Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22

ne can sup Iu
If God could make and mcge the uni
verse, which is an express train drawn by
an omnipetent engine, am RSt surprised
that fora part of a day he conld put down
the brakes on two pieces Of sthe rotating
machinery. Infidelity is hard up for
ground cOf complaint against the Scrip
lures when it finds fault with that cessa-
tion Of stellar and lunar travel. Here is
my watch. could not make watch if I
tried, but can stop it and start it again.
My difficulty is not that GOD could stop
two worlds and start them again, but that
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 mas a God given name. Only a
comparatively small number of them have
names given them by scientists.
If astronomers can give e name to a
whole constellation or GALAXY, they think
they dowell, but God has a name for each
star in all immensity. Inspired David de-
clared of God, "He 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 might. They are not unknown ships
on the high seas of immensity. They be-
long to family of which God is the
Father, and as you call your children Ben
jamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or
Josephine, so he calls all the infant worlds
and 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 warrant
they come.
THE STARRY HEAVENS.
Oh, the stars, those vestal fires kept
burning on infinite altars; those light
houses ON the coast of eternity; the hands
and weights and pendulum of the great
clock of the universe; according to Her
schel the so called fixed stars not fixed at
all, but each one sun with o mighty sys-
tenn of worlds rolling around it, 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
quadrillions!
But what gladdens me and at the same
time overwhelms me is that those worlds
are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what
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dominion If you think it only extends
across this chip of world which you and
I now inhabitl Have you taken this idea
of all the worlds being inhabited SIS human
guesswork? Read Isaiah, forty-fifth chap
ter, eighteenth verse, "Thus saith the Lord
that created the heavens, God himself that
formed the earth, and made it; he hath es-
tablished it; he created it not in vain; he
formed it to be inhabited" Now, if he i'll
habited the earth so that it 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. ="
If all the inhabitants of this world are as
a drop of a bucket, where are the other
drops, of the bucket? Again and again the
Bible speaks of the hosts of heaven, and
the word ''host" means living creatures,
not inert masses, and the expression Ghosts
of heaven" must mean inhabitants of other
worlds. The psalmist cries out, ''Tky
mercy is great above the heavens" If there
were no inhabitants above the heavens,
what use of any mercy Again, the Bible
exclaiuas, "Thy goodness is great above the
heavens.n What could be the use of his
goodness above the heavens If there were
no Inhabitants to enjoy iti Again, the
Bible says, "He has set thy glory above
the heavens" And here my text comes in
with its idea of mansion of many stories,
SIT is be that buildeth his stories i'm the
heaven"
Is il possible that we who live opeths