Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 December 1892 — Page 3

GOD AMONG THE STAIiS.

•The Heavens Declare His Glory •r and the Earth Shows His Handiwork-

ar, Talmage Frticbei the First of a .Serial gaimoni on Ilvlne Science—God is tba^ktiml World,

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Rev. Dr. Talmage preaolied at ^^Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject, "The 5A.6tronomy of the Bible." Text ll^'I^Anaofi ix, 6, "It is he that buildeth ly'. ^Jiis stories in the heaven.'.' He sa.d |p My hearers, it is time that we ^widened out and heightened our re

Mgious thoughts. In our pulpits and |X Sabbath classes and Christian work P* jtf all 6orts we rinjr the changes on a *i7-XVew verses of Scripture until they •jjgf-ls' -excite no interest. Many of the best Wf* parts of the Bible have never yet been preached from, or indeed even jP noticed. Hence I to day begin .seriea'of sermons, not for conseculiye Sabbpth mornings, but as often i^2*y08^ink it best for variety's sake, fp -m theasfcronomy ofjthe Bible,or God ff-f1^.amongthestars the geology of the

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BJble. or God among the rocks the •ornithology of the Bible, or God amongthebirds the ichthvologv of wp the Bible,'or God amon^ the fishes ifr" the pomology of the Bible,,-or God ''amongthe. orchards the precious atones of the Bible, or God among the amethysts the conchology of the

Bible, or God among the shells the botany of the Bible, or God among tlie flowers chronology of the Bible, i^t or God among the centuries. The fact is we have all .spent too much time on one story of. the great mansion of God's universe. We need occasionally to go up stairs or down atairs in this mansion down stairs and in the cellar study the rocks, or up stairs and see God in some of, the higher stories and learn the meaning -Of the text when it says, "It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven."

It takes whole pages for a man to ^xtolthe making of a telescope or microscope, or am agn tic telegraph, -Of a thrashing machine, or to describe a iiue' painting or statue, but jfe It was so easy for God to hang the «Hestlal upholtery that, the story is v)oqt)assed in one veree: "God made

V./p great 'lig&ts—the greater light. to rule the day and the lesser llj?ht .Yt&rule'the'iiight. .The start alsol"

Astronomers- bave been trying "tbi* Y» _« —er

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Infidelity is hard up for ground of complaint against the Scriptures when it finds fault with that cessation of stellar and lunar travel.

If astronomers can give a name to a whole constellation or galaxy, they think they do well, but God has a name for "each star in all immensity. Inspired David declared of God. "Re telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names." They are not orphans that have never been christened. They are not waifs of the night. They are not unknown ships on the high seas of immensity. They belong to a family of which God is the father, and as you call your children Beujamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or Josephine, so he calls all the adult worlda.-by their first name, and they know it as well as though there were only one child of light in all the divine family.

Oh, the stars, those vestal fires kept burning on infinite altars 'those light houses on the coast of eternity the hands and weights and pendulum of the great clock of the universe according to Herschel the so-called fixed stars are not fixed at all, but each one as sun with a mighty system of worlds rolling around it, and this whole system with all the o^her systems rolling on around some' o*her great center 1 Millions and, millions, billions and biliions, trillions and trillions, quadrillions and quadrillions I

But-what gladdens me and at the same time overwhelms me is' that those worlds are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what a small idea you must have et God and His dominion if you think it only extends across this chip of a world which you and I now inhabit. Have you taken this idea of. all the worlds being inhabited as human guesswork? Read Isaiah, forty fifth chapter, eighteenth verse: 'Thus salth the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it: be hath established it he created it not in vain he formed it to be inhabited." Now, if he inhabited the earth so that it would not be created in vain, would he oreate worlds hundreds and thousands of times larger .and not have them in-v habited? Speaking' of the inhabitants of this world, he says: "The Nations are as the drop of a bucket."

If all the inhabitants of this world are as a drop of a bucket, where are the other drops of the buoket? Again and again the. Bible speaks of the hosts'of heaven,'and the word host means living oveatures, not inert masses' and the expression "hosts of

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eavenr must mean inhabitants of

How much have you sought them out? You have been satisfying yourseif with some things about (bhrist, but have you noticed that Paul calls you to consider Christ as the creator of other worlds, "by whom also he made the wor.ds." It is time you Christians start on a world hunt. That is the chief reason why God wakes the night—that you iiia}' see other worlds.

I thank God that wo have found out that our world is not half way between heaven and hell, but is in a sisterhood of light, and that this sisterhood joins all the other sisterhoods of worlds, moving round some great homestead, which is no doubt heaven, where God is and our departed Christian friends are, and we ourselves through pardoning mercy expect to become permanent residents.

Furthermore, I get now from all this an answer to the question which every intelligent man and woman since the earth has stood has asked and received no answer. Why did God let sin and sorrow come into the world when he could have prevented them from coming? I wish reverently to say I think I have found the reason. To keep the universe loyal to a holy God it was important in some world somewhere to demonstrate the gigantic disasters that would come upon an}' world that allowed sin to enter. Which world should it be? Well, the smaller the world the better, for ..less numbers would suffer. So our world was selected. Tho stage was plenty large enough for the enactment of the tragedy. Enter on the stage sin, followed by murder, pain, theft, fraud, impurity, falsehood, massacre, war, and all the abominations and horrors and agonies of centuries.

Although we know comparatively little about the other worlds lest we become oompletely dissatisfied with our own, no doubt the other worlds have heard and are now hearing all about this world in tho awful experiment of sin which the human race has been making. In some way interstellar communication is open, and all worlds either by wing of flying spirits or by direct communication from God, are learning that disloyalty and disobedience doom and damn* everything they touch, the speotacle practically says to all otherworlds, "Obey God, keep holy and stay in the orbit where you were intended to swine, or you will suffer that whioh that recreant world, out yonder has been suffering for thousands of years." It is no longer to me a mystery why so small a world as ours* was chosen for the tri

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A GIGANTIC SWINDLE,

Before Which All Former Fradulent Schemes Pale Into Insignificance.

FmbIi Development* In Cie Faimma Scan. diSrl—Turbulent Scone* In the Uejiutlefc— Large Numbers or Legislator* to lie

Proaeoutod The Itepulilic In l*erU Many Duels "Will Uetult.

In tho French Chamber of Deputies at Paris, Tuesday, M. Flocjuot. tho President of that body announced that ho had received an application for the prosecution of M. Rouvicr, ox-Minister of Finance M. ul03 Roche,ex-Mlnister of Commerce E. Arene, member for Corsica Antonio Proust, member for De Jevrcs Baron Souboyran, member for Loudun, and Joseph do la Fancouuerie, member for Orno,

Ho stated that the application was made on the ground that the magistrate in tho Panama canal case had rocelved many check stubs In which appeared the Initials of deputies, and that evidence against tho individuals In question had been laid before the Parliamentary Investigating com mission. Tho application could not be granted without tho consent of the House. The Chamber decided that the slanding committees should meet and consider the application.

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dent, stated that he had received a demand for the prosecution of Senators Renault, Albert Grevy, BeraJ, Thevonot and Doves for the part they had taken in the affairs of the canal. Tho matter was referred to the standing committees. •if. Rouvlor appeared before the standing committee, of which he is a member, in his own defense. He said there was nothing in the evidence which would implicate him, and that he had served tho State in high positions for many years, ana In many cases had deemed it his duty to preserve silence as to certain f.icis, but tho accusations against his honor had relieved him from all obligations. Thore was nothing in the documents seized to prove that ho had ever received a check from anybody in the interest of the Panama Canal Company. Ho had served the State in high offic3 for several years, and ho had always doomed it his duty to preaerye science as regards certain facts.

Before the Chamber resumed business this statement had gone aimrnd and caused intense excitement in. the lobbies. M. Boovler was expected to 'refute in dotal 11 Clemenceau's charges.The gailerie3 were

the charges jast made. He would no answer these brazen slaniers In the chamber, but would demand personal satisfaction immediately after adjournment. The attacks of tho last speaker upon Al* Herz were based on falscLood and imagination. Boulanger himself had not a moro devoted friend that Dr. Ilerz. M. Cleuienceu.il acknuwledgoi that La Justice had supported capitalists uccaslonallv.but denied that it had ever poinotud business enterprises in tho int.oi tst of Dr. Uerz. In conclusion M. Clemenceau cried out "De Roulede has accused me of butraying my country by introducing foreign influence. De Roulede lies."

After another sceno or wild disorder Luclen Mlllevoye, Boulangist deputy, for Somine,rose to defend the memory of Gen. Iioulanger against the aspersions cast on ItbyM. Clemenceau. He then lot loose a torrent of abuse ou M. Clomenceau. In the consequent tumult, M. Millovoye turned upon M. Flou^uot. who was trying to restore order, and shouted athlm im insulting name Millevoeclosed hisspeoch with tho assertion that florz was the paid omissary of a foreign power. Tho chamber then adjourned.

Tho bitter fooling aroused during tho morning led to many wrangles and luinnlttious seenes, and it is belioved that a number of duels will bo the result. Deputies de Roulede and Millevove have already sont seconds to Deputy Clemenceau.

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Canada is building war vessels. Shelby.vlile will have electric caps. A new gusher has been developed at Atlanta.

Susan McCormaclc, aged ninety-six' died at Shoals, Tuesday. Mrs. Hannah Evans, of Greencastle, is dead, agod eighty-seven.

A receiver has been appointed for the Order of Solons at Pittsburg, Pa. Richard Croker, the Tammany Sachem, says that organization will ask nothing from Cleveland.

The House has passed the Senate bllj Increasing tho pensions of Mexican veterans from $8 to $12 a month.

Stamboul, tho celebrated stallion, wa sold at auction In New York. Tuesday, for $41,000, to D. H. Horriman.

An agreement has been signed by Dillon, Davltt and Harrington, by which tho Irish fund at Paris will be released. 8The proposition to make Grant and Huntington counties separate judicial circuit is favored by the bars those ball wicks.

John Brandt, a merchant of Evansvllto was killed by an electric car, Tuesday. The motcrman and conductor were arrested.

Many Terre Haute people have been victimized by a smooth-talking young man who took orders for clothing, and collected

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TOLBERTS CAUSE TERROR.

The Desperadoes Determined to ATW|«' Their Relatives.

A reign of terror exists in Kemper county, Miss., and every citizen who had anything to do with the hanging of old man Tolbert and bringing Walter and Tir-.n Tolbert to justloe Is uow In hourly dread of his life. One week ago William Beckham was assassinated while sitting by his own fireside. Beckham had made his arrangements to leave tho country thu next day. On Saturday evening, as Col. Adams, who was identiticd In tho light against the Tolberts, wan riding along a dreary road, two white men iirod at him from ambush, but Adams' horse shied and saved the rider's life. Adaui3 roturiied the Are with a shotgun, but without effoct.

There Is tho greatest- consternation existing, and no one goes abroad without being heavily armed. Dr. Steuunis, who also played a prominent part lu tho tragedy, has been compelled to neglect a large practlco and seclude liimsolf at home. The disguised men are supposed to bo Ranso and Charlie Tolbert, who, driven to desperation by the hanging of their father, the death of their brother John, and the shooting and captura of thatr brothers Tom and Walter, have deter* mined to avenge their cause.

A PLACE FOR HARRISON.

The President, It Is Said, Will Instruct la the Stanford Unlrersltj*.

The San Francisco Examiner of Tuos» day says that President Harrison has accepted a proposal from President Jordan*1 of tho Loland Stanford Jr., University, to become a member of the faculty of that institution. His duties will comprisoa series of law lectures, which will call him to Palo Alto two or three times a year,and it is probablo that ho will make California his winter residence.

SHOT HIS ROOM MATS.

A sad tragody occurred at the University of Tenuessee, at Knoxvillo, Tuesday evening. R. M. Powell and R. J. Whltthome, room mates, wore paaking their trunks preparatory to loaving for their homes for the holiday vacation, •when Whitthome picked up a pistol t» hand it to Powell. Just ns Powell to*k hold of the pistol it went oft, killing him instantly. The shooting was purely aa accldont. ______________

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

A real estate boom is on in Clinton eonnty *i