The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-02-11

highest happiness is IN making others
happy, is it not certain that God would
occupy larger places than our small
earth with beings capable of happi'
ness2 What is the use of light if there
are no eyes of inhabitants to enjoy and
employ that light? admit that scien-
tific 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 dc
you suppose that we have the only
kind of lungs that God can make? Dc
our bodies exhaust Divine ingenuity,
and must He make all intelligent
creatures with our respiration or pulsa-
ton or mastication or digestion or habi-
tude or not make them at all? Be-
cause organisms like ours can not live
in Mercury or Saturn or Jupiter or the
sun, we have no right to conclude that
those globes are lifelcss. Without any
telescope and without any observatory
and without any astronomical calcula-
LiOH, KNOW tHat tAC OtICA "OAWAS a. -
inhabited because my Bible and my
common-sense tell me so. 1t has been
estimated that in the worlds belong.
ing to our solar system there is
room for at least twenty-five tril-
lion of population. And l believe it
is all occupied, or will be occupied by
intelligent beings. God will not FIJI
them with brutes. He would certainly
put into those worlds beings intelligent
enough to appreciate the architecture,
the coloring, the grandeur, 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 spa
cious opportunity for movement if they
had not lowers of motion. Yea. they
have sight, else why the light, and
hearing, else how get on with necessary
language and how clear themselves
from advancing perils. Yea, as God
made our human race in His own i'm
age. He probably made the Inhabitants
of other worlds in His own image; in
other words, it is as near demonstra-
tion as / care to have it that while the
inha bitants of other world have adap-
tations of bodily structure to the par
ticular climate in which they dwell,
there is yet similarity of mental and
spiritual characterics among all the in
habitants of the universe of God, and
made in His image they are made won
derfully alike.
Oh 1,x1l 1,<.x he
suit of this discussion founded on Scrip
ture and common sense? 1t is first of
all to enlarge our ideas of God and SO
intensity 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 popu-
lated them, it will not be very much Of
an undertaking for Him to make our
little world over again, and reconstruct
the character of it's populations as by
grace they are to be reconstructed.
Furthermore: get now from all this
an answer to the question which every
intelligent man and woman since the
earth has stood has asked and received
no answer. Why God let sin and sor-
row come into the world when He
could have prevented them from COM
ing? wish reverently to say / think
have found the reason. To keep the
universe loyal to Holy God, it was i'm
portant in some world somewhere to
demonstrate the gigantic disasters that
would come upon any world that al
lowed sin to enter. Which world should
it be? 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 enact
ment of the tragedy. Enter on the
stage Sin. followed by Murder,
Pain, Theft, Fraud, Impurity. False
hood, Massacre, War and all the
denominations and horrors and agonics
of centuries. Although we know COM
paratively little about the other worlds
lest we become completely dissatisfied
with our own, no doubt the other
worlds have heard and are now hear
ing all about this world in the awful
experiment of sin which the human
race has been making In some way
intersteffer communication is open and
all worlds, either by wing or flying
spirits or by direct communication
from God, are learning that disloyalty
and disobedience doom and damn
everything they touch, and the spec
tacle practically say 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 no longer to me q mystery why SO
small world as ours was chosen for
the tragedy. A chemist can demon
strate 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 ex-
plosive and irving and consuming
power. / do not believe there is a world
that has been in existence from the
time wien Copernicus, the astronomer.
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 ex-
pertinent, and the awful object lesson
hoe thr;lled tho rnu1 ti-miiliouS of sfel lar