Connecticut western news., 1894-01-25

lations about the heavens. Job under stood the refraction of the suns rays and said they were turned as the clay to the seal" The pyramids were as- tronomical observatories, and they were 50 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 the sciences born was astronomy. Whether from knowledge already abroad or from direct inspira- tion, it seems to me Dayid had wide knowledge of the heavens. Whether he understood the full force of what he wrote, I know rot, but the God who inspired him knew, and he would not l,t David write anything but truth, and therefore all the worlds that the tele- scope ever reached or Copernicus or Galilei or Kepler or Newton or La place or Herschel or our own Mitchell ever saw were so easily made that they were made with the fingers. AS easily as with your fingers you mold the wax, CT the clay, or the dough to particular shapes, so he decided the shape of our world, and that it should weigh six sextillion tons and appointed for all worlds their orbits and decided their color-the white to Sirius, the ruddy to Aldebarap. the yellow to Pollux, the blue to Altair, marrying some of the stars, as the 2,400 double stars that Herschel observed, administering to the whims of the variable stars as their glance becomes brighter or dim, pre- pairing what astronomers called, "the girdle of Andromeda" and the nebula in the sword handle of Orion. Worlds on worlds! Worlds under worlds! Worlds above worldsi Worlds beyond worlds. So many that arithmetics are of no use in the calculation! But he counted them as he made them, and he made them with his fingers! Reserva- ton of power. Suppression of omnipo- tencel Resources as yet untouched! Almightiness yet undemonstratedl Now I ask, for the benefit of all disheartened Christian workers, If God accomplished so much with his fingers, what can he do when he puts out all his strength and when he unlimbers all the batteries of his omnipotencep The Bible speaks again and again of Gods outstretched arm, but only once, and that in the text of the bare arm of God.
 GREAT UNDERTAKING.
 My text makes it plain that the rec tihcation of this world is stupendous undertaking. 1t takes more power to make this world over again than it took to make 1t at first. A word was only necessary for the first creation, but for the new creation the unsleeved and un- hindered fore arm of the Almighty! The reason of that can understand. In the shipyards of Liverpool or Glasgow or New York great vessel is construct ] ed. The architect draws out the plan, the length of the beam. the capacity of tonnage, the rotation of wheel or screw, the cabin, the masts and all the ap- ,, pointments of this great palace of the deep. The architect finishes his work without any perplexity. and the car penters and the artisans toll on the craft so many hours day, each one doing his part, until with flags flying. and thou sands of people huzzaing on the docks, the vessel is launched. But out on the sea that steamer breaks her shaft and is limping slowly along toward harbor, ! when Caribbean whirlwinds, those l mighty hunters of the deep, looking out ! for prey of ships, surround that wound | ed vessel and pitch it on a rocky coast, and she lifts and falls in the breakers | until every joint is loose, and every spar is down, and every wave sweeps over the hurricane deck as she parts midships.
 Would 1t not require more skill and ] power to get that splintered vessel oil ! the rocks and reconstruct it than it re- | luired originally to build her? Aye! | Our world that God built 80 beautiful, | and which started out with all the flags | of Edenic foliage and with the chant of 1 paradisaical bowers, has been 50 cep- turies pounding in the skerries of sin and sorrow, and to get her out, and to get her off, and to get her on the right ! way again will require more of omnip- otence than it required to build her | and launch her. So I am not sur prised that though in the drydock of | one 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 course again. It is evident from my text and its comparison with other texts that it would not be so great an undertaking to make whole constella- tion of worlds, and a whole galaxy of worlds, and whole astronomy of worlds, and swing them in their right orbits as to take this wounded world, this stranded world, this bankrupt world, this destroyed world, and make it as good as when it started.
 EVILS TO OVERCOME.
 Now, just look at the enthroned diff culties in the way, the removal of which,
 tte overthrow of which, seem to require
 the bare right arm of omnipotenoe
 There stands heathenism, with its 660,.
 900, 900 victims I do not care wheth
 CT you call them Brahmans or Bud
 dhists, Confucians or fetich idolaters
 At the Worlds fair in Chicago las
 summer those monstrosities of religion
 tried to make themselves respectable
 but the long hair and baggy trouser'
 and trinketed robes of their representa-
 tives cannot hide from the world tn,
 fact that those religions are the author
 of funeral pyre, and juggernaut crush
 ing, and Ganges infanticide, and Chi
 nese shoe torture, and the aggregated
 massacres of many centuries. The.
 have their heels on India, on China, oI
 Persia, on Rprneo, on three-fourths O
 the acreage of our poor old world.
 I know that the missionaries, wh'
 are the most sacrificing and Christlik
 men and women on earth, are making
 steady and glorious inroads upon thes
 built up abominations of the centuries
 All this stuff that you see in some O
 the newspapers about the missionarie
 as living in luxury and idleness is pro
 mulgated by corrupt American or Eng
 fish or Scotch merchants. whose loos
 behavior in heather cities has been re
 buked by the missionaries, and thes
 corrupt merchants write home or tel
 innocent and unsuspecting visitors il
 India or China or the darkened island
 of the sea these falsehoods about ou -consecrated missionaries, who, turning | 0S T., <.lr rsx.sl | .1.