| Show ARCTURUS As the bright starlight nights come round it is well to interest ourselves and others in the magnificence of the universe A proper study in this direction only increases in-creases our admiration of GOD and reverence rever-ence for His name and nature Besides the works of GOD should be studied by us I There are two stairways by which we climb to tile throne of His glory His word and His works We should not shut the gates which open at our feet entering into them During the last two years nearly a hundred different observations have been taken of Arcturus the brilliant star seen now nearly I overhead or near the zenith in the early I evening Dr ELKIN the great astronomer fixes the motion of Arcturus at 381 miles I per second while the motion of our planet is only about eighteen miles per second I thus showing Arcturus to move at a speed about twentyone times as great as ours The whole length or sweep of the star is about the whole length of Utah between each two ticks of the clock Some comets are known to have a rate of speed exceeding that of Arcturus While Sirius the dog star is receding from our world now at the rate of twenty miles a second Arcturus Is ap Droaching us at the rate of fiftyfive miles a second Should it continue to approach lor 10003 years at the same rate it yet would continue to appear only a distant star If our sun wore removed to a distance 140000 times greater than It now is from us his brilliance would be the same as that of Arcturus Arcturus is 11500000 times farther from us than our sun so Arcturus as sphere is believed to be 550 000 times as large as our snn That we may see how small our earth is as a sphere let it bo noted that Jupiter of our solar 1 system is larger than all the other planets revolving about our sun and yet the sun itself would make 1000 Jupiters while Acturus would make oOOOODOOO Jupiters Great and mighty are the works of GOD |
