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gong thousands OF miles the bOurl Think
Of stopping that and starting it again
without the shipwreck of the universal
But / can easily believe it. What con.
POUNDS me is not that he could stop and
start again those two worlds in Joshua's
time, but that he could have made the
wheel of worlds of which the sun aud
moon arc only cogs and keep that wheel
rolling for thousands Of years--the fly
wheel of all eternity. If an engineer can
start long train, it is nos surprising that
he can stop it,
If God could make and move the uni
verse, which is an express train drawn by
an omnipotent engine, ] am not surprised
that for part Of a day he could put down
the brakes on two pieces of the rotating
machinery. Iafidelty is hard up for
ground of complaint against the Scrip
lures when it finds fault with that cessa-
tion of stellar and lunar travel Here is
my watch. ! could not make a watch ii
tried, but can stop it and start it again.
My difficulty is not that God could stop
two worlds and start them again, but that
he could make them at all as he did make
them. What pleases me and astounds me
more is that each one of the millions of
worlds has a God given name. Only
comparatively small number of them have
names given them by scientists.
If astronomers can give a name to a
whole constellation or galaxy, they think
they do well, but God has name for each
star in all immensely. Inspired David de-
clared of God, "He teleth the number of
the stars; he calleth them all by their
names" They are not orphans that have
never been christened. They are not waits
of the night. They are not unknown ships
on the high seas of immensely. They be-
long to a family of which God is the
Father, and as you call your children Ben
jamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or
Josephine, SO he calls all the infant worlds
and all the adult worlds by their first
name, and they know it az well as though
there were only one child of light in all the
divine family. 'He calleth them all by
their names,n and when he calls | warrant
they come.
THE STARRY HEAVENS.
Oh, the stars, those vestal fires kept
burning on infinite affairs; those light
houses On the coast of eternity; the hands
and weights and pendulum of the great
clock of the universe; according to Her
schel the so called fixed stars not fixed at
ali, but each one a sun with mighty sys-
tenn of worlds rolling around it, and this
whole system with all the other systems
rolling on around some other great centerl
Millions and millions, billions and billions,
trillions and trillions, quadrillions and
quadrilionsl
But what gladdens me and at the same
time overwhelms me is that those worlds
are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what
a small idea you must have of God and his
dominion if you think it only extends
across this chip of Il world which you and
now inhabitl Have you taken this idea
of all the worlds being inhabited as human
guesswork? Read Isaiah, forty-fifth chap
ter, eighteenth verse, Thus saith the Lord
that created the heavens, God himself that
formed the earth and made it; he hath es-
tablished it; he created it not in vain; he
formed it to be inhabited" Now, if he in
habited the cart so that it would not be
created in vain, would he make worlds
hundreds and thousands of times larger
and not have them inhabitedS Speaking
of the inhabitants of this world, he says,
"The nations are as the drop of bucket"
If all the Inhabitants of this world are as
IA drop Of a bucket, where are the other
drops of the bucketf Again and again the
Bible speaks of the hosts of heaven, and
the word Ghost" means living creatures,
not inert masses and the expression "hosts
of heaven" must mean Inhabitants of other
worlds The isalmist cries out "Thy
mercy is great above the heavens" If there
were no inhabitants above the heavens,
what use of any mercy? Again, the Bible
exclaims, Thy goodness is great above the
heavens" What could be the use of his
goodness above the heavens if there were
no inhabitants to enjoy it2 Again, the
Bible says, He has set thy glory above
the heavens" And here my text comes in
with its idea of II mansion of many stories,
at is he that buildeth his stories in the
heaven"
Is it possible that we who live on the
ground floor of this many stored building
are the only tenants and that the larger
rooms and the more gorgeously upholstered
rooms and Ne more brilliantly chande
liered rooms above it are uninhabited?
Besides this we are positively told in the
Bible that two other worlds are inhabited
the world angelic and the world diabolic
Those two worlds added to our own make
1t positive that three worlds are inhabited.
Why then stop with three worlds of living
beings when there are not only millions
but billions Of worlds9 Are they all stand
ing like extensively furnished houses in
time OF financial panic marked ITO Let"
and no one TO take them?
THE DIVINE ECONOMY.
All around us in thi world we see econ
omy of omn,potence If Christ was going
to feed the hungry seven thousand in the
wilderness, he made use of the boys five
loaves and two fishes, expanding no more
of creative power than was needed. Waste
mott God hath written all over this world.
And do not suppose that God would waste
world material in cur solar system TO the
amount of what has been estimated as
seven hundred trillion miles of solid con.
tents, and that only a small part as com.
pared with other systems which 20 toll
make up this many stored mansion of the
text where it says, ut is he that buildeth
his stories in the heaven"
Did Professor Herschel and his sister,
Catherine, in finding worlds find Only
worlds uninEabited and a waste? Scores,
which Piazzi discovered in 1901, wasted
Is Nesta, that Oilers discovered in 1907, |
wasted? Is Prosperine, which Professor
Luther discovered in 1853, wasted? l. |
Urania, which Professor Hind discovered |
in 1854 wasted? is Pandora, discovered in !
1858 by Professor Searle wastedP Are the |
fifteen thousand stars recorded in one year
in the observatory at Washington wasted? |
Is all except the billionth part of the uni |
verse wasted9
My hearers, is it possible that God would |
run such n splendid passenger train of par
lor cars through the heavens and keep it |
if there were passengers Judg- |
ing from the extent of the universe, do you |
think God would put all his family on such |
limits as this world marksf If a king I
have palace of one hundred rooms, will /