The Penn's Grove record., 1897-11-19

paIeuNo n.y." -Os4-y, Tor splcndOT, to
be- Kau Eess, Y for subIimitv piled b
td )limity, these words excel all tina huma
speech ever uttered or human .imaginatio
ever scared after: "The stars alsol' 1t
put In as you write Il postseript-somethin
you thought of afterward-as hardly wort
putting into the body of a letter. 9Th
stars also!" Oh, what a God we have, an
He is our Fatherl
Read on in your Bibles, and afte
awhile the Bible flashes with the. aurorI
porealis or northern lights, that strnng
illumination, as mysterious and underline,
now as when, in the book OF Job it wa
written: "Men see not the bright ligh
which is in the clouds. Fair weathe
eometh out of the NORTH While all tn,
nations supposed that the earth was bull
on a foundation of some sort. and man,
supposed that 1t stood on n huge turtle, OF
some great marine creature, JOB knew
enough of astronomy to say it had NJ
foundation, but was suspended on the in
visible arm of the Almighty, declaring
that HE hangeth the earth upon moth,
ing, While all nations thought the cartl
waslevel, the sky spread over it like atent
over a fiat surface, Isaiah declared the
world to be globular, circular, saying Of
God: HE stitch upon the circle OF the
earth" See them glitter in this scripture
sky-ArcturUs, Orion, the Pleiadcs, and
the bear with her young
Without the use of telescope and with
out.any observatory and without any as
Economical calculation, | know that the
other worlds are inhabited. because my
Bible and my common sense tell me so.
1t has been estimated that In the worlds
belonging to our solar system there is
room for at least twenty-five trillion of
population. Il l believe it Is an occu-
pied, or will be occupied, by Intelligent be-
lngs. God will not Ill them with brutes.
He would certainly put into those worlds
beings intelligent enough to appreciate
the architecture, the coloring, the GRAND
eur, the beauty, the harmony Of their sur
~roundings. Yea, the inhabitants Of those
worlds have capacity of locomotion, for
they would not have had such spacious op-
portunity for movement If they had not
powers Of motion. Yea, they have sight,
else why the light, and hearing, else how
get on with necessary language, and how
clear themselves from advancing perils2
Yea, MS God made our human race in His
own Image, He probably made the inhab-
itants of other worlds In His own image; in
other words, it is rs near demonstration as
! care to have it, that while the inhabitants
OF other worlds have adaptations Of bodily
structure to the particular climate I'M
in which they dwell, there is vet similarity
of mental and spiritual characteristics
among all the inhabitants of the universe
of God, and made in His image they are
made wonderfully alike.
Now what should be the practical result
of this discussion founded on scripture and
common sense? 1t is first Of all, to enlarge
our ideas of God n so intensity our ad-
miration and worship. Under such consid-
GRAFTON, how much more graphic the Bible
question, which seems to roll back the
sleeve Of the Almighty and say; Hast thou
m arm like God2" The contemplation also
encourages us with the thought that IL God
made all these worlds and populated them,
1t will not be very much OF an undertaking
for Him to mako our little world over again,
and reconstruct the character Of its pC2u-
lations as by grace they are to be recUa-
structed.
What a monstrosity Of Ignorance that
the majority Of Christian people listen not
to the voices of other worlds, although the
Book says, "The heavens declare the glory
Of God" and, again, THE works of the
Lord are great and to be sought out" How
much have you sought them out2 You
have been satisfying yourself with some
things about Christ, but have you noticed
that Paul calls you to consider Christ as
the Creator of other worlds, by whom also
He made the worlds" 1t is time you
Christians start on a world hunt. That is
the chief reason why God makes the night,
that you may see other worlds. Go out
tonight and look up at the great clock
of the heavens. Listen to the s~ilyery
chime Of the midnight sky. See that your
children and grandchAl ren mount the
heavens with telescope Nor alpenstock,
from ACTIVITY Of Aght to activity
light. What a thoughtful aud sublime
thing that John Quincy Adams, the ex-
President, borns down with years, under
at the Aerll OF his life the Journey
from WashI2 ton to Cincinnati that he
might lay = y cornerstone OF the pier of
ne greai 'racttng telescope, and there
asst Grafton. What a service
s.%A-+a 1889, Lord RQsi'
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