Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-19

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Ca,hcrine, w nnding worlds hnd only
worlds unlnhabited and wasie' 4
Ceres which plagsl discOvefed w 1901
wastedY II vosta. that OlbOfs discovered
IN ig0i, waaiedY u Pfnprtine, which
Professor Luther discovered IN 1858
wastedg T. Ufania, which Professor
Hind discovered In 1884, wastedi
II Pandora, discovered IN 1868 by
Professor Sclfle, wastedy Are the
fifteen thousand stars recorded IN one
year IN sc observatory ut Washington
wasted9 r. oil escept the blIlionth part
of the universe wasted2 My hearers, Il
10 possible that God would ran such
splendid passenger train or paflor cars
through the heavens and keep It running
" there we're no pnssengersf
Judging from the extent Of the uni.
verse, do you think God would put all
his family on such limits ~ this world
msrks9 II king have a palace Of
one hundred rooms, will he put all
his princes and princesses in one
comparatively small rooin2 As the
highest happiness is in making others
happy, is 1t not certain that God
would occupy larger places than our
small earth with beings capable of
happiness2 Besides this, why all the
worlds farthest on and farthest up
covered with light? What is the use
of light If there are no eyes of inhabit-
ants to enjoy and employ that light?
OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.
/ admit that scientific exploration has
discovered that around many worlds
there is an atmosphere in which lungs
like ours could not breathe, and there
are heats or 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 divine ingenuity, and
must he make all intelligent creatures
with our respiration or pulsation or
mastication or digestion or habitude, or
not make them at all? Because organ
isms like ours cannot live in Mercury or
Saturn or Jupiter or the sun we have no
right to conclude that those globes are
lifeless.
Without any telescope and without
any observatory and without any astro-
nomical calculation, l know that the
other worlds are inhabited, because my
Bible and my common sense tell me so.
1t has been estimated that in the worlds
belonging to our solar system there is
room for at least twenty-five trillion Of
population. And l believo it is all oc-
cupied or will be occupied by intelligent
beings. God will not fill them with
brutes. He would certainly put into
those worlds beings intelligent enough
to appreciate the architecture, the color
ing, the grandeur, the beauty, the har
mony Of their surroundings.
Yea, the inhabitants of those worlds
have capacity of locomotion like ours,
for they. would not have had such spa
cious opportunity for movement if they
had not powers of motion. Yea, they
have sight, else why the light and hear
ing; else how get on with necessary Ian
guage and how clear themselves from
advancing perils? Yea, as God made our
human race in his own image he prob
ably made the inhabitants of other worlds
III his own image-in other words, it is
as near demonstration as care to have
it, that while the inhabitants of other
worlds have adaptations of bodily struc-
ture to the particular climate in which
they dwell, there is yet similarity of
mental and spiritual characteristics
among all the inhabitants of the uni
verse of God, and made in his image
they are made wonderfully alike.
Now what should be the practical re-
suit of this discussion founded on Scrip
ture and common sense? 1t is first of all
w 10 Jul ibCto Va StOd stll 81 III
tensify 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 if God
made all these worlds and populated
them it will not be very much of an I'M
dertaking for him to make our little
world over again and reconstruct the
character of its populations as by grace
they are to be reconstructed.
SCIENCE AND REVELATION.
What monstrosity of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen
not to the voices of other worlds, al
though the book says, "The heavens de-
clare the glory of God, and again, 1.-The
works Of the Lord are great and to be
sought out" How much have you sought
them out? You have been satisfying
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 a
world hunt. That is the chief reason
why God makes the night--that you may
see other worlds. Go out tonight and
look up at the great clock of the heavens.
Listen to the silvery chime of the mid
night sky. See that your children and
grandchildren mount the heavens with
telescope for alpenstock, leaping from