The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24

two hSheS, eXpenGlnH no more oA oIer
ative power than was needed. aste
not" God hath written all over tins
world. And do you suppose that COO
would waste world material in our solar
system to the amount of what has been
estimated as seven hundred trilllon miles
of solid contents, and that only small
part as compared with other systems
which go to make up this many stored
mansion of the text, where it says, sit
is he that huildeth his stories in the
heaven?'
Did Professor Herschel and his sister,
Catherine, in finding worlds find only
worlds uninhabited and waste! LIS
Ceres, which Piazzi discovered in 1901,
wasted? Is Vesta, that Olbers discovered
in 1907, wasted? Is Prosperine, which
Professor Luther discovered IN 1853,
wasted? Is Urania, which Professor
Hind discovered in 1854, wasted!
Is Pandora. discovered in 1858 by
Professor Searle, wasted? Are the
fifteen Thousand stars recorded in one
year in the observatory at Washington
| wasted? Is all except the billionth part
of the universe wasted? My hearers, is
it possible that God would run such
splendid passenger train of parlor cars
| through the heavens and keep it running
| if there were no passengers! .33}a
| Judging from the extent of the uni
verse. do you think God would put all
his family on such limits as this world
marks? If a king have palace OF
one hundred rooms, will he put all
his princes and princesses in one
comparatively small room? AS the
highest happiness is in making others
happy, is it not certain that God
would occupy larger places than our
small earth with beings capable of
happiness? Besides this, why all the
worlds farthest on and farthest up
covered with light? What is the use
of light il there are no eyes OF inhablt-
ants to enjoy and employ that light?
OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.
1 admit that scientific exploration has
| discovered that around many worlds
there is an atmosphere in which lungs
like ours could not breathe, and there
are heats or colds that physique like
| ours could not endure. But do you
suppose that we have the only kind of
lungs that God can make? Do our
| bodies exhaust divine ingenuity, and
must he make all intelligent creatures
with our respiration or pulsation or
mastication OF digestion or habitude, or
not make them at all? Because organ
| isms like ours cannot live in Mercury or
Saturn or Jupiter or the sun we have no
right to conclude that those globes are
lifeless.
Without any telescope and without
any observatory and without any astro-
nomical calculation, I know that the
other worlds are inhabited, because my
Bible and my common sense tell me so.
1t has been estimated that in the worlds
belonging to our solar system there is
room for at least twenty-five trillion of
population. And l believe it is all oc
cnpied or will be occupied by intelligent
beings. God will not fill them with
brutes. He would certainly put into
those worlds beings intelligent enough
to appreciate the architecture, the color
ing, the grandeur, the beauty, the har-
mony of their surroundings
Yea, the inhabitants of those worlds
have capacity Of locomotion like ours,
for they would not have had such spa
cious opportunity for movement if they
had not powers of motion. Yea, they
have sight, else why the light and hear
ing; else how get on with necessary Ian
| guage and how clear themselves from
advancing perils? Yea, as God made our
| =, bo
ably made the inhabitants of other worlds
in his own image-in other words, it is
as near demonstration as care to have
/ it, that while the inhabitants of other
worlds have adaptations of bodily struc-
ture to the particular climate in which
they dwell, there is yet similarity Of
mental and spiritual characteristics
| among all the inhabitants of the uni
verse of God, and made in his image
they are made wonderfully alike.
Now what should be the practical re-
| suit of this discussion founded on Scrip
ture and common sense? 1t is first of all
| to enlarge our ideas of God and so in
tensify our admiration and worship.
Under such consideration how much
more graphic the Bible question, which
seems to roll back the sleeve of the AL
mighty and say, ''Hast thou an arm like
God?'' The contemplation also en-
courages us with the thought thatif God
made all these worlds and populated
them it will not be very much of an un-
dertaking for him to make our little
world over again and reconstruct the
character of its populations as by grace
| they are to be reconstructed.
| SCIENCE AND REVELATION.
/ What monstrosity of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen
not to the voices of other worlds, al
though the book says, "The heavens de-
clare the glory of God, !" and again, "The
works of the Lord.Are great and to be
| sought out. Howmuch have you sought
them out? You have been satisfying
yourself with some things about Christ,
| but have you noticed that Paul calls you
to consider Christ as the creator of other
worlds, shy whom also he made the
worlds"
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