Collisions of Worlds

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 9, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 22.

Collisions of Worlds

ONE of the world's most renowned scientists, who is connected with one of the great astronomical observatories, was recently asked the question, "Is our small earth absolutely safe from collisions with any other planets or the sun?" and the scientist's reply is: "No, our small earth is not absolutely safe from collision with bodies in space, but is safe from collision with any planet in the solar system and with the sun. To be hit by a planet, either the earth or the planet must leave its orbit. This is impossible, and it is also impossible that the earth can leave its orbit and fall to the sun." The bodies that he thinks might hit our planet are designated as small asteroids and meteorites.

Inspiration, through the prophet Isaiah, has answered the foregoing questions in regard to heavenly bodies' colliding with each other. The words are:

"To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power; not one faileth." Isa. 40: 25, 26.

People may get an unsatisfactory and limited consolation from the suggestions of science that nature, through the forces of gravitation, is holding the suns and their attendant worlds in their respective orbits; but the Christian gets a joy that is complete, full, and indescribably precious when he knows from experience the creative power that sets him free from sin. And he knows that this same creative power is infinite, and that the Infinite One is his heavenly Father; and his heavenly Father having limitless power, there is nothing beyond Him. "For that He is strong in power; not one faileth."

The scientist who has not been contented with studying the laws of nature, but who has reached above and beyond, to come in contact with nature's God, our divine Father, has reached a degree of development and a condition of soul blessedness that can not possibly come to the man who shuts God out of his calculations. We may gain something by merely coming in contact with and studying natural law, but we shut ourselves away from untold blessings and the supremest joys when we hide our eyes from the great Author of creation.