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Show MAJESTY OF THE HEAVENS The planet Mars is to make one of its closest approaches ap-proaches to the Earth next October 3. It will be 15 years before it comes so near us again. Even then it will be 38,130,900 miles from the Earth. Our Earth seems like a very big place when you thing of going around it. But one of our nearest neighbors in the heavens is nearly 40,000,000 miles away, and the group of planets revolving around our sun are only one of the minor systems in the infinity of the starry heavens. So our Earth seems relatively about as big as a boy's baseball. Man seems only a speck in the vast universe. Yet though man seems such an infinitesimal speck, he has accomplished marvels with his brain. He reaches reach-es out to the uttermost parts of the universe, and forms some idea of the distance across these vase spaces- He gets a pretty good idea what these infinitely infi-nitely remote suns are made of. He is not such a little lit-tle thing after all. There is something calming about the habit of star gazing. If our personal troubles become too worrisome, worri-some, it' helps some to go out and look at those majestic ma-jestic stars swinging eternally in their orbits. If the world seems almost a hell with its consistant wars, we can look at those stars, and feel that the infinite mind that could conceive this system of perfect order will not finally let all human life prove to be valueless. value-less. The steady march of those stupendous systems across the spangled sky suggests that all things yet in heaven and earth will come out well. It was said of Napoleon Bonaparte that someone in his presence expressed doubt that there was any God. "Who made all those stars?" said that great master of conquest. |