Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-11-25
REV. TALNAG['S SERMON.
NOTED WASHINGTON DIVINE,>
SUNDAY DISCOURSE.

God Among the Stars-Our Own World,
the Smallest of Them All. Wa. Sc
lected a. the Theatre For Sin and sor-
row as An Awful Example to Others.
TEXT: 1T is H that bull ie,h His stories
In the heaven."- Amos. tx, 6.
This IS nrst-rate poetry from Amos, the
h@-dsman. WIile clarling his hocss at
blight. he got Watching the h-avens. He
Saw star, a9oee stars. anl tne universe
setTei to MIN ike a graf mansion many
stores high, silver roo Il auoTe-llser r0pn,
SILVER tillaJs breii-. eiIy-r pillars, an / win
Ccws q silver ami door- q s}Iser. end tar
reta aud don-s Of SILVER ri-lL. iuto
tue Universities, AMI the pronhet's eancti-
fed Imagination walks thro1sh that graf
81 Yer ala = Of the universe. throu. the
first story. through the stc0n story,
through I le third story, through the TWEEN
tirth story. through TIE huatre 18th story,
through the thou-anith story, ani r-4iiz-
InE That God IS the architect AMI carpeuter
and mason Of all THAT upheared spIendor,
he cries out in the WORKS Of the text, 1T
!, He that buiiIttu His stories in the
nfayen.'
Tue fact is that we hive all spent too
much time 90 one story OF the great m an
sion OF Go ; universe. We neei OCCASION
ally to 20 upstairs or downstairs il, ttis
MANSION; downstairs, and In the cellar
study IN" rocks. or upstairs aud see God in
some 81 the higher stories. AMI ie1ra the
meaning OF the text w ,en it SAYS: at is
He that bull ietfi Ills stories in tina heaven"
"A>ttOnomy was born IN Cnatiea. Its
mother WAS Astr,t9Ey. or the science OF
foreteliing events hv juxtapo,itihn OF stars,
Tue Ori0"tats, Twin. much out Of doors
and IN a very clear atmosphere, through
which the stars s,one especially iastrous,
got the habit OF stu living the Mig t
h'avens. In the hot seasons caravans
1"urneye1 chiefly at night. AMI that gave
trtNti-rS much opportunity of stellar in
formation. On the first page OF the Bioie
the sur AMI moon and star- roll in. Tae
sun, a body nearly tlree million miles in
circumference and more than twelve thou
sand tIn"s as large rs our earth; the moon,
more than two thousand miles in diameter.
D'f God l. used TO doing things on such IN
omnilotrnt scale that he taxes only one
verse to tell OF this solar a.fl lunar manu-
f~acture. Yea. in three words all ne other
worlds are thrown in. The record SAYS.
The stars also 1t takes whole pages Tor
a nan TO eNt0l the making OF Il telescp pc or
microscope or u magnetic telegraph or Il
ttrrsiiug machine, or to describe a fine
painting 81 - ttue, but it was 80 easy for
God to hang the celestial upholstery that
the story is comprised in one Verse: God
1atte two great lights, the greater light to
rule the lay and tue lesser llSlt to rue the
night. The stars Also Astronomers have
been trying to call the roll of them ever
since, and they have counted multitudes Of
them passing in review before the ooserva-
tories built at vast expense. and the size
and numDrr Of those heavenly bodies have
taNed to the utmost the SCIENTISTS OF all
ages.
But God finishes all He has to So, about
them In three wori i, The stars also.''
That Is Mars. wit its more than iitv-iive
mil ion square miles, and Venus, with it
more than one hundred and nineIv-Ont
mililOne square miles, and saturn, with it,
more than nineteen billion square miles
and Jul tier. with its more than twenty
four billion square miles, and All the planets
OF our SYSTEM OF more than seventv-eiGlI
billion square miles. and these stars of on
system, When com Jared with the stars 0
tnc other systems. as IL handful of san,
compared with all the Rocky Mountain.
and all the A 8. The stars ALSO" FoI
bre>ity, for ponderosity, for splenior, 10
i, sugsesti>eness, for suhlimity piled Oh
suUlimity, these words excel all that huma;
speech ever uttered or human imagination
ever SCARED II ter: "Iie stars nlso!'' 1t i
:. put in a. you write n postscript--sofntthin
YOU thought Of afterwHrd-as hardly wort
putting into the body OF a letter. ''In
stars also" Oh, what u God we have, -
, Be is our Father.
, Real on in your Bibles, anil ate
awhile the Bible flashes with the auror
burta'is or northern lights, that slrtn.
/ illumination, as mysterious and unuetlnt'
Written: Me-" NJ see not tue rr;sat II li y,
! which is IN the clouds. Fair weatae
| cometh out of the north" While a tt
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