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on tireless wings to celestial realms, then it is not 

 a curse but a blessing, especially to the aged and 

 decrepid, for whom life has no charms. 



Will man never cease slandering the good Deity, 

 and libeling the beneficent Creator of all good? 

 With most people the fault is not with the world 

 or controling providence and Deity, but in them- 

 selves. They make their own world in their own 

 mind and then find fault with it as if it was a 

 reality. 



Albert Russell Wallace, in the Fortnightly Review 

 of March, 1903, in a labored article of great length, 

 undertakes to carry the world back a thousand 

 years to the time when man thought the earth was 

 the center of the universe, and the stars were little 

 openings or golden nails in the crystal vault of 

 heaven. He says we are at the center of the uni- 

 verse; that our sun system belongs to a constel- 

 lation situated near the center of the Milky Way. 

 This may be true, and it is not worth disputing, for 

 if we are at the center now as our system travels 

 420,000 miles a day we were not there a thousand 

 years ago, and in a few decades will be far away 

 from it. As we keep moving all the time, and do 

 not get off at this central station which he makes 

 so much of, I see nothing gained or lost if it is true. 



But in order to show that it is central, he must 

 limit the universe and give its circumference, metes 

 and bounds. This is an immense undertaking. If 

 our universe is limited and Prof. Newcomb thought 

 so a few years ago, and held it was in the shape 

 of a circle or disk, which was about thirty thou- 

 sand light years in circumference if true, then the 

 light from the distant stars have been traveling 



