Times Independent | 1931-09-10 | Page 2 | Light Year Illustrates Immensity of Creation

K K it it T light year illustrates immensity of creation concerning the dateless history of creation I 1 need to invoke but one illustration astronomy by its mar optics Is now able to descry in the depths of space material systems whose rays require at least a million light years to reach ou r earth hat Is a light year remember a ray of light moves at the amazing rate of miles in every second of time how multiply the seconds into minutes and days until you reach a full year of second sp cond then yon have a light year then if you can that it has talen a million of such years for the light of some discovered systems to reach our earth but still the real fact to remember is that the light in which we see these far distant worlds Is itself a million years old we do not see these realms as they are today but as they were a million years ago and yet this Is but a mere fraction of an hour in those infinitely far flang ages which might take ua back to the beginnings of creation george preston mains