to see if they revolve, and beholding them in the very act, we
conclude, not groundlessly, that the same great law of gravitation
holds good in distant stellar spaces, and that there the same sufficient
mind plans, and the same sufficient power directs and controls all
movements in harmony and security.

When we come to the perturbations caused by the mutual attractions
of the sun, nine planets, twenty moons, one hundred and ninety-two
asteroids, millions [Page 14] of comets, and innumerable meteoric
bodies swarming in space, and when we add to all these, that belong
to one solar system, the attractions of all the systems of the other
suns that sparkle on a brilliant winter night, we are compelled to
say, "As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high above our
thoughts and ways must be the thoughts and ways of Him who
comprehends and directs them all."




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II.

CREATIVE PROGRESS.

"And God said, Let there be light, and there was light."--_Genesis_
i., 3.

"God is light."--1 _John_, i. 5.

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