Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-12-24
The heavens declare thy glory, Lord,
In every star thy wisdom shines. =. -

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Tic heavens declare thy glory, Lord, :
In every star thy wisdom shines. -.
That is first rate poetry from Amo;
heherdsman. While GuardirSt'' s: .s.sss
isac night ~he GOT watching the heaYols,
He saw stars above stars, and thea i::--
FTerse seemed to. himlillea greafmansiol
many stories high, silver room aboiyt
silver room, silver pillars beside silver
pillars, and windows of silver and doors
of silver, and t,lrrets and domes of sill
yer rising into tho immcnsities, and the
prophets sarctifed imagination walks
through that great silver palace Of the
universe, through the first story, through
tie second story, through the third
story, through the twentieth story;
through tie hundredtll story, through
the thousandth story, and realizing that
God is the architect and carpenter and
mason of all that upheaved splendor, he
cries out III the words of the text, "It-is
he that brildcth his stories in the
heaven"
THE ELEv.lTING SCIENCES.
My hearers, it is timo that I'VE widened
out and heightened our religious
thoughts. In cur pulpits and Sabbath
Glasses and Christian work Of all sorts
we ring the changes on . few verses of
Scripture until they excite no interest.
Many of tic best parts OF the Bible have
never yet been preached from or indeed
even noticed. Hence today begin Il Sc
ries of sermons, not far consecutive Sab
bath mornings, bat as often us | think IT
best for variety's s:kc, on the astronomy
OF the Bible. or God among the stars; Tie
geology of tie Bible, or God among the
rocks; the ornithology of the Bible, OF
God among the birds; the ichthyology
OF the Bible, or God among The fishes; the
poinology of the Bible or God among
the orchards; the precious stones of the
Bible. or Coo among the ametllysts; the
conchology CT the Bible, OF God among.
the shells; The botany of tie Bible, or
God among the flowers; the chronology
of the bible, or God among the centuries.
The fact is that wo have all spent too
much time on one story Of the great
mansion of Gods universe. We need
occasionally to go up stairs or down
stairs in this mansion; down stairs and
in the cellar study the rocks, or mp stairs
and see God in some of the higher sto-:
ries and learn the meaning OF the text
-rrlaan- says-2.It is he that buildeth his
Astronomy was born in Chaldca. Its
mother was ustro!ogy, or the science OF
foretelling events by juxtaposition of
stars. The orientals. living much out OF
doors and in very clear atmosphere,
through which the stars shone especially
lustrous, got the habit of studying the
night heavens. In the hot seasons cara
vans jou1neycd chiefly at night, and that
gave travellers much opportunity of stel-
lar information. On the first page OF
the Bible Tic sUh and moon and stars
roll in. The sun, body nearly three
million miles in circumference and more
than twelve thousand times as large as
cur earth; the moon, moro than two
thousand miles in diameter.
But God is used to doing things on
such an omnipotent scale that he takes
Only one verse to tell of this stellar and
lunar manufacture. Yea, in three words
all the other worlds are thrown in. The
record says, 1.-The stars also" 1t takes
whole pages for u man to extol the MAX
ing of q telescope or microscope, or a
magnetic telegraph or threslling ma
chine, or to describe q fine painting or
statue, but it was so easy for God to
bang the celestial upholstery that the
story is compassed- in one verse: Good
made two great lights; the greater light
to rule the day and the lesser light to
rule the night. The stars also!''
Astronomers have been trying to call
the roll Of them ever since, and they
have counted multitudcs Of them pass
ing in review before the observatories
built at vast expense, and the size and
number of those heavenly bodies have
taxed to the utmost the scientists of all
ages. But God finishes all he has to say
about them in three words, 1.-The stars
also!" That is Mars with its more
than fifty-fve million square miles, and
Venus with its more than one hundred
and ninety-one million square miles,
and Saturn with its more than nino-
teen billion square miles, and Jupi-
ter with its moro than twenty-four bill
lion square miles, and all the planets
of our system of more than seventy-eight
billion square miles, and these stars OF
our system, when compared with the
stars of the other systems, as handful
of sand compared with all the Rocky
mountains and all the Alps. 1.-The stars
alsol" For brevity, for ponderosity, fol-
spiendor, for sugGestiveness, for subl1m.
ity piled on sublinity, these words excel
all that human speech ever uttered OF
human imagination ever SCARED after,
1.-The stars also!' It is put in as you
write a postscript : something you
Thought of afterward, as hardly worth
putting into the body Of Il letter. ''The
stars Also
| JOB AND ISAIAH KNEW.
Read on N your Bibles. and after
awhile the Bible flashes with the aurora
borealis OF northern lights, that strange
Examination, os mysterious and undo
fined now as when il the book of Jot
it was written: "1ien see not the bright
light which is in the clouds. Fair wealth
or conlcth out Of the north While al
the nations supposed that the earth wa:
bnilt on foundation of some sort, ant
many supposed that it stood on a huge
turtle, or some great marine creature
Job knew enough of astronomy to say
had no foundation, hnt was suspended
ON the invisible arm of the Almighty
declaring that she hangeth the eartl
upon nothing. While all nations though
the earth was level, the sky spread owe
it like tent over fat surface, Isaiah
declared the world to be globular, cir
cular, saying of God, "He stitch upo!