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Show I Haley's Comet SO HALEY'S comet is coming back after an absence of so many years. .It is on the way and after a few weeks will be visible. I And that is on of the wonders. Comets are supposed to be little more than floating vapors, but there is substance enough to them to prove the exactness of divine laws. Apparently a vagabond vaga-bond chasing through space without any apparent object or distinction, still they heed the divine law, and H'o ships at sea, call at t a ports of destination put down In their clearance papers. Their comings formerly were hailed as portents of 1 evil; they were hailed with fear lest they become ministers of vengeance to our poor old planet. t - But now they come merely as evidences that the laws which govern the universe attach to them as well as to the far-off stars. Whatever may be their mission they are a (perpetual evldonce that when they were launched Into space with their "flaming hair," they were born of law and are guided still by that law; I that the track which, they traverse was marked jl out for them from the beginning, and Hke the deep ocean currents and the tides they know their courses and follow them with absolute mathemafc leal accuracy, and "All but are parts of ono stupendous whole, Whose body nature is and God the soul." |