240 THE UNIVERSE 



ing with measureless speed and bound together by 

 mutual ties as delicate and invisible as the ties of 

 love that bind two souls together at the hymeneal 

 altar. Such is God's universe. She is as a bride to 

 her lover in every floating atom of space, in every 

 circling world and glowing sphere, in every human 

 soul and angel spirit. 



As light is the great painter of the skies, and 

 photographs all things that occur in the atmosphere 

 of suns and planets, the aspect of the earth and the 

 sun and the events that occurred on their surface 

 thousands of years ago are now winging their flight 

 through space millions of millions of miles distant. 

 To the eye of Deity or an observer on some distant 

 orb these events of centuries past would seem to be 

 actually occurring or in progress. With powers com- 

 mensurate with the photographic powers of light, 

 a human soul could stand upon a distant star and 

 follow this wonderful vision and gaze on a succession 

 of events from the beginning of time to the present 

 moment, and read the history of every sun and 

 planet in the rays of light from its own atmosphere. 

 And with poised wing in limitless space or on some 

 far-off sun, read the mighty events transpiring on 

 this little earth in the distant rays of light from its 

 own atmosphere. And in the cities of the sun, the 

 denizens of heaven may, by some marvelous ap- 

 pliance, so magnify the picture in each ray of light 

 from earth and sun and planet that they may 

 view with microscopic eye and telescopic vision all 

 the historic scenes of every sphere, and learn the 

 life and history of every rolling orb. 



They need not visit them to see and know 

 the panoramic history of their glowing life. And 



