The Stupendous Thought of Creation
Read, friend, the fortieth chapter of Isaiah. Endeavor to think God's thoughts after Him. "Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; He calleth them all by name; by the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power, not one is lacking." If we were stationed far out on the farthest sun which the big 36-inch refractor of the Lick Observatory could bring to our vision, the light of which has been untold years on the way, or could place foot on a still farther sun which the unwearying eye of the camera discloses, and could look out, still out, in a direct line of vision beyond, who can say that we would not see new suns, new systems, new constellations, new milky ways, new nebulæ blazing, shining, swinging on in the great light leagues of space, even as we now see these which have witnessed to man for ages the mighty power of God! The thought is stupendous, staggering, overwhelming. We can only repeat with the psalmist: "When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; what is MAN, that THOU art mindful of him? and the SON of man, that Thou visitest HIM?"