Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22

Cnose'worIus nave capacity or IocomoUTon
libe'ours, for they wouldtnot have had such
spacious opportunity stor movement IL
theyskad not powers 0fsmotion.
Yea, they have sight ,else why the light
andEhearing, else how get OH with neoes-
sary Language and how clear themselves
from advancing periis. Yea, as God made
ourshuman race i'm his nwn image he prob
ably made the inhabitants of other worlds
in his own image-mCSther words, it isias
near demonstration iAs l care to have rit
that. while the Inhabitants of other worlds
have adaptations Of bodily structure totthe
particular climate in which they dwell,
there is yet similaDity'of mental and spirit
ual characteristics among all the inhaoi-
taTsts of the universe csf God, and made in
his Image they are made wonderfully alike
THE ARM OF GOD.
Now, what should be the practical rssult
of this discussion founded on Scripture and
common sensea It,istirst of all to enlarge
'our ideas of God, and SO intensity our ad-
miration and worship. Under such aeon
sideration, how much more graphic the
Bible question which seems to roll Ebac.l
the sleeve of the Aim ghty and say. "Hast
IntA all drtH LIKE NpuI IUo COuDbutplH-
tioR also encoGEages'ns with the thought
that if God made alkthese worlds and pop
ulated them it will mot be very much of
Misunderstanding for him to make our siitt'e
world over again and reconstruct the char
acter of its populations as by grace they
are to be reconstructed.
What q monstrosity of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen not
to;the voices of fothersworlds, although the
Book says, "The heavens declare the glory
of sEiod," 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 as the creator OF other worlds, "by
whom also he made sthe worlds" 1t is
time you Christians staut on a world hunt
That is the chief reason why God makes
the nrght-that Eelu may see other worlds.
Gosut tonight and lonk up at the great
cEocSSf the heavens. Listen to the silvery
chime of the midnight sky. See that your
children and grandchildren mount the
heavens with telescope for alpenstoc..;;,
leaping from activity of Hight to acclivity
of Eight. What beautiful and sublime
thing that John quincy Adams, the ex-
president, borne down with years, under
took at the peril OF his life the journey
from Washington to Cincinnati that he
might lay the cornerstone of the pier of
the great refracting telescope and there
making his last oration1
What aservice for all mankind when in
1889 Lond Rosse lifted On the lawn of his
castle, eighty miles from Dublin, tele-
scope that revealed worlds as fast as they
could roll IL, and that started an enthu-
siasm which this moment coneenters the
eyes of mapyof the most deNout in all
perts of the earth on celestial discovery.
Thank God That we know where our own
world is, bounded on all sides 10y realms rof
glory, instead Of being where Hesiod 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 hurried out of earth, taking
ten more days to strike perdition:
From the high heaven . brazen anvil cast,
Nine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last
And reach the earth the tenth. whence strong
ly hurled,
The same tie passage to tn Internal world.
thank Ged that we have found out that |
our world is not half way between heaven
and hell, but 10 in asisterhood of light, ard |
that this sisterhood joins all the other sis
terhOods of worlds, moving round some
great homestead. which is no doubt heav-
en-, where God Is and our departed Chris
tian friends are, and we ourselves through |
mercy expect to become perma-