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planets, and in company with myriads of other systems, 
revolves around a yet greater body, until at last all find 
a controlling centre in the throne of God. To discover, 
from so complicated orbits, the position of the last grand 
centre is impossible, but to find the special centre around 
who our sun revolves, is not impossible. Given a few 
accurate observations taken at intervals of sufficient 
time, and astronomers could point to the exact spot, with 
greater accuracy than Leverrier pointed to the new 
planet. But unfortunately sufficient time means thou- 
sands of years. At present all that can be said with 
certainty is that the centre around which the sun revolves 
must by the laws of mechanics be ninety degrees from 
the point towards which it is moving. 
This would place the central body in the direction 
of the Pleiades. And from this many have concluded 
that in that constellation is the central body whose at- 
traction compels our sun with its planets to move 
around it. 
There is something fascinating in the thought of sys- 
tem abovesystem—central bodies dominating other central 
bodies of minor universes, and so rising step by step to 
the infinite central Power that called all into exis- 
tence, and then ever after has held the central throne. 
This, however, is poetry, not fact. The Power is central, 
only as infinite space has its centre everywhere. To Him 
no spot is more central than another. In astronomy we 
must deal with facts, and relegate all else, however 
beautiful to the realm of fancy. There is no such great 
central body, for it would need to be millions of times 
larger than the sun, and many thousand times larger 
than all the systems controlled by it. A body so large, 
if heated like our sun, would appear even at that dis- 
tance, immeasurably brighter than any star. To this it 
may be said that the fact that no such brilliant star is 
seen proves nothing because it may bea cold body like 
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