The times., 1897-11-08

d series Of sabbath morning sermons con
! Corning God everywhere :" he A Astunonly +
of the Bible, or, GOD Among he stars
The Conchology Of tile Bible. or, God
Among the Shells; The 0rnit hoIogy of
the Bible; or, God Among the Birds,
The IchthyOlogy Of the Bible; or, God
Among the Fishes The Precious stones
OF the Bible; or, God Among the Anne
thysts; The Gardens Of the sea: Jr
God in the Deep The PofHology Of the
Bible; or, Sod Among the orchards; '-The
Botany OF the Bible; or, God Among the
Flowers the Winters OF the BibIe or,
God Among the Frosts;'' The Geology
OF the Bible; or, God Among the Rocks
and The Chronology Of me Bible: or,
God Among the Centuries
Astronomy was born in Chaldea It's
mother was astroogy, or the scieuce Of
foretelling events by juXtaposition Of stars
The orientals, living much out OF doors
and in very clear atmosphere, through
which the stars shone especially luStiOuS
got che habit OF studying the night heavens.
IN the hot seasons caravans journeyed
chiefly at night, and that gave travellers
much opportunity of stellar inf0rHation
On the first page of the Bible the sun and
moon and stars roll in. The sun, body
nearly three million miles in circumference
and more than twelve thousand times rs
large as our earth; the moon, more than
TWO thousand miles in diameter But
God is used TO doing things ON such an
omnipotent scale that he takes only one
verse to tell OF this solar ana lunar manu-
facture. Yea, in three words all the other
worlds are thrown in. The record saws:
The stars also -
goa finishes all he has to say about
them in three words, The stars, aIsol''
That is Mars, with its more than ftfty-five
million square miles, ana Venus. with its
more Inan one hundred and ninety-one mil
lion square miles, and Saturn, with It's
more than nineteen Eillion square riles
and Jupiter, with its more than twenty
four billion square miles, and all the
planets of our system of more than seventy
elght billion square miles, ana these stars
of our system, when compared with the
stars OF the other SYSTEMS, as a handful
OF sand compared with all the Rocky
Mountains AMI all the Alps. The stars
alSo!' For breviby, for ponderosity, for
spiendor, for suggestiveness, for suiliuiity
piled on sublimity, these words excel all
That human speech ever uttered or human
inagin alton ever scared after: The
stars also!' 1t is put in as you write n
postscript something you thought OF after
ward-as hardly worth putting into the
body OF a letter. THE stars, alsoi" Oh
what God we have, and He is our Fatherl
What peases and astounds me is that
each one of the millions of worlds has
small number of them have names given
them by scientists. IF astronomers can
give a name to whole const citation or
galaxy, they think they do well, but
God has a name for each star in ali
inmensity. Inspired David declares of
God: he telleth the number of the stars,
he calleth them all by their names" They
are not orphans that have never been
christened. They are not waits Of the
night. They are not unknown ships on
the high seas of immensity. They belong
to family OF which God is the Father
and as you call your children Benjamin
or Mary or Bertha or Addison or Josephine
so he calls all the infant worlds and
all the adult worlds by their first name,
and they now it as well as though there
were only one child of light in all the
divine family. ''He calleth them all by
their names,' and when he calls, war
rant they come.
But what gladdens me, and at the same
time oyerwhelms me, is that those worlds
are inhabited. The Bible says SO, and