Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-19

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me IA not that he could step and start
again those two worlds IN Jpshua's time,
int that he could have made the wheel
" worlds Of which the sun and moon
are only cogs, and keep that wheel roll
ing for thousands Of years--the Hywbeel
Of all eternity.
n an engineer can start long train
ID is not surprising that he can stop H.
n God could make and move the uni
verse, which IL an express train drawn
by en omnipotent engine, am not sur
prised that for part Of day he could
put down the brakes on two pieces Of
the rotating machinery. Infidelity l.
hard up for ground of complaint agains'
the Scriptures when IL finds fault with
that cessation of stellar and lunar travel.
Here is my watch. could not make q
watch if tried, but can stop 1t and
start 1t again.
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 comparatively small rum-
Der of them have names given them by
scientists. IL astronomers can give a
name to whole constellation or galaxy
they think they do well, but God has n
name for each star in all immensity
Inspired David declares of God, "Ho
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 waits
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 chill
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
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.
Oh, the stars! Those vestal fires kept
burning on infinite affairs. Those light
houses on the coast of eternity The
hands and weights and pendulum of the
great clock of the universe. According
to Hcrschel, the so called fixed stars are
not fixed at all, but each one a sun with
mighty system of worlds rolling round
it, and this whole system with all the
other systems rolling on around some
other great center-millions and mil
lions, billions and billions, trillions and
trillions, quadrillions and qnadrillions!
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 now inhabit.
Have You taken this idea of all the other
worlds being inhabited as human guess
work? Read Isaiah, forty-fifth 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 of a bucket"
If all the inhabitants of this world are
as drop of a bucket, where are the other
drops Of the bucket? Again and again
the Bible speaks of the host of heaven,
and the word Ghost" means living crea-
lures, not inert masses, and the express
sion "hosts of heaven" must mean in
habitants of other worlds. The psalm
list cries out, "Thy mercy is great above
the heavens" If there We're no inhabi-
tants above the heavens, what use of
any mercy Again, the Bible exclaims,
"rhy goodness is great above the heav-
ems" What could be the use of his
goodness above the heavens if there
were no inhabitants to enjoy it? Again,
the Bible says, He has set thy glory
above the heavens" And here my text
comes in with its idea of mansion Of
many stories, "lt 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
upholstered rooms, and the more bril-
liantly chandeliered rooms above it are
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