LESSON III, 



ON THE SUN. 



Hail sacred source of inexhausted light ! 



Prodigious instance of creating might ! 



His distance man's imagination foils ; 



Numbers will scarce avail to-cotint the miles. 



His globous body how immensely great! 



How fierce his burnings ! how intense his heat! 



As swift as thought he darts liis radiance round. 



To distant worlds his system's utmost bound : 



Of all the planets the directing soul, 



That heightens and invigorates the whole. BROWN. 



wFTEN as you hfije beheld the mid-day sun 

 shining in all his grandeur, disseminating his reful- 

 gent beams around ; and often as you have felt 

 the efficacy of his all -genial heat, you may never 

 have entertained an idea of his vast size. When 

 you are informed of the dimensions of this grand 

 dispenser of light and heat, and when you coi)ne 

 to be acquainted with some of the laws by which 

 he is governed, you will consider it as one of the 

 many irrefragable proofs, that the universe could 

 not (as atheists assert) be jumbled together by 

 chance ; but that the whole must have been 

 formed by an all-wise, all-powerful, and adorable 

 Creator ! 



The sun is a body very nearly in the form of 



that solid which is by mathematicians called. a 



B 5 sphere 



