Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-22
IAT THE TABERNACLE.
DR. yALMAGe BEGINS A SERIES OF
sERMONs ON DIVINE SCIENCE.


That Christ Should Die in This World.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 1s.-Rev Dr. Talmage
r<oday preached the first CT the promised
series OF sermons on God in the natural
world as disclosed in the Bible. The sub |
ject chosen for the initial sermon was
1.-THE Astronomy OF the Bible or God
Among the Stars" the text being from
Amos il, G, at is he that buldeth his
stories in the heaven" Preceding the
sermon the great congregation sang Isaac
Watts hymn:
Tho heavens declare thy glory, Lord;
In every star thy wisdom shines.
That is first rate poetry from Amos the
herdsmsn. While guarding his fiocks at
night he got to Watching the heavens. He
saw stars above stars, and the universe
seemed to him like a great mansion many
stories high. silver room above silver room,
eilver pillars beside silver pillars, and win
ooys of silver and doors Of silver, and tur-
rets and domes of silver rising into the
ilnmensities, and the prophets sanctGed
Imagination walks through that great sill
yer palace of the universe, through the
first story, through the second story,
through the third story, through the TWEEN
teth story, through the hlNdredth story,
through the thousandth story, and realiz-
ing that God is the architect and carpenter
and mason of ali that upheaved splendor
he cries out in the words of the text, lit is
he shat buildeth his stories in the heaven"
My hearers it is time that we widcncd
out and heightened our religious thoughts.
In our pulpits and sabbath classes and
Christian work Of all sorts we ring the
changes on few verses of Scripture until
they excite 10 interest. Many of the best
preached from, or indeed even noticed.
Hence | today begin a series of sermons,
not for consecutive Sabbath mornings, but
as often as think it best for variety sake,
GU the astronomy of the Bible, or God
among the stars; the geology of the Bible,
or God among the rocks; the ORTHODOXY of
the Bible, or God among the birds; the ich-
thyology of the Bible, or God among the
fishes; the pCmology Of the Bible, or God
among the orchards; the precious stones of
the Bible, or God among the amethystS; the
eoncholoRy Of the Bible, or God among. the
shells; the botany Of the Bible, or God
among the flowers; the chronology OF
the Bible, or God among the centuries
The fact is that we have all spent too much
time on one storyof the great mansion OF
Gods universe. We need occasionally to
20 up stairs or down stairs in this mansions;
down stairs and in the cellar study tho
rocks or up stairs and see God in some OF
the higher stories and learn the meaning
Of the text when ii says, at is he that
buildeth his stories in the heaven"
ORIGIN OF TIE SCIENCE.
Astronomy ,vas horn in Chn1dea J+s
'7,,o,har v,,. a.tro1orv cr +La scia,,co ~,
foretcIliro, events nv iuxtnnr.itiou IF efors
fGbe oriautals living nurL oit of d,ora
and i'm n ver,, cIanr arr,osnhnre ,brorrh
which tbo stars ,Loua esrcti..Ii, Ir.tro',s
.,ot the I2lit of etn,vird, no ,,i.ri't law
en-. !, fine hot seasons caravans iunr.
moved chiefly IT. NIGHT. and th.t pavo yr.v.
cltrs r,,Icb o,,,,rtn,,itv Of sf,IIa1. irror,,'.
ZION. ON me first pore of tbr BihIo tLe
rI, and 1ro3u aud st3rs roll in-tba ein
a body rc,.,,lv thrpr million ,,,ilas in Gin.
lcurufrrprce ncH more Than twelve tbo,1.
sand Times a.. large ~. orr cYrtb. Tho mao,
more luau two Thousand u,.!a,in diameter
I}rt God i,1-,d 10 doiDglnin,,s ON s;,cj nm
o,,uirotrut scale tn,t h.. taLos only ora
verse TO tell Of this stellar and hmm, nun,
iiliartlls. Naa I'm hire. word, .,lI tba,tb,r
Worlds, a., :Iro,,, in Tho record ..,,.s
'..TDe star. ;is.ro
II take. ,,b,.I, r,orcs for = man IN c,-tol
hhe lnahiu-sc. a t,lc.soue or r,irr,.co,,e
or a n,u.r.-.c trIrrrYnn. or = tLra.hiI,o
inacLin. ,rt... ,r.....,.ih, 81 fin. ,,airti,,,, 80,
atatur. b1t il ,v....,o co.v for God IN Ian,
the celestial ,n...,l.,afv tb.- tLo s.or, i,
conpassod in one verse: Good made two
great Hubt,-tbe greater linbt to mia ths
idsy and the lesser liqbt to ruI. tba ,,igbt
I'M. stars Also, ASTRONOMERS Laya Laar,
irving to call the roll of them e,.- since
and they have counted nultitudes of tbar,
lpassinp in review Laf,,re tbo ob..rv.to,i,,
built AT vast cyncnse. and the siga arJ
number Of those Le,vnni.. Lodins h,,.,
taxed TO tho utmost tbn e,ior,i.t. IF OH
ages. Bat God Gnisb.,. all h. bp. ~ co.,,
about Them in tI.rce word. "1'bn stars
also,p
That i, Mars with It's mora tl,or fftr.
five million square miles and Venns With
It's more than one bundled and 1i,,otr.r,,.,
million souare miles and Saturn win Il,
more than nipeteen billion ,onare ,,,ila.
and .Juni1er with it's mar. Han ,ra,,tr
four billion SQUARE miles and all tho ,Iao.
cts Of mr system Of more tbs,, sava pr+t,,
,cight billion snnare roiIe. and ,baoa s4oy,
of our system when coronared ,,,itb ~
stars NJ the ofbor svste,nr os Ioadf'I