Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-19

Do our bodies exhaust divine ingenuity,
and must he make all intelligent creatures
! with our respiration or pulsation or mas
tcation or digestion or habitude or not
make them at all? Because organisms like
ours cannot live in Mercury or Saturn or
I 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 astronomical
calculation know that the other worlds
are inhabited, because my Bible and my
| common sense tell Inc 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 believe 1t is all
occupied 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 coloring, the gran
| deur, the beauty, the harmony of their
surroundings Yea, the inhabitants of
those worlds have capacity of locomotion
like ours, for they would not have had such
spacious opportunity for movement If
they had not powers of motion.
Yea, they have sight, else why the light
and hearing, else how get on with neces-
sary language 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
in his own image-in other words, 1t is as
near demonstration as l care to have 1t
that, while the inhabitants of other worlds
have adaptations of bodily structure to the
particular climate in which they dwell,
there is yet similarity of mental and spirit
ual characteristics among all the inhabi-
tants of the universe of God, and made in
his image they are made wonderfully alike
THE ARM OF GOD.
Now, what should be the practical result
of this discussion founded on Scripture and
common sense? 1t is first of all to enlarge
our ideas of God, and so intensity our adj
miration and worship. Under such con
sideration, how much more graphic the
Bible question which seems to roll back
the sleeve of the Almighty and say, ''Hast
thou an arm like Godp The contempla-
tion also encourages us with the thought
that if God made all these worlds and pop
ulated them it will not be very much Of
an undertaking for him to make our littl"
world over again and reconstruct the char
acter of its populations as by grace they
are to be reconstructed.
What monstrosity Of ignorance that
the majority of Christian people listen not
to the voices of other worlds, although lie
Book says, 1.-THE heavens declare the glory
of God" and again, 1.-The works of t. e
Lord are great and to be sought out. :"
How much have you sought them QUIT
You have been satisfying yourself will
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 midnight sky. See that your
children and grandchildren mount the
heavens with telescope for alpenstock,
leaping from ACTIVITY of light to activity
of light. What beautiful and sublime
thing that John Quincy Adams, the ex-
president, borne down with years, under
took at the peril of his life the journey
from Washington to Cincinnati that he
might lay the cornerstone of the pier Of
the great I4fracting telescope and there
making his last orationl
What a service for all mankind when in
1889 Lord Rosse lifted on the lawn of his
castle, eighty miles from Dublin, a tele-
scope that revealed worlds as fast as they
could roll in and that started an entnu-
siasm which this moment concenters tie
eyes of many of the most devout in all
parts of the earth on celestial discovery
Thank God that we know where our own
world is, bounded on all sides by realms Of
glory, instead of being where Hesiod in his
poetry described it to be-namely, half way
between heaven and hell; an anvil hurled
out of heaven, taking ten days to strike
the earth, and hurled out of earth, taking
ten more days to strike perdition;
From the high heaven brazen anvil cast,
Nine days and nights in rapid whirls would
last
And reach the earth the tenth, whence strong
ly hurled,
The same the passage to tn Internal world.
thank God that we have found out that
our world is not half way between heaven
and hell, but is in asisterhood of light, and
that this sisterhood joins all the other sis
terhoods of worlds, moving round some
great homestead, which is no doubt heav
en-, where God is and our departed Chris
tian friends are, and we ourselves through
pardoning mercy expect to become perma-
nent residents.
THIS WORLDS MORAL LAW.
Furthermore, get now from all this an
answer to the question which every intel
ligent man and woman since the earth
has stood has asked and received no an
swer Why did God let sin and sorrow
come into the world when he could have
prevented them from coming' Iwish rev.
erently to say think have found the rea-
son. To keep the universe loyal to a holy
God it was important in some world
somewhere to demonstrate the gigantic
disasters that would come upon any world
that allowed sin to enter. Which world
should it be2 Well the smaller the world
the better, for less numbers would suffer
So our world was selected. The stage was
plenty large enough for the enactment of
the tragedy. Enter on the stage sin, fol-
lowed by murder, pain, theft, fraud, i'm
purity, 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 dissatisfied with our own, no
doubt the other worlds have heard and are
now hearing all about this world in the
awful experiment Of sin which the human
race has been making. In some way inter
stellar communication is open, and all
worlds, either by wing of flying spirits or
by direct communication 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 orbit where you were intended
to swing, or you will suffer that which
that recreant world out yonder has been
suffering for thousands of years" 1t is