The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our HeavenMortimore, D.
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The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven
Mortimore, D.
Heaven; Sun
That in His omnipotent and infinite power He can, and has created
separate systems of planet-worlds, and a central sun and heaven for
controlling each, we cannot doubt; neither is there more of
incomprehensible mystery in this contemplation than in that of our own
system of planets, with its central and controlling _Sun_ and heaven.
Let us turn to revelations made, as recorded in the Bible, and see if
there are not declarations which sustain this hypothesis. In the
second book of the Kings it is written: "_But will God indeed dwell on
earth? behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain him_;"
and in the second book of the Chronicles: "_But who is able to build
him an house, seeing the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain
him._" The Psalmist says: "_The heavens; even the heavens are the
Lord's_," and "_The heavens declare the glory of God_," and that "_By
the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them
by the breath of his mouth._"
Thus we have conclusive evidence of a _plurality of heavens_, while,
possibly, their numbers are _millions_, their surrounding
planet-worlds _billions_, with a wide expanse of surrounding
"firmament of the heavens" bestrewn with "_glittering gems_," standing
out the grand _empyrean_ covering of all.
Says Dr. Nichol:
"Mystery, indeed, heavy, almost oppressive, hangs over all the
perceptive; but the shapes strown through that bewildering territory
have nothing in common with the fantastic creations of a dream. It is
the essence of these nebulæ that they are not formless, but, on the
contrary, impressed indelibly by system on the grandest scale; clearly
as a leaf they have organism; something has seized on their enormous
volumes, and moulded them into a wonderful order." Says Child: "Thus
every thing bears the mark of order impressed upon it by the Almighty
hand. That noble gift of God to man--the telescope--has magnified Him
by driving away every semblance of _chance_ from the firmament, and by
exhibiting in its place designs and established law. Up there, as down
here, the idea of irregularity or chance is but the suggestion of our
ignorance."
Thus, from a knowledge gained through that wonderful, and yet most
exact of all sciences--Astronomy--we base our conclusions. _That_
science is the grandest, most perfect, and comprehensive of all
sciences known to the human mind. It grasps, analyzes, and comprehends
the laws and forces which make up and control the universe, and every
other science known is intimately connected with, or based upon it.
There is no chance-work in Nature; all things are moulded and formed
complete by the great Architect, whose Word created them, and all the
grand panorama of suns, moons, planets, worlds, and stars, are perfect
and in the exact order of His creative wisdom.
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