Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-01
EVANGELIST SUNDAY DESCRIBES
VASTNESS OF ETERNITY IN talk
ON WHAT SHALL The END BE?'

Itation, my character, wife, children,
honor, | staked my soul, everything
! | had, on the God of that Bible.
and the Christ of that Bible, and !
won.
''What shall the end be to them
that obey not the gospel of God?'
Hear me. There are three incompre-
hensibilities to me. Don't think
there are only three things l don't
know, or dent you think that think
there are only three things I don't
| know. I say there are three incom-
prehensiblities to me.
/ First ETERNITY. away off yonder
somewhere you think it will end, it
| leads on. on, on, on and on. ] can
| take billion, / can subtract a million;
can take L million or billion, or 81
! nondecillion or a septillion Of years
from eternity and | haven't as much
as disturbed its original terms. until
minds trained to deal with intricate
problems go Keeling back In their ut.
ter inability to comprehend eternity.
AND THERE is SPACE. When you
go out tonight look UP at the moon
100000 miles away, ] could walk to
the moon. Walking forty miles
a day could reach the moon in II
years, but the moon is one of our near
Ineighbors. All. you see the sun,
92,500 900 miles away. I couldn't walk
to the sun. IF could charter a fast
train, going SO miles an hour, It would
take the train 215 years to reach the
sun.
In the early morn you will see a
star near the sun Mercury, $1,000
1000 miles away; travels around the
sun once in SO days going at the speed
of 10000 miles per hour as it swings
on its orbit,
Next is Venus, She is. beautiful.
100000 miles away travels
around the sun once In ga days go.
ing at the rate of 10000 miles per
hour as she swings in her orbit.
Then comes the Earth, the planet
upon which we live, and as you sit
there and I stand here, this old earth
travels around the sun once in S6a
days, going at the speed of $4,000
miles per hour, and as you sit there
and | stand here, this old planet Is
swim ing on her orbit $4,000 miles per
hour, and she is whirling on her axis
10 miles per second. By force of gray
itv We are held from falling off into
illimitable space,
Yonder is Mars - s60,000,000 miles
away Travels around the sun once ir
687 days or about two years, going a
the speed of $4,000 miles per hour
Who knows hut that It Is inhabited
by a race unsullied by sin, untouched
by death.
r Ia,. ~JI ,1,o
piOn Of the skies, sashed and beltet
. around with vapors of light. Jupiter
45 100000 miles away, travel
around the sun once in IL years goins
at the speed of 10000 miles per hour
! l need something faster than an ex
press train going SO miles per hou
or cyclone going 100 miles an hour
! II could charter a Pullman palace
car and couple it to ray Of light
:. which travels at the speed Of 1872 ,00
,, miles per second If I could attacl
: my Pullman palace car to ray o
! light, could go to Jupiter and ge
! back tomorrow morning at oclocl
. for breakfast, but Jupiter is one of GU
near neighbors.
Yonder is old Saturn, S85,00O0
! miles away, travels around the SUI
once in 30 years, going at the spec
4 Of $1,000 miles per hour.
;, Away yonder I catch a faint glin
:. mer of another stupendous world as
: swings in its tireless and prodigiou
= journey. Old Uranus, 1,7S0000,00
: miles away travels around the su
once in "a years going at the speed Q
!, 2o0 miles per hour.
;. AS the distance of the planets fror
:, the sun increases, their velocity +
= their orbit correspondence decrease:
y I hurry to Chicago and take tn
u !, Northwestern. rush out to LAX
Geneva, Wis. I climb into the Yerke
- observatory and turn the most pc,
u derous telescope in the world to tn
y skies, and away out on the frontier {
}, the universe, on the very outer ril
u of the world, catch faint gimme
u of Neptune 2,7e0,00O,00O miles ava
g travels around the sun once in It
- years, going at the speed Of 210 mile
Is per hour. If I could step on the dec
Of battleship and aim 19-inch gu
g and that projectile would travel 1,5t
g miles in a minute, it would take it Sc
e years to reach that planet
he Away yonder Is Alpha Centuri.
II NOulu cttiSil LILY pt1ldCC Cdl "
TO ray of light and 60 at speed of 10:
Is 600 miles per second, it would tai
II me three years to reach that plane
lie An express train going so miles {
re hour would be S0,000,000 years pullir
le into the union depot at Alpha Centu1
r. Yonder the Polars or the Nor
le Star. Travelling with the speed
re light at the rate of speed Of 1920
TO miles per second. it would take me
IN years to reach that planet. And If
lg would go to the depot and buy a ra
Mt road ticket to the north star and pf
10 cents a mile. it would cost me $72
'ir 100000 for railroad fare to go to tn
1t. planet.
ch o, God. what is man that Thou a
mindful of him? And the fool, t
i'd fool. the fool. hath said in his hea
m There is no God" am not an
Cd fidel because am not a fool ct
cd heavens declare the glory of God al
us the armament showeth His ham
il work. I don't believe an infidel ev