THE MYSTERY OF THE SPHERES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 73

THE MYSTERY OF THE SPHERES.

By a Baxkee.

The amazing accuiacy and minute precision which characterises all the o^erat-ons and movements of the varied forces of Xature are so astounding and mystenous tlu.t, when fully realised, the mind 15 oppressed with a sense of bewildered awe and wondering amazement. of ouis for untold ages, from the "dav""oT\ T hm ' Wlthout lana > ™* void it w°s started on i te great annual journey of' 550 mj lion nnles round and round its governing lunSnary, has been careering through space at ?he r«t e of more than a thousand miles a minute, m an orbit so exact that its position in snacl at any -moment ot time oa any particular ckte fated 3. f yearS hence ' ca * b * cafc£ sensea-m-aghty orb like tLs earth of on« suspended an the abyss of spac" not only re' 8f J after dn - V at exacUy the «?„ I<Jeufccal1 < J eufccal 8pe 1 cd ', and without a difference wmmsm wmmm of A s Dpi 4°D pi 4° t£!f thr ° U^ the entire «P*ase osVihn' hhePh dd ° eP Wn m the all fa™ 111 , 66 * 53 j^^ity-surely Tl !e l^mr^hySi^^^Btellations of all the universes combined For were at not bo surely confusion would reien supreme amongst the spheres; constellation would ever be rnshmg headlong ,nto conste la £', 5 V n 1 ? nto sun > universe into umveise 111' * f? " Can this ""g l ' 4 ? '«ling soverei-n rilm 6 *♦> P^?™^ glorious rmd mjehc of™) tL % Gr^t Cieator of all; the abode of angels and archangels, cherubim and ae raJ>him, and all the heirarehv of heaven • the kingdom inherited by all who, throughout those ™*f% claim the dlahon of £ *c and do their best to live a godly life Anrl 3 some will be shut out bocfusef fa'hng ?o understand some portions of Holy Writ they re fuse to accept it as God's Woid. But' can they better? movements of the spheres any