The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-27
ritten for TIE DExoCRAr.l
GOD EVERYWHERE.
On the Mountain, in the Sea, the
Sunshine and Storm.

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Sunshine and Storm.
A portion OF discourse pronounced
by the Rev. Thomas G. Lowe, from the
text,3
II kaow that my Redeemer ireth."
I God, on withholding his visible pres.
ence and his audible voice from man
has not left himself without witness
| for the visible creation shows forth his
eternal power and godhead, while the
heavens declare his glory and the firm
ament showeth his handy work. Take
a plain man in whose mind vain in
fidel philosophy has started no Difficult
ties and you will find belief in God a
| fixed element in his creed. He believes
the earth is in his creed. He believes
the earth is an extended plain, circum-
scribed in its dimensions, reared upon
solid structure and stationary in its
position but he believes God made it,
because man could not make 1t and 1t
did not make itself Proceed to induct
him into the sublime mysteries of pro-
gressive science and demonstrate to his
mind that the earth which he supposed
to be hemmed in by the overhanging
horizon that skirts 1t on every side, is
of immense magnitude, fettered on one
hand with bonds of perpetual ice, and
at the same time, expanding DER the
other in fiery suns. That its surface is
diversified with oceans of unfathomed
depth and mountains of untrodden at
titude and swarming tribes whose
stranger dialect has never sounded in
his ear Convince him of it's spherical
form and it's aerial suspension, that in
stead of reposing in motionless immo-
billty, it is flying with thoughtlike We
locity along the trackless azure and
bringing in its diurnal revolution the
alterations of day and night. Follow
it's magnificent circle around the lumi-
nary of day and see with what regulari-
ty the successive portions of its annual
revolution bring the rolling seasons
round. Winter and summer, seed
time and harvest, now clothed with
waving forest and fowery wreaths, then
crusted with frost and mantled with
snow. Unfold to his vision the great
mass of beings and then let him see that
this earth is but a minor number of
numerous family of worlds all fitted up
as the abodes of life and intelligence,
and that the sun which he considered
but great ball OF fire burning above
and beneath him, is the great central
orb OF this extended system, silently
sending out his influence through un-
measured distances and binding the re-
motest member in the circle of his at
traction. He will stand bewiluered
with the proof and majesty of God.
Proceed now to show him that notwith-
standing the amazing vastness of the
solar system-its planets and satellites
SO dimlnutive is it when compared with
all the worlds which people immensely
that to an eye which can at one glance
encompass the whole material creation,
should it be blotted from the map of
being, 1t would occasion no greater vac
uum than leaf falling in the solitude
of vernal forest Trace your progress
OF investigation and discovery along
the milky way that belts the azure
vault pass the glimmering nebulae, the
clustering consultations and the scin-
tillating stars, where worlds on worlds
buried in the profundity of distance,
swept on in their unbounded rivalry
through the universe of endless expan-
sion: there where thought can not
follow and bold fancy tires. Tell him
that so far from having arrived upon
the confines of nature, that he is yet in
finitely remote from the vast profundity
of gloom or glory where hangs the CEN
tral scale that balances creation.
Would he turn blindly away and say
with the mad astronomer there is no
God? While the music of the spheres
is floating softly around him as the
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