Connecticut western news., 1892-12-22
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other worlds are inhabited, because my Bible and my common sense tell me SO. It has been estimated that in the worlds belonging to our solar system there is room for at least twenty-five trillion of cnpied or will be occupied by intelligent beings. God will not fill them with brutes. He would certainly put into those worlds beings intelligent enough to appreciate the architecture, the color ing, the grandeur, the beauty, the har- mony of their surroundings.
 Yea, the inhabitants of those worlds have capacity of locomotion like ours, for they would not have had such spa cious opportunity for movement if they had not powers of motion. Yea, they have sight, else why the light and hear ing; else how get on with necessary Ian guage and how clear themselves from advancing perils? Yea, as God made our human race in his own image he prob ably made the inhabitants of other worlds in his own image-in other words, it is as near demonstration as 1 care to have it, that while the inhabitants of other worlds have adaptations of bodily struc- ture to the particular climate in which they dwell, there is yet similarity of mental and spiritual characteristics among all the inhabitants of the uni verse of God, and made in his image they are made wonderfully alike.
 Now what should be the practical re- suit of this discussion founded on Scrip ture and common sense? It is first of all to enlarge our ideas of God and so in- tensify our admiration and worship. Under such consideration how much more graphic the Bible question, which seems to roll back the sleeve of the Al mighty and say, Hast thou an arm like God?' The contemplation also en- courages us with the thought that if God made all these worlds and populated them it will not be very much of an un- dertaking for him to make our little world over again and reconstruct the character of its populations as by grace they are to be reconstructed.
 SCIENCE AND REVELATION.
 What 8 monstrosity of ignorance that the majority of Christian people listen not to the voices of other worlds, al though the book says, "The heavens de- clare the glory of God, and again, "The works of the Lord are great and to be sought out" How much have you sought them cut2 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 the worlds"
 It is time you Christians start on a 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 mid night sky. See that your children and grandchildren mount the heavens with telescope for alpenstock, leaping from acclivity of light to acclivity of light. What beautiful and sublime thing that John Quincy Adams, the ex-presi. dent, borne down with years undertook 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 oration.
 What service for all mankind when in 1889 Lord Rosse lifted on the lawn of his castle, eighty miles from Dublin, 8 telescope that revealed worlds as fast as they could roll in. and that started an enthusiasm which this moment concen- ters the eyes or many or tne most de- rout in all parts Of the earth on celestial discovery. Thank God that we now know where our own world is, bounded on all sides by realms of glory, in. stead 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
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 And reach the earth the tenth; whence strongly
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 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 a sisterhood of light, and that this sisterhood join. Ill the other sisterhoods of worlds. nov .ng round some great homestead, which is no doubt heaven, where God is and our departed Christian friends are, ano we ourselves through pardoning mercy expect to become permanent residents.
 Furthermore, get now from all this an answer to the question which every intelligent man and woman since tho earth has stood has asked and received no answer-why did God let sin ani sorrow come into the world when h, could have prevented them from com ing? wish reverently to say think have found the reason. To keep tn. universe loyal to a Holy God, it was i'm portant in some world somewhere tt demonstrate the gigantic disasters that would come upon any world that allow ed sin to enter. Which world should i be? We'll, the smaller the world the bet ter, for less numbers would suffer. St our world was selected. The stage wa plenty large enough for the enactmen of the tragedy. Enter on the stage sin followed by murder, pain, theft, fraud impurity, falsehood, massacre, war ant all the abominations and horrors ane agonies of centuries. Although we know comparatively little about the othel worlds lest we become completely dis satisfied with our own, no doubt tn, other worlds have heard and are now hearing all about this world in the aw full experiment of sin which the human race has been making.
 In some way interstellar communica tion is open, and all worlds, either b, wing of flying spirits or by direct com munication from God, are learning tha disloyalty and disobedience doom ant damn everything they touch, and .h, spectacle practically says to all othel worlds: "Obey God, keep holy and sta, in the orbit where you were intended t. swing, or you will suffer that which tha recreant world out wonder has been suf