The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-12-23

ron uIvS L. norant as HOttcntot
about tn righteousness of that scene
u IL y OF Joshua The sun, over
j SQ0 ~ IS as heavy us our earth and
J Rcin isands of miles the hour!
Thin stopping that and starting it
sgSi4 hont the shipwrcck of the
univ@ But can easily believe Il.
Wh1r0pfornds me is not that lie could
stop ~ start again those two worlds
4 In JD4lrp's time, but that lie could
have MDde the wheel of worlds, of
/ whido ~ sa,I and moon are only cogs,
and p taat wheel rolling for thou
sand years-the fy-wheci OF all
10 Engineer can start a long train,
u n Purprising that he can stop it.
II {uld make and move the uni
I vcrz {sch is an express train drawn
BY 4nipotent engine, am not sur
|pris p for part Of day He could
put ~ the brakes on two pieces Of
\ the lrg machinery. Infdc!ity is
hat{ forf groend q complaint
,ss|, is sss = ~ = ,s ssss
stelhr travrL Here is my watch.
could not make watch IL tried, but
AN stop it and start IL again. My din
Guilty is not that God could stop two
worlds and start them again. but that
! He could make them at all as lie did
make them. What pleases me and
astounds me more Is that each one of
the millions of worlds has God-given
name Only a comparatively small
number of them have names given
them by scientists. II astronomers can
give name to a whole constellation or
galaxy, they think they do well, but
God has name for each star in all inn
mensity Inspired David declares OF
God: "lIe telleth the number of the
stars he calleth them all by their
names" They are not orphans that
have never fecn christened. They are
not waits of the night They are not
unknown ships on the high seas
of immensely They belong TO a family
of which 60 is the Father, and as you
call your children BENJAMIN or Mary or
Bertha or Addison or Josephine, so lie
calls all the infant worlds and all the
adult worlds by their first name, and
they know IL as well as though there
were only one child Of light in all the
divine family. 'IIe calleth them all by
their Names" and when he calls, ! war
rant they come.
Oh the stars. Those vestal fires kept
burning on initiate affairs. Those light
houses on the coast of eternity. The
hands and weights and pendulum of
ho nj 1t hn A.
cording to Herschel, the so-called liked
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. Mil
lions and millions, billions and billions,
trillions and trillions, quadrillions and
luadrillions.
But what gladdens me, and at the
same time overwhelms me, is that those
worlds are inhabited. The Bible says
SO, and what small idea you must have
of Gods dominion IL you think it only
extends across this chip of a world,
which yen and 1 now inhabit. Have
you tnken this idea Of all the 9TH
CIR worlds being inhabited as human
guess work? Read Isaiah, xiv, Is:
Thus saith the Lord that created the
heavens God himself that formed the
earth, and made it: He hath established
it, He eated it not in vain, He formed
it to be inhabited" Now, IL He inhab-
tied the earth SO that it would not be
created in vain, would he make worlds
hundreds and thousands Of times larger
and not have them inhabitedP Speak
ing OF the Inhabitants Of this world,
He says: "The nations are as n drop in
n bucket" II all the inhabitants of this !
world are rs drop of a bucket where !
are the other drops?
Again and again the Bible speaks of
the host of Heaven, and the word |
host means living creatures, not inert |
masses. and the expression "host of |
Heaven must mean Inhabitants above
of other worlds. The Psalmist cries:
Thy mercy is great above the heav-
ems" IL there were no inhabitants
above the heavens what use of any
mercy? Again, the Bible exclaims:
Thy goodness is above the heavens.
What could be the use of his goodness
above the heavens IL there were no in
habitants TO enjoy it? Again, the Bible
says: ''He has set thy glory above the
heavens" And here my text comes in
with this idea of mansion of many
stories: 1T is lie that buildeth His
stories in the heaven"
Is II possible that we who live on the
ground floor Of this many-storied build
ing are the only tenants, and that the
larger rooms and the more gorgeously
upholstercd rooms and the more bril-
liantly chandeliered rooms above it are
Beside this, we are posi-
lively told in the Bible that two
other worlds are inhabited-the
world angelic aud the world dia-
bolic. Those two worlds added 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 Ike espcnsively furnished houses
in time of financial panic marked ITO
Let" aud no one to take them? All
around us in this world we see economy |
of omnipotcnce. II Christ was going to |
feed the hungry 1000 in the wilderness, /
he made use OF the boys five loaves and I
two fishes, cxpending no more OF crea-
tive power than was needed. Waste /
not" God hath written all over this
word
And do YOU suppose that God would
waste world material In our solar sys-
TEN 10 the amount of what has been es-
tima'ed as ven hundred trillion miles
Of solid ccr'ents and that only small
part as ON pared with other systems
which go - make up this many-storied
mansion the text where II says: 1T
is he tina Uuildeth his stories in the
heaven" Did Prof Herschel and his
sister Catharlne in finding worlds find
only worlds uninhabited and a waste?
Is Ceres, which Piozzi discovered in
1901. wasted? Is Nesta, that Olbers
discovered in 1907, wastedf Is Prosper
inc which Prof. Luther discovered in
1855. wasted? Is Urania, which Prof
Hind discovered in 1854, wasted? Is
Pandora, discovered in 1858 by Prof
Seare. wasted?
Are the $4,000 stars recorded in one
wear in the observatory at Washington
wasted? Is oil except the billionth