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companions at all; they only seem so to us, because 

 we see them from so great a distance. In reality 

 there are vast spaces between them. They are not 

 fixed stars, either, as the ancients believed them to 

 be, and as we still call them. Each one is moving 

 through space at an incredible speed, and so, they 

 tell us, is our own sun. 



Where are they going? No one knows. That is 

 another of thos6 secrets which in time the searchers 

 after truth may discover and so be able to reveal 

 to us more of God's universe. Yet we believe that 

 they are not moving hither and thither without any 

 law or order, because we have learned enough about 

 God's universe to know that nothing is without law 

 and order, be it a speck of dust or a stupendous sun. 

 So we feel sure that these millions of suns are moving 

 through space in some such regular order as that 

 in which the planets and the comets in our solar 

 system move. 



In the vast space, without beginning and without 

 end, which we call the universe there are millions 

 and millions of suns, each revolving upon its own 

 axis as our sun revolves, and each traveling in its 

 own path. Around many of these suns, perhaps 

 all, swing worlds or planets, each sun with its worlds 

 forming a group in the vast space of the universe. 



Shut your eyes and think of the sky at night when 

 all the stars are shining. Can you see the sparkling 

 stars looking as you saw them last night or the 

 night before? 



Can you imagine, too, our sun traveling along 

 through space with its eight planets revolving about 



