Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-24


thousands of years-the fy-wheel OF
all eternity. II an engineer can start
long train, It is not surprising that
he can stop II. II God could make and
move the universe, which Is TN express
train drawn by IN omnipotent engine,
! am not surprised that for part Of a
day he could put down the brakes on
two pieces of the rotating machinery.
Infidelity is hard up for ground of com
plant against the Scriptures when 1t
finds fault with that cessation of stel-
lar and lunar travel Here is my watch.
/ could not make watch II tried, but
can stop and start it again.
o the stars! Those vestal fires kept
burning on infinite affairs. Those light
| houses on the coast of eternity. The
hands and weights and pendulum of
the great clock OF the universe. Accord
ing to Herschel the so-called fixed stars
are not fixed at all, but each one sun
with mighty system of worlds rolling
round it, and this whole system with
oil the other systems rolling on around
some other great center.
But what gladdens me, and ut the
same time overwhelms me, Is that those
worlds are inhabited The Bible says
so, and what small idea you must
have of God and His dominion II you
think it only extends across this chip of
world which you and now inhabit
Have you taken this idea of all the
other worlds being inhabited us 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
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
drop of n bucket" If all the
inhabitants of this world are as drop
of 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
cries out: THY mercy is great above
the heavens" If 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: 'Hc hath set thy glory
above the heavens" And here my text
comes in with its idea of u mansion OF
many stories: 1T 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
ly chandeliered rooms above it are un-
inhabited?
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 10
Let" and no one to take them? All
around as in this " orld we see economy
of omnipotence. Ii 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
all over this world. And do you sup
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 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 palace of one
hundred rooms, will he put all his
princes and princesses in one compara-
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? 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
n