THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 43 
JUPITER. 
Illustrated Lecture to the Astronomical Section of the Hamilton 
Scientific Association, 
BY REV. Ro b..M. BRADY, B.S. 
When a person has toiled hard the day long he welcomes 
nightfall, which brings rest to his weary bones. Not so, how- 
ever, when he has a day off. He goes out for a day’s inno- 
cent amusement, and if it happens to be a sunshiny day, .it is 
with regret that he beholds the noble and brilliant orb sinking 
in the crimson west. 
The sunset is beautiful, but it carries with it the dying en- 
chantments of nature, which the sun lighted up and mantled in 
its golden rays. 
The Author of nature, however, offers man some compen- 
sation for this momentary loss. Knowing our nature, as a 
Deity alone can know it, He has broken the monotony and re- 
pulsiveness of darkness by giving us the starry heavens and 
the silvery moon, that “Queen of Night.” Thus in the solemn 
language of the night, as in the golden sunbeams of day, He 
speaks to us of His immensity reflected in the immensity of 
nature unfolded to our midnight watch. 
In speaking of the creation of the stars one of our poets 
has said, “on the fourth day of creation, when the sun, after a 
glorious but solitary course had gone down in the heavens, and 
darkness began to gather over the face of the uninhabitable 
globe, already arrayed in the exuberance of vegetation, a star 
single and beautiful stepped forth into the firmament.  Be- 
wildered by its new born existence, it looked abroad and be- 
held nothing to compare with it in beauty. But it was not long 
alone. Now one, then another, here a third, there a fourth 
resplendent companion joined it in its solitary existence until 
soon the heavens were brilliantly bespangled.” 
