Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-06

foundations of the earth?' The earth
has no foundation" Christian philos-
opby comes and finds that the word as
translated foundations may be bet
ter translated "sockets.' So now see
how it will read if it is translated
right. where vast thou when [ set
the sockets of the earth?" Where is
the socket? 1t is the hollow of Gods
hand-a socket large enough for any
world to turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: what an
absurd story about Joshua making the
sun and moo stand still. If the world
had stopped an instant, the whole uni
verse would have been out of gear"
"Stop," said Christian philosophy; mot
quite so quick!' The world has two mo-
tiOns-one on it's own axis and the other
around the sun. 1t was not necessary, in
making them stand still, that both mo-
lions should be stopped-only the one
turning the world on its own axis.
There was no reason why the hating
of the earth should have Jared and
disarranged the whole universe. Josh
ia right and God right; infdelity
wrong every time. [ knew it would be
wrong. l thank God that the time has
come when Christians need not be
scared at any scientific exploration.
The fact is that religion and science
have struck hands in eternal friendship,
and the deeper down geology can dig
and the higher up astronomy can soar
all the better for us. The armies of the
Lord Jesus Christ have stOrmed the
o~bservatOries of the worlds science
and from the highest towers have flung
out the banner of the cross and Chris
tianity now. from the ObservatOries at
Albany and Washington, stretches out
it's hand toward the opposing scientific
weapon, crying, "There is hone like
that; give it me!' I was reading of
HerscheI, who was looking at a meteor
through a telescope, and when it came
over the face of the telescope it was so
powerful he had to avert his eyes. And
it has beer just so that many an as
trOnOmer has gone into an observatory
and looked up into the midnight heav-
ems, and the Lord God has, through
some swinging world, famed upon his
vision, and the learned man cried out:
"VVho am 1? Undone! Unclean! Have
mercy, Lord God!"
Let Christians Travel.
Again, | remark that the travelling
disposition of the world, which was adj
verse to morals and religion, is to be
brought on our side. The man that
went down to Jericho and fell amid
thieves was a type of a great many
travellers. There is many a man who
is very honest at home who when he
is abroad has his honor filched and his
no hits SfO1on HNhorn a no Int roru
few men who can stand the stress of
expedition. Six weeks at a water
ing places have ruined many a man. In
the Olden times God forbade the travel
ing of men for the purposes of trade
because of the cOrrupting Influences
attending it. a good many men now
cannot stand the transition from one
place to another. Some men who seem
to be very consistent here in the way
of keeping the Sabbath when they get
into Spain on the Lords day always
out to see the bullfights. Plato said
that no city ought to be built nearer to
the sea than ten miles lest it be tempt
ed to commerce. But this travelling dis
position of the world, which was ad-
verse to that which is good, is to be
brought on our side. These mail
trains-why, they take our Bibles;
these steamers, they transport our mis-
siOnaries; these sailors, rushing from
city to city all around the world, are
to be converted into Christian heral6s
and go out and preach Christ among
heather nations. The gospels are
infinitely multiplied in beauty and
power since Robinson and Thompson
~Burckhardt have come back and
to us about Sloan and Caper-
naum and Jerusalem, pointing out to
US the lilies about which Jesus preach
ed, the beach upon which Paul was
the fOrds at which Jor-
dan was passed, the Red sea bank on
which were tossed the carcaSses of the
Egyptians. A MAI said: 81
went to the Holy Land an infidel. l
came back a Christian. | could not
help it,"
l am not shocked, as some have been,
at the building of railroads in the Ho-
ly Land. | wish that all the world
go and see Golgotha and Bethle-
hem. How many who could not afford
muleteers now easily buy tickets from :
.Onstantinople to Joppa. Then let
travel! God speed the rail
trains and guide the steamships this
night painting across the deep in the
DhosphoresceHt wake of the shining
feet of him who from wave cliff to
cliff bestormed Tiberius. The
Japanese come across the water and
see our civilization and examine our
Christianity n go back and tell the
story n keep that empire rocking till
Jesus shall reign ]
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