The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-19


verse, which is an express train drawn by
an omnipotent engine, am not surprised
that for part of day he could put down the
brakes on two pieces OF the rotating
machinery. Infidelity is hard up for ground
Of complaint against the scriptures when IL
finds fault with that cessation OF stellar and
lunar travel Here is my watch. l could
not make a watch if 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 has a God-RIven
name. Only a comparatively small number
of them have names given them by scien-
fists. II astronomers can give a name to a
whole constellation or galaxy, they think
they do well but God has a name for each
star In all immensely. Inspired David
declares 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 night. They are not unknown ships
on the high seas of immensity. They be-
long to a family of which God is the
father, and as you call your children
Benjamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or
Josephine, 80 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 be calls, warrant
thew come.
o the starsI Those vestal fires kept burn
ing on infinite affairs. Those light houses on
the coast Of eternity. The hands and
weights and pendulum Of the great clock
of the universe. According TO Herschel,
the so-called fixed stars not fixed at ALL but
each one sun with a mighty system OF
worlds rolling round 1t, and this whole sys-
wi al
around some other great center. Millions
and millions, billions and billions, trillions
and trillions, quadrillions and quadrillionsl
But what glsddens me, and at the same
time overwhelms me, is that those worlds
are inhabited. The Bible says 30, and what
n small idea you must have Of God and his
dominion il you think it only extends
across this chip Of world which you and
now inhabit Have you taken this idea Of
all the other worlds being inhabited as
human guessworki Read Isaiah.
XIV, Is: ''Thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens. God himself that
formed abe earth, and made it; he hath es-
tablished IL, he created 10 not in vain, he
formed IL TO be inhabited" Now,
IF be inhabited the earth so
that 10 would not be created i'll
vain, would he make worlds hundreds
and thousands of times larger and not have
them inhabited Speaking of the inhab-
are as the drop of a bucket" If all the in
habitants Of this world are as a drop of a
bucket where are the other drops of the
bucketi Again and again the Bible speaks
Of the host of heaven, and the word host
means living creatures. not inert masses,
and the expression hosts Of heaven" must
mean inhabitants of other worlds. The
Psalmist cries out: "Thy mercy is great
above the heavens" II there were no in
habitants above the heavens, what use Of
any mercyi Again, the Bible exclaims:
.'1hy goodness is great above the
heavens" What could be the use of his
goodness above the heavens il there were
no Inhabitants to enjoy it, 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:
at is he that buildeth his stories in the
heaven" Is it possible that we who live on
the ground floor of this many-storied build
ing are the only tenants, and that the larger
rooms and the more 9orgeously upholstered
rooms and the more brilliantly chandeliered
rooms above it are uninhabited! Beside
this we are positively told by the Bible that
two other worlds are inhabited-the world
angelic and the world diabolic. Those two
worlds added to our own make it positive that
three worlds are inhabited. Why then stop
with three worlds of living beings when there
are not only millions but billions of worldsl
Are they all standing like extensively
furnished houses in time of financial panic
marked "To Let" and no one to take themi
All around us in this world we see economy
OF omnipotence. If Christ was going TO
feed the hungry seven thousand in the
wilderness, he made use Of the boys five
loaves and two fishes, expanding no more
OF creative power than was needed. "Waste
notn God hath written all over this world
And do you suppose that God would waste
world material in our solar system to the
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hundred trlllion miles of solid contents and
that onlya small part as compared with
other systems which 20 TO make up this
many-storied mansion of the text, where it
says: "Itis he that buildeth his stories in the
heaven" Did Prof. Herschel and his Sister
Catharine. in finding worlds find only
worlds uninhabited and a waste7 Is Ceres,
which Piozzi discovered in 1901, wasteda Is
Vesta, that Oilers discovered In 1907,
wsstedG Is Prosperine, which Prof Luther
discovered in 1858, wastedl Is Urania
which Prof. Hind discovered in 1854 wasted7
Ia Pandora, discovered in 1858 by Prof
Searle, wastedl Are the fifteen thousand
stars recorded in one year in the observatory
at Washington wasteds Is all except the
billionth part of the universe wastedY My
hearers, is it possible that God would run
such q splendid passenger train of parlor
cars through the heavens and keep IL rum
ming IL there were no passengersl Judging
from the extent OF the universe, do you
think God would put all his family on such
limits as this world marksl If a king have
. palace of one hundred rooms will be put
all his princes and princesses in one COM
paratively small rooml AS the highest
happiness is in making others happy is 10
not certain that God would occupy larger
places than our small earth with beings
capable of happinessl Besides this, why all
the worlds furthest on and furthest up cov-
cred with lighta What is the use of light IL
there are no eyes Of inhabitants 60 enjoy
and employ the light9 / admit that scien-
tifc 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 makes Do our bodies exhaust
divine ingenuity and must be make all in
telligent creatures with our respiration or
pulsation or mastication or indigestion or
habitude or not make them at all! Because
organisms like ours cannot live in Mercury
or Saturn or Jupiter or the sun we have no
right TO conclude that those globes are life
less. Without any telescope and without
any observatory and without any astro-
nomical calculation, know that tine other
worlds are inhabited, because my Bible and
my common sense tell me 30. It has been