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their heads. This would seem to them the fixed and the unmovable, 
hence the changeless seat of the Supreme Being. Every departure 
of a few miles in any direction from this polar position would impress 
man that his home was the centre of the whole world, and that God 
had placed him as monarch of all he surveyed, and that his God 
reigned supreme above him. Moreover, the stream already referred 
_ to, the Eufrata, flowing at his feet, being obviously fed not from any 
visible source, but from the sky in rainfall, would impress him with 
the idea that this broad Eufrata was part of a celestial stream flowing 
from his Maker’s side, and there flowing in all directions, dividing 
the circumpolar lands into four quarters, would constitute a never- 
forgetting feature of that first home, and this would be and is no other 
than the broad or Eufrata, the rope of the world, flowing in four 
rivers out of Eden; Eden rivers, methinks that this is the proper 
interpretation of the sacred Scripture. The north land, the home of 
the sun, combined with the nocturnal splendors of the aurora 
borealis, the whole top of the dome or the seat of the Eternal over- 
canopied with quivering curtains and banners of living, leaping 
flame, the equitable tropical temperature—ail combining to make a 
home of beauty and joy—no wonder man could well have had a 
stature, strength and longevity never attained since the deluge. It 
is singular indeed that in this enlightened age such gross ignorance 
exists regarding those northern regions. Only recently my boy 
brought home from school some questions on astronomy which he 
was expected to answer. One of these questions was: ‘‘ What 
portion of the earth north of the equator was there six months of 
day and six months of night?” The answer expected was: ‘At the 
North Pole.” I may say that no such conditions exist at the North 
Pole. The most recent, and perhaps the best authorities, give the 
following table ve the divisions of darkness and light in those far 
north latitudes : 
30 days dark, except starlight. 
30 days of moonlight. 
105 days twilight and dawn. 
2co days sunlight—continual sunlight. 
I would like had I time to describe those divisions of darkness 
and light, but only a word, and in the words of another: “The 
moon obscured the stars seem to hang out like lanterns, and the 
