. Astronomy and the Bible; . The Firmament of Saturn Illuminated by Its RingSaturn is about 885,000,000 miles from the sun. Its year isalmost thirty of ours, and consists of 25,217 Saturn days. Ifit has seasons, they each last over seven years. The ring ofSaturn has three parts, supposed to consist of relatively smallparticles rotating about the planet. 16a. AiK IN Motion Exerts Tremendous Powj THE OPEN SPACE IN ORION 241 we may look into the remotest depths of space. Otherstars may certainly lie in those parts where the strataforming the canopy are interrupted, but these are un-attainable by
. Astronomy and the Bible; . The Firmament of Saturn Illuminated by Its RingSaturn is about 885,000,000 miles from the sun. Its year isalmost thirty of ours, and consists of 25,217 Saturn days. Ifit has seasons, they each last over seven years. The ring ofSaturn has three parts, supposed to consist of relatively smallparticles rotating about the planet. 16a. AiK IN Motion Exerts Tremendous Powj THE OPEN SPACE IN ORION 241 we may look into the remotest depths of space. Otherstars may certainly lie in those parts where the strataforming the canopy are interrupted, but these are un-attainable by our instruments.—Cosmos, volume i,pages 142, 143. And the author of a life of William Herschel hasreferred to this matter in most striking terms. The Maker, Governor, and Upholder of all theseworlds and universes is one and the same. Who Heis, what is His central seat of power, no telescope, noglass prism, can reveal. Amid the wonders of infinitespace and time, our standards of measurement andknowledge may be said to be our five senses; and ifone of these, sight, were taken from us, our sphere ofknowledge would be immeasurably reduced in the other hand, an addition to the senses we have,a quickening of the inner light, might reveal thisBuilder of worlds, His palace, His living armies, witha distinctness, a fullness, hitherto unknown. Hers
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