The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-12-21

And reach the earth the tenth; whence strongly
hurled
The same the passage to tn Internal world.
I thank God that we have found out
that our world is not halfway between
heaven and hell, but is in sisterhood
Of light, and that this sisterhood joins
all the other .sisterhoods of worlds,
moving round some great homestead
which is no doubt heaven, where God is
and our departed Christian friends are
and we ourselves through pardoning
mercy expect to become permanent
residentR
Furthermore, get now from all this
an answer to the question which every
intelligent man and woman since the
world has stood has asked and received
no answer. Why did God let sin and
sorrow come into the world when He
could have prevented them from co.n-
ing? Iwish reverently to say think
have found the reason. To keep the
universe loyal to holy God, 1t was i'm
portant in some world somewhere to
demonstrate the gigantic disaster that
would come upon any world that al
lowed sin to enter. Which world
should it be? Well, the smaller the
world the better, for less numbers would
suffer So our world was selected. The
stage was plenty large enough for the
enactment of the tragedy. Enter on
the stage, sin, followed by murder, pain,
theft, fraud, impurity, falsehood, mas
sacre, war and all the denominations and
horrors and agonies of centuries. Al
though we know comparatively little
about the other worlds lest we become
completely dissatisfied with our own,
no doubt the other worlds have heard
and now are hearing all about
this world in the awful expert
ment of sin which the human race has
been making. In some way inter-stel.
lar communication is open and all
worlds, either by wings of flying
spirits or by direct communication
from God, are learning that disloyalty
and disobedience doom and damn every
thing they touch, and the spectacle
practically says to other worlds: 'Obey
God, keep holy, and stay in the orbit
where you were intended to swing, or
you will suffer that which that recre-
ant world out yonder has been suffer
ing for thousands Of years" 1t is no
longer TO me mystery why so small a
world as ours was chosen for the TRACE
dy. A chemist can demonstrate all the
laws Of earth and heaven in small
laboratory, ten feet by five, and our
world was not too small 10 demon
strate to the world the awful
chemistry of unrighteousnesss, its
explosive and irving and consum-
ing power. / do not believe there is
world that has been in existence from
the time when Copernicus, the astrono-
mer, knocked ON the door Of heaven, to
the world that last week came within
sight of the observatory at Greenwich,
but has heard Of our terrific terrestrial
experiment, and the awful object lesson
has thrilled the multi-millions of stellar
population, especially when they heard
that in order TO arrest the disaster Of
centuries the world maker and the
world starter and the world upholder
must give up His only son to assassina-
tion TO expiate and restore and save
the victims Of the planetary shipwreck
On the tower Of Pharos, Egypt, me-
talic mirror was raised which reflected
all that occurred, both on land and sea
for distance Of three hundred miles,
and so Egypt was informed of the COM
ing Of her enemies long before their ar
rival By what process know not but
in some way the ship Of struggling
earth think Is mirrored to distant
worlds Surely this one experiment Of
world unloosening itself from God
will be enough for all worlds, and all
eternities.
But notice that as other worlds rolled
into the first book of the Bible, the
Book of Genesis, they also appear in the
last book OF the Bible, the Book of
Revelations They will take part in
the scenes Of that occasion which shall
be the earth's winding up and tre-
mendous occasion for you and me per-
sonally. My father was on the turnpike
road between Trenton and Bound
Brook, MI. He was coming through
the night from the legislative halls,
where he was serving his state, to his
home, where there was sickness. l
often heard him tell about IL 1t was
the night OF the 18th and the morning
Of the 18th of November, 1888. The
sky was cloudless and the air clear.
Suddenly the whole heavens became a
scene never to be forgotten. From the
constellation Leo meteors began TO
shoot out In all directions For the
two hours between 4 and in the
morning II was estimated that thou
sand meteors minute flashed and ex-
pired. 1t grew lighter than MONDAY.
Arrows of fire. Balls Of fire. Trails Of
fire. Showers of fire Some of the ap-
pearances were larger than the full
moon. All around the heavens explo-
sion followed explosion. Sounds as
we'll as sights The air filled with
uproar. ALI the luminaries Of the sky
seemed to have received marching
orders The heavens ribbed and inter
laced and garlanded with meteoric dis
play. From horizon TO horizon every
thing In combustion and conhagration.
Many brain that night gave way. 1t
was an awful strain on strongest
nerves Millions Of people fell on their
knees In prayer Was the world end
ing, or was there some great event for
which all heaven was illuminated?
For eight momentous hours the phe-
nomenon lasted. East west north,