s are possible with Him who created the universe
and upholds it by the word of His power.

Finally, I left this strange abode and proceeded to visit some of the
eighteen worlds that revolve around Alpha Centaurus.

CHAPTER VII.

The Water World Visited.

As I lingered in the region of the constellation of Centaurus I was more
and more profoundly impressed with the magnitude and variety of created
worlds.

Among the eighteen planets that revolve around Alpha Centaurus, only six
are inhabited. One of these is a sinless world, or a world whereon sin
never inaugurated its blighting reign; but I will say nothing of this
orb as I did not have the choice opportunity of visiting it aright. I
saw its beauty only through a glass darkly.

I then fixed my mind on Polaris, commonly called the North Star. In
journeying thither from Centaurus I passed thousands of Solar Systems
scattered in space all around me. As I was thus darting through
immensity I glanced toward our own Solar System and could see nothing
but a flickering star which was our Sun. Not the faintest sign could I
see of our world or of Jupiter.

A strange feeling passed over me when I began to realize how far I was
from home. I sped onward until I reached the North Star. It is a burning
sun, but not inhabited.

Polaris is the center of a magnificent system. If a certain few of its
worlds could be seen through a telescope, they would be picturesque in
the extreme, somewhat resembling our beautiful Saturn. Moons play like
frisky lambs around some of its worlds, and many comets dance through
the length of the whole system in richer confusion than we have ever
beheld in the range of our telescopic vision.

Counting the worlds of larger size only, there are nearly one hundred
that fly through their orbits around Polaris, some with amazing
velocity. Within the bounds of this solar system I spent considerable
time.

The third world I visited I will call Stazza. It is two hundred millions
of miles from Polaris and is four hundred and fifty times as large as
our world.

I was amazed at the new turn of life-manifestation that I found there.
To me it was unusually interesting because its temperature is quite
similar to ours; but the order of life is reversed so completely that
the human beings inhabit the water, and the long narrow strips of earth
are infested with numerous species of land animals. It may seem
incredible that the depths of the ocean should