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Show THE ECLIPSE. ; The astronomers agree that the eclipse of the sun on Aug. 30th last was almost indescribable in its loveliness. It lasted but three minutes and forty seconds, but in that brief time the sun wa3 blotted out by a black sphere that was interposed inter-posed between it and the earth, only the sun's I . grand corona shining out around the rim of this I invading satellite, as if to signal to the universe that the great sun had' not banked his everlasting j fires. It was a mighty display in itself, a realiza- tion of the order which governs where the infinite I suns sail on their eternal voyages through "the blue abyss," panoplied in celestial light and doubtless set to music, which the dull ears of f mortals cannot hear, for did not "the morning stars sing together?" I It was a sublime spectacle and as we con- l template it man himself takes on new dignity, for did he not from his obscure station on this little dark planet pick up one thought after another an-other through the ages until at last, so learned did he become in his knowledge of the voyages of the upper worlds, that he was at last able to-. fix the hour and minute when the moon would interpose her disk between the sun and the. earth and for the moment hide his splendor? It gives a .new idea of the majesty of mind and makes clear that, after all, man's station is only a little lower than the angels. It sweeps the infinite spaces, it photographs the sun and brings through the spectroscope perfect knowledge of the elements out of which the worlds are framed, and the glory of the universe is maintained. j "What am I then? Naught, Naught, but effluence of thy light divine, j Pervading world has reached my spirit too, And thy spirit in my spirit shines, ii As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew." |