Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-22

| WITHOUT the ShlDWreck OF the universal
But can easily believe it. What con
POUNDS me is act that he.could stop and
start again those two worlds in Joshua's
4 time, but that he could have made the
wheel of worlds Of which the sun and
moon are 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 not surprising that
be can stop it.
If God could make and move the uni
verse, which is nm express train drawn by
/ m omnipotenf engine, I am not surprised
+ tliaf Tor q parJ ci day he could put down
/ tile brakes ON two pieces Of the rotating
4 machinery. lnfdcli5y is hard up for
ground of complaint against the Scrip
lures when it finds fault with that eessa-
tion of stellar and lunar travel. Here is
my watch | could not make a watch if
/ tried, but / can stop it and start it again.
I My difficulty is not that God could stop
\ two worlds and start them again, but that
4 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 a
comparatively small number Of them have
names given them by scientists.
If astronomers can give name TO Il
whole constellation or galaxy they think
they do well, but God has a name for each
star in all immensely. Inspired David de-
clared of God, tie telleth 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
janin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or
Josephine, 50 he calls all the infant worlds
aud all the adult worlds by their first
name, and they know it as well as though
there were only one child of light in all the
divine family. "He calleth them all by
their names" and when he calls l 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 10 Her
schel the so called fixed stars not fixed at
all, but each one a sun with a mighty sys
TEN Of worlds rolling around il, and this
whole system with all the other systems
rolling on around some other great center.
Millions and millions billions and billions,
trillions and trillions, quadrillions and
quadrillionsl
But what gladdens me and at the same
time overwhems 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 a world which you and
! now inhabit Have you taken this idea
of all the worlds being inhabited as human
guessworki Read Isaiah, forty-ffth chap
ter, eighteenth verse, "rhus saith the Lord
that created the heavens, God himself that
formed the earth and made it, he hath es
tabished il; he created it not in vain; he
formed it TO be inhabited" Now, if he in
habited the earth so that il would not be
created in vain, would he make worlds
hundreds and thousands Of times larger
and not have them inhabited; Speaking
of the inhabitants of this world, he says,
1.-THE nations are as the drop Of a bucket
II all the inhabitants of this world arc as
a drop Of bucket, where are the other
drops OF the buckets Again and again the
Bible speaks Of the hosts OF heaven, and
the word host means living creatures,
not inert masses. and the expression hosts
of heaven" must mean inhabitants Of other
worlds. The psalmist cries out, Thy
mercy is great above the heavens" If there
were no inhabitants above the heavens, /
what use Of any mercyi Again, the Bible /
exclaims, "Thy goodness is great above the i
heavens What could be the use Of his +
goodness above the heavens If there were
no inhabitants TO enjoy its Again the
Bible says "He has set thy glory above
the heavens And here my text comes in |
with its idea Of a mansion Of many stories,
at is he that buildeth his stories IN the 1
heaven"
Is il possible that we who live on the /
ground floor Of this many storied building I
are the only tenants, and that the larger +
rooms and the more gorgeously upholstered I
rooms and the more brilliantly chande +
liered rooms above it are uninhabited? !
Besides this we are positively told in the /
Bible that two other worlds are inhabited I
1.-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
bnt billions Of worldsg Are they all stand
ing like extensively furnished houses in
time OF financial panic marked To Let"
and no one 70 take them?
THE DIVINE ECONOMY.
All around us in this world we see econ
omy Of omnipotenee. If Christ was going
TO feed the hungry seven thousand in the
wilderness, he made use of the boys five
loayes and two fishes, expanding no more
of creative power than was needed. Waste
not" God hath written all over this world.
And do not suppose that God would waste
world material in our solar system to the
amount of what has been estimated as
seven hundred trillion miles Of solid con
tents. and that only small part as com
pared with other systems which go 10
make up this many STORED mansion Of the
text wheresit says, 1T is he that buildeth
his stories in the heaven"
Did Professor Herschel and his sister,
Catherine, in finding worlds find only
worlds uninhabited and wastes Is Ceres,
which Piazzi discovered in 1901, wasted'
Is Vesta, that Others discovered in 1907.
wasted? is PrOspeTine, which Professor