The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

IASAi London. He expects to be
back in Brooklyn the first
Sunday in December. His Sundays
in Great Britain will be given to Lon
don, filling appointments with as many
as possible of the smaller cities week
days. His discourse for today from
the foregoing text follows:
The wonderful force and immensely
of the thought of our text, cannot be
appreciated by those who have never
been upon the great ocean. AS we traV-
ell through the water at railroad speed
and keep watch in every direction,
yet seldom see vessel, large or small mall
day after day, we begin to get little
conception of the world in which we
live. 1t is so much larger than pre-
viously we were able to comprehend.
Yet by the aid Of the telescope and
the mathematical calculations we per-
ceive that our earth and its seas are
small, in comparison to many other
worlds. We perceive that our solar
system (our sun and his planetary
sateIlites) constitutes but a small frac-
ton of Gods great creation. Astrono-
mers tell US that by the aid of senst-
tive Photographic plates they are able
to count about one hundred and TWEEN
ty-five millions of suns, around which
planets are revolving, as our earth re-
wolves around our sun. And they eS-
innate that probably only portion of
these suns is visible to our naked eye
so far distant are they. Astrono-
mers estimate that there are millions
of other suns SO far distant that their
light cannot even be discerned by
photography.
We stand appalled, at the immensely
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 is
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 he
has brains, they are sadly diSordered,
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 OPP
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, -.
''The Half Was Never Told.'
On first hearing our text some of us
might have been inclined to say, All.
a beautiful poetic extravaganza! But
not so, dear friends! As scientific in
struments demonstrate to US the i'm
mensity 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
as a watch in the night. How insig-
nificantIy 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 consideration
much less to be objects of Divine care
and providencei The Scriptures en-
courage US to reason from the known
to the unknown. 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 de-
scription of the Almighty appears.
His power we see demonstrated. The
wisdom of One SO great cannot be
doubted. Then we come to consider,
Could One so wise and so powerful be
unjust or ungenerous? Our hearts
answer, No! No one is really great
who is devoid of justice and love. So
surely as our God is Jehovah he must
possess these qualities.
When we came in contact with the
Bible, and particularly after we learn
ed something of its teachings and got
rid of the misapprehensions which
gathered about it in the dark ages
then we began to recognize it as the
message of Jehovah to his creatures.
1t informed US that the great Creator
of the universe is not only Almighty
and All-wise. but loving and kind.