Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-02-15

Soa' mar! III you have been in the
UoDehn mandatory of tapestry il
faris-alas! now no more-you wit
messed wondrous things, as you
saw the wooden needle OF
oroach. going back and forth
ana In and out; you were transfxed
with admiration at the patterns
wrought. No wonder that Louis XIV.
Dough It and it became the possession
OF the throne; and for long while
none but thrones and palaces might
nave any of its work! What triumphs
OF loom! What victory of skilled fin
gers! So David says of the heavens
Gods fingers wove into them the light:
that dod's fingers tapestried them with
stars; that Gods fingers embroidered
them with worlds. How much of the
immensely OF the heavens David under
stood know not. Astronomy was born
in China twenty-eight hundred years
Deiore christ was born. During the
reign of Hoang-M astronomers were
put to death if they made wrong cal
culations about the heavens. Job un-
derstood the refraction of the suns
rays, and said they were turned 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 astronomy Whether from
knowledge already abroad, or from di-
rect inspiration. it seems to me that
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; and there
fore all the worlds that the telescope
ever reached, or Copernicus, or Calico,
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 with your fingers
you mold the wax, or the clay, or the
dough, to particular shapes, so He de-
cided 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 Aldebaran. the |
yellow to Pollux, the blue to Altar
marrying some of the stars, as the |
2 400 double stars that Herschs 81 OBJ
served; administering to the whins Of |
the variable stars as their glance be-
comes brighter or dim, preparing what
astronomers called, The girdle of An
dromeda," 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
powerl Suppression of omnipotenee!
Resources as yet untouched Al
mightiness yet undemonstratedl Now
| ask, for the benefit of all disheart-
ened Christian workers, If God accom-
plishes 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 omnipotence? The
Bible speaks again and again of Gods
arm, but only once, and
that in the text, of the bare arm of
God.
My text makes it plain that the recti-
fication of this world is stupendous
1t takes more power to
make this world over again than it |
-oox to make it first. A word was only
for the first creation, but for
he new creation the unsleeved and {
Ii | :
The reason of that / can understand. {
N the ship yards of Liverpool, or Glas-
row, or New York, a great vessel is
The architect draws out t
he plan, the length of the beam, the e
apacity of tonnage, the rotation of I
Wheel or screw, the cabins, the masts e
nd all the appointments of this great c
,alace of the deep. The architect fin t
shes his work without any perplexity, y
nd the carpenters and the artisans l
oil on the craft so many hours day, a
ach one doing his part, until with s.
ags flying, and thousands of people A
uzzaing on the docks, the vessel is X
aunched but out on the sea that A
teamer breaks her shaft, and is limp n
NO slowly along towards harbor, when c.
aribbean whirlwinds. those mighty g
unters of the deep. looking out for n
rev of ships. surrounded that wounded Il
essel and pitched it on rocky coast, CT
nd she lifts and falls in the breakers q
ntil every joint is loose. and every spar ST
down and every wave sweeps over al
ne hurricane deck as she parts mid W
lips. Would it not require more skill G.
nd power to get that splintered YES d
i off the rocks and reconstruct it b
nan it required originally to build al
er? Ave! Our world that God built "
, beautiful, and which started out it
it'll all the flags of Edenic foliage and m
the chant of Paradisical bowers has w
cen sixty centuries pounding in the CT
xerries of sin and sorrow. and to get al
er out. and to get her off, and to get is
j the right way again. viii require pr
ore of omnipotence than it required pr
, build her and launch her. So ! am pl
IT surprised that though in the dry mi