The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-23

lar and lunar travel. Here Is my watch.
I could not make a watch II ] tried, but
I can stop and start IL again.
q the stars: Those vcstal 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. Accord
ing 10 Hcrschcl the so-called fixed stars
are not fixed at all, but each one a sun
| with a mighty system of worlds rolling
round II, and this whole system with
all the other systems rolling on around
SOME other great center.
hat 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 II you
think II only extends across this chip of
q world which you and ! now inhabit.
Have you taken this idea of all the
other worlds being inhabited as human
guess work? Read Isaiah, xiv, 10:
''rhus saith the Lord that created the
heavens God Himself that formed the
earth and made Ii; lie hath established
10, He created IL not In vain, He formed
| IL To be inhabited" Now, IL He inhab-
tied the earth so that IL would not be
created In vain, would He make worlds
| hundreds and thousands of times larger
| and not have them inhabited? Speak,
ing Of the inhabitants of this world,
lie says 1.-THE nations are as
n drop NJ u bucket" II all the
inhabitants OF this world are as a drop
| Of q 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 creatures,
not inert masses, and the expression
Ghosts Of Heaven must mean inhabit-
ants Of other worlds. The psalmist
cries out: Thy mercy is great above
the heavens" IL there were no inhab-
itants above the heavens, what use of
any mercy Again, the Bible exclaims:
THY goodness is great above the heav-
ems" What could be the use of His
goodness above the heavens II there
were no inhabitants TO enjoy IL? Again,
the Bible says: "He hath set thy glory
above the heavens" And here my text
comes in with its idea of a mansion of
many stories: at Is lie that buildeth
His stories In the heaven" Is II pos
siblc that We who live on the ground
fioOr Of this many storied building are
the only tenants and hat the larger
rooms and the more gorgeously up
holstercd rooms Ind the more brilliant
ly chandelieredrooms above IL are un-
inhabited?
Besides this we are positively told in
the Bible that two other worlds are in
h~abitcd-the world angelic and the
world diabolic. Those two worlds add
ed to our own make 1t positive that
three worlds are inhabited Why, then,
stop with three worlds of living beings
when there are not only millions, but
billions Of worlds? Are they all stand.
ing like extensively furnished houses
In time Of financial panic marked etc
Let" and no one to take them? All
around ~ In this world we see economy
, Of omnipotence. II Christ was
going to feed the hungry 1000 in the
: wilderness, He. made use of the boy.
five loaves and two fishes, expanding
no more of creative power than was
needed. "Waste not" God hath writer
all over this world. And do you sup
pose that God would waste world mate
rial in a solar system to the amount
> OF what has been estimated as sever
: hundred trillion miles Of solid contents
and that only n small part as compare,
, with other systems which go To maxi
: up tins many-storied mansion of thu
; text, where 1t says: 1T Is He tina
buildeth His stories in the heaven"
! Judging from the extent Of the uni
verse, do you think God would put al
: his family on such limits as this worl
marks? II q king have a palace of on
hundred rooms, will he put all hi
princes and princesses in n compare
! lively small room? As the highest har
piness Ii In making others happy, Is
$ not certain hat God would occup
: larger places than our small earth wit
. beings capable of happiness? Beside
; this why all the worlds furthest O
5 and furthest up covered with light
What In the use Of light II there are n
= eyes Of inhabitants to enjoy and en-
ploy that light? admit that ~scientif
exploration has discovered that eroun
many worlds there Is an atmosphere j
- which lungs like our could nj
= breathe, and there IRE heats or colo
that physique like ours could not ei
dure. But do you suppose thu
!, we have the only kind of lungs tina
God can make? DO our bodies exhau'
Divine ingenuity and must he make a
:, intelligent creatures with our respir,
N ton or pulsation or mastication or d
gcstion or habitude or not make the
"A at allie Because organisms like oul
w. cannot live In Mercury or Saturn
Jupiter Or the sun, we have no right
conclude that those globes are lifeles
without any observatory and witho'
~ any astronomical calculation, l kno'
:. that the other worlds are inhabited b
"a cause my Bible and my common sens
:. tell me 10 II has been estimated thu
IA in the worlds belonging to our soil
Il, system there is room for at least %, 00t
- 0OO. 900 Of population. And ! believeit
:, all occupied or will be occupied by
telligent beings. God will not I'LL the
~, with brutes
he What o monstrosity Of ignorance tn
an the majority of Christian people listt
= not IN the voices NJ other worlds. n