashesswith the aurora borealis,
OF, northern lights, that strange illumina-
tim as mysterious and underlined now as
when in the book of Job it was written:
Men see not the bright light which is in
the. clouds. Fair weather cometh out of
the north" While all the nations sup
posed that the earth was built on founda-
ton of some sort. and many supposed that
it stood on huge turtle or some great
marine creature, Dob knew enough of
astronomy to say it had no foundation but
was suspended on the invisible arm of the
Almighty, declaring that She hangeth the
earth upon nothing" While all nations
thought the earth was level, the sky spread
over it like tent over a fiat surface,
Isaiah declared the world to be globular.
circular, saying of God, "He sitteth upon
the cirele,of the earth" See them glitter
in the Seriptural sky--Arcturus, Orion,
the Pleiades and the "bear with her
young"
While farnning your fingers among the
leaves of your Bible with the astronomical
thought in your mind yoGl see two worlds
stop-the sun and the mOon. But what
does that Christian know about that mir
acle who does not understand something
of those two luminariesl Unless you
watch modern astronomy put those two
worlds in its steelyards and weigh them
you are as ignorant as Hottentot about
the stupendousness Of that scene in the life
of Joshua. The snn, over three hundred
thousand times as heavy as our earth and
going thousands of miles the hourl Think
3f stopping that and starting It again
without the shipwreck of the universal
But / can easily believe it. What con-
POUNDS me is not that he could stop and
start again those two worlds in Joshna's
time. bnt that he could have made the
wheel of worlds of which the sun and
moon are only cogs and keep that wheel
rolling for thousands of years-the fly,
wheel Of all eternity. II an engineer can
start q. long train. it is not surprising that