Show other worlds inhabited the philosophy of the people ot of utah in relation to mens eternal progression gr gres assion sion is 13 laying 0 hold of ox the deep thinkers of the a age m 9 in one form and another revolutionizing 0 the religious thought rev kev T de witt talmage toot tok up a new theme in his discourse at washington noton D C last sunday on god everywhere he dealt deal especially with the ast astronomy rommy of the bible his text being ainas ix is 6 it is he that buil deth his hia stories in the he heaven aven 71 after a great many generalities on astronomy and the proof from the bible that many ot tho the ancients knew the world was a globe suspended for job said he hanseth 0 the globe upon no nothing thino 2 and issiah isaiah sai ai dHe upon the circle of the earth 7 we say after dealing with those questions the reverend gentleman delves into the tha following deep doctrine on the population of gods a planetary systems bat what gladdens me and at the same earns time overwhelms me is ia that those thoas worlds are inhabited the bible says so and what a small idea you yon must have of god and his dominion if you yon think it only extends across this chip of a world you aad d i 1 now inhabit have yea taken aken th this s idea of all the other worlds bing inhabited as human guesswork read bead ic isaiah aban chapter verse thus saith the loid that created the heavens god himself that form the earth cartti and aad made it jae he hath it he created it not in vain he formed it to be inhabited now ow if u he in inhabited habit lid the tha earth m so that it is would not be created in vain 1 would he make worlds hundreds and thousands of times larger and not arye them inhabited speaking of the inhabitants of this world he says the nations are as the drop of a buchet 1 if all the innab itania of this world are as a drop of a backet where are the other drops of the buchet bo eiLet again and azain again me bible speaks of the ih host boet of heaven and the word ord host mesas means living c creatures ea not inert mames ma mes and the tag espree al aion on hoots of heaven mean inhabitants inn bitante of other worlds again the bible says he has set thy glory above the heavens and here my text comes in with its idea of a mansion ol of anany stories it is be that boil bail deth his hia stories in she the heaven la Is it possible that we who live on the ground groan d floor oi of this many storied building bail build dins inz are the only tenants and that the larger zooms rooms and the more upholstered rooms roams and the more brilliantly chandelier ed zooms rooms above it are uninhabited besides this thia we are positively told in the bib bibie e that thas two othe worlds are inhabited inhabit el the anzelic angelic and the world diabolic stosa two worlds added to our oar own aske it positive tive tuat teat three worlds are inhabited inhabit ei why aby then stop atop with three worlds of living beings beiana when there are not nat on y worl worlds dri are they all standing liae expensively expansively furnished houses in time of financial UGa acial depression marked to let and no one to take them waste not joi hath written all oyer over this world of OWE and do you yon suppose that god waste world material in our oar solar s teci to the amount of what has been estimated as seven hundred trillion miles of solid contents and that only a small part pars as compared with other systems which zo go to make maae up ap his many storied mansion of the text where it says it Is is he ha that buil deth hiss his stones in the heaven heaves without the 1258 of telescope tele and without say any observatory and without any astronomical calculation I 1 know that the other worlds are inhabited because my bime bible and my aay common sanae tell me so eo it has hag bees been estimated that ithac in the worlds belong belonging izig to our oar solar system or tem there is room for at least twenty five tive trillion of population and I 1 believe it is ia all occupied or will be occupied by intelligent li eings god will not fill du them with brutes he would certainly put into those worlds beings intelligent enough to appreciate 4 thie the architecture the coloring the gran dear the beauty the harmony of their surroundings ysa yea the inhabits inh inhabitants abita ats ef those worlds have capacity of lococo tion lion for they the would not have had such spacious opportunity for movement if they had not power powe r of motion yea they have sight el ceiaa lse why the light and hearing elsee how get on with feces necessary arv hin and cow clear themselves the melvea fro from M advancing perils yea as god mado made our human race in his bis own or o r image he be made the inhabitants of other worlds in his bis own imag in other words worda it is as near demonstration as aa I 1 care to have it that while the inhabitants of other othar worlds have adaptations of bodily structure to the particular climate in which they dwell there is asyet similarity of mental and tul among all the inhabitants of the universe of god and made in his hia image they are made wonderfully wonderful lv alike alika |