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 GOD 
 
 REVELATION BY CHRISTIANITY 
 
 AND 
 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCE 
 
Copyright, 1922 
 
 Frederick Carroll Brewster, Jr. 
 
 Real Estate Trust Building 
 
 Philadelphia, Penna. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 The Rt. Rev. James de Wolf Perry, Jr., 
 Bishop of Rhode Island once preached, 
 in the presence of the author, just after 
 his ordination as a priest, a sermon in 
 which he quoted a celebrated French 
 astronomer as saying, "I have searched 
 the whole universe with my telescope, 
 the most powerful in the world, and I 
 have failed to find God." The young 
 minister depicted the disappointment of 
 the astronomer with great scorn and 
 advised every member of his audience 
 that without any telescope they could 
 find God in their own minds by careful 
 thought and search. From that time on 
 the author followed this advice and gave 
 much thought and study to this ques- 
 tion and that which he has written 
 herewith is the result of many years of 
 search and study in this direction. 
 
 FREDERICK CARROLL BREWSTER, JR. 
 
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GOD ;;,;.;,;,,; 
 
 Revelation by Christianity and 
 Astronomical Science* 
 
 A French writer named Bergsohn 
 some times called the parlor philosopher, 
 once endeavored to describe and locate 
 God. His idea of the Deity was that 
 God is a conscious force pervading the 
 whole universe and all life, animal and 
 vegetable. Further, that the said God 
 was perpetually taking shape in different 
 forms and was eternally disappointed 
 in all these differently selected shapes. 
 There was no location for God but this 
 mysterious conscious force pervaded 
 matter in all its shapes and was suffer- 
 ing disappointment indefinitely. How 
 different this is from the true idea given 
 to us in the Christian creed one God 
 yet three persons thus constituting that 
 wonderful Trinity, God the Father, God 
 
the Sqri;an#Qod the Holy Ghost. Who 
 and what' is "God the Father ? He is not 
 merely; conscious force pervading the 
 whole umve'rs&'in all its forms of life and 
 lifeless matter. He on the contrary is a 
 marvelous Personage with a wonderful 
 and indescribable bodily form. Has that 
 wonderful indescribable God with this 
 infinitely astounding form any location in 
 space? The answer is and cannot be any- 
 thing else thanyes. Astronomical sci- 
 ence shows us that the moon revolves 
 around the earth that the earth and all 
 its companions in the solar system revolve 
 around the sun. Further, astronomy 
 teaches us that our sun with all these 
 satalites has a centre around which it 
 revolves while these satalites revolve 
 around it. This centre around which our 
 sun together with other suns revolve 
 also revolves around its centre and so on 
 these revolutions of centres and satalites 
 go in space until a common centre of 
 gravity for the whole universe is found. 
 All bodies thus revolving in space are 
 
held in their place by the attraction to- 
 wards this great common centre. That 
 great common center is stationary and 
 is kept in position and equilibrium by all 
 these outlying bodies in infinite space. 
 This common center is of such weight 
 and density as to be equal in weight and 
 density to all these outlying bodies in 
 space. Therefore these two portions of 
 matter in space the center one and the 
 outlying bodies are in perfect equilibrium, 
 the common centre of all these being sta- 
 tionary and yet kept in place by the vast 
 numbers of outlying bodies whose total 
 weight and total density is equal to the 
 total weight and total density of the com- 
 mon centre. Any addition in matter to 
 these two portions comes in equal degree 
 to the common centre and the outlying 
 bodies so that perfect and uniform 
 equilibrium is eternally preserved. There 
 in and upon that vast and infinitely 
 dense common centre rests the wonder- 
 ful and indescribable physical form of 
 God. He chooses physically not to move 
 
away from that centre for His presence 
 is part and parcel of this wonderful and 
 infinite equilibrium. From that centre 
 from which physically God moves not 
 His spirit moves out to and pervades 
 that infinite outlying space. That Holy 
 Spirit or spiritual force of the physical 
 God causes all growth or addition to 
 matter and all growth and increase of 
 form of the animal and vegetable life. 
 That portion of the Trinity the con- 
 scious spirit of the stationary physical 
 God enters into the mental or self- 
 conscious status of all animals and pur- 
 posely in an infinitely greater degree 
 into the mind of man thus making him 
 preeminently a conscious instrument for 
 the execution of the will of the physical 
 God -God the Father. Then through 
 all this there grew in man an inade- 
 quate consciousness of the existence of 
 God and a desire throughout all ages 
 for some manifestation from Him of His 
 being. This was the cause of the pre- 
 sence through countless ages of what 
 
we know in later ages as idolatrous and 
 mythological forms of worship. Finally 
 to satisfy this longing for knowledge 
 and manifestation of God physically God 
 the Father this physical God stationed 
 in this centre of equilibrium willed that 
 this longing of man should be satisfied 
 and He made an understandable mani- 
 festation of Himself in human shape. 
 By the exercise of this will and through 
 the work and direction of this other 
 member of the Trinity (the Holy Ghost) 
 God ordered the Being called Jesus 
 Christ to be begotten of the Virgin 
 Mary begotten from the same germ of 
 life as all other human beings and yet 
 without the assistance of any human 
 Father but only by the will of God acting 
 through that same Holy Spirit by which 
 and as His medium God has caused the 
 growth of all life vegetable and animal. 
 Yet as the will of God thus acted in 
 this solitary and personal case in this 
 manner it was really and specifically 
 the Son of God who was thus begotten. 
 
Thus Jesus Christ in a strict and specific 
 sense is actually Divine an emanation 
 from God Himself. God thus taking 
 human shape in Jesus Christ properly 
 termed God the Son to be God in the form 
 and shape in which man when repentant 
 and believing could actually see God and 
 have His personal and physical compan- 
 ionship, which save in a spiritual manner 
 temporarily ceased with the crucifixion 
 and death of Christ and the returning of 
 which at some future time was fore- 
 shadowed and promised by Him at the 
 time of His Resurrection and Ascension 
 to the presence of His Heavenly Father. 
 Thus we have the Trinity God the 
 Father, God the Son and God the Holy 
 Ghost. God the Father being an indescri- 
 bable wonderful physical form residing 
 on the centre of equilibrium of the infinite 
 universe to which we belong and Him- 
 self being the centre of that marvelous 
 centre of equilibrium which itself keeps 
 and by which the whole universe is kept 
 in place. 
 
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