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instruments reveal those as low as the twentieth. 

 The same process increased in power would demon- 

 strate that still beyond the vision of man, and the 

 most powerful telescope are myriads of stars filling 

 the purpose for which God created them. 



But let us notice our own solar system more mi- 

 nutely. We have seven large planets, or worlds, be- 

 side the earth, and about two hundred and thirty -five 

 smaller ones, and twenty moons belonging to our 

 system. Each planet is a world in common with 

 ours and governed by the same laws. 



They receive light and heat from the sun, and 

 they have their satellites or moons which revolve 

 around them. They revolve upon their axis and 

 have their days and nights and seasons. They 

 have their clouds and moisture, and consist of the 

 proper chemical constituents to support vegetable 

 and animal life. The surface of some of these has 

 been sufficiently examined by astronomers to reveal 

 hills, valleys, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. 

 God works by the same laws in all of His creation, 

 and the conclusion is obvious that our globe is a 

 specimen of all the similarly placed bodies of space 

 as respects its constituent matter and the physical 

 and chemical laws governing it. We are the more 



