Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-03-06

shlEIs OF the UNIVERSE IT he Is. now
can you account for the order of the
! creation? As a bridegroom prepares a
| home for his bride God prepared this
world for the babitation of man. lie
| made the sun and the moon. the one. to
| light the day and the other to guard
Ghc night. lie spake, and the dry land
| appeared. lie 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 lie
made the hillsides great woodland tenn
/ les. 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
| terpiece. Let US make man after our
| own image" 80 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 to 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 it was not to re-
animate perishing worlds that Jesus
died. 1t was to redeem immortal man
| that Jesus left heaven and suffered
upon the cross. Our earth is but a
speck in the universe, one of the small
est of the millions of worlds that are
visible in 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? If a 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 manager at Bethlehem God sent a
stellar messenger to guide the wise
men from the east? Would a star step
out of it's course and with finger of
light become a guide to man? Does
not the fact that a 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, if necessary, are ready
to serve us and our interests? How
this ''star of the east was able to slip
it's chains and run down the boule-
Yards of the heavens we know not.
Some of the astronomers declare the
''star of the east was not a single
star at ALL but in 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 a single star or twenty or
| hundred stars, one fact we know
"God made the heavens, with their con-
stellations, and they are at his COM
y
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 DR.. Alexander, Professor,
do you ever lose your faith in God?"
| 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 is from the east" There
fore you and 1 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
if it 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 outsuetched 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;