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

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we ourselves through pardtning mercy
expect 10 become permanent residents
Furthermore, get now from all this
on answer tO tho question which every
Intelligent man aud woman since the
earth has stood has asked and received
no nnswcr-why did Uod let sin and
sorrow come into the world when he
could have prevented them from com.
81 | wish revercntly TO say I think !
have fJpr1 the reason. 10 keep the
universe loyal TO Holy God, u was i'm.
portant in some world somewhere TO
demonstrate the gigantic disasters that
would come upon any world that allow.
ed sin 10 enter. Which world should IL
be2 Well, the smaller the world the bet
ter. for less numbers would suffer. SO
our world was selected. The stage was
plenty large enough for tho enactment
the tragedy Enter on the stage sin,
followed by murder, pain, theft, fraud,
impufity, falsehood, massacre, war and
all the denominations and horrors and
agonies of centuries. Although we know
comparatively little about the other
worlds lest we become completely dis
satisfied with our own, no doubt the
other worlds have heard and are now
hearing all about this world in the aw-
full experiment Of sin which the human
race has been making.
In some way interstellar communica-
tion is open, and all worlds, either by
wing of flying spirits or by direct com
munication from God, are learning that
disloyalty and disobedience doom and
damn everything they touch, and the
spectacle practically says to all other
worlds: "Obey God, keep holy and stay
in the oybit where you were intended to
swing, or you will suffer that which that
recreant world out yonder has been suf
fering for thousands of years." 1t is no
longer to me mystery why so small a
world as ours was chosen for the trag-
edy. A chemist can demonstrate all the
laws of earth and heaven in small
laboratory, ten feet by five, and our
world was not too small to demonstrate
to the universe the awful chemistry of
unrighteousness, its explosive and irving
and consuming power.
do not believe that there is a world
that has been in existence from the
time when Copernicus the astron omer
knocked on the door of heaven, to the
world that last week came within sight
of the observatory at Greenwich, but
has heard of our terrific terrestrial exper-
iment, and the awful object lesson has
thrilled the multimillions of stellar pop
ulation, especially when they heard that
in order to arrest the disaster of centuries
the World Maker and the World Starter
and the World Upholder must give up
his only Son to assassination to expiate
and restore and save the victims of the
planetary shipwreck.
THE TOWER OF PHARoS.
On the tower of Pharos, Egypt, a me-
tallic mirror was raised which reflected
all that occurred both on land and sea
for distance of three hundred miles,
and so Egypt was informed of the COM
ing of her enemies long before their ar
rival. BY what process l know not, but
in some way this ship of a struggling
earth, | think, is mirrored to distant
worlds. Surely this one experiment of
a world unloosing itself from God will
be enough for all worlds and all eter-
mites.
But notice that as other worlds rolled
into the first book Of the Bible, the
book of Genesis, they also appear in
the last book of the Bible, the book of
Revelation. They will take part in the
scenes of that occasion, which shall be
the earth's winding up and tremen-
dous occasion for you and me person
ally. My father was on the turnpike
road between Trenton and Bound
Brook, New Jersey. He was coming
through the night from the legislative
halls, where he was serving his state, to
his home, where there was sickness.
often heard him tell about it. 1t was
the night of the 18th and the morning of
the 18th of November, 1888
The sky was cloudless and the air
clear. Suddenly the whole heavens be-
came scene never TO be forgo ten.
From the constellation Leo meteors be-
gan to shoot out in all directions. For
the two hours between four and six in
the morning it was estimated that Il
thousand meteors q minute flashed and
expired. 1t grew lighter than MONDAY.
Arrows of fire, Balls of fire. Trails of
fire. Showers of fire. Some Of the ap-
pearances were larger than the full
moon. All around the heavens explo-
sion followed explosion. Sounds as well
as sights. The air filled with uproar.
All the luminaries of the sky seemed to
have received marching orders. The
heavens ribbed and interlaced and gar
landed with meteoric display. From
horizon to horizon everything in com
bustion and conflagration.
Many brain that night gave way. 1t
was an awful strain on strongest nerves
Millions of people fell on their knees in
prayer Was the world ending, or was
there some great event for which all