Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-22


heavens. Job understandable refraction OF
the SUMS rays and said they were turned
rs the clay 10 the senl.' The pyramids
were astronomical obseryatorics, aud they
were 80 longago built that Isaiah reiersto
one OF them IN his nineteenth chapter and
calls 1t the "pillar at the border" The
first OF nll tho sciences born was astron-
omy. Whether from knowledge already
abroad or from direct inspiration, 1t seems
70 me David had wide knowledge Of the
heavens Whether he understood the fun
force of what he wrote know not, but the
God who inspired him knew, and he would
not let David write anything but truth,
aud therefore all the worlds that the tele-
scope ever reached or Copernicus or dalilei
or Keplor or Newton or Laplace or Her
schell or our own Mitchell ever saw were
20 easily made that they were made with
. the fingers As easily az with your fin
gers you mold the wax, or tho clay,
or the dough to particular shapes, so he
decided tho shape Of our world, and that
II should weigh six sextillion tons, and
appointed for all worlds their orbits and
decided ,her color-tle white 10 Sirius,
the rudy 10 Aldebnran, the yellow to Pol
lux, tho blue 70 Allah. marrying some Of
the stars, IA the 1900 double stars that
Horschel observed, administering 10 the
whims Of the variable stars ~ their glance
becomes brighter or dim, preparing what
astronomers called ''the girdle Of Androm-
eda" and tue nebula ia the sword ban
die Of Orion. Worlds on wOrldsl Worlds
under uorlds Worlds above worldsl
Worlds beyond worldsi So many that
arthmetics arc Of no use ga tho calculn-
toni But he counted them as he made
them, and he made them with his hngersi
H... e - v.s.nfa
nipotenccl Resources as yet untouched
AlmiRhtiness yet uudemonstrated Now,
ask for the benefit Of all disheartened
Christian workers, II God accomplished
70 much with his fingers, what can be do
when he puts out all his strength and
when be unllmbers all the batteries OF bis
omnipotgnce' The Bible speaks again and
again Of Gods outstretehed arm, but only
once and that IN the text, of the bare arm
Of God.
Ny text makes Il plain that the reotiA-
cation OF this world is a stupendous under
taking IL takes more power 10 make this
world over again than 10 took TO make Il
nc first. A word was only necessary for
tho first creation, but FOR the new creation
the unslecyed and unhiudcrcd fore arm Of
tho Almighty The reason Of that can
understand. In the shipyuris OF Liverpool
or Glasgow or New York great vessel Is
constructed. The architect draws cut the
plan, the length Of the beam, the capacity
Of tonnage. tho rotation OF wheel or screw,
the cabins, the mnsts md all the appoint
meuts OF this great palace Of the deep. Tho
architect Inishe. his work without any
perpluIity, and The carpenters and tho mr.
tIzous toll on the craft 80 many hours n
day, each ono doing his part, until with
hUF lyiugHud thousands Of people huzz8-
ing ON the docks the vessel ia launched.
But ont on the sea TINT steamer breaks
her shaft and Ia limping slowly along tn.
ward hnrbur when Caribbean whirlwinds
those mighty hunters Of the deep, looking
out for prey of ships surround that wound
cd vessel and pitch it ON n rocky coast, aud
Abe liitg aud falls Ia the breakers until sy-
cry joint ia loose, aud every spur Is down,
aud every wnvo sweeps over the hurricane
deck ns she parts midHhips. Would it not
require more skin aud power 70 get that
Hpllutcred vessel OH the rocks and recon
Etruct It than Il required originally TO
build herr Aye Our world that God built
30 beautiful, and which started out with
all the fash Of Edenic foliage and with
the chant Of paradisaicul bowers, has been
90 centuries pounding IN the skerries Of
sin nnd sorrow, aud 20 get her out. and 10
get her OIL, and TO get her on tho right way
again will require more Of omnipotenco
than il required 20 build her and launch
her. So am not surprised that though
/ "a the drydock Of one word our world was
made 10 will take the unsluoyed arm Of God
to ut her from the rocks and put her on
the right course again II isoyidont from
my toEt aud It's comparison with other
texts that 10 would not boz 70 great an UNI
. .I. 81. Ha... D. d.
Of worlds and whole galaxy Of worlds,
and whole astronomy Of worlds and
swing them In their right orbits ns to take
this wounded world, this stranded world
this baukruRt world this destroyed world
aud make Il Ns good ms whom IL started.
EErn or rowER FRoN HE,yES.
Now just look ut the cnthronod difficult.
| ties iu the way, tho removal OF which. the
/ overthrow Of which, seem 10 require the
/ bare right arm OF omnip0tonce. There
/ stands heathouism, with its 500 900 900
( victims. ! do not caro- whether you call
| them Brahmans or Buddhsts. Confucinus
[ or fctioh idolatera Al the World'R fair
I IN Chicago last summer those monstrosl-
/ ties OF religion tried % make themselves
| respectable, but the long hair and buggy
/ trousers and trinketed robes Of their repre-.
l soptatyea eHunot hide from the world tho
lhcH mat those religions nro the huthuw
! Of funeral pyre and iuggcrnnut crushing,
and Ganges iufantloidc, and Chinese shoe
/ torture, and the aggregated mRsMcros Of
! many centuries They have their heels on
India, on China, on Persia. on Bomoc, on
! three-iourths Of tho acreage OF our poor
/ old world know that the missionaries,
who nrc the most sacrificing and Christ
! Ike mon and women on earth, uro making
| steady aud glorious threads upon these
built up denominations Of the centuries.
| All this stuG that you sec Ia some Of the
newspapers about the missionaries as Nv
| Ing In luxury and idleness Is promulgated
by corrupt American or English or Scotch
mcrchanta, whose loose behavior In heath.
! en- cities has been rcbuked by the mission.
| aries, and these corrupt merehanta write
homo or tell innocent and uususpootlng
visitors In India or China or the darkened
islands Of the sea these f,laehoods about our
consocated missionaries who, turning
their backs on homo and civilization and
emOlument aud comfort spend their lives
| Ia trying 70 introduce the mercy of the
| gospel among the downtrodden Of heath,
| enism, Some OF those merchants leave
their families Ia America or England or
/ Scotland and stay for q few years in the