The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-18
PEOPLES PULPIT.
The Seas
In the Hollow
Gods Hand

Der. His Sundays in Great Britain
win be given TO London. filling ap-
polntments with as many as possible
Of the smaller cities week days. His
discourse for today from the foregoing
text folows:--
The wonderful force, and immensity
of the thought Of our text, cannot be
appreciated by those who have never
been upon the great Ocean. AS we
travel through the water at railroad
speed and keep watch in every direc-
tion, yet seldom see vessel. large or
small. day after day, we begin TO get
n little conception OF the world in
which we live. 1t is so much larger
than previously we were able to COM
prehend. Yet by the aid of the telr-
scope and the mathematical calcull-
tlons we perceive that our earth and
It's seas are small, in comparison TO
many other worlds. We perceive that
our solar system tour sun and his plan-
etary satellltes) constitutes but n small
fraction OF Gods great creation. As.
tronomers tell us that by the aid of
sensitive Photographic plates they are
able to count about one hundred and
twenty-five millions OF suns. around
which planets are revolving. as our
earth revolves around our sun. And
they estimate that probably only a
portion OF these suns Is visible 10 our
naked eye-so far distant are they.
Astronomers estimate that there are
millions OF other suns 50 far distant
that their light cannot even be dis
cerned by photography.
We stand appalled, at the immenslty
OF space and the law and order which
everywhere reign. We heartily assent
TO the words OF the Prophet David,
Day unto day uttereth speech. and
night unto night showeth knowledge;
there is no place where their voice IL
not heard" The person who can look
upon this wonderful display OF super
human power and who can believe
that these worlds created themselves,
shows to the majority of us that, If lie
has brains, they are sadly dlsordered,
unbalanced The person who, after In
telligent thought, concludes that there
Is no God, that everything came to
be what It is by chance or by the op-
Grafton Of some blind force-that per-
son Is described in the Scriptures in
the following words. The fool hath
said in his heart, There is no God''
psalm xiv, y.
"The Half Was Never Told"
On first reading our text some Of us
might have been inclined to say, All,
beautiful poetic extravaganza But
not so, dear friends AS scientific in.
struments demonstrate to us the inn
Inensity Of the universe we perceive
that the Prophet used very moderate
language indeed In his description OF
the majestic power and greatness OF
the Creator, representing him as
weighing the mountains In his bal
ances and holding the seas in the hol
low Of his hand and that. from his
standpoint, a thousand years are but
MS watch In the night. How insig
nitcantly small we all feel In the
presence of our God! No wonder some
great men have been inclined to say
that humanity Is too insignificant from
the Divine standpoint TO be worthy OF
the least conslderation-muc less tC
lie objects of Divine care and proyi
dence! The Scriptures encourage u:
TO reason from the known TO the un
known. They tell us that although
God is so great, so wise. so powerful
he Is also just and loving. And the
more we consider the matter. the more
reasonable this Bible description oi
the Almighty appears, His power We
see demonstrated. The wisdom OF
One 30 great cannot be doubted. Then