The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-01-29
Gods Wonderful Works and Love

Gods Wonderful Works and Love
We think of our world as being
very large; but the sun Is a million
aud half times larger than our
own little planet. We think of a
Journey of twenty-five thousand
miles around our earth as being an
immense distance and so indeed it
is, though it can now be performed
in less than one hundred days.
Professor Langley has said If we
would take a railroad train moving
with the speed of limited express,
which had left the sun for our earth
when the May Flower sailed from
Delftshaven with the Pilgrim Faith
ers also 800 years ago, and had run
day and night from that time to the
present, we shoule be still some dis
lance away from the earth. He al
so says if we could hollow out the
Globe of the sun and place the earth
ia the center and the moon the
same distance from the earth as
now $4,000 miles) there would be
plenty of room for the mot n to re-
volve around the earth all within
the globe of the sun itself, leaving a
circle of nearly 1000 miles thick
clear around.
1t has been illustrated in another
way-if railway was laid around
the sun and an express train start
ed upon it at the speed of 90 miles
an hour, it would require more than
five years of travel day and hight to
accomplish the circuit. Many of
the planets, too, are far larger than
our earth, the varieties of the heav-
emily bodies consists of several divi-
sions of which one in particular /
will mention, the Milky Way, which
is made up of millions of stars that
are so inconceivable to the naked
eye, that the rays of light that come
from them to US are blended into a
confused mass
Light travelling from stars of the
first magnitude is from three to
twelve years coming to US; of the
second, twenty years and SO on till
the seventh magnitude, which stars
are not visible to the naked eye. AS
70 the number of the stars it is past
figuring Out,:.only God, their creator,
knoweth the number and calleth
them all by their names. Now as.
tronomy gives a number of most as
tonishing experiences to show how
vast is the amount of the suns heat
viii: n is poured out every moment
The suns heat which every min
ute falls upon one square mile of
the earth's would raise seven hun
dred and fifty tons of water from
the freezing point to boiling. That
the same heat falling upon the
whole earth, would raise from the
freezing point thirty-seven billion
tons of water.
That if we could build solid ice
tower fifteen miles in diameter all
the way to the moon and then
could concentrate on it the suns
full radiance the whole icy mass
would in one secund be gone, melted
boiled and dissipa,ed in vapor One
has said to prove this that if all the
coal in the mines of Pennsylvania
(enough to supply the wants of the
country for hundreds of years.
could be shot into the solar furnaces
fast enough to keep up the sun
known heat, it would all be con-
sumed in less than one thousandth
part of a second. Before such
thoughts and suggestions as these
the mind reels i'm utter helplessness
Then are we not led to exclaim
who by searching can find out the
works of God?"
Other writer's have said enough
of the heavenly bodies to show
that these great worlds, innumer
able for multitude and resplenden,
in their brightness. did not come in
to being and fix their orbits ant
start upon their revolutions them
selves. AS the old Latin provert
says From nothing comes nothing
but before creation there must be I
creator. The heavenly bodies il
their magnitude. their varieties
their distance, their numbers, thei
splendor and their influences upol
the earth and upon each other, al
bear overwhelming testimony to tn
existence, the personality, the wis
dom, the goodness, and the almight,
power of God. The world is over
whelmed with wonder, not only con
templatine these immensities q
worlds and systems of worlds bu
also the space through which the,