Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-12-24
While running your fingers anon,

IL! While running your fingers among
q the leaves of your Bible with the astro
55ssnomical thought in your mind, you SEE
:3ftwo worlds stop-thc sun and the moon
ssBut what does that Christian know
Skabout that miracle who does not under
.s1fstand something of those two lumina
SEries? Unless you watch modern astron.
.Somy put those two worlds in it's steel
.fyards and weigh them you are rs igno
Grant as Hottentotaboutt the stupendous
:Eness of that scene in the life of joshua
The sun over three hundred thousand
Il times as heavy us our earth and going
ss,thousands of miles an hour. Think OF
+ stopping that and starting itagain with
( ont the shipwreck of the universe! But
4 can easily believe it. What confounds
me is not that he could stop and start
I again those two worlds il ,Joshua's time,
but that he could have made tho wheel
of worlds of Which the sun and moon
are only cogs, and keep that wheel roll
I ing for thousands of ycars-thc nywheel
/ of all eternity.
] II I'm engineer can start n long train,
I it is not surprising that no can stop it.
! If God could make and move the uni
verse, which is IN express train drawn
I by an onnnirotcnt engine, l am not sur
! prised that for part Of a day lie could
!! put down the brakes on two pieces Of
{ the rotating machinery Infidelity il
I hard up for ground of complaint against
/ the Scriptures when it finds fault Will.
that cessation of stellara and lunar travel.
! Here is my watch. could not make u
{ watch if tried, but1 can stop it and
I start il again
My difficulty is not flat God could
/ stop two worlds and start them again
/ but that he could make them atall rs lie
4 did make them. What plcases me and
| astounds mo more is that each one of
! the millions Of worlds has Il God given
| name. Onlya comparatively small NUN
!. Der Of them have naines given them by
! scientists. If astronomers can give Il
name to IL whole constellation or galaxy
they think they do well, bnt God has
name for each star in all immensely
! Inspired David declares of God, ole
telletl the number Of the stars; he call
eth them al by their Names"
They are not orphans that have never
been cliristened. They are not waits
of the night. They are not unknown
ships Oh the high seas of University
They belong To II family of which God
is the Father, and as you call yonr chill
dren benjamin or Mary or Bertha or
! Addison OF Josephine so he calls all the
infant worlds and all the adult worlds
by their first name, ard they know il rs
we'll as though there were only one child
|. of light in Ill the divine family lie
calletll them all by their Names, and
when he calls, warrant they come.
Gu. tie stars. Those vestal fires kept
burning OIL infinite affairs. Those light
houses on the coast of eternity. the
hands AID weights and pendulum of the
great clock Of the universe According
to Hcrsche, the SO called fixed stairs are
ff,notfiIed ut ;lll, but each one sun with
:.;ts mighty system of worlds rolling round
I it, and this whole system with all the
other systems rolling on around some
.eSleIs.t Teats center-mill;ons and mil
dbl 1s.apd billions. trillions and
lon. and auadrillions!
DIT what gladdcns 1nr, and mt tho
same time oyerwhelms me, is that those
worlds arc inhabited. The Bible says
SO, and what small idea you must
have Of Col aud his dominion if you
think it only extends across this chip of
world which you and l now inhahit.
Have you taken this idea Of all tie other
worlds being Inhabited as human guess
work? Read Isaiah, forty-ffth chap
Ter, eighteenth verse, 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 il vain, he formed it
to be inhabited Now, if he Inhabited
tho earth so that it would not be created
in vain. would lie 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 rs the drop of u bucket
II all the inhabitants Of this world are
as n drop ola 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
list 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,
sThy goodness is great above the heav-
ems" Whist could be the use Of his
goodness above the heavens if there
were no inhabitants to enjoy ii? Again,
the Bible says, Gle has set thy glory
above the heavens. And here my text
comes in with It's idea of a mansion of
many stories, 1T is be 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
upholstered rooms, and the more bril-
liantly chandeliered rooms above it are
uninhabited! Beside this we arc 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 liy-
ing beings WHEN there are not only mil
| lions but billions Of worlds? Are they
all standing like expensively furnished
houses i'll time of financial panic marked
,.To Let" and no one to take them: All
around us in this world We see economy
of omnipoterce.
If Christ was going to feed the hrn-
c,,,, cax,ciI- Hi,O1JSn,11 IN tine WILDERNESS,