Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-19

I admit that scientific exploration has dis
covered 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 or
digestion or habitude or not make them at
ali? 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 tele-
scope and without any observatory aud
without snv astronomical calculation, 1
know that the other worlds are inhabited,
because nv Bible and my common sense
tell me so.
All in Gods Own Image.
1t has been estimated that in the worlds
belonging to our solar system there is room
for at least %, ,00O 000, 900, 900 of population.
And 1 believe it is all occupied or will be
occupied bv intelligent beings God will
not fill them with brutes. He would GER
tainly put into those worlds beings intelli-
gent enough to appreciate the architecture,
the coIoring, the grandeur, 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 necessary
language and how clear themselves from
advancing perils. Yea, as God made our
human race in his own image, he probably
made the inhabitants of other worl ds IN his
own image; in other words, it is as near
demonstration as I care to have it, that
while the inhabitants of other worlds have
adaptation of bodily structure to the par
ticular climate in which they dwell, there
is vet similarity of mental and spiritual
characteristics among all the inhabitants of
the universe of God, and made in his image
they are made wonderfully alike.
Now, what should be the practical result
of this discussion founded on Scripture and
common sense? 1t is first of all to enlarge
our ideas of God and so intensity our ad-
miration and worship. Under such consld-
Grafton, how much more graphic the Bible
question which seems to roll back the sleeve
of the Almighty and say: "Hast thou an
arm like God?" The contemplation also
encourages us with the thought that iftGod
made all these worlds and populated them,
it will not be very much Of an undertaking
for him to make our little world over again,
and reconstruct the character of its popula-
lations as BY grace they are to be recon-
structed.
! 1 thank God that we have found out that
our world is not halfway 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 heaven,
where God is, and our departed Christian
friends are and we ourselves through par
doning mercy expect to become permanent
residents.
One Hard Question Answered.
Furthermore: get now from all this an
answer to the question which every intelli-
gent man and woman since the earth has
stool has asked and received no answer
Why did God let sin and sorrow come into
the world when he could have prevented
them from coming? I wish reverently 10
say think have found the reason. To
keep the universe loyal to a Holy God, it
was important in some world somewhere to
demonstrate the gigantic disasters that
would come upon any world that allowed
sin to enter Which world should it be?
Well, the smaller the world the better, Tor
less numbers would suffer. So our world
was selected. The stage was plenty large
enough for the enactment of the tragedy.
Enter on the stage Sin, followed by Muir
der, Pain, Theft, Fraud, Impurity, False
hood, Massacre, War and all the abomina-'
tions and horrors and agonies of centuries
Although we know comparatively little
aboat the other worlds lest we become
completely dissatisfied with our own, no
doubt the other worlds have heard and
are now hearing all about this world
which the human race has been
stellar communication is open and all
worlds either by wing of flying spirits or
bv direct communication from God, are
learning that disloyalty and disobediedce
doom and damn everyt thing they touch, and
the spectacle practically says to all other
worlds: "Obey God, keep holy and stay in
the orbit where you we're intended to
swing, or you will suffer that which that
recreant world out yonder has been suffer-
ing for thousands Of years"
1t is no longer to me mystery why so
small world as ours was chosen for the
trasedy A chemist can demonstrate all
the laws of earth and heaven in a small
laboratory ten feet BY five, and our world
was not too small to demonstrate to the
universe the awful chemistry of unright-
eousness, its explosive and irving and con-
suming power. do not believe there is
world that has been in existence from the
time when Copernicus, the astronomer,
Knocked on the door of heaven, to the
world that last week came within sight of
the observatory at Greenwich, but has
heard of our terrific terrestrial experiment,
and the awful object lesson has thrilled the
multi-millions of stellar population, espec-
tally when they heard that in order to ar
rest the disaster of centuries the World
Maker and the World Starter and the
World Upholder must give up His only
son to assassination to eIpiate and restore
and save the victims of the planetary ship
wreck.
The Earth AIirrored to Distant Worlds.
On the Tower of Pharos, Egypt, metal
lie mirror was raised which reflected all
that occurred both on land and sea for a
distance OF 300 miles, and so Egypt was in
formed of the coming of her enemies long
before their arrival. By what process 1
know not, but in some way this ship of
struggling earth think is mirrored to dis
tant worlds. Surely this one experiment
of a world unloosing itself from God will
be enough for all worlds, and all eternities.
But notice that as the other worlds rolled
into the first book of the Bible, the Book
of Genesis, they also appear in the last
book of the Bible, the Book OF Revelation.
They will take part in the scenes of that
occasion which shall be the earth's winding
up and q tremendous occasion for you and
me personally. Ny father was on the turn
pike road between Trenton and Bound
Brook, n. j. He was coming through the
night from the legislative halls, where he
was serving his State, to his home, where
there was sickness. 1 often heard him tell
about it