Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-12-24

wasted? Is al except the BiIIiolTh par
of the universe wasted? My hearers, j
it possible that God would run such
splendid passenger train Of parlor car
through The heavens and keep it runnin!
if there were no passengers?
Judging from the extent of the uni
verse, do you think God would put al
his family on such limits as this world
marks? If king have palace O
one hundred rooms, will he put al
his princes and princesses in on
comparatively small room? AS thu
highest happiness is in making Others
happy, is it not certain that Coz
would occupy larger places than oul
small earth with beings capable O.
happiness? Besides this, why all the
worlds f;.rthest on and farthest VI
covered with light? What is the ust
of light il there are no eyes of inhabit
ants 10 enjoy and employ that light:
OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.
admit that scientific exploration has
discovered that around many world.
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 Go you
suppose that we have the only. kind Of
lungs that Cos! can make? Do oul
bodies exhaust divine ingenuity, and
must he make I'll intelligent creature:
with our respiration or pulsation 0,
masticatioll or digestion or habitude, OF
not make them ut all? Because organ
isms like ours cannot live in Mercury OF
Saturn o. Jupiter OF the sun we have nc
right to conclude that those globes ire
lifcless.
Without any telescope and without
any observatory and without any as;ro-
nolnical calculation, know that the
other worlds are inhabited, because my
Bible and my common sense tell Inc SO.
1t has been estimated that in the worlds
belonging to our solar system there is
room fnr at least twenty-five trillion Of
population. And believe tits al oc-
c;lpied or will be occupied by intelligent
beings. God will not fill them with
brutes. lie would certainly put into
those worlds beings intelligent enough
to appreciate the architecture, the color
ing, the grandeur, the beauty, the har
inony Of their surroundings.
Yea, the inhabitants of those worlds
have capacity of loccmotion like ours.
for they would not have had such SPIT
cions opportunity for movement if they
had not powers of motion. Yea, they
have sight. else why the light and hear
ing; else how get On with necessary Ian
guage and how clear themselves from
advancing pcrils: Yea, as God made our
human race III his own image he prob
ably,uade the inhabitants of other worlds
III his own iinnSe-in other words. ii is
us near demonstration rs care to have
it, that while tic inhabitants of other
worlds have adaptations of bodily struc-
turo to tie particular climate i'll which
they dwell. there is yet similarity Of
mental and spiritual characteristics
among Ill tho inhabitants of the uni
verse of God, ard made in his image
they are made wonderfully alike.
No~, what shorld be the practical re-
suit OF this discussion founded Oh Scrip
ture and common sense? 1t is first Of all
to enlarge our IDEAS of God and so in
C7liJlcr .e-1cls ,s1s=r,sI's
mere graphic the Bible question, which
seems to roll back The sleeve Of the al
mighty and say, "Hast thou an arm like
God?' The contemplation also eli
courages lis with the thought tratif God
made all these worlds and populated
them it will rot be very much of an u.l-
dertaking for him to make ON little
world over again and reconstruct the
character of its populations as By grace
they are TO be reconstructed.
SCIENCE AND REvELATIoX.
Whit Il monstrosity of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen
not TO the voices of other worlds, al
though the book says, ""rho heavens de.
clare the glory Of God, and again, The
works of the Lord are great and to be
sought out How much have you sought
them out? You have been satisfying
Yourself with some things about Christ.
but have you noticed that Paul calls YOU
to consider Christ rs the creato. of other
worlds, "by whom also he made the
worlds.
1t is time you Christians start on a
world huIt. That is the chief reason
why God makes the night-that you may
see other worlds. Gro out tonight and
look up ut the great clock of the heavens.
Listen to the silvery chime Of the mid
night sky. See that your children ard
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-presi-
dent, borne down with years undertook
ct the peril of his life the-journey from
Washington to Cincinnati that he might
lay the cornerstone Of the pier OF the
great refractinS telescope and there
making his last Grafton.
What service for Ill mankind when
in 1899 Lord POSSE lifted on the lawn OF
his castle, eighty miles FROM Dublin, Il
telescope that revealed worlds rs fast as
they could roll i'll, and that started AL
enthusiasm which this moment concel'
tiers the eyes of many of the most de-
vout in all parts of the earth on celestial
discovery. Thank God that we now
know where our own world is, bounded
on all sides by realms of glory, in
stead of being where Eesiod in his
poetry described it to be-namely, half
WAY between heaven and hell. an anvil
hurled out of heaven, taking ten days to
strike the earth. and hurled out Of earth,
taking ten more days to strike perdition:
From the high heaven brazcn anvil cast,
Nine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last
And reach the Garth the tenth; whence strongly
hurled,