<TITLE>05. Par 44-54</TITLE>L-44   And first, now, we'll speak on God in His universe. I do not believe that anyone that could understand how this universe moves, how the great solar system, and be in his right mind, could say there is no God. Did you know this earth is turning, over a thousand miles an hour? It's twenty-five thousand miles around it. It turns, makes its complete revolution, every twenty-four hours, so that makes it going over a thousand miles an hour this way. And as it turns around the orbit of the sun, I don't know how many thousand miles an hour it's going, and so perfectly in time, it doesn't miss it a second. There's no watch, no machine that can be placed in such perfection, to keep it from wearing out, or no watch.

L-45 I've got a watch that was give me in Switzerland, that they said, in American money, it would be three hundred dollars if I bought it, one of their best watches. Yet, that watch will lose, every... a minute, ever so often, or gain, or--or something. It--it isn't... It cannot be perfect.

L-46   And yet, in space, this world whirls itself around. Who whirls it around and keeps in that perfect time? It would certainly be slowing up a little, if there wasn't something keeping it moving. And how can you keep it moving so perfect? And how does it go around the--the--the sun, the way it does, so perfect? And make winter, summer, and so forth, just as perfect as it is. Then there's no one... Six thousand years, it hasn't lost a second; always on time. It's so perfect that they can time the eclipse of the sun and the moon, so, in twenty years away, they can tell you the very hour it'll cross, studying astronomy, studying the solar system.

L-47 How great! My, I think, if a person would look up towards the skies, you could cry like that Swedish author of the song, How Great Thou Art, "How great Thou art!" To see those little stars, and maybe it don't look like they're four inches apart, in the skies, and yet they're farther from each other than we are from them. And, yet, God controls it all.

L-48   And out at Mount Wilson, California, by... An astronomer who was at my meeting, in Chattanooga, gave me permission, with this other astronomer, to go up there and take a look at this great scope. They had the pictures, 'cause I went in daytime. And you can see a hundred and twenty million years of light-space. Break that down in miles, and you'll run a row of nines around Tucson a few times, trying to break it down in miles.

L-49 You can't fathom it in your mind: a hundred and twenty million years of light-space, and beyond that is moons, stars, and worlds. And our Father created it, to His own pleasure, and everything working just perfectly. Oh, how wonderful to see how great He is, then how simple He can make Himself, so that you won't--you won't miss the way.

L-50 Isaiah 35 said, "Though, a fool shall not err therein." It doesn't take smartness, education. If it did, I would be one lost. It just takes faith, to believe it. Not try to understand it, but believe it. Just, God made it, and that settles it.

L-51   Now, we find that people try to argue that it's not so: infidels. Here sometime ago in Colorado... Oh, I guess it's been thirty, forty years ago. There was an--an infidel had passed through the country, trying to make converts to infidelity. And he even told his own mother, when she was dying.
Said, "What can you offer me now?"

L-52 He said, "Ma, grin and bear it." And what a thing to say to your own mother.

L-53 He got a breakdown, so he went to the West, to--to get a little rest. And he took a pack and went back into the mountains. And one day he was walking out...

L-54 And ministers was afraid to attack him, they said, because he was, oh, he was shrewd, highly educated, polished scholar. And they just left him alone, let him beat his own brains out.


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