The Hartford republican., 1913-08-22
Other PLANETS
INHABITED?
Our Earth Is Only One
Peopled.
Lowell, the American Astronom-
ir Says "Mars Is Most De-
cidedly Inhabited.


At 80 years of age and still vigor-
ous and active. the Reverend James
NJ. Cline, Of Benton. Ark, after hav-
Ing devoted fifty-eight years Of his
life to religious work as an intiner-
ant and ably preaching the gospel
of astronomy.
He has fine three-inch Bardou
telescope, which was presented to
him by the city of Little Rock. Ark.
which he carries with him to give
his hearers practical object lessons
Of the wonders of the heavens.
He frequently speaks to audiences
OF 5000 and over, and In the course
OF his lectures over l.000, 600 people
have had the pleasure Of viewing the
objects Of popular interests in the sky
through his telescope.
The Rev. Mr.. Cline graduated from
the Oglethorpe University In 1855.
He took first honors in Latin and
Greek, and won the gold medal in
astronomy. For four years during the
Civil War he was chaplain OF the
Fifty-second North Carolina regiment.
under Gen. Robert +. Lee. and par
ticipated in Pickett's awful charge
at the battle OF Gettysburg.
In answering a declaration by Rev.
II. NJ. DuBose that this world world
was the only one inhabited, he ex-
presses his interesting views as fol-
lows:
REV. II. NJ. DuBose. d. d.. has
stated that the earth is the only
world that is inhabited. deny this.
say that millions Oh worlus are
h&bited.
MANY OF the creates. astronomers
o. modern times boldly assert that
Mars is inhabited.
The great Italian astronomer, Schi-
aparelli. says: Mars is no desert OF
barren rocks. but Is alive.
"The great French astronomer.
Fiammarion, says: TO ME no doubt
exists that Mars Is Inhabited
"The great German astronomer. n.
T. Klein, states: We are forced to
assume that Mars possesses a most
highly civilized people. and that
their culture Is older than ours
"The great American astronomer.
Lowell, says Mars Is most decidedly
inhabited by an intelligent race or
beciugs. ani che future win bear out
my statements
"The great American astronomer.
Simon Newcomb, states: 1t is per-
fectly reasonable to suppose that be-
ings not only animated, but endowed
with reason, inhabit countless worlds
in space
"We must not suppose that some
of those worlds are too hot and 9TH
ere too cold for people and other liv-
ing things to exist thereon. God
could easily adjust all that. God has
80 adjusted things that millions OF
people live in hot Africa, while 9TH
en- millions dwell in frzeno Green
iand.
God permitted those three piOus
Hebrews, Shadrach, Meschach and
Abednego, to live and walk in that
awful fiery furnace. (See Daniel ill.,
Nothing is too hard for God. with
God all things are possible God 10
the Almighty!
"We must not suppose that the
<~th har Ia q no
every respect exactly like the people
on earth. They may be far superior
to the people on our little globe. God
could 50 adjust things that those peo-
pie In those other worlds are in ev-
cry respect exactly like the people
on earth. They may be far superior
i, to the people ON our little globe. God
could 90 adjust things that those
people could live even without an
atmosphere. which so concerns Dr.
DuBose.
"The great DIR. Chalmers states;
shall we measure the councils OF
heaven by the narrow impotence OF
human faculties? or conceive that
silence and solitude reign through
out the mighty empire of naAurer
"The great astronomer, Flsmma-
rion, states: We should beware OF
measuring the inhabitants OF the
other worlds by the conceptions. more
or less incomplete. which the terres-
trial life may suggest to Jus. Nature
<God) knows how TO people all the
worlds OF the proper time with nom