Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-25

heavens. Job understood the refraction of
the suns rays and said they were "turncd
as the clay to the seal" The pyramids
were astronomical observatories, 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 the sciences born was astron-
omy Whether from knowledge already
abroad or from direct inspiration, it seems
to me David had wide knowledge of the
heavens. Whether he understood the full
force of what he wrote know 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 telc-
scope ever reached or Copernicus or Galilei
81 Kepler or Newton or Laplacc or Her
schell or our own Mitchell ever saw were
so easily made that they were made with
the fingers. rs easily as with your fin
gers You mold the wax, or the clay,
or the dough to particular shapes, so he
decided the shape Of our world, and that
il should weigh six seXtilliau tons, and
appointed for all worlds their orbits and
decided their color--thc white 10 Sirius,
the ruddy to Mdebarau. the ycllowto Poi
lux. the blue TO Affair, marrying some of
the stars as the 2.4OO double stars that
llcrSChcl observed, administering to the
wilkins of the variable stars rs their glance
becomes brighter or dim. preparing Whut
astronomers called "thc grdlcof Androu-
rda" and the ncbula In the sword han
die of Orion, Worlds on worlds! Works
under worlds, Worlds above worlds
Worlds beyond worldsl So many that
ArithmctiCs are If no use in the cad uln-
tom But he counted them us he made
them. and he made them with his fir .cr-l
Reservation Of power. suppression OF om-
Impotence! Resources rs yet uutouchedl
AlmightincS~ yet uudemoustratcd, Now,
| ask for the benefit of all dishcartencd
Christian workers. If GOD accomplished
SO much with his fingers. what can be do
when he puts ont all his strength and
when he unlimhers all the batteries of his
omnipotcuceg The Billc speaks again and
again of Gods outstrctched arm. but only
once. and that in the text OF the bare arm
OF God.
A GREAT UNDEETAKlNC.
My text makes it plain that The roctiG-
cation Of this world is Il .tupcndous under
taking, II takes more power to make this
world over again than it took to make it
at first. 4 word was only nccc -sary for
the first creation. but for the new creation
the Unslcevcd and Uuhndercd fore arm Of
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