The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-30


think it only extends across this chip of
a 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:
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 inhab-
tied the earth so that it would not be
created in vain, would He make worlds
4 hundreds and thousands of times larger
/ and not have them inhabited? Speak
| ing of the inhabitants of this world,
| He says: 1.-THE nations are as
| a drop of a bucket" If all the
| inha bitants of this world are as a drop
| OF a 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
hosts of Heaven" must mean inhabit-
ants of other worlds. The psalmist
I 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 if there
were no inhabitants to enjoy it? Again.
| the Bible says: HE hath set thy glory
above the heavens" And here nv text
| comes in with its idea of mansion of
many stories: at is He that buildeth
His stories in the heaven" Is it pos
sible that we who live on the ground
| floor of this many storied building are
| the only tenants and that the larger
rooms and the more gorgeOusly up
holstered rooms and the more brilliant
| " chandeliered rooms above it are I'M
| inhabi
Besides this we are positively told in
the Bible that two other worlds are in
| habited-the world angelic and the
world diabolic. Those two worlds add
ed to our own make it 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 ITO
| Let and no one to take them? All
around as in this " Orld we see economy
of omnipoteuce. If Christ was
going to feed the hungry 1000 in the
wilderness, He made use of the boys
| five loaves and two fishes, expanding
no more of creative power than was
needed. "Waste not" God hath written
1 III 4. III 4.
pose that God would waste world mate
rial in our solar system to the amount
| of what has been estimated as seven
hundred trilliOn miles of solid contents
and that only a small part as compared
with other systems which go to make
up this many-storied mansion of the
text, where it says: 1T is He that
buildeth His stories in the heaven"
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 king have a palace of one
hundred rooms, will he put all his
| princes and princeSses in one compare
| lively small room? As the highest hap
piness 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 furthest on
and furthest up covered with light?
What is the use of light if there are no
eyes of inhabitants to enjoy and en-
ploy that light? I 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 en-
dure. 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 respira-
ton or pulsation or mastication or di-
gestion or habitude or not make them
at all? Because organisms 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 observatory and without
any astronomical calculation, | know
that the other worlds are inhabited be-
cause 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 $1,000
600. 900 of population And / believeit Is
all occupied or will be occupied by in
telligent beings. God will not fill them
with brutes
| What a mOnstrOsity of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen
not to the voices of other worlds, al
though the Book says: The heavens
declare the glory of God" and, again;
THE works of the Lord are great and
to be sought out" You have been salts
| fying yourself with some things about
Christ, but have you noticed that Paul
calls you to consider Christ as the Crea-
tor of other worlds by whom also He
made the worlds" 1t is time you
Christians start on world hunt That
is the chief reason why God makes the
night, that you may see other worlds
Furthermore, get now from all this
and answer to the question which every
intelligent man and woman since the
earth has stood has asked and received
no answer. Why did God let sin and
sorrow come into the world when he
could have prevented them from COM
ing? / wish reverently to say think |
have found the reason. To keep the
universe loyal to holy God it was
| important in some world somewhere
to demonstrate the gigantic disas-
tiers that would come upon any
world that allowed sin to enter. Which
world should it be? Well, the smaller
the world the better, for less numbers
would suffer, so our world was selected
Tho etaora 1vae nIantu large enough for