Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-24

bybJcm lHcrc IL room fora loh5J S0,UUU,
600. 900 of population. And l believe 1t is
all occupied or will be occupied by in
telligent beings. God will not fill them
with brutes
What q monstrosity OF Ignorance that
the majority Of Christian people listen
not to the voices of other worlds, al
though the Book says: "The heavens
declare the glory of God" and, again:
1.-THE works of the Lord are great and
to be sought out" You have been salts
flying yourself with some things about
Christ, but have you noticed that Paul
calls you to consider Christ as the Crea-
tor of other worlds ''by whom also He
made the worlds" It is time you
Christians start on world hunt. That
is the chief reason why God makes the
night, that you may see other worlds.
Furthermore, l get now from all this
and answer to the question which every
intelligent man and woman since the
earth has stood has asked and received
no answer Why did God let sin and
sorrow come into the world when he
could have prevented them from com
ing? wish reverently to say think
have found the reason. To keep the
universe loyal to holy God 1t was
important in some world somewhere
to demonstrate the gigantic disas-
tiers that would come upon any
world that allowed sin to enter. Which
world should it be? Well, the smaller
the world the better, for less numbers
would suffer, so our world was selected.
The stage was plenty large enough for
the enactment of the tragedy. Enter
on the stage Sin, followed by Murder,
Pain, Theft, Fraud, Impurity, False
hood, Massacre, War and all the abom-
nations and horrors and agonies Of
centuries. Although we know compar-
atively little about the other worlds
lest we become completely dissatisfied
with our own, no doubt the other
worlds have heard and are now hearing
all about this world in the awful
experiment of sin which the human
race has been making. In some way
interstellar communication is open and
all worlds, either by wing or flying
spirits, or by direct communication
from God, are learning that disloyalty
and disobedience doom and damn every.
thing they touch, and the spectacle
practically says to all other worlds:
"Obey God, keep holy and stay in the
orbit where you were intended to swing,
or you will suffer that which that re-
creant world out yonder has been suf.
fering for thousands of years"
But notice that as other worlds rolled
into the first book of the Bible, the
was illuminated? For eight momentous
hours the phenomenon lasted. East,
west, north, south, it looked as though
the heavens We're in maniac disorder.
The spectacle ceased not until the
rising sun of the November morning
eclipsed it, and the whole American ma
ton sat down exhausted with the agi.
tations of Il night to be memorable I'M
til the earth itself shall become fall
ing star The Bible closes with such
scene of falling lights, not only fidgety
meteors, but grave old stars. St John
saw it in prospect and wrote: 'The
stars of heaven fell unto the earth,
even rs fig tree casteth her un-
timely figs when she is shaken
of a mighty wind" What
time that will be when worlds drop
Rain of planets. Gravitation letting
loose her grip on the worls Constella-
tons flying apart. Galaxies dissolved.
The great orchard Of the universe swept
by the last hurricane letting down the
stars like ripened fruit Our old earth
will go with the rest, and let it go, for
it will have existed long enough to
complete its tremendous experiment
But there will be enough worlds left to
make a heaven out of, If any more
heaven needs to be built That day
finding us in Christ, our nature regen-
Grated, and our sins pardoned, and
our hope triumphant, we will feel
book of Genesis, they also appear in the
last book of the Bible, the book OF
They will take part in the
scenes of that occasion which shall be
the earth's winding up and tremen-
dous occasion for you and me person.
ally. My father was on the turnpike
road between Trenton and Bound
Brook, n. J. 1t was the night of the
18th and the morning of the 18th OF
November, 1885. The sky was cloudless
and the air clear. Suddenly the whole
heavens became scene never to be for
gotten. From the constellation Leo
meteors began to shoot out In all direc'
ton. For the two hours between and
8 in the morning it was estimated that
/ 900 meteors minute flashed and eX'
pired. 1t grew lighter than monday.
Arrows of fire. Balls of fire. Trails of
fire. Showers of fire. Some of the up
pearances were larger than the full
moon. All around the heavens
explosion followed explosion. Sounds
as well as sights. The air
filed with uproar. All the lumi-
naries of the sky seemed to have received
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