The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-23

again those two worlds In Joshua's time,
but that he could have made the wheel
of worlds of which the sun and moon
are only cogs, and keep that wheel roll.
ing for thousands of years-the flywheel
Of all eternity,
If an engineer can start a long train,
1t is not surprising that he can stop it.
If God could make and move the uni
verse, which is an express train drawn
by an omnipotent engine, am not sur
prised that for part of day he could
put down the brakes ON two pieces Of
the rotating machinery. Infidehty il
hard up for ground of complaint against
the Scriptures when it finds fault viii.
that cessation of stellar and lunar travel,
Here is my watch. | could not make a
watch if tried, but ! can stop it and
start il again.
My difficulty is not that God could
stop two worlds and start them again,
but that he could make them at all as he
did make them. What pleases me and
astounds me more is that each one of
the millions of worlds has God given
name, Only Il comparatively small num-
Der Of them have names given them by
scientists. If astronomers can give a
name to whole constellation or galaxy
they think they do well, but God has !
name for each star in all imnrnsity
Inspired David declares of God, HE
telleth the number of the stars; he call,
eth them all by their names"
They are not orphans that have never
been christened, They are not waits
of the night. They are not unknown
ships on the high seas of immensity,
They belong to family of which q od
is the Father, and as you call your chill
dren Benjamin or Mary or BERTHA or
Addison or Josephine so he calls all the
infant worlds and all the adult worlds
by their first name, and they know it ms
well as though there We're only one child
of light in all the divine family. He
calleth them all by their Names" and
when he calls, | warrant they come.
Oh, the stars! Those vestal 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. According
to HcrscEel, the so called fixed stars are
not fixed at all, but each one sun with
a mighty system of worlds rolling round
it, and this whole system with all the
other systems rolling on around some
other great center-millions and mil
lions, billions and billions, trillions ana
trillions, quadrillions and quadrillions!
THE INHABITED WORLDS.
But what gladdens me, and at tho
same time overwhelms me, is that those
worlds are inhabited The Bible says
so, and what small idea you must
have of God and his dominion if you
think it only extends across this chip of
a world which you and l now inhabit.
Have you taken this idea of all the other
worlds being inhabited as human guess
work? Read Isaiah, forty-ffth chap
ter, eighteenth verse, s'Thus saith the
Lord that created the heavens, God
himself that formed the earth and
made it; he hath established it, he
created it not in vain, he formed it
to be Inhabited Now, if he inhabited
the earth 50 that it would not be created
in vain, would he make worlds hundreds
and thousands of times larger and not
have them Inhabited? Speaking of the
inhabitants Of this world, he says, "The
nations are as the drop of bucket"
If all the inhabitants of this world are
as drop of Il bucket where are the other
drops of the bucket? Again and again
the Bible speaks of the host of heaven,
and the word Ghost" means living crea-
lures, not inert masses, and the expires
sion Ghosts of heaven" must mean in
habitants of other worlds. The psalm
ist cries out, "Thy mercy is great above
the heavens" If there were no inhabi-
tants 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 if there
were no inhabitants to enjoy it? Again,
the Bible says, He has set thy glory
above the heavens" And here my text
comes in with it's idea of mansion of
many stories, at is he that buildeth his
stories IN the heaven.
Is it possible that we who live on the
ground floor of this many stored build
ing are the only tenants, and that the
larger rooms, and the more gorgeously
liantly chandeliered rooms above it are
uninhabited? Beside this we are posi-
lively told in the Bible that two other
worlds are inhabited-the world angelic
and the world diabolic Those two
worlds added to our own make it posi-
tive that three worlds are inhabited
Why then stop with three worlds of liv-
ing beings when there are not only mil
lions but billions of worlds? Are they
all standing like extensively furnished
houses in time of financial panic marked
80 Let, and no one to take them? All
around us in this world we see economy
of omnipotence.
If Christ was going to feed the hun
CRY seven thousand in the wilderness.
he made use of the boys five loaves and
two fishes, expanding no more of Gre.
alive power than was needed. "Waste
not God hath written all over this
world. And do you suppose that God
would waste world material in our solar
system to the amount of what has been
estimated as seven hundred trillion 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, at
is he that buildeth his stories in the
heaven!"
Did Professor Herschel and his sister,
Catherine, in finding worlds find only
worlds uninhabited and waste? Is
Ceres, which Piazzi discovered in 1901,
wasted? Is Vesta, that Oilers discovered
in 1897, wasted? Is Prosperine, which
Professor Luther discovered in 1853
wasted? Is Urania, which Professor
| Hind discovered in 1854, wastedi
| 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 Ill except the billionth part
of the universe wastedp My hearers, is
/ it possible that God would run such 6
/ splendid passenger train of parlor cars