Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-12-30
4. q. BISHOP, Island Pond. VI

! worlds.
1t is time you Christians start on world
hunt. That is the chief reason why God
J MAKES the niZht-that you may see otner
worlds. Go out tonight aui lo1I at the
great cloc OF the hsavens Listen to tina
J silvery chime OF the midnight SKY. Ses that
your children ami grauichil iren mount the
helvens with % escope for alpsnstocs, leap
ing from accivity OF light to activity OF
light. What a beautiful an1 subj ne thing
that John Quincy Adams. the eK-president,
borne down with years un isrtook at ths
Dertl OF his life ths journey from Wash ing
ton TO Cincinnati that he mi Sht lay tha cor.
nerstons OF the p er of the great refractiug
telescope AMI thare making his last grafton
What servics for all mankind wnen in
lS39 Lord Rosss htts / on the lava OF his
castle, eighty miles from Du 1lin, a telescope
that revealed worlds as fast as they puld
roll in, and that started an euthusia ,m which
this moment conceuters tire eyes OF many of
the most devout in all parts OF the earth on
celestial discovery. Thank Col that we
now know where our own worli Is bounded
on all sides by realms OF glory insteai OF
being whsre desot in his poetry described
1t To be-nlnsly, half way between heaven
and hell, an anvil hurled out OF heaven,
taxing ton days to strike the earth, and
hurried out of earth, taxing ten more days to
strike per iition:
From the high heaven q brazen anvil cast,
Nine days ani nlk hts In rs2il wairls would last
Ana reach the eartl the telth; whence strongly
huriei,
The came the passage to tn Internal world.
thank Goi that we nave found Que that
our world is not half way between heaven
an hell, but Is 10 a sisternoo OF light and
that tas sisterhooi joins all the 9th Or sister
hooi is OF worl l., moving rouEt some great
homestead, which is no douot heaven, whsre
Col Is aut our departed Christian friends
IVA nt1r alyna fhrAs, IL -
mercy expect 10 become permanent residents
Furthermore, get now from ali this an
answer to the question wnich every intelli-
| gent man an wo nan slncs the earth has
stoot has asked and received no answer
why di Col let sin AMI sorrow come into
the world when He could have prevented
tnsm fro n co:ningf wish revereutIy to
say think nave found the reason. To
keep tbs universe loyal to a Holy God, It
was important in soma world somewhere to
demonstrate the gigantic disasters that
wouli come upon any world tnat aIlo we'd
sin TO enter. Which world should II
beS We'll, the smaller the worlu tue bet
ter, for less numbers would suffer- Sc
our world was selected. The stage was
plenty large enough for the enactment OF
the tragedy. Eater on the stage SIN, fol-
lowed by murder, pain, theft, frau 1, i'm
purity, fasedooi, massacra war and all the
abomln1tiolI aui horrors and agonies OF
cedturies Althouy yh we know conf mparatively
little about tue other worl is lest we become
| completely dissatstis with our own, no
douot the Other worlds have helri aud are
now hearln, all about this world in the aw-
ful experiment OF sin whicn the human race
has been making.
lu some way interste.lsr comm unication
is opsn, ant all worlds either by wing of
flying spirit or oy direct CO nun unlc alton
! from Col are learuin, that dis,oyalty ani
"A G1h ma n Il es,t- ~,
they toucn, ami the spectacle practically
| says to all other worlds: 'Ooay God keep
| hoy aud stag in the orbit wners You wers
| lnten1ed To swing, or you will suffer that
whlcl that recretl6 world out yJn lee has
been suffering for ttJuiants of years" 1t
is no on ser To mo a mystery way 50 small q
world as ours was clo,el for the ira zedy.
A cIemiSt can demonstrates all aae laws of
earth aud haven In a small laboratory, ten
feet by live, and our worll was not too
snail TO demonstrate TO the universe the
AWFUL chemistry OF uprghteousness, its ex-
p!osive and irving anu consuming power.
do not believe that there is a world that
has been in eX,stence from the time when
CoDernicuI tue astronomer, knocSs1
on the door OF heaven, to the world that
last week came within sight OF toe oo-
seryitory at Greenwici /, but has heard of
| our terrific terrestiIi exparim ent and the
awful outset lesson has thrLlled the multi
millions OF steller population, especially
wnen they heard that in order to arrest the
disaster OF centuries the World Maker and
the Worli Starter and the Worll Uplolder
must givs up tilS only Sol to assa ssihation
| TO eSplate an restore AMI save the yictims
OF tue planetary sniowrscS.
| On tue tower OF Ph1ros Egypt, metallic
mirror wlSrais.d wnlch rea .ctsl oil that
occurred botn on land and sea for a distance
OF three hun Irei mics, ani 80 EsyJt was
1 ,-ln r.Ff 3 -
before their ARRIVAL By what proces is /
know not, but in some way this ship of a
stru ggling eartu, | think, is mirroreI to
! distant worlds. Surely this one experiment.
| or world uuooslng itself from Goi will
| be enough for all worlds and all eternities,
| But notice tn It as otas- worlds role in-
20 the first booS OF the Bible, the book OF
! Genesis they also APPEAR in tho last book OF
the Bible, the BOOK OF Revelation. They
will take part In the scenes o. tast occasion,
which shall be tae earChs win ling up and a
tremendous OCCASION for you aui me per.
| sonaily. My father was on tue turnpike
roa | netweea Trenton ami Bouni Brook.
New Jersey. He was coming through the
night from the leyist itiv5 halls, waere. ne
was serving mis- State, to his home where
there was sickness. oftea heard him tell
about it. 1t was the night of the 18th and
the morning OF the 18th of Novemb.r, 1888.
The sky was clou LESS and the air clear
Suddenly the whole heavens became a scene
never to be forgotten. From the constelia-
| ton Leo meteors began to shoot out in all
directions For the twJ hours between four
and SIX In the morning it was estimated tnat
| thousand meteors minute flashed ami ex-
pired. 1t grew lighter than MONDAY. Ar
| rows OF fire. Balls OF fire. Trails of fire.
| Slowerso OF fire. Some OF the appearances
were larger than the full moon. All around
the heavens exploslol followed explosion.
Sounis as well as sights. Tne air filled
with uproar. All the iuminaries OF the sky
seemed to have received marcning orders.
Tue heavens rio5ed and interlaced and gar
landed with meteoric display. From hori-
zJn to horizon everything in combustion
and conhagratlon.
The sp4c5ac.e csaSei not until the rising
| sun of the November morniny eclipssd IL,
and the whole American nation sat down
exhausted with the agitations of night to
bs me norable until the earth itself shall be-
coms falling star. The Bible closes with
sucn a scene OF falling lights-not only
higety msteata but grave old stars st.
Jonn saw II in proSp4 4ct and wrote, "fhe
stars OF heaven fell unto ths earth, even as
n ts tree casteth her untimely figs when she
Is saaken OF miglty wind" WHAT time
there will be wnen worlds dropl Rain OF
planets. Gravitation letting loose her grip
on worlis. Consultations q ying apart. Gal.
axies dissolved.
The great orchard of the universe, swept
by the last hurricane, letting down the stars
ike ripened fruit. Our old earth will 20
with the rest, and let it go, for it will have
existed long enou 5h to complete its trsmsn.
dous experiment But there will be enough
worlds left to make heaven out OF it IL any
more heaven needs to be built. That day
finding Us in Carist, our nature regenerated
and our sins pardoned, aud our hope trium-
phant, We will feel no more alarm than