The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22

not. out the Goa VINO inspired MN knew =.
and he would not let David write any
thing but truth; and therefore all the
worlds that the telescope ever reached,
or Copernicus, or Calico, or Kepler, or
Newton, or Laplace, or Herschel, or our
own Mitchell ever saw were so easily
made that they were made with the fin
gers. As easily as with your fingers you
mould the wax, or the clay, or the dough
| TO particular shapes; so he decided the
shape of our world. and that ii should
| weigh six seXtilliOn tons, and appointed
for all worlds their orbits and decided
their cOlor-the white to Sirius; the
ruddY to Aldebaran the yellow TO POlluX !;
the blue to Altar; marrying some of the
| stars, as the 2, 400 double stars that Her
schel observed: administering to the
| whims of the variable stars as
their glance becomes brighter or dim,
preparing what astronomers called,
| The girdle of Andromeda,' and the
nebula in the sword-handle of Orion
! Worlds on worlds! Worlds under worlds !
! Worlds above worlds! 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! Reservation of
power Suppression of Omnipotence!
| Resources as yet untouched Almighti-
ness yet undemOnstrated! Now, ! 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 strengthl and when he
unlimbers all the batteries of his omnipo-
| tence2 The Bible speaks again and again
| of Gods outstretched arm but only once,
| and that in the text of the bare arm of
! God.
| My text makes it plain that the rectifi-
cation of this world is a stupendous un
| dertaking 1t takes more power to
make this world over again than it took
| to make it at first. A word was only
necessary for the first creation, but
| for the new creation the I'M
sleeved and unhindered forearm of the
Almighty The reason of that l can I'M
| derstand. In the ship-yards of Liver
pool, or Glasgow, or New York, great
vessel is constructed. The architect
draws out the plan, the length of the
beam, the capacity of tonnage, the rota-
| ton of wheel or screw, the cabins, the
| masts and all the appointments of this
great palace OF the deep. The architect
| finishes his work without any perplexity,
and the carpenters and the artisans toll
on the craft so many hours a day, each
| one doing his part, until, with flags fly
ing, and thousands 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 mighty hunters of the deep, looking
out for prey of ships. surround that
wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky
coast, and she lifts and falls in the
breakers until every joint is loose, aud
every spar is down, and every wave
| sweeps over the hurricane deck as
she parts midships. Would it not
require more skill and power to
get that splintered vessel off the
rocks and reconstruct it than it required
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| that God built so beautiful, and which
started out with all the flags of Edenic
foliage and with the chant of paradisaical
| bowers, has been sixty centuries pound
ing 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 omnipotence than it re-
quired to build her and launch her. So l
| am not surprised that though in the dry
| dock 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. 1t is evident from nv
| text. and its comparison with other texts,
| that it would not be SO great an under
taking to make whole constellation of
worlds, and whole galaxy 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 bankrupt world, this destroyed
world, and make it as good as when it
| started.
Now, just look at the enthroned difficult
| ties In the way, the removal of which, the
overthrow Of which seem to require the
bare right arm of omnipotence There
stands heathenism, with it's S6O, 900. 900
victims. ] do not care whether you call
| them Brahmins, or Buddhists, Confu-
clans or Fetish idolaters. At the worlds
| fair in Chicago last summer those mon
strosities of religion tried to make them
selves respectable, but the long hair and
baggy trousers and trinketed robes of
| their representatives cannot hide from
the world the fact that those religions
are the authors Of funeral pyre, and Jug
| gernaut crushing, and Ganges infanti-
| eide, and Chinese shoe torture, and the
| aggregated massacres of many centuries
They have their heels on India, on China,
on Persia, on Borneo, on three-fourths of
the acreage OF our poor old world.
| know that the missionaries, who are the
most sacrificing and Christ-like men and
women on earth are making steady and
| glorious inroads upon these built-up
| denominations of the centuries. All this
| stuff that you see in some of the news
papers about the missionaries as living
in luxury and idleness is prom ulgated by
orrupt American or England or Scotch
| merchants, whose loose behavior in heath
en- cities has been rebuked by the mis-
| sionaries, and these corrupt merchants
write home, or tell unsuspecting visitors
in India or China or the darkened islands
Of the sea, these falsehoods about our con-
secrated missionaries who, turning their
backs on home and civilization and emol-
ument and comfort, spend their lives in
trying TO introduce the mercy of the Cos
pei among the down-trodden of heather
| ism. Some of those merchants leave their
families in America or England or Scot
| land, and stay for few years in the
ports of heathendom, while they are
making their fortunes in the tea or rice or
opium trade, and while Jhev are thus alb
sent from home give themselves to orgies
of dlssoluteness, such as no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of all decencv.
attempt to report. The presence of the
missionaries with their pure and noble
households in those heather ports is con
| slant rebuke 10 such debauchees and mis-
creants. If satan should visit heaven.
from which he was once roughly, but
justly, eXpatriated and he should write
home to the realms pandemoniac, his cor
| respondence published in Diabolos Ga
2ette, or Appollyonlc News. about what
he had seen, he would report the Temple
of God and the Lamb as a broken-down
church, and the House of Many Mansions
as disreputable place, and the Cheru-
BIN as suspicious of morals. Sin never
did like holiness, and you had better not
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