Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-12-30
REV. DIR. TAlMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: "GoD AMONG THE STARS .

TRxT: IN IS He t4at buiideth His storie,
IN the heauen."-A nos H., g.
Preceding the sermon the congregation
sang Isaac Watts's hvmn:
The heavens declare Thy glory, lord,
In every stsr Thy wisdom shines.
That is first rate poetry from Amos the
herdsman. While guarding his hocks at
night he got watching the heavens. HI.
saw stars above stars, and the universe
seemed to him like a great mansion many
stor' es high. silver room above silver room,
silver pillars beside silver pillars, and win.
| dows OF silver and doors OF silver and tur.
rets and domes Of silver rising into tue in.
mensities, and tho prop Iet's sanctifiei
imagination walks through that great silver
| palace OF the universe, through the first
story, through the second story throuZh the
third story, through the twentieth story,
through the hun reth story, through the
thousandth story, and realizing that God IL
the architect and carpenter AMI mason Of
| all that upheaved splendor, he cries out In
the words Of the text cit Is He that build.
eth His stories in the heaven"
Ny hearers, 1t is time Il a we widened
| out AMI heightened our religious thoughts
| In our pulpits aud Sabbath classes and
| Christian work OF all sorts We ring the
| changes on a few verses OF Scripture until
they excite no interes'. Many OF the best
parts of the Bible have never yet been
| preached from or indeed even noticed.
| Hence | to-day begin a series OF sermons.
not for consecutive Sabbath" mornings, but
| as often as think it best for varIety's sake.
on the astronomy OF the Bible, or God
among the stars; the geology of the Bioe.
| or God among the rocks; the ornthology
Of the Bible. or God among tho
birds; the ichthyology Of the Bitle.
or god among the fishes; the POM
ology OF the Bible OF Col among tn,
orchards; the precious stones of the Bible, or
God among the amethysts; the conchology
| OF the Bible, or God anon, the shells; the
botany OF the Bible, or Goi among the
| flowers: the chronology OF the Bible or God
| among the centuries. Ths fact il that we
have all spent too much inc on one story
Of the great mansion OF Gods universe. We
need occasionally to 60 upstairs or down
stairs IN this mansion; down stairs aud 10
| the cellar study the rocSs, or up stairs an
see God in some OF the high ,r stories AMI
learn the meaning of the ts1t when it says,
| at is he that bull ieth HIS stories in the
| heaven
Astronomy was born In Chaliea. Its
| mother was astrology, or the science OF fore.
telling events by juxtapostlon OF stars The
| orientals living much out OF doors AMI in a
| very clear atmo 'plere, through which the
stars shone especially uStrous, got the haoit
| oil studying the night heavens. In the hot
seasons caravans journeyei chiefly at niSat,
and that gave travellers much opportunity OF
stellar in 'ormatop. On the first page OF the
| Bib.e the sun AMI moon aud stars roll in
The sun, body OF nearly three million m 10,
| in circumference and more than tweve
! thousand times As large as our earth: the
moon, moro than Two thousan miles In d.
| ameter.
D,,y e., 4 q 1t.
| an onnpotent scile taat Hs Ia .es only on,
verse TO tell OF this stellar AMI lunar m,au.
| facture. Yea, IN three words all the 9th n
| worlds are thrown in. Tho record SAYS
"rhe stars also" 1t takes whole pa 20: for
a man TO extol the making OF "A TELESCOPE or
| microscope, or magnetic telegraph or a
| thre>hing machine. or to describe a fins
painting or statue, but 1t was so easy for G ii
| to hang the celestial upholstery that tue
story is complsSe IN one verse: "Goi made
two great lights; the greatar hGht to RUE
! the day and the lesser Eght to rule the night.
| The stars alsow
| Astronomers nave bsen trying TO call the
roll of them ever since an they have
counted multtu les OF then pa Ssing in re.
view before the o1ServatocIes built at vast
| expense, and the SIZE an number OF those
| heavenly bodies have take IN tho utmost
| the scientists OF al ages. But G. ii finishes
| all He has 10 saw about them in thres words
| The stars a, so" That IS Mars with 1t more
than htty-hve million square mll,S an /
| Venus with its more tdan one hunir.l an
ninetyon million square miles. an
| Saturn with its more than nineteen
billion square miles AMI Juoiter with
| its more than twenty-four billion
square miles, AMI all the planets OF our
| system of more than seventy-egnt
| billion square miles, and those stars OF our
System when compared with the stars OF ths
other systems as n handful of sand with all
| the Rocky Mountains and all the Alps
''The stars also" For brevity, for pon !er-
| osity, for splendor, for su ggestIveness, for
sublimity piled on sublmity, thess Hor Is
excel all that human spescl ever uttered o.
| human Imagination ever soarei after.
"rhe stars aisow 1t is put in a. you write
| a script-Something You tn III gut OF At
terward as har,lly worth putting into ths
body of letter. "fhe stars IA SOP
| Read on in your Bibles, and after awhie
the Bible flashes with the aurora borealis or
northern lights, that strange illumination,
as mysterious and un iefined now as wnen
in the book OF job it was written: Men SOC
not the bright light which is in the cou is.
| Fair weather cometh out Of the North"
While all the nations supposed that tne earth
was built on a foundation OF some sort and
many supposed that it stood on huge
turtle or some 9th sr great marine creature,
1oo kne" enough OF astronomy 10 say IL nal
no i."' uouhuaIoii' pu' "as susPeuuei on eue ln'
"He hangeth the earth UPON notRinr,a
| While ali natio,s tbou hit ina earLn was
level, tho sky sprea over 1t like tent over
ma gIohulor circnIar savinv Of q M "He
sittetb unon the circle o9 the earth Ses
tbem gIitter in the scc,ptural sxy~AreturuS
Jrtt., fine pleisdes and the "Bear with her.
voa1e
w.,
| h'le runn'ng your myers among tne
ieaves OIL your bioie WIN tne astrohom, cal
enouSns mSolr MN !, you sse Two words
s.op-tee w anu cue moon but wnat uoes
mat IlrtssRn know ABOUT tnat miracle VINO
uoes noe uuS rstah somethins Oh tnos' Two
| lumlnaftasE Unless you watcu mo lerI as