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

there Is yet similarity OF mental and spirit
ual characteristics among all the inhabi- |
tants of the universe OF God, and made in |
his image they are made wonderfully alike. |
THE ARA OF GOD.
Now, what should be the practical result |
of this discussion founded on Scripture and |
common ssnsei II Is hrst Of all to enlarge
our ideas of God, and so intensity our ad-
miration and worship. Under such con-
alteration, how much more graphic the
Bible question which seems TO roll back
the sleeve Of the Almighty and say, Hast
thou an arm like GodT The contempla-
tion also encourages as with the thought
that IL God made all these worlds and pop
ulated them 1t will not be very much Of
an undertaking for him to make our little
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 other worlds, although the
Book says, "The heavens declare the glory
of God" and again, THE works of the
Lord are great and to be sought out. P"
How much have you sought them obti
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, 10y
whom also he made the worlds" 1t is
time you Christians start on world hunt.
That is the chief reason why God makes
the night-that you may see other worlds.
Go out tonight and look up at the great
clock of the heavens. Listen to the silvery
chime of the midnight sky. See that your
children and grandchildren mount the
heavens with telescope for alpenstock,
leaping from activity Of light to activity
of light. 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 orationl
What service for all mankind when in
1889 Lord Rosse lifted on the lawn of his
castle, eighty miles from Dublin, a tele-
| scope that revealed worlds as fast as they
could roll in, and that started an enthu-
siasm which this moment concenters the
eyes of many Of the most devout in all
parts of the earth on celestial discover !!
Thank God that we know where our own
world is, bounded on all sides by realms Of
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 hurled out of earth, taking
ten more days to strike perdition:
From the high heaven a brazen anvil cast,
Nine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last
| And reach the earth the tenth, whence strong
| ly hurled,
The same the passage to tn Internal world.
thank God that we have found out that
our world is not half way between heaven
and hell, but is in asisterhood of light, and
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
pardoning mercy expect to become perma-
nent residents.
THIS WORLDS MORAL LAW.
Furthermore, 1 get now from all this an
answer to the question which every intel
ligent man and woman since the earth
has stood has asked and received no an.
swer. Why did God let sin and sorrow
come into the world when he could have
prevented them from coming? Iwish rev
erently to say l think have found the rea
} son. To keep the universe loyal to holy
God it was important In some world
somewhere to demonstrate the gigantic
disasters that would come upon any world
that allowed sin to enter. Which worlC
should it be? Well, the smaller the world
the better, for less numbers would suffer
So our world was selected. The stage wa.
: plenty large enough for the enactment o.
the tragedy. Enter on the stage sin, fol
, lowed by murder, pain, theft, fraud, i'm
purity, falsehood, massacre, war and al
the denominations and horrors and agonie!
of centuries
I Although we know comparatively littl'
3 about the other worlds lest we becom,
, completely dissatisfied with our own, NJ
, doubt the other worlds have heard and ar
3 now hearing all about this world in tn
awful experiment of sin which the human
3 race has been making. In some way inter
Q stellar communication is open, and al
s worlds, either by wing of flying spirits o
by direct communication from God, ar
: learning that disloyalty and disobedienc
D doom and damn everything they touch
e and the spectacle practically says to al
4 other worlds, "Obey God, keep holy an,
stay in the orbit where you were intende'
;, to swing, or you will suffer that whicl
Y that recreant world out yonder has bee
J, suffering for thousands of years" 1t i
? no longer to me mystery why so small
:, world as ours was chosen for the tragedy
r A chemist can demonstrate all the laws Q
S earth and heaven in small laboratory
i ten feet by five, and our world was NO
q too small to demonstrate to the univers
e the awful chemistry of unrighteousness
r it's explosive and irving and consumin
I? power.
l. do not believe there is world that ha
been in existence from the time when Ct
d pernicus, the astronomer, knocked on tn
= door of heaven to the world that last wee
It came within sight of the observatory a
5 Greenwich but has heard of our terrifi
u terrestrial experiment, and the awful OF
II ject lesson has thrilled the multimillior
Z of stellar population, especially when the
IA heard that in order to arrest the disastt
g of centuries the World Maker and tt
World Starter and the World Uphold'
:, must give up his only son to assassinatic
: to expiate and restore and save the victim
= of the planetary shipwreck.
,, THE BIBLE Is SCIENTIFIC.
On the tower of Pharos; Egypt, meta
lie mirror was raised which reflected
!, that occurred both on land and sea for
distance Of three hundred miles, and
" Egypt was informed of the coming OF h
= enemies long before their arrival. By VIII
- process know not, but in some way tn
- ship of struggling earth think is mi
q rored to distant worlds. Surely this OF
experiment of a world unloosing itself fro
u God will be enough for all worlds and 9
?, eternities.
IS But notice that as other worlds roll
s. into the first book of the Bible, the boz
't of Genesis, they also appear in the la
,e book of the Bible, the book of Revelatio
)r Tbav will take mart in the scenes of tn