stars. We are as sure of the law of gravity as we are of the
existence of heaven. We build larger telescopes each year only to behold
additional millions of stars, each star, possibly, the larger on account
of our being able to see it at all. We absolutely know that one star is
larger than our sun by 324 times. The moon is about nine times around
the earth away from us. The sun is larger than the track of the moon
around the earth by 167,000 miles in every direction. If you had a ball
which would just fit in the track of the moon, and stuck it all full of
pins 167,000 miles long, you would have the size of the sun.

SIRIUS, THE STAR,

is 324 times as large as the sun, and so are many other stars. Now, the
most distant star in the largest telescope cannot be at the edge of the
universe. Why? It must be in the middle. It must be balanced by exactly
as much attraction on one side as another. There must be, above, below,
beyond that star, the same stupendous array of worlds, and each
relatively outer star, aye, even the star on the farther side of that
outer star, must in its turn, be held in the same magnificent and awful
suspension. So forever. We actually have Infinity forced on our reason.
Eternity is the correlative and co-existent necessity of infinity.
Infinity, Eternity, Immortality, become the solemn Trinity confronting
the physical as well as the spiritual world! God has even ordained that,
when you move your hand, you affect the farthest of His worlds. Can you
not grasp the idea that, in reason, the universe is boundless? Why,
then, in reason, shall it not be our infinite pleasure to study God's
plans forever? I know of no greater pleasure which I could conceive.
Those who ask for evidences,

AS THEY ASK FOR BREAD AND CHEESE,

expecting these great truths to be clear to their clotted minds, cannot
even be brought to believe a house-fly has 25,000 eyes, constructed each
on the plan of our own? They will hardly believe an unseen force flows
through the magnetic needle, turning it to the north. If they had
refused, with the same logic, to believe that A was A when they had to
so believe in order to learn at all, they would now be groping in that
stupid illiteracy, which, by a parity of reasoning, they so richly
deserve.

SHALL GOD WEIGH OUT ARCTURUS FOR US,

to exhibit His power or its magnitude? Shall He speak to us, and not
only kill us with his softer syllables, but send our nicely-balanced
earth whi