STATEMENT No. 3. 



"All matter exists in Eternity." 



SUPPOSE we had the power to place ourselves from off 

 the surface of the Earth, and select some position in 

 space, say midway from the Sun to the Earth, about 

 forty-six millions of miles away, and that we had the 

 power of examining, from this neutral position, the 

 motions of the heavenly bodies, our Earth being one of 

 them ; we would see that all are in motion, but each 

 object in space has its special motion, thus each object 

 differs from another in motion. "We are immediately 

 deprived of the phenomenon we call time all objects 

 move in eternity, therefore the motion of the earth 

 is a motion in eternity. 



For astronomers find, if we take the motion of the 

 earth as a standard, the objects whose motions we can 

 approximately trace, i.e. the planets, bear a ratio to 

 the earth's motion as below. 



Mercury, the nearest planet to the sun, has a day oi 

 twenty- four hours, five and a half minutes of our terres- 

 trial time, and the year consists of about 88 days. 



Venus, the next nearest planet to the sun, has a 

 day of a little over twenty- three hours of our terres- 

 trial time, and a year of nearly 225 days. 



Then comes the Earth, which has of course our day 



