The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-01

stood I know not. Astronomy was
born ia China $500 years before Christ
was born. During the reign Of Hoang-
Ii as rooomers were put to death II
they made wrong calculations about the
hea7ens. JOB understood the refrac
tlou of the suns rays and said they
were turned as the clay to The seal" "
The pyramids were astronomical OBJ
servatories and they were so long ago
built that Isaiah refers to one of them
in his nineteenth chapter and calls it the
>'pillar at the border" The first Of all
sciences boln was astronomy. Wheth.
er from knowledge already abroad or
from direct Inspiration, it seems to me
David had wide kno Hledge Of the heav-
ems. Whether he understood the full
forces Of what be wrote I Eno9 not, but
the God who inspired him knew, and he
would not let David write anything but
Truth, and therefore all the worlds that
the telescope ever reached Or Coperoi.
Gus or Galllei or Kepler or Newton OF
Laolace or Herschell or our own Mitch
ell ever saw were 50 easily made that
they were made with the fogers. As
easily as with your fingers you u old the
wax, or the clay, Or the dough to par.
ticular shapes, so he decided the shape
of our world, and that it should weigh
six sextillion tons, and appointed for Ill
worlds their orbits aud decided their
col,.r-.he white to Sirius, the ruddy to
Aldebaran, the yellow t. Pollux, the
blue 10 Affair, marrying some of the
stars, as the 2.400 double stars that
Herschell observed administering to the
whlns Of the variable stars as their
glance becomes brighter or dim, prepar.
ing what astronomers called '.the elrdle
Of Andro:neda" and the nebu:a in the
sword handle of Ocien. " ,rlds On
worlds! Worlds und-r worlds! Worlds
above worlds! Worlds beyond worlds!
81 many that aritametics are Of 90 use
in he calculation! But be couuted ,hem
as be inside them, and be made them
with his finger! Reservation of power!
Suppression OF omnipotence! Resources
as yet untouched! Almightlpess yei
undenons lrate6! n Nv, I ask for the
benefi, Of all disueartened Cnristia :
workers, if God accomplished so mucA
with his fugers, what can he do when be
puts oat all his strength and when be
unIimne ners al he batteries of bis ouplp.
o-eocs9 The BlbI- speaks again and
again of Gor's GUST e'ched arm, n
cny ouce and that in the text, Of the
bare arn Of God.
My text makes it plan that the rectl.
icotl,u of thissw >rjd Is a stupepdous un-
der'a aking. l. takes upre power to make
his world over agaiu than it took /"
make it at frs, A word was only De
ce$sarY tor the 6tst creation, but toc the
uew creation the unsleeved and unhin-
dered fure arm of the Almighty! The
rea ;on nt that can understand. Ia The
shipvards OF Liverpool or GLASGOW or
New York great vessel is constructed.
The architect draws out the plan, the
length Of the beam, the capacity OF ton
page. the rotation Of Whell or screw, the
cabins, the masts and all the appoint
r,en;s of this great palace Of the deep.
The architect finishes his work without
any perplexity, and the carpenters anc
artzans toll on the craft 80 many hours
a dsv, each cne doing bis part, until
with flags and thousands OF people huz.
zaing on the docks the vessel is launched
But out on the sea that steamer breaks
her shaft and Is limplrg slowly along to
ward harbor when Caribbean whlrlwinds
these mighty hunters Of the deep, look
ing out for prev of ships, surround that
wounded vessel and pitch it on rocky
coast, and she lifts and falls tn the
breakers until every joint is loose, and
every spar is down, aud every wave
sweeps over the hurricane deck as she
parts mitlships. Would it not require
mere skill and power to get that splin'
tered vessel of the rocks and reconstruct
it than it required originally to build her?
Ave! Our world that God built so beau
titul, and which started out with all the
Edenic foliage and with the chant OF
paradisaical bowers, has been so centu-
ries pounding in the skerries of sin and
sorrow, and to get her out, and to get
her of, and to get her on the right way
again will require more OF omnlpoteuce
than it required to build her and launch
her. So I am not surprised that though
in the drydock ofone word our world was
made it will take the unsleeved arm OF
God to lift her from the rocks and put
her on the right couis SO again. It is e7l'
dent from my text and its comparison
with other texts that 1t would not be so
great an undertaking to make a whole
constellation Of worlds, and whole gal
axy OF worlds, and a whole astronomy
OF worlds and swing them in their right
orbits as to take this wounded world,
this stranded world this destroyed world
aud make it as good as Then it started.
Now, just look at the enthroned diff
culties in the way, the removal OF witch
the overthrow Of which seem to require
the bare right arm of omnipotence.
There stands heathenlsm with its $780,
100000 victims. Z do not care whether
YOU call them Brahmaus or Buddhists,
Confucians or fetch ldolateCs. st the
Worlds fair in Chicago last summer
those monstrosities Of religion tried to
make themselves respectable, but the
long hair and baggy trousers and trlnk-
eted robes Of their representatives can
not hide from the world the facts that
those religions are the authors OF funer-
eral pyre, and jnggerraut crushing and
Gsnees infanticide, and Chinese shoe
torture, and the aggregated massacres
of many centuries. They have their
Eeels on India, on China. on Persia. on
Borneo, on three-fpurths Of the acreage
of our poor old world. I know that the
missionaries, who are the most sacrlhc-.
ING and Christlike men snd Wo men on