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THE HEAVENS
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OUR UNIVERSE:
THE TEMPLE OF JEHOVAH.
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PHILADELPHIA:
CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER,
Nos.
624, 626
&
628
Market
1879.
Street.
STEREOTrPERS, PHILAD'A.
te
Washington.
PREAMBLE.
"
We
1\
Corinthians
TYSTERY
A
it
be
is
ii.
mystery may be
finite,
it
7.
finite
or
infinite.
If
must
it
man, to be
for
glory of God.
Nature
his
is full
of such mysteries.
God
the
nature.
His
man and
on
man
for
he
life
They
are of
of futurity.
In-
cannot
search
them
out.
God has
works.
iii
PREAMBLE.
iv
The Holy
concerning
ord
To
man.
that
God with
book we must go if we would
the
dealings
of
events of
In this
human
BOOK of books,
are
made known
ear-
history.
the
There,
found
neither
in philosophical theories of
can
human
it
be
inven-
tion.
the
to
on
wisdom of God,"
and
years of time
vine Truth.
may be
there,
first
and there
two thousand
Earth."
Genesis
HUS
A
God
opens the
first
Heaven and
used
in the singular
You
in the
number
first
only.
find the
This
word Heayens
is
made
con-
is
chapter of Genesis
Then we
the
will
it
created the
but
plural.
signifying, as
Thus, throughout the Bible, these terms, singular and plural, are used in referring to the
us.
of great importance,
Is
when we
find
5
how
6
it
German
gians, a
much noted by
theolo-
man was
Mosaic record.
Heaven
ber
is
for*
num-
full.
in-
is
meant by
certain
Heaven or
that the
singular
planets, that
zodiac
this
this
the.
is,
is
the
whole solar
number,
moon and
circle of the
The Heavens,
all
the undiscovered
THE HEAVENS.
This
is
the Heavens.
as,
this plural
May
not three
Astronomers term
it
" infinite
into
the fixed
first
the
we have
question.
St.
Heaven
may be
in
our
is
But he
of
our
God
And
meaning
in
Heavens
"
it
is
found.
St.
we
of the Universe
third
The Heavens
God
Here
I.
are
was a
portray His
spiritual gift
own
glorious perfections to
The
human
man-
soul to obey
God's handywork
it
left
His laws
for the
men would
By
And
yet
men have
THE HEAVENS.
The
men
knowl-
in
know why
to
the
called
Firmament, the
divisions in the
first
two
or lower-
is
on earth by
life
light
its
glory of
God
is
dealt with in
and heat
This
Heavens.
stars
God's
and contains
light,
Where
sown
shall
we
some
always
is
all
like flowers
find
on Earth.
is
Laws
investi?
Are
who
will
of Nature
Christian Astronomers
Universe, and thus conform the truths of Nature with the truths of Revelation?
cess of reasoning from
human
No
pro-
authority can
10
two
distinct regions, in
The
We
Book
of reference.
of
It
was a continuous
history.
The chap-
monks and
it,
One
of these blunders
first
incorporated in the
Then
first
Here
I will
in
called
the
same
THE HEAVENS.
I I
"
4, 5-
do hold three
creation
"
2d,
That
was
not a
That the
"
all
it
man on Earth
is
termed
That there
grew.
3d,
" until
Adam. These
may
see,
have Divine
authority.
Had
been
fertile in
men
verse,
into
In the
12
Heavens and
More-
Had
no
Neither would
Hugh
Miller,
which are
He would
made
in the
mind of
fossilized
in
in the Earth.
And now
let
make
If
new
of use in
two
divi-
must belong
As
let
THE HEAVENS.
Heaven then
the
may
revealed,
it
not justly be
This
title
is
own
wealth
make
all
pours forth a
It is
measure of
full
own
favors
the
until
luminous light
his
Earth
his
bride
is
whose
can express.
queen
to their
breathe their
own
God whose
Now
title
dwelling-place
must have a
plexing
2
full
is
life
homage
stars that
of the sun,
of the goodness of
Heaven.
different signification
is
per-
14
"
heavens" also
and
" heaven," or
all
Beings
who
dwell
in
His
God
immortal
HEAVEN has
the style of printing these three names; considering each as a proper noun,
Heaven
encircles Earth
first
will signify
this
its
man
eyes,
fill,
many
of
The
scope.
and
them
where
invisible to
hu-
Temple
And
His dwelling-
Heaven.
the
And
THE HEAVENS.
and
around the Earth, as one Heaven, has so benighted astronomical science, that the
creative plan of
God
faithful
and the
in the
the
creator,
first
own
glory of the
Divine truths.
found only
full
is
while the
fossil,
its
ages of creation,
even the
fossil
forth the
problem
seems rather
so
"
myriads of ages
indefinite
to
me
as
!"
This
do not
But even these dark mysteries become deepened as we ascend into the regions of day, and
find that the cold increases in its intensity as
we draw
This
is
all light.
gravely considered.
Has
light
the
inherent
own
How
its
sort
essence or nature,
their gases
is
cold
effective agents in
the sun,
some
Earth
is
consuming
life,
or fed
the sphere of
life.
Every
by food
life;
it
supports
living creature
life
is
by
fed on
etable or as animal
life
and
all life is
depend-
ent on Light.
Heaven
is
light supported
Is
not
its
Are not
by consuming light?
life-giving light
and enable
it
to
pour
between the
dis-
THE HEAVENS.
things
it
in the
firmament.
If
needed
work of
creation,
which
of self-preservation
so
to
speak,
materials.
first
the
self-
beginning
"
and
laid
up
in
life,
all
came
influences and
its
time should
as
full force,
endure.
In return for these great benefits and blessings, the
2*
Earth supported
B
in
her
bosom and on
and even
her
soil,
ble,
and made
to the sun,
vegeta-
for
protection.
ceived.
life,
it
all
effected
through
of Earth
it
be replenished.
And
poured from
ical
this great
Universe
The sun
and
also
their
splendor that
God's
beings
is
all
contributions
Earth
immortal
the service
of Jehovah.
And
THE HE A VENS.
Heavens
in the
economy
Light
is
it
of the Universe
is
by
fixed stars
were made
for the
their
own
light.
but
they also
or mines of
stages of development which
compared
The
They
ferent
stars in dif-
may be
to the
surface of Earth,
They com-
sun.
Do we
useful to
men ?
Astronomers,
nary
stars
to
Were
the
20
human eye by
the telescope,
human
sight,
or blank darkness,
would
for the
study of
for reasons to
prove that
prove
this truth
by showing, as they
the
all
to
plane-
bosom,
moon and
in
her
And
many
it
col-
made
glorious.
scientific astron!
Go,
listen to
THE HEAVENS,
his
21
dors of this
crest
fiery heat
of his
metallic
like
his
billows,
many-colored
sun
is
work was
Do
sun
"
on the
that His
good."
made
for
each other?
men seem
And
to
Heavens prove
be of use
The
in
the
economy
" milky-way,"
is,
made
to
the Magellan
clouds, the
Yet
till
had only
his
22
own eyes
Heavens ; and
knowledge acquired by the patient study
this
that
the sun moved and the Earth was stationary
in her orbitical motion.
Their mistake
real truth in
the results.
briefly, this
masterful law,
of the Earth in
The
revolution
sun,
is
the
a law where
each other
ably,
It is
by human
ability,
when searching
out the
But as
THE HEAVENS.
23
human
eye,
who
The
real
and
rise
set.
movement of Earth
made no change
or literature.
"The sun
in
our language
rises
his sons
The change
is
the
discovery has
in
men
forth
chiefly in our
Noah and
almanacs and
in
That the
secrets of the
not revealed to
men
The
edge required.
no moral
culture
false reli-
mockery by
superstition
or selfishness of priest-craft.
made
24
'
At
movement
tant
to
of the power of
stir
mind beginning
These
of
aids
men might
gain
ing on
human beings by
fall
of the
This
Roman Empire
religion,
had
printed,
and
had
in the
meaning of the
at this time,
hands
plural
been as now,
when he beheld
own
doubt
faith in a
this is
man
heavenly inheritance.
human
race.
dependent on
No
to perfect
this
An
to confer
on
knowledge.
THE HEAVENS.
2$
supreme
therein,
So
far
made him
whole universe.
make
things
all
his
as
nature could
for
hyn, he had
nor use
as
it
The
beyond
his sight,
perfected humanity
Creator:
God
over
by the
all,
and held
his
for his
to
shipped forevermore.
To
this
therefore
on Earth.
them
in their duties of
tele-
human
reason to appreciate;
26
men seem
own promised
for
He
that
its
and from
Him
in
the
Galileo
far
more
rationally estimated
men.
it
would be
by
useful in
was put
ments or instruments
telescope
benefit
to
its
making imple-
science.
ble.
heard
if
not impossi-
and the
been imagined.
THE HE A VE NS.
The microscope was an
that could
27
infinitesimal
power
larger growth,
truths
that
it
No
displayed.
somewhere
in
philosopher suggested
And
stars
God's plan
for
they
make out
find
that Sirius
is
by
God made
their
names"
no
it,
must
that
it
although these
them
all
that
is,
ment of
men
in the
"
measure-
28
the
highest
this
belittled that
the
it is
and
skies
thrown
of rational beings:
studies
find
fulfil
the uses of
all
all
and the
to the owls
Are not
all
no being
bats, as
to find his
God
there.
children
of
men
And would
had the
of
God in Heaven?
And now look!
imaginary
our sun
human
scope
"
suns " a
its
own
filled
idols of discovery:
sight even
and
the place
invisible to
tele-
THE HE A VENS.
opening
2g
these
unbelief in God's
work.
In the
stars,
book of Job we
find a lesson
on the
this servant of
His
and as
it
may be
studied by
completely
hum-
own wisdom,
some astronomical
it
profes-
The wonderful
discoveries,
made by
the
it
is
the spec-
not strange
their
own
in
estimation.
sweet influences of
bands of Orion
"
Job
xxxviii. 31.
Thus we
re-
composed them)
stripes
on their surfaces,
astronomical study.
30
appearances
on
all
move,
if
he could.
As he gave up
periment of intermeddling
the
in
the ex-
work of
we have no
appearances.
their uses
not have
felt
so utterly
"By means
would
or Job
bowed down.
of spectroscopic analysis
it
has
same
The
seems
The
legitimate, corroborated as
it
inference
is
by the
it,
that the
THE HEAVENS.
31
Thus,
we
learn, that
it
as
first
now acknowledged
is
that
all
created
things continue
that
no radical
the Heavens.
in
edged,
we have
all
things
on the Earth
is,
by
it
by the
fall
All that
of meteorites.
is
is
part of the
is
sustained
32
,,
existence.
And
tific
"
here
is
Some
years
must be mil-
is
Isles,
and we
whole."
it.
He
is
limited
this
by
In the
circle
ment,
lies
vault or
word
canopy of blue
made
mark
Nothing more
THE HEAVENS.
was done
in the
this
Must
twenty-four hours.
33
to
Must not
show
that
made
for
man ?
Within
for
this
limit, the
discovery, and
it
Temple of Nature
the
for
could
It
was
Temple of God.
finite
his holiest
his
thanksgivings of joy.
their voice
is
Their
4.
not heard.
line
and their
them hath He
earth,
In
5.
his
Which
is
is
as a
run a race.
man
to
34
There
is
that the
created
for
any-
must
stars
were
for
who would
give
up
this
who would
man.
It
philosopher
birthright
scientific
or
discovery
of a plurality of worlds.
made and
by the Almighty
placed in
architect,
is
in-
The
Would
it
the plan as
shown
in
the unity of
the Bible?
The
pur-
in unity.
THE HEAVENS.
He
not institute
did
35
pluralities.
These are
But
this is
questions
work
in
their
of creation must be
first
new systems
I
The
tendencies.
examined
fallacies
of these
all
that
shall notice.
Infinite space
Man may
capacity.
Heaven
cannot be understood by
useless for
him
to attempt to pass
and presumptuous
has passed
No
explain
for
him
finite
it is
it
is
false
to pretend that
he
it.
human hand
faculties
as well
might a
Human
No
Word
This Authority
of Almighty God.
is
the