Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-22

with our respiration or pulsation or mas
tication or digestion or habitude or not
make them ut slls Because organisms like
ours cannot live IN Mercury or Saturn or
Jupiter OF the sun we have no right 70
eanclude That those globes are liieless.
Without any telescope and without any
observatory and without any astronomical
calculation know that the other worlds
are inhabited. because my Bible and my
common sense tell me SO.
IL has been estimated that in the worlds
belonging 10 our solar system there is
room fol II Least twenty-five trillion Of
5popumiion. sud believe il is all
occapied 81 viii be occupied by intelligent
beings God viii not fiji them with brutes.
He would certainly put into those worlds
beings intelligent enough to appreciate
the architecture the coloring the gran
deur, the beauty, the harmony Of their
surroundings Yea, the inhabitants of
those worlds have capacity of locomotion
like ours, for they would not have had such
spacious opportunity for movement if
they had not powers Of motion.
! Yea, they have sight, else why the light
and hearing, else how get on with neces-
EarY language and how clear themselves
from advancing perils. Yea, as God made
our human race IN his own image he prob
ably made the inhabitants Of other worlds
in his own image-in other words, 1t is rs
near demonstration as ] care TO have it
that, while the inhabitants Of other worlds
have adaptations of bodily structure to the
particular climate in which they dwell,
there is yet similarity Of mental and spirit
ual characteristics among all the inhabi-
tants OF the universe of God and made in
!
+ TIE ARM OF COD.
/ Now, what should be the practical result
of this discussion founded on Scripture and
common senses II is first of all to enlarge
our ideas of God, aud SO intensity our adj
miration and worship. Under such con
/ sideration, how much more graphic the
/ Bible question which seems 20 roll back
/ the sleeve Of the Almighty and say, Hast
thou an arm like Godg" The eontempla-
I tion also encourages MS with the thought
that If God made all these worlds and pop
ulated them 1t viii not be very much Of
an undertaking for him TO make our little
world over again and reconstruct the char
acter Of its populations rs by grace they
are to be reconstructed
What a monstrosity Of ignorance that
the majority OF Christian people listen not
to the voices OF other worlds, although the
Book says. THE heavens declare the glory
of God" and again, "The works of the
Lord are great and TO be sought out"
How much have you sought them outf
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, by
whom also he made the worlds" IL is
time you Christians start on a world hunt.
That is the chief reason why Col makes
the night-that you may see other worlds.
Go out tonight and look up at the great
clock Of the heavens Listen to the silvery
chime Of the midnight sky. See that your
children and grandchildren mount the
heavens with telescope for alpenstock,
leaping from activity Of light to ACTIVITY
of light. What beautiful and sublime
thing that John Quincy Adams, the ex-
president, borne down with years, under
took az the peril Of bis life the journey
from Washington TO Cincinnati that he
might lay the cornerstone of the pier Of
the great refracting telescope and there
making his last orationi
What a service for all mankind when in |
1929 Lord Rcsse lifted on the lawn Of his |
castle, eighty miles from Dublin, a tele- /
scope thar revealed worlds as fast as they |
could roll IN, and that started an enthu- |
siasm which this moment concenters the |
ewes of many of the most devout in al /
parts Of the earth on celestial discovery! \
Thank God that we know where our own /
world g. bounded on all sides by realms OF /
glory, instead Of being where Hesiod in his /
poetry described it 10 be-namely. half way /
between heaven and hell; an anvil hurled 1
out of heaven, taking ten days to strike 4
al .fs.A
ten more days TO strike perdition;
From the high heaven brazen anvil cast
Nine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last
And reach the earth the tenth, whence strong
ly hurled,
The same the passage to III Internal world.
/ thank God that we have found out that
our world is not half way between heaven
and hell, but Is in sisterhood of light, and
that this sisterhood joins all the other sis
terhoods Of worlds moving round some
great homestead, which is no doubt heay-
en-, where God IS and our departed Chris
tian friends are, and we ourselves through
pardoning mercy expect TO become perma-
nent residents.
Tits WORLDS MORAL LAW.
Furthermore, I GET u0w from all this an
answer to thc question which every intel
ligent man and woman since the earth
has stood has asked and received no am
swer Why did Gcd it5 sin and sorrow
come into the wolld when ne could have
prevented them inm coming. lwish rev
erently rs say thiu6 2 Aave found the rea-
son. To seep tie universe l5yal TO holy
God it was impostarl 81 some world
somewhere 20 demonstrate the gigantic
disaster tiri ror 70 eorne un7n any world
that allowed sin % glte8 Which world
should i5 BE-; Wei. the smaller she world
the better. fGr less urH4slI. would suffer
So our world Ma selected Tic stage was
plenty large enousn Cor thc enactment Of
the Tragedy Batter uu tAe siage sin, fol-
lowed b. murder. pain. theft, fraud. inn
purity, falselooa, H.as-Gege, war and All
the aboinirasi1:s and horrors and agonies
Of centuries
Although we know GOD rrmtively little
about the cther worlds lesl sic Become
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