Milford chronicle., 1892-12-23

q tion stellar and lunar travel Here is /
lamy w ch. could not make a watch If ! /
ticied, but can stop it and start It again.
N.Y. difficulty is not that God could stop /
two Worlds and start them again, but that l
he coultd make them at all as he did make /
them What pleases me and astounds me !
more s that each one Of the millions Of |
worlds has a God given name. Only a |
comparatively small number Of them have |
names given them by scientists.
! II ASTRONOMERS can give name to a |
whole constellation or galaxy, they think |
| they do WELL but God has a name for each |
star in all immehsity. Inspired David de- !
clared of God, HE telleth the number of |
the stars; be 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 Ben
! iamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or
/ Josephine. SO he calls all the infant worlds
and ali the adult worlds by th- first
, name. and they know it as well AS though
4 there we're only one child Of light in all the
divine family. He calleth them all by
their names" I" and when be calls warrant
they come.
THE STARRY HEAVENS.
Oh, the stars, those vestal fires Kept
burning on infinite altars; those light
bouses on the coast of eternity; the hands
and weights and pendulum of the great
clock of the universe; according TO Her
scbel the so called fixed stars not fixed at
ali. but each one a sun with a 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 triliions, quadrilhons and
quadrillionsl
But what gladdens me and at the same
time oyerw helms me is that those worlds
are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what
a small idea YOU must have Of God and his
dominion If you think it only extends
across this chip Of a world which you and
J I now inhabitl Have you taken this idea
of all the worlds being inhabited as human
ruessworkf Read Isaiah, forty-hfth chap
ter. eighteen verse, THUS saith the LORD
I that created the heavens, God himself that
formed the earth and made 1t; he hath es-
! tahlisbed it: he created it not in vain; he
formed it to De inhabited" Now, II he IN
( habited the earth so that it would not be
3 created in vain, would ne make worlds
hundreds and thousands Of times larger
i and not have. them inhabited? Speaking
f of the inhabitants Of this world, he says
ssTbe nations are as the drop Of a bucket. p"
4 If all the inhabitants of this world are as
( a drop Of a bucket, where are the other
0 drops of the bucket? Again and again the
/: Rible speaks of the hosts Of heaven, and
e the word ''hOst" means living creatures,
I not inert masses, and the expression hosts
/, Of beavenn must mean inhabitants OF other
{ worlds The psalmist cries out, Thy
mercy is great above the heavens" II there
we're no inhabitants above the heavens,
s what use Of any mercy? Again, the Bible
+ exclainis, ''Thy goodness is great above the
;. heavens" /" What could be the use OF his
s goodness above the heavens if there were
h no inhabitants to enjoy it? Again. the
;, Bible says, "He has set thy glory above
2 the heavens" And here my text comes IN
r with its idea Of a mansion OF many stories
= at is he that buildeth his stories IN the
4 heaven" a.
n ground floor of this many storied building
r are the only tenants, and that the larger
/ rooms and the more gOrgeOusly upholstered
m rooms and the more brilliantly chan'le
r nered rooms above it are uninhabitedl
m Besides this we are positively told in the
,e Bible that two other worlds are inhabited
n the world angelic and the world Giabolic
ar Those two worlds added to our own MAKE
$. IT positive that three worlds are inhabited
WHY then stop with three worlds Of living
oil beings when there are not only million
. Int billions OF worlds? Are they all stand
70 ing like e .nsively furnished houses il
Of time Of financial panic marked TO Let
" and no one 10 take them?
Is THE DIVINE ECONOMY.
ro All around us in this world we see econ
rroful
Il 10 feed the hungry seven thousand in tn
an wilderness. he made use of the boys fiv
% loaves and two fishes, eXpending no NOR
m of creative power than was needed. VAST
90 notu God hath written all over this world
,d And do not suppose that God would vast
70 world material in our solar system to th
m amount of what has been estimated a
av seven hundred trillion miles Of solid cor
"a tents. and that only small part as con
nared with other systems which go
" make nm this many storied mansion of tn
n text where it says, "IU is he that buildet
ne his stories in the heaven"
I'd Did Professor HeIschel and his sistei
,s Catherine. in finding worlds find onl
" worlds uninhahitcd and wGstes Is Cere
n which Piazzi discovered in 1901, wasted
" Is Vesta, that Olbers discovered in lSO
.rs wasted? Is PrOsperine, which ProtessC
he Luther discovered in 1888, wastedf
III Urania which Professor Hind discovere
m in 1854, wasted2 Is Pandora, discovered
~ 1873 bv Professor Searle wasted2 Are I'll
or fifteen thousand stars recorded in one yea
on in the observatory at Washington wasted
m Is all except the billionth part Of the un
gi- verse wasted?
-, Nv hearers, is it possible that God woul
l. run such a splendid passenger train OF pa
ae L,r cars through the heavens and keep
a running ii there were no passengersy JUDI
inc, from the extent Of the universe, do yO
think God would put all his family on sue
ila Twins as tlis world marksf If a kin
he have n palace Of one hundred rooms, wi
Ia he mt All his princes and princesses IN OF
as comparatively small rooml As the hlg
on. est happiness is in making others happ
I'm is it not certain that GCd would occnI
III larger places than our small earth wa
m beings capable OF happinessf Besides TN
~ VIM are all the worlds farthest on N
,at farthest up covered with light3 What
aat the use Of light If there are no eyes OF j
of babitants to enjoy and employ that light
mt I admit that scientific exploration hi
~ discovered that around many worlds the
-bo is an atmosphere in which lungs ike on
,ns could not breathe, and there are hehts
.a,T colds that physiques like ours could not e
ce dure. But do you suppose that we M
ar, the only kind oflungs that God can max
-, M our bodies exhaust divine ingenuii
-. ,nd rnust he make all intelligent creatui
an with our respiration or pulsation or ms
ber tication or digestion or habitude or p
make them at all? Because organisms II
the ours cannot live in Mercury or Saturn
al Jupiter CT the sun we have no right
Ids conclude that those globes are liiele
bat without any telescope and without a
1ir- observatory and without any astronomi.
mo calculation know that the other worl
,o1 are inhabited. because my Bible and
wo common sense tell me 50.
em 1t has been estimated ths IN the worl
out belonging to or solar system there
life room for at least twenty-five triliion
rcd population. And ! believe u Is
md occupied or will be occupied by iHtellig'
;.l- ha;ntra God will not ill them VIII uiut