The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20

God would waste world material 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 toried mansion
of the text, where il says: "It is he that
buildeth his stories in the heaven Did
Professor Herschel and his sister Catherine,
in finding worlds find only worlds uninhabi-
ted and waste Is Ceres, which PioZzi
OLDER discovered IN 1907, wasted? Is Pros
pcrne which Professor Lllther discovered
in 1888. wasted? IS trana. which Profess
sor Hind discovered i'll 1871. wasted? Is
Pandora, discovered i'll 1888 by Professor
Searie, wasted? Are The fifteen thousand
stars recorded in one year IN the observa-
tory nj W@shingtUn wasted? Is all except
the biiIionth part of the universe. wasted?
My hearers, is it possible that God would
run such splendid passenger train or par
lor cars through the heavens AID keep it
runnir@ if tiere were no pas&eng, rs: Judg-
ing from the extent of tho universe. do you
think God would put all his famiy on
such limits aS this world marks? If
king have a palace of one hundred rooms
will he put oil his princes and prncesses
in one comparatively small room. AS the
highest happiness is i'll making others hap
py, is it not certain that Cod wond occupy
larger places than our small earth with be-
ings capable if happiness? Besides this
Up covered With light? What the use of
light if there are eyes of inhabitants to
enjoy and employ 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 that phySiqueS
like ours could not endure. But do you
suppose that we have the only kind of lungs
that God can make? DO our bodies exhaust
divine ingenuity. and must he make all in
Az, II, .slt
pulsation or mastication or digestion or hab
itude OF not make them at all? Because or
ganisms like ours cannot live i'll Mercury or
Saturn or jupiter or the sun, we have no
right to conclude that those globes are life
less Without any telescope and without
any observatory and without any astronom-
ical calculation | know that the other worlds
are inhabited because my Bible and my com
mon sense tell me so. It has been estimate
ed t,l;t in the worlds belonging to oar solar
system there is room for at least twenty
five trilions of population. And / believe
it is all occupied or will be occupied by in
feIigpnt beings. God will not ill them
with brutes. ite would certainly put into
those worlds beings intelligent enough to
apprecate the architecture. the coloring.
the grandeur The bauly, the harmony of
their surroundings. Yea, the Inhabitants
of those worlds have capacity Of locomo-
ton like Ours for they would ont have had
such spacious opportunity for movement II
have sight else why The light, and hearing,
else how get on with necessary language
and how clear themselves from advancing
perils. Nca. as God m4Ge our human race
in His OWL image. lie probably made the in
bahtants of other worlds III His own image;
in other words, it il as near demonstration
as | care to have il, that while the inhabi-
tants Of other worlds have adaptation Of
bodily structure to the particular climate
in which they dwell there is YET similarity
of mental and spiritual CHARACTERISTICS
among all the inhabitants of the universe of
God and made in his image they ere madc
wonderfully alike.
Now. what should be the practical result
Of this discussion founded OF scripture ami
common sense? It is FIRST of all 10 enlarge
Gun. idea Of God ard 50 intensity our admir-
alton ANA worship. Under such considora-
ti0n. how much more graphic the Bible queS-
ton which seems TO roll back the sleeve OF
The Ain;+htE and say: HAST Thou an arm
Ike God?" The contemplate ton also eucour-
ace@ us with he thought that If God made
all these worlds and populated them: it will
not be very much Of IN undertaking for Him
to make G'lr !itt,c world over again. and re-
construct the character Of its populations as
by grace they are to be reconstructed.
What moustroSitY Of Ignorance that the
majority of Christian people listen not TO
thp voices Of other worlds. although the
Book says. THE heavens declare the
elory Of Cod" and. again, THE works of
TIE Lord are great ana 10 be sought out.
How mich Rave you &Gugh! cut? You have
been satisfying YOURSELF with some things
about Christ hu' h5v" YOU noticed that Paul
calls YOU - consider some things about
Christ as the creator of other worlds, by
whom also he made the worlds. 1t is
time you Christians start out on e world
hunt. That is tlv chief reason why God
makes the night, that you may see other
worlds. 90 out tonight and look up ct the
great clock Of the heavens. Listen to the
siiyery chime of the midnight sky. See
that your ciiiren ard grandchildren mount
the heavens with the telescope for aipcn-
stock. leaping from 9cciiyity Of light to
ACTIVITY of tight What a beautiful and
Sabine thing that John Quincy Adams.
the eX~Dresident, horne down with years
undertook AT the peril Of his life the
journey from Washington 20 Cincinnati
that he mighG lay the courer stone of the
pier of the great refraCtiuE telescope, and
there making his last Grafton. What ser
vice for All markiud WHOM III 1899 Lord
Rossc lifted ON the lawn ot his castle, eigh-
t. miles from Dublin. 4 telescope that re-
yealed worlds rs fast as they could roll IN,
ami that started an enthusiasm which this
moment cUpccnters the eyes Of many OF
the most deyOlt i'll ali paris of the earth
On celestial discovery. Thank God that we
know Were our own world is, bounced on
ali sides by realms of glory instead OF be
Ing where HesiOd in bis poetry described 1t
to be-. namely: Half Wav between heaven
and HCi! an anvil hurled our OF heaven,
takiug tea days 10 strike The earth. and hurl-
cd out of earth taking len more days TO
strike pegGition:
FROM lie nigh heaven brazen anvil cast
Miro DAYS and nights in rapid WhirlS would
last:
And reach the earth the tenth; whence strong
~ hurled.
The sane Tie passage to tn internal world.
thank God that we have found out that
our world is not halfway between heaven
and he'll. but is III 3 sistcrhood of light,
and that this sisterhoud joins ali other sis
terhOOdS Of WORLDS. moving round some
great homestead. which is 10 doubt heaven,
where God is. ana our departed Christian
friends are, and we ourselves through par
doninG mercy expect to become permanent
residents.
Furthermore; | get now from all this an
answer to the question which every intelli-
gent man and woman since tie earth 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 coming? wish revently 10 say
! think | have found the reason. 10 keep
the universe loyal TO holy '4ol, ii was i'm
portauC in sorle world somewhere 10 de
monStrate the gigantic d,aasters that would
come upon any world that allowed sin TO
enter. Which world should it be? Welt
the smaller Tie world ,hc better for less
numbers would SETTER. So oar world W.ts
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