The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1902-05-01
SERMON.

HruN-God Morss 90 % Me
terieHs Hog Ms Wonders 70 Po-
form.
In the beginning Col created the
heavens and the earth.
The human mind teaches MS. an
things mus, have 3 beginning This
is tho fundamental principle of finite
and philosophical reasoning
Everything must start no che begin .
ming. unless e he n circle. which has
no beginning or cnd In mathematical
demonstration.
The whole Of creation is created
aud moves I'm circles and c%yolutious
The text says in the beginning tho
earth was created. We know that
science teaches ms that man cannot
create or DESTROY any of che things of
this world lie can change their
shape and form bstcan create Ca ami
hilate nothing He csu burn the hard
substances ot wood and coal aud
change their form Co gases and ashes.
snd change water Co Varor. hut he
has neither created nar destroyed
anything Therefore we must look
60 a higher source than msu iur
creation We cannot ioutt that
/ there lisa world created h, some
power. nor can we attribute thi-
power to chance. for chauce has uo
purpose iu view. chance does not
look 90 the future lor preserving Jos.
creation. for then 10 wonii cease Co. be
chance aud show design aui pre-
meditation wh'ch are antagoui-tic 60
chance.
II could not have been created D.,
accidents as we viii sll admit
Some say nature formed and
created 1t Gus of abe uebula or small
atoms like the milky way. Well.
what j, natures As the great poet
says. There is the rub.
The Encyclopedia Brfsuuica skips
il entirely The dictionary SAYS IL
is the creation or universe. Well.
this is merely cur OLD circle up sgain.
without q beginning co end. Little
words like those sometimes are
troublesome e. comprehend. The
little word hope has been defined TO
be expectation Of the realization of
anticipation.
When we were babes we thought
aud talked like children. aud when
the human race was young their ideas
were crude and unconth. As c~iviliza-
tion advanced from the oldest records
Of time from the banks OF the Nile
through the Euphrates valley. Greece.
Rome. Europe and then ga our west.
era hemisphere. We have records left
Of the greatest thinkers and written.
Of every age 10 both sacred and pro-
fame history. From this nebula or
milky way q literature and science
We should be able TO gather some
thing 70 either iisprove or prove the
words Of our text.
What is the result
The geolegist may bore TO the
center Of this old earth, he huds that
the Creator has been there aud stored
up minerals Tor the use OF man who
was 70 come ia after ages 20 use
them for his happiness aud comfort.
The astronomer may sweep abe
spacious armament with his tele-
scope and after he has examined al.
from the morning star 10 the most
distant sentinel Of tbe sky. on the
, vsst stArspaagled banner of night he
hsds the great Creator has been
there. and who knows but that these
stars are the dwelling places q che
immortal soalss The cheaist may
, aaalyze matter snd reduce tito iss
primal elesaents. bat oe sud In al its
|, stoms and paris no fnds the handi-
work Of the great Creator.
To science. in her great searsh and
= investigation AZ stature. natter. mind
and morals We say 90 On. Every
achievement she performs. every dis.
, eosefy she makes and all the results
II her explorations csn act overthrow
the Bible. bat only confirms ~ad
ps4fes sks 4egts u ,As text, Ia tie
beginning God created the heavens
and tbe sszsh.
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