Show TARS LOST IN THE PAST ON ASTRONOMY BY REV MR CARVER wa located by a mathematician smallness of this earth from mondays standard from amos 58 5 8 upon the planets their discovery and habata anity rev ir carver said last even ID the word planet in the original means the wanderer and was applied to the stars which seen to traverse the heavens mow we know that hev are arbs orbs which circle around our un from aich they derive their light and the force of whose attraction holds them in their orbit four t these are now in clear view venus is the morning star and is ot interest because venus Is our nearest neighbor coming at times within 21 miles ot us this bright orb has a diameter of about miles mars is the red orb that shines clearly just over church island early in the evening its red light gives it ho name of mars or god ot war mars Is about miles from us and Is of great interest because it alone seems to be a possible abode 0 life seen through a good glass it shows white patches covering each pole like ice these lessen as the pole is turned to the sun the surface Is largely of yellowish tinge which probably 18 a sand desert through t hla desert large canals run with mathematical precision intersecting the greenish spots supposed to be swamps these canals converge with such accuracy and run eo straightly that many be here them to be artificial leading water from the snow sheets to the swamps beyond mars naif way to jupiter we find num berls small bodies revolving in a regular orbit it is supposed that here has once been a large planet which has gone to pieces or else was never fully made the large yellow star which you see nightly just under the pleiades small dipper la jupiter this largest of the planets is now at its very best view though miles from the sun ou can clearly see the moons of jupiter with an ordinary add glass two of them were in plain view thursday night the ecliptic path of the planets runs ficai a little south of the mouth of the canyon over to about church island and in this path we now see saturn about 20 degrees past the meridian lars is at this pals loner end situ rn Is good vision and will anyone turning their field glass oward him planet Is neptune this is 0 nt erest because ot the manner of discovery the planet uranus did 01 move true and astronomers could no ell w hy until lemerrer Lev errer the french decided that there was a ic jer planet beyond and with math r formulae figured tai size and t of a planet which would causa disturbance to aranus the tele was turned there and the planet i sc the first might that a man could locate by mathematics a planet miles from him is considered a great of modern as our solar system Is but a speck in he great heavens with the naked e e about stars can be counted the great threefoot three foot lick telescope coenia and on and on they go beyond its range NW remember ha each of these stars is a sun with s own system of planets and moons nd you will see the greatness of the these are governed by ame great law holding them in place tbs abs laws discovery is now the great of the astronomer when we try to conceive of over suns some of them thirty me the saze of our own each with planets we see how small is our earth why the nearest star cannot see our part with n glass ahe size of the great lick and upon this earth how small Is man truly humility and are meet and fitting in lives like ours and the greatest glory thai man on acquire is not an earthly acte w it is to be called the child of cod and to call god father oh who ar we in all our littleness that we should blaspheme him curse with ills name and spurn him and neglect Him arloa the prophet was right arek that mabeth the adars gnp of the at astronomy Is of alte missing stara several have suddenly disappeared in all about fit en in 1572 a very bright one ap and one could see 11 even y day 1 one knew where io look for it in two ari it altogether WAS in siar of bethlehem like this in a star was seen in the consoella ion which Is now in the northeast deaveny hea veny but after a ear k failed was this the fate of the blanot just yond mars will the prophets foretelling of our own earths destruction have jt coma this way will athla be lie end of the world spoken of by the fprd the perfection of the universe is down toy the fact the entire heavens have been mapped and over a million stars named and yet in mod arn times only fifteen have failed for he shooting stars are not stara at all flauy believe that in all the erae ours is the only lost or sinning world it so it Is our and our individual shame that we are part ahers tn AIs guilt |