The Penn's Grove record., 1897-11-19
DR.. TALMAGES SERMON.
SABBATH DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

God Among the Stars-Our own Worll
the Smallest of Them All, Was Sc
Iected ms the Theatre For Sin and s0r-
row MS an Awful Example to Others,
TEXT. ut is He that buildeth His storie
In the heaven. Amos, iX.i 6.
This is frst-rate poetry from Amos, TN.
herdsman. While guarding his Hooks q.
night, he got watching the heavens. IL
saw stars above stars, and the universe
seemed to him like q great mansion many
stories high, silver room above silver room ,
silver pillars besides silver pillars, and win
dows OF silver and doors OF silver, and tur-
rets and domes Of silver rising into
the immensities, and the prophets sancti-
fed imagination walks through that great
silver palace Of the universe, t~hrou2hth
first story, through the second story
through the third story, through the TWEEN
tieth story, through tho hundredth story,
through the thousaudth story, and tealia-
ing that God IL the architect and carpenter
and mason of all that upheaved splendor.
he cries out in the words of the text, II
Is He that buildeth His stories in the
heaven
The fact is that we have all spent toe
much time on one story of the great man
sion Of God's universe. We need OCCASION
ally to 10 upstairs or downstairs In this
mansion; downstairs, and in the cellGi
study the rocks, or upstairs and see GOD IN
some OF the higher stories, n learn the
meaning of the text when 1t says: 1t is
He that buildeth His stories in the heaven.
Astronomy was born in Chaldea. 1t:
mother was AstrOlogy, or the science Of
foretelling events by i~uxtapositidn OF stars
The orientaIs, living much out OF door:
and in ii very clear atmosphere, through
which the stars shone especially lustrous
got the habit OF studying the nigh
heavens. In the hot seasons caravan
journeyed chiefly at night, and that CAV
travellers much opportunity OF stellar In
formation, On the first page OF the Btbl'
the sun and moon and stars roll in. Th'
sun. a body nearly three million miles Il
circumference and more than twelve thou
sand times as large as our earth; the moon
more than two thousand miles in diameter
But God Is used to doing things on such al
o~mnipotent scale that he takes only on
verse to tell OF this solar and lunar manu-
facture. Yea, In three words all the othe
worlds are thrown In. Thu record says
1.-THE stars Also 1t takes whole pages 70
man to extol the making Of atelesc0pe o
microscope or a magnetic telegraph or
threshing machine, or to describe a fin
painting or statue, but it was so easy 70
God to hang the celestial upholstery tina
the story is comprised in one verse; GO
made two great lights, the greater light t
rule the day and the lesser light to rule tn
night. The stars alsol' Astronomers hav
been trying to call the roll Of them eve
since, and they have counted multltudes
them passing in review before the bserya
tories built at vast expense, and the siz
and number Of those heavenly bodies hay
taxed to the utmost the scientists Of a
ages, r.,
tn But God G. ib i4isG lSs, al riHsihtiost;Sx 7ay @iso.
THAT j; MI2s,' for which he Ta,,a ~ a eft 4, /,
]Y S%nss and H See VA a line Of .S e@a,''' sess
sevsa ae"m'II 1--WE Nm 70 well to consult