Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-25

can you account for the order of the
creation: AS a bridegroom prepares a
home for his bride God prepared this
world for the habitation of man. He
made the sun and the moon. the one to
light the day and the other TO guard
the night. He spake. and the dry land
appeared. He swung out into the heav-
ems the myriads of stars He upholster-
ed the sky with curtains OF blue. He
carpeted the fields with grass. He
made the hillsides great woodland tenn
pies. Then God made the songsters to
sing. After God had created the heav-
Ems and the earth and all that In them
Is he said: Let us make now our mas
ierpiece Let us make man after our
own image" $50 God created man in
his own image" He crowned him with
honor and glory and made him to have
dominion over the works OF his hands,
of which the moon and the stars were
only the works of Gods fingers. Thus
we find that all the worlds were In one
sense created for the great climax Of
all earthly creations. the advent Of
man. Is it incredible that. in order to
work out his purposes for the human
race God should use these lower crea-
tons at his will?
Mans Importance In Universe.
If man is not more important than
the stars, how can you account for the
fact that Jesus Christ came to this
world 10 die for man? There are bill
lions upon billions of worlds. There
are worlds above worlds. There are
consultations upon consultations.
These worlds are born; these worlds
die. Every night the telescope eye OF
the astronomer can see their funeral
pyres burning. Yet II was not to re-
animate perishing worlds that Jesus
that Jesus left heaven and suffered
upon the cross. Our earth is but a
speck I'm the universe one of the small
est OF the millions Of worlds that are
visible I'm the winters sky. yet it was
for the redemption of its inhabitants
that Jesus gave himself to suffer and
die. Does not this prove the impor-
lance of man! IL man is not more
important than the stars. how can you
account for the fact that weeks, per-
haps months. before Jesus was born in
the manger at Bethlehem God sent a
stellar messenger to guide the wise
men from the east? Would star step
out of its course and with finger of
light become guide to man? Does
not the fact that star was a messen-
ger to man at the first Christmas morn
prove TO you that God has enrolled
among the astronomical hosts mighty
forces which. IL necessary, are ready
this "star of the east was able to slip
its chains and run down the boule-
wards of the heavens we know not
Some of the astronomers declare the
star OF the east was not a single
star at all, but I'm order to lead those
wise men God wheeled into line two,
three. perhaps fifty. a thousand, stars
and focused all their lights upon the
stony crib. But. whether the star in
the east was single star or twenty or
a hundred stars. one fact we know
God made the heavens. with their con-
stelations. and they are at his COM
mand; they are his servants. and they
do his will"
But we are not compelled to put our
world in harmony with worlds millions
and billions of miles away to find some
of the mighty forces God Is able and
willing to command for mans life and
service. for mans safety temporal and
safety spiritual We can hear God
speaking TO man in the voice Of the
storm. We can see him smiling in
laughing eyed sunbeams. Furthermore.
we may learn that this voice and this
smile In answer to believing prayer
will come for mans blessing if we only
ask him for an atmospheric blessing.
When one of the Princeton students
once asked DIR. Alexander, Professor.
do you ever lose your faith in Coda"
he replied. Never. except when the
wind is from the east" Yet we should
know that Gods greatest blessings can
come to rescue man sometimes when
the wind IL from the east" There
fore you and / as believing Christians
have right to pray for clear weather
during freshet as In times Of drought
we have right to pray for rain. Thus
II 1t is best for us God will answer our
prayers atmospheric.
That strong East Wind.
Gods power extends to all meteoro-
logical phenomena. Not yet have the
wonders Of the storm been reduced to
a system. The weather bureaus prog
nostications frequently fail. AS with
Washington. as with Joshua. as with
Moses. Gods hand is outstretched for
the rescue of his people What Incl
dent in history is so astonishing as that
of the passage of the Red sea? The
children of Israel fleeing from Egyp-
tan enslavement. were caught In
trap. In front Of them was the sea.
Behind the earth was shaken with the
revolving chariot wheels and the thun-
dering cavalry hoofs of the pursuing
soldiers of Pharaoh. What happened?
Moses said: Fear not. my children;
fear not. God will rescue u.s." Moses
then stretched out his hand over the