The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-17
TIE Times,
OWOSSO, FRIDAY, JULY II, 1896.
The Music of the Spheres.

Rev. w. B. Matteson began at the Bap-
fist church Sunday evening, a series OF
"Midsummer" discourses on nature as a
revelation Of God. The subject of the
evening was "The Music Of the Spheres"
the text being taken from Psalms 19:l-
"The heavens declare the glory of Goo"
The speaker said:
The first results of modern science had
seemed to many to be the elimination OF
God from the world; its later results were
to place the belief in God upon founda-
ton yet more secure. Every enlarge
ment of our conception OF the universe
must of necessity carry with it an enlarge
ment of our conception of God. The bet
ter we know the world the better we
know the God who made the world.
David, centuries ago, said, "The heav-
ems declare the glory of God" Even
then men wondered at the number, the
height and the greatness of the heavenly
bodies, and saw in them revelation of
the wisdom and majesty of God. But,
until comparatively recent times, men
had no real conception of the real mag
ni6cence of the phenomena they beheld.
Men talked of the multitude of the stars,
aud thought only of the few thousands
visible to the naked eye; of the "height"
of the stars when they supposed them
fixed in armament itself supported by
pillars rising from the circumference OF
the earth. They thought them majestic,
although they did not think of them as
much larger than they appeared to be.
If the heavens thus conceived declared
the glory of Cod" with how much great
er eloquence do the starry hosts as we
know them, declare this truth. Where
they saw few thousand twinkling lights
we may see, through the telescope, mil
lions of blazing suns. Where they
thought of lights fixed in a armament,
we contemplate the infinite abysses of
stellar space. Where they thought of
the stars as not much greater in reality
than they appeared to the eye, we know
something of the immense magnitudes of
the starry worlds If the days of mems
ignorance of these things the poet could
say "The undeyout astronomer is mad"
it is a thousand times more true today.
But even facts such as these do not sug-
gest the most wonderful part of Gods
revelation of himself in his heavens
That which most impresses the thought
full mind is not the magnitude OF the bod
les nor the immensity of the distances
involved, but rather the marvellous unity
and harmony everywhere manifested.
All these bodies move in the most perfect
adjustment, SO that the poets dream of
the emusic Of the spheres" is very nigh
to being scientific fact. The unity and
harmony of our own solar system is but
typical of that which everywhere pre-
walls. The planets move in their stately
orbits, "unlasting, unresting," the earth
is in profound and true sense not only
controlled by the sun but is one with it.
Earthly forces are but the conversions OF
solar energies. 1t may be said of our
bodies-not as poetry but as scientific
fact7-that in the sun, by virtue of the en-
ergies continually thence transmitted to
Tie earth, the body lives and moves and
Las its its being. What the sun is to the
body, God is to the soul. Gin him we
live and move and have our being"
The remaining topics of the course are
as follows:
July 19-The Two Voices-Sea and
Mountain.
July 26-Thc World Beautiful-Birds
and Flowers.
Aug. 2-Man and Nature.
The discourse last Sunday evening con.
tanned many striking illustrations. The
series promises to be one of the most in.
teresting CT any that Pastor Matteson
has delivered. The attractiveness of the
service last Sunday was largely increased
by the excellent and specially appropri-
ate music Of the choir. There will be
special music throughout the series.
If you would have an abundance OF dark,
glossy hair. III You would have a clean scalp.