The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-12-23

than our small earth with beings capa-
BILE of happiness2
Besides this, why all the worlds fur
thest on and furthest up covered with
light? What is the use of light II there
are no eyes of inhabitants to enjoy and
employ that light? ! admit that scien-
tific exploration has discovered that
around many worlds there is an atmos-
phere in which lungs like ours could
not breathe, and there are heats and
colds that physique like ours could not
endure. But do you suppose that we
have the only kind of lungs that GOD
can make? Do our bodies exhaust Di.
vine ingenuity. and must lie mako
all intelligent creatures with our
respiration or pulsation, orr mas
tication or digestion or hAbitnde or
not mako them at all? Because organ
isms like ours can not live In Mercury
or saturn or Jupiter or the Sun. we
globes are lifeless Without any tele-
scope and without my observatory and
Without any astronomfcal calculation,
I1kaoxx.that the other sorldA - iol13
tied. because my Bible end my e01nnsos<
sense tell me so II has been estimated
that in the worlds belonging 20 our
solar system there is room for at least
1000, 900, 600, 600 Of population. And i
believe it is all occupied or will bs oc-
cupied by intelligent beings. God Will
not FIJI them with hrutes. lie would
certainly put into those worlds beings
intelligent enough to appreciate the
architecture, the coloring, the gran
deur, the beauty, the harmony Of
their surroundings. Yea, the inhabit-
ants of those worlds have capacity of
locomotion like ours. for they would not
have had such spacious opportunity for
movement II they had not powers of
motion. Yea, they have sight, else why
the light, and hearing else how get on
with necessary language, and how clear
themselves from advancing perils Yea,
as God made our human race in His
own image, He probably made the in
hsbitants Of other worlds in His own
image: in other words, it is as near
demonstration as | can have it, that
while the inhabitants of other worlds
have adaptations of bodily structure In
the particular climate in which they
dwell, there is yet similarity of mental
and spiritual characteristics among all
the inhabitants of the universe of God,
and maze in His image they are won
derfully alike.
Now, what should be the practical
result of this discussion founded on
scripture and common sense? II is first
of all to enlarge our ideas of Col and so
intensity our admiration and worship.
Under such consideration, how much
more graphic the Bible question which
seems to roll back the sleeve of the Al
mighty and say: Hast thou an arm
like God?" The contemplation also en-
courages us with the thought that il
God made all these worlds and popu-
lated them il will not be very much of
an undertaking for him to make our
little world over again, and reconstruct
the character of its population as by
grace they are to be reconstructed.
What a monstrosity of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen,
not to the voices of other worlds, al
though the Book says: 1.-THE heavens
declare the glory of God" And again:
The works of the Lord are great and
to be sought out" How much have
you sought them out? You have been
yourself with some things
about Christ, but have you noticed that
Paul calls you to consider Christ as the
Creator of other worlds. by whom also
he made the worlds" 1t is time you
Christians start on world hunt.
That is the chief reason why God
makes the night, that you may see
)ther worlds. Go out tonight and look
M at the great clock of the heavens
Listen to the silvery chime of the mid
hight sky. See that your children and
mount the heavens with
telescope for alpenstock. leaping from
lctivity of light to activity of light.
What beautiful and sublime thing
hat John Quincy Adams, the ex-presi-
ent, borne down with years, under
ook, at the peril of his life, the jour
lev from Washington to Cincinnati
hat he might lay the cornerstone of
he pier of the great retracting
elescope, and there making his
asst Grafton. What service for
IL mankind when in 1889 Lord
,osse lifted on the lawn of his castle
Eighty miles from Dublin, telescope
hat revealed worlds as fast as they
ould roll in, and that started an enthu-
iasm which this moment concenters
he eyes of many of the most devout
n all parts of the earth on celestial dis
ovcry. Thank God that we now know
where our own world is, bounded on all
ides by realms Of glory, instead of be-
ng where Hesiod in his poetry de.
cribed it to be, namely: half way be-
ween Heaven and hell, an anvil hurled
ut of heaven, taking ten days to strike
heearth, and hurled out of earth TAX.
ng ten more days to strike perdition.
rom the hich heaven brazen anvil cast,
Zine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last
md reach the earth the tenth; whence strong
Is hurled
he same the passage to tn internal world.
| thank God that we have found out
hat our world is not hall way between
leayen and hell, but is in a sisterhood
4 light, and that this sisterhood joins
N the other sisterhoods of worlds,
moving around some great homestead,
which is no doubt Heaven, where God
S, and our departed Christian friends
ire, and we ourselves, through pardon
ng mercy, expect TO become permanent
esidents.
Furthermore, get now from all this
N answer 10 the question which every
man ard woman since the
arth has stood has asked and received
10 answer Why did God let sin and
orrow come into the world when He
ould have prevented them coming? !
wish geveyently to say think l have
ound the reason. To keep the uni
erse loyal to holy God, IL was inn
ortant in some world somewhere &c
the gigantic disaster that
would come upon any world that al
owed sin to enter Which world should
be2 Well, the smaller the world the
etter for less numbers would suffer.
. our world was selected. The stage
,as plenty large enough for the enact
lent of the tragedy. Enter on the
tage Sin, followed by Murder, Pain,
heft, Fraud, lmpurity, Falsehood,
lassacre, War and all the abomina.
ons and horrors and agonies of cen
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