The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-05-23

foundations of the earthY The earth
has no foundation" Christian phi
losophy comes and finds that the word
as translated foundations" may be
better 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 moon stand still! II the
world had stopped an instant the
whole universe would have been out of
gear" stop" said Christian philoso-
ply; mot quite SO quick" The world
has two motions-one on its own axis
and the other around the sun. 1t was
not necessary in making them stand
still that both motions should be
stopped-only the one turning the
world on its own axis. There was no
reason why the halting of the earth
should have Jared and disarranged
! the whole universe. Joshua right and
God right; iniidelity wrong every time.
l knew it would be wrong. | 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 obseryatorieS
/ of the worlds science and from the
| highest towers have flung out the ban
ner of the cross, and Christianity now
| from the observatories at Albany and
Washington stretches out its hand to-
! ward the opposing scientific weapon,
crying: There is none like that; give
it me-" Twas reading of Herschel, who
was looking at a meteor through
telescope, and when it came over the
| face of the telescope it was SO power
full he had to avert his eyes. And it
has been just so that many an astrono-
mer 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 tho learned man cried out:
"Who am I? Undone! Unclean! Have
mercy, Lord God!"
Again. remark that the travelling
| disposition of the world, which was
adverse to morals and religion, 10 to
be brought on our side. The maa that
went down TO Jericho and fell amid
thieves was type Of a great many
travellers. There Is many q man who
is very honest at home who when he
is abroad has his honor filched and
his good habits stolen. There are but
very few mon who can stand the stress
OF an expedition. Six weeks at wa
tering place have ruined many a man.
In the oiden times God forbade the
travelling Of men for the purpose of
trade because Of the corrupting infu-
ences attending 1t. A good many men
now cannot stand tho 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 al
ways 20 out to see the bullfghts.
Plato said that no city ought to be
built nearer to the sea than ten miles
lest 1t be tempted to commerce. But
this travelling disposition Of the world
which was adverse to that which is
good is to be brought on our side.
These mail trains, why, they take our
Bibles; these steamships, they trans
port our missionaries; these sailors,
rushing from city to city all around
the world, are to be converted into
Christian heralds and go out and
preach Christ among the heather
nations. The Gospels are infinitely
multiplied in beauty and power since
Robinson and Thompson and Burk-
hardt have come back and talked to
us about Sloan and Capernaum and
Jerusalem. pointing out to us the lilies
about which Jesus preached, the beach
upon which Paul was shipwrecked, the
fords at which Jordan was passed, tho
Red sea bank on which were tossed
the carcasses of the drowned Egyp-
tians. A man said: II went to the
Holy Land an infdel. I came back .
Christian. I could not help It,"
lam not shocked, as some have been,
at the building of railroads in the
Holy Land. wish that all the world
might 60 and see Golgotha and Beth
lehem. How many who could not af-
ford muleteers now easily buy tickets
from Constantinople to Joppa! Then
let Christians travel! God speed the
rail trains AID guide the steamships
this night painting across the deep in
the phosphorescent wake Of the shin
ing feet Of Him who from wave cliff to
wave eli6 trod bestormed Tiberius.
The japanese come across the water
and see our civilizat tion and examine
our Christianity and 60 back and tell
the story and keep that empire rock.
Ing till Jesus shall reign
Where'sr the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the in |
Adel traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the jacksls Of the des-